Watch a Clip from ‘Best Served Cold,’ the Wild Documentary About a Cult Revenge Film Buried for Decades [Popcorn Frights]

EXCLUSIVE: Some movies become cult classics. Others disappear without a trace.

Dread Central is exclusively debuting a clip and stills from Best Served Cold: How a Revenge Film Was Buried for Decades, a new documentary that tells the unbelievable true story behind The Farmer (1977), an independent revenge thriller that vanished for decades before becoming one of the most sought-after cult films of the 21st century.

The documentary will make its World Premiere at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, August 15.

What begins as an investigation into a forgotten exploitation film quickly spirals into something far stranger. According to the official synopsis, the documentary uncovers “a jaw-dropping odyssey” involving Paul Schrader, a production accident that altered the course of Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver, battles with combative distributors, a cast member later convicted of murder, and even an infamous confrontation that ended with Clint Eastwood throwing punches.

At the center of it all is the bizarre story of the distributor who kept The Farmer buried for years, repeatedly finding new ways to keep the film out of circulation despite growing demand from collectors.

Our exclusive clip offers a taste of the rabbit hole audiences are about to fall down. Mixing archival footage, collector research, and candid interviews, the documentary teases the bizarre mystery behind The Farmer‘s disappearance while showing just how deep the filmmakers had to dig to uncover the truth. It’s clear this is much more than a documentary about a forgotten movie—it’s an investigation into one of cult cinema’s strangest real-life stories.