kino Lorber have provided the final details for their upcoming Blu-ray release of Bret Wood's Those Who Deserve to Die (2019), starring Dane Bingenheimer, Rachel Frawley, Alice Lewis, Lynn Lowry, and Kelly O'Neal. The release will be available for purchase on August 18.
Synopsis: Two stories unfold in an idyllic Southern town. A series of gruesome murders occur, committed by a caped figure accompanied by a diabolical young girl (Alice Lewis). At the same time, an injured war veteran (Joe Sykes) returns to attend college, and becomes emotionally attached to a social worker (Rachel Frawley), the daughter of a State Supreme Court Justice (Lynn Lowry). As their relationship intensifies, connections between the victims and the veteran emerge, and Margaret realizes she may have the power to both rescue Jonathan and halt the rising tide of death. Inspired by Thomas De Quincey's novella The Avenger, Those Who Deserve to Die is an elegy to heroism and justice in a time of CGI superheroes and political hopelessness.
Bret Wood is known for twisting the genres in which he works, finding fresh substance in the vampire film (The Unwanted), documentary (Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films), erotic film (Psychopathia Sexualis), and stage adaptation (The Little Death). Likewise, Those Who Deserve To Die revisits the revenge film and clouds it with moral ambiguity and is injected with the same visual beauty and haunting tone that characterize Wood's other work. He is also the writer/director of the scripted podcasts The Control Group and The Seventh Daughter.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Deleted scenes
Theatrical trailers
"Malice of Alice: a Mother/Daughter Portrait"
Promotional video
Security (2007), short film by Bret Wood
Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature