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Out on Blu-ray and DVD is director Stevan Mena's compelling, grim, film, Bereavement (Anchor Bay), about a serial killer and his protégé. Set in 1989, a six-year-old boy (Spencer List) is kidnapped from his back yard by a deranged killer (Brett Rickaby) who brings him to his ramshackle pig farm where he imprisons him and tries to get him to participate when he abducts and tortures young women. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Allison (Alexandria Daddario) begrudgingly moves in with her uncle (Michael Biehn/The Terminator) and his family and on one of her jogs down the country roads, spies a boy in the window what looks like an abandoned farm house. As one can guess, things don't go so well when she begins to investigate on her own. A prequel of sorts to Mena's acclaimed Malevolence, this is dark stuff indeed, but well made and often intriguing in its examination of the nature of evil. 

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