In Midnight Movies, authors J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum describe underground movies as "redolent of danger, secrecy, subversion, resistance, and liberation; not to mention perversity, alienation, and even madness."
They didn't know it, but they were also defining Something Weird.
Founded by the late Mike Vraney in 1990, Something Weird changed our lives. Vraney—along with spouse and collaborator Lisa Petrucci, filmmaker Frank Henenlotter, and dozens of heroic weirdos behind the scenes—rescued, preserved, and shared an entire subset of cinema history through the Something Weird Video imprint. Without their hard work, the cinematic legacies Doris Wishman, Donn Davison, and David F. Friedman would have been forgotten or destroyed. Life would be much less happier. And perverted.
