The Mike Diana Film Collection

Note: this is a brand new limited edition catalog slipcover of a Blu-ray originally released in 2025, and is not eligible for the 2026 Subscriber discount.

This special limited edition variant slipcover is limited to 500 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them. The original limited edition slipcover was limited to 1,000 units and is sold out.

Factory 25, a Brooklyn-based independent film distribution company was founded in 2009 by Matt Grady. F25 is a home for conceptually provocative narratives and documentaries. Its mission is to deliver specialized film and music titles in an aesthetically captivating way while exposing the indie world to under-the-radar films, music, and other curiosities in various ways and formats — theatrically, digitally, on TV, VOD, via subscription, limited edition DVDs,  Blu-ray's, books and vinyl. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!

Infamous for his arrest trial and conviction in the 1990's for his self-published comix, 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 Dianas 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.

1990's Baked Baby Jesus is a loud, unapologetic shot-on-video revolt against the downfall of American society. As if it was designed to be seen by Diana's enemies instead of his peers, the shorts marry together real abortion rally footage, a necrophiliac love story, and perhaps the most infamous sequence of all, a tour of the infant-only cemetery Babyland. 

Both films were originally traded through the mail, and have 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
starring: Matt Diana, Jerred Assonio, Brian Bartlet, Paul Piazza, Michelle Zito, Tammara Diana, Debbie Kreamers, Nick Zito, Pheobe Zito, Matt Kreamers, Patricia Piazza
1987-1990 / 209 min (combined) / 1.33:1 / English Dolby Digital 2.0

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• FEATURE FILMS:
  • Blood Brothers 2025 Remaster
  • Baked Baby Jesus 2025 Extended Remaster
• SHORT FILMS WITH NEW INTROS:
  • The Shed 2 (1987), Deadly Punk (1987), Toolbox Massacre (1988), Fetus On Toast (1990)
  • Compilation reel of 1980s 8mm films featuring The Shed, Nuclear Energy, and other unfinished shorts
• BLU-RAY FEATURES:
  • Outtakes reel
  • "Blood Family Diary" featuring Mike Diana and his mother, brother, sister, and nephew, discussing the making of his films
  • "Moving to Florida" a discussion between Mike Diana and Dead Formats Convention organizer Noelle Huffman
  • "One Man Crew" a discussion between Mike Diana and filmmaker Victor Bonacore
  • "The Horror Host Generation" a discussion between Mike Diana and artist/filmmaker John Michael McCarthy
  • "The Nasty '90s" a video essay by Mike Hunchback
  • Unsung Horrors Podcast with Erica Shultz and Lance Schibi on Blood Brothers
  • Audio commentary on Blood Brothers and Baked Baby Jesus by Mike Diana, Noelle Huffman, and Mike Hunchback
  • 32 page booklet by Mike Diana with artifacts and comix
• English subtitles