''Blood Out'' is a 2011 American

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written by Jason Hewitt and John A. O'Connell and starring

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and

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. The film is Hewitt's directorial debut.

Premise

Small town Cop Michael Savion (

) gets stone-walled by big city detectives led by Hardwick (

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) when he asks them to investigate his younger brother's death. After his brother's death he swears vengeance in a flashback where he fires his gun in the rain over his dead body. His brother David ( Ryan Donowho), a gangster, was murdered by members of his own gang for having wanted to quit the gang lifestyle in order to marry Gloria (a gang member's sister), and for being suspected of 'ratting' out his gang's activities. Savion takes off his badge and goes vigilante to seek justice for the death of his brother, and crosses paths with Arturo (

), the leader of an international ring involved in

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Cast

as Michael *

Tamer Hassan Tamer Hassan (born 18 March 1968) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as the leader of the Millwall firm, opposite Danny Dyer in '' The Football Factory'' (2004). He has also appeared in ''Layer Cake'' (2004), ''Batman Begins'' (2 ...

as Elias *

AnnaLynne McCord AnnaLynne McCord (born July 16, 1987) is an American actress. Known for playing vixen-type roles, she first gained prominence in 2007 as the scheming List of Nip/Tuck characters, Eden Lord on ''Nip/Tuck'', and as the pampered Loren Wakefield on ...

as Anya *

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as Zed *

as Hardwick *

as Arturo *

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as Anthony * Ryan Donowho as David * Ambyr Childers as Medic * Michael Arata as Detective * Jesse Pruett as Methhead *

Bobby Lashley Franklin Roberto Lashley (born July 16, 1976) is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Hurt Syndicate and is one-half of the AEW World Tag Team C ...

as Hector * Stephanie Honore as Gloria

Production

Filming began May 10, 2010 on locations in

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appears in the film. Despite reports of an earlier conflict with actor

, both were quite amicable on and off the set. WWE Wrestler

stars in the film. As an unusual method of "clearing his head" on set after "flubbing" an occasional line of dialog, Val Kilmer would briefly break into dog-like barks and howls. Lionsgate/Grindstone acquired distribution rights for the U.S. and Canada while Lionsgate U.K. acquired distribution right for the UK, and has announced tentative plans for an end-of-year domestic release of the film.

Soundtrack

The film was scored by Jermaine Stegall, and features the single "Hells Gates" by Colin C. Allrich under his Slighter alias. Also T. Lee from DesFly Entertainment song called "Im The Shit.

Release

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in America on April 26, 2011.

References

External links

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Podcast interview with Jason Hewitt
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