"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, gracing the silver screen for the first time in the history of the world, right here at Beyond Fest! *Viewer discretion advised!*"