Blu-ray Release: Deadman’s Barstool

Blu-ray Release Date: Oct. 28, 2025
Price: Blu-ray $37.95
Studio: Anchor Bay/MVD


In the 2018 comedic mystery-thriller Deadman’s Barstool, directed by Dean Dempsey, Mary, the wife of a well-known televangelist on the brink of divorce, partners with her husband’s mistress, Ginny, to rob him of his cash fortune.

Mary is the conniving wife of a well-known televangelist who goes by the moniker “John the Preacher”. Facing divorce with meager financial settlement, she partners with his mistress, Ginny, to rob JP of his cash fortune and split the loot. When they discover him dead from a gunshot wound to the head, their scheme starts to unravel piece by piece. Through a clever cover-up, his murder was ruled a suicide by the NYPD, but a crooked cop has other plans. When their attempt to pay off the detective backfires, a series of events unfold that reveal how the real perpetrators left them all outwitted and put out to pasture. Through a cast of offbeat characters and eccentric cameos, the story of one man’s life and death takes twists and turns through the murky glint of a cocktail glass.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.