Maya Deren was a dancer, writer, activist, filmmaker, and the “mother of the underground film.” MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, the seminal avant garde short that she co-directed with her husband, explores the unconsciousness and what she called “the inner realities of the individual.” We follow a woman through a surreal, ominous dream that is beautiful, strange, and disembodied. Knives, keys, figures clad in black veils, and contorted bodies come together with askew camera angles to imbue a sense of beauty…

Stephanie Rothman worked in a time when women were rarely behind the camera, even more so in exploitation filmmaking. Cutting her teeth under Roger Corman, director Rothman came into her own with the exploitation classic THE STUDENT NURSES. Then, like other genre filmmakers, she turned her attention to vampires, only she gave it her own feminist twist. Swapping creaky gothic castles for a sun-baked desert landscape, THE VELVET VAMPIRE offers some fresh ideas to a very well-trodden territory. Unlike other…

Just sharing this to commemorate the day that we released BOARDINGHOUSE on Blu-ray with AGFA! We still can’t believe it’s a real thing that happened.

One of the movies that inspired the launch of Bleeding Skull, BOARDINGHOUSE is a hallucinogenic maelstrom of madness from director-producer-actor John Wintergate and writer-producer-leading-lady Kalassu. It’s also the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. We’re ecstatic to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first…

I could watch this movie 3000 times and it still wouldn’t be enough. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN is part of a series of experimental video shorts by artist Cecelia Condit that served as a coping mechanism after she unknowingly dated a real-life murderer. Presented as a day in the life of two women as they deal with a male stalker, this is cathartic surrealism at its most inspiring. Condit uses Casiocore songs (written and performed by Karen Skladany, who also stars…