Bloody Disgusting
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| Company type | Partnership |
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| Founded | 2001 |
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| Parent | Cinedigm Corp.[3] |
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| Website | bloody-disgusting |
Bloody Disgusting is an American multi-media company, which began as a horror genre-focused news site/website specializing in information services that covered various horror medias, including: film, television, video games, comics, and music. The company expanded into other media including advertising, podcast networking, film, television, streaming media, and management.
The film production studio, is perhaps most widely known for developing and producing the V/H/S franchise, which includes anthology horror installments.
History
Bloody Disgusting was founded in 2001 by Brad Miska (under the pseudonym "Mr. Disgusting") and Tom Owen,[7] who run the site along with current managing editor John Squires. By 2007, the site had 1.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month.[8] In September 2007 a minority stake was purchased by The Collective, a Beverly Hills–based management company.[9] In 2011 Bloody Disgusting began distributing and producing films[10] that have gone on to win awards and spawned the successful V/H/S franchise. In 2017 Bloody Disgusting bought out The Collective and is currently operating as an independently owned company. [citation needed]
Bloody Disgusting has worked on projects with genre writers, directors, and actors including Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, David Bruckner, Roxanne Benjamin, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz, TI West, Radio Silence, Glenn McQuaid, Steven C Miller, Jonny Weston, Jason Eisner, Eduardo Sanchez, Greg Hale, Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo, Patrick Horvath, Sion Sono, and Trent Haaga.[citation needed]
In October 2021, Cinedigm purchased Bloody Disgusting from co-oweners/co-founders Brad Miska and Tom Owen, business parters Peter Lutrell and Heather Lutrell, and part-owner Michael Green who's company The Collective had previously owned a large stake in the company. Cinedigm intends to expand Bloody Disgusting on a large scale.[3] In October 2021, Cinedigm assigned management of their subsidiary streaming service Screambox, to the Bloody Disgusting team. The collaboration will reinvent the streaming service, with intent to expand its content and original releases.[11] In November 2022, the relaunch of the new "Bloody Disgusting approved" Screambox was announced. The streaming service included a redesign, change in cost, increase in variety of content, and accessibility changes. Upon its launch, the streamer included over 700 available titles. Bloody Disgusting's original streaming service, Bloody Disgusting TV, was moved into Screambox navigation.[12]
Film production
As Bloody Disgusting grew, it evolved into a film production company, releasing horror genre favorites and award-winning films.
- V/H/S – premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
- V/H/S/2 – premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
- V/H/S: Viral – premiered at the 2014 Fantastic Fest film festival
- V/H/S/94 – premiered at the 2021 Fantastic Fest film festival
- V/H/S/99 – premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
- Under the Bed – premiered at the 2012 Fantasia International Film Festival
- A Horrible Way to Die – premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. It also played at Fantastic Fest where it received three major awards: Best Screenplay for Simon Barrett, Best Actor for AJ Bowen and Best Actress for Amy Seimetz.
- Southbound – premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival
- Honeydew – premiered at the 2020 Nightstream Film Festival
Bloody Disgusting Selects
In 2011, Bloody Disgusting partnered with AMC Networks and The Collective to create a distribution company named Bloody Disgusting Selects, releasing genre films in AMC theaters and on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD platforms. Films distributed via Bloody Disgusting Selects films are:[13]
- Alyce Kills
- Atrocious
- Blood Runs Cold
- Chop
- Cold Fish
- Crawl
- Delivery
- Exit Humanity
- Faust: Love of the Damned
- Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders
- The Haunting of Helena
- Hellacious Acres
- Macabre
- Outcast
- The Pack
- Phase 7
- Rammbock
- Truth or Dare
- The Woman
- YellowBrickRoad
See also
References
- ^ "Bloody Disgusting: The #1 Entertainment Destination for Horror". Bloody Disgusting. Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ Miska, Brad (October 20, 2021). "Horror Streaming Service SCREAMBOX Relaunches With Bloody Disgusting In the Driver's Seat!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ a b c d Spangler, Todd (September 21, 2021). "Cinedigm Buys Bloody Disgusting, Taking Bigger Cut at Horror (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
- ^ Kay, Jeremy (September 14, 2007). "The Collective buys genre website Bloody-Disgusting.com". Screen Daily. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ Zeitchik, Steve (October 14, 2011). "Horror site Bloody Disgusting now a movie producer, distributor". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ AccessWire Staff (April 11, 2022). "Bloody Disgusting Selects SHE Media As Monetization Partner". AccessWire. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ "Site of the Week: Bloody-Disgusting". AMC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-03-06.
- ^ Hefflinger, Mark (13 September 2007). "The Collective Buys Horror Film Site Bloody-Disgusting.com". DMW Daily. Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ^ Graser, Marc (12 September 2007). "Collective nabs Bloody-Disgusting". Variety. Retrieved 2007-11-09.
- ^ Zeitchik, Steve (2011-10-14). "Horror site Bloody Disgusting now a movie producer, distributor". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
- ^ Miska, Brad (October 20, 2021). "Horror Streaming Service SCREAMBOX Relaunches With Bloody Disgusting In the Driver's Seat!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ Miska, Brad (November 4, 2022). "The Bloody Disgusting Era of SCREAMBOX Has Begun!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved November 8, 2022.
- ^ Donato, Matt (2012). "Bloody Disgusting Selects: This Is Only The Beginning". We Got This Covered.