Carlos Atanes

Maximum Shame by Carlos Atanes is a post-apocalyptic puzzle of a film in which the characters are completely humiliated beyond recognition.

Carlos Atanes’ latest short film, the abstract horror film Scream Queen, is a completely demented affair starring a demonic Aranxta Pena.

The 7th Backseat Film Festival in Philadelphia is screening Brian Lonano’s Attackazoids, Joshua von Brown’s Altamont Now, Rona Mark’s Strange Girls and more.

While I post a lot of individual videos on Bad Lit, filmmakers are posting way more videos online than I can write about and promote. Check ‘em out!

Aleister Crowley’s two most famous filmmaking “disciples” are underground legends Kenneth Anger and Harry Smith, but don’t count out Raymond Salvatore Harmon.

Spanish underground filmmaker Carlos Atanes has combined horror movies and donuts into one film for a little vision of heaven.

Nothing else this year could compare to the sheer anarchic joy of Altamont Now by Joshua von Brown, a relentlessly punk rockin’ good time.

Some notable underground film events in 1971 were Jonas Mekas ending his Movie Journal column, Willard Maas passing away and the first festival was held.