Wild Eye Releasing Tabs Sept. 27 For The Blu-ray Rollout Of The Acid Kind

Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Sept. 27 as the street date for a Blu-ray edition of the documentary filmmaking team of Dan Jones and Jesse P. Pollack’s true crime horror tale, The Acid King.

On the cusp of summer in June of 1984, four teenagers assembled in the woods just outside Northport, New York (Long Island) and, high on drugs, one of the teens, Ricky Kasso, Jr. — who would come to be known as “The Acid King” — murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers.

Just another drug-related death, but by the time the media got through with it, the murder had ballooned into a Satanic cult slaying.   The hype was furthered along by the hanging suicide of Kasso in his jail cell three days after Lauwers’ rotting body was discovered over the July 4^th holiday period.

The documentary is based on Jesse P. Pollack’s 2018 best-selling, “The Acid King,” a detailed account of the events leading up to the killing (drugs, drugs and, dare we say it, more drugs), the horrific events of June 19, 1984 and the aftermath, bordering on hysteria, that followed.

Bonus goodies included with the Blu-ray debut of The Acid King from Wild Eye Releasing on Sept. 27 include commentary from filmmakers Dan Jones and Jesse P. Pollack, deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes documentary, extended interviews, a “Crime Scene” gallery and a podcast.