blood brothers
by mike diana, 1989

Catalog Number: FTF-170
Length: 50 minutes

Infamous for his arrest, trial and conviction - in the 1990s for his self-published comic, artist Mike Diana also made a string of homemade films. Starting with 8mm in the early

'80s and graduating to video, Diana enlisted his own family and neighborhood kids in an array of bizarre, gross, and hilarious movies, to varied levels of completion.

The 1989 feature Blood Brothers is Diana's demented update on the slasher trend. Quite literally a "backyard movie", it mostly stars children, and what it lacks in its zero-dollar budget it makes up for with unhinged charm. Illicit substances, coat-hanger abortions, mutilation and decapitation have never been so fun.

Originally traded through the mail, the film has only been available directly through Mike Diana himself.

Factory 25 has gone back to the original video sources and provided higher quality than ever before possible (previous versions had primitive sound dubbing and editing) and has overseen the reconstruction of several otherwise lost short films, some completed here for the first time.

DIRECTED BY Mike Diana

FEATURING Matt Diana, Jerred Assonio, Brian Bartlet, John Paul Piazza, Michelle Zito, Tammara Diana, Debbie Kreamers, Nick Zito, Pheobe Zito, Matt Kreamers, Patricia Piazza

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"It's disturbing, inconceivable, and hilarious-a real-life Trash Humpers that's a thousand times more watchable.' - Joseph A. Ziemba, Bleeding Skull