Incredibly excited to kick off October Horror with my look at Jim Van Bebber’s short films. Roadkill and My Sweet Satan are two of his strongest works, offering particularly nightmarish visions of Ohio. There are great pieces in store this year, and I have another Ohio piece coming down the line!

With films like the infamous 'Rock ‘N Roll Mobster Girls,' Rick Werner Fahr captured Seattle’s music scene at a crucial period of transformation in several long-forgotten genre films. @valbarano.bsky.social presents the first-ever in-depth analysis of Fahr’s career!

Split Tooth returns from a dry spell with a true epic! @valbarano.bsky.social dives deep into the Seattle underground with his definitive analysis of the films of Rick Werner Fahr! This project has been long in the making so it's a very special day to finally share Vincent's work on ST!

It’s finally here! Now shipping: the complete works of SOV auteur Jon Christian Møller, officially licensed (and subtitled) for the first time on DVD. Best known for the Norwegian Drillbit Massacre, it’s time for the rest of his works to receive their due. Includes 30 pg. booklet

Rad @valbarano.bsky.social feature about the shot-on-video auteur whose obscure work captured Seattle’s underground music scene in the 1980s and 1990s

Tomorrow @valbarano.bsky.social explores a long-forgotten chapter of Seattle psychotronic cinema! Stay tuned: www.splittoothmedia.com

Glad to see Videogore copies making it out into the world! Thank you!

What a gorgeous bookshop @coloursmayvary.bsky.social in #Leeds is, and that was even before we saw their excellent selection of @headpress.com titles ❤️

You & colton are doing the lord's work in terms of media preservation

It’s finally here! Now shipping: the complete works of SOV auteur Jon Christian Møller, officially licensed (and subtitled) for the first time on DVD. Best known for the Norwegian Drillbit Massacre, it’s time for the rest of his works to receive their due. Includes 30 pg. booklet

Only a few SOV titles are actual masterpieces, and Charles Pinion’s Red Spirit Lake is one of them. RSL started as a response to Pinion’s film project, Killbillies, one of the great unrealized underground films, falling through. Here’s a copy of the Killbillies script that belonged to Gibby Haynes.

New DVD available for preorder today from Split Tooth writer @valbarano.bsky.social that collects the "long elusive 1980s shot-on-video heavy metal splatter horror films of Jon Christian Møller!" Grab your copy here: experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...

Now available for pre-order (ships May): Videogore, the films of Norwegian SOV gore auteur Jon Christian Møller. Officially licensed and subtitled for the first time, the release also includes a 30-page booklet of new writing on Jon’s films. experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/product/pre-...

Very proud to have this piece published on The Friends of Eddie Coyle at Sabbatical’s Substack. This is a movie that snuck up on me and has become the closest thing I have to a comfort movie. Today has been pretty rotten, so this is especially timely. takeyoursabbatical.substack.com/p/coping-wit...

Very proud to have this piece published on The Friends of Eddie Coyle at Sabbatical’s Substack. This is a movie that snuck up on me and has become the closest thing I have to a comfort movie. Today has been pretty rotten, so this is especially timely. takeyoursabbatical.substack.com/p/coping-wit...

It’s been a long, strange journey, but the Jon Christian Møller DVD set will finally be ready to go soon. Stay tuned for updates!

Digging through stuff and yet again questioning my decision to start picking up posters. I love them all, but it’s hard to justify when the frames are just 1 inch larger than standard, but three times the price.

Special interview now in the can for this project

Local bookshop’s $3 paperback rack finally delivered

In the midst of an all-Ohio project, more to come

Raised a bit more than $13k for the Save the Reader fundraiser, can we get it to $14k by the end of the day? donorbox.org/save-the-chi...

Thrilled to have my look at The Dream Syndicate’s Medicine Show up at Split Tooth for my final piece of the year. I can’t thank @brettsplittooth.bsky.social and @craigsplittooth.bsky.social enough for their help in shaping this look at one of my favorite albums.

Split Tooth is ending the year on a high note with @valbarano.bsky.social’s excellent piece on The Dream Syndicate’s ‘Medicine Show!’ This year marked the album’s 40th anniversary and I’m thrilled we get to celebrate it with Vincent’s writing!

The final issue in the original run of Bill Landis’ Sleazoid Express. The infamous Ecco: The Story of a Fake Man on 42nd Street. All of the initial SE issues are in their own class, but this is the zine as a definitive statement. It’s also one of the great works of literature of the last 40 years.

By far the sketchiest item I own: the 8th Vidimax catalog. This members-only mail order outlet gained notoriety for proprietor Louis Ferriol’s bizarre fetish productions like New York Centerfold Massacre and Haven of Horror (aka Roasted Alive). A glimpse into the netherworld of the video underground

Trying to actually post here now, so let’s kick off with some highlights from this year.

Per @cww.bsky.social’s kind words on Subterranean Cinema, here’s links to the handful of titles currently available online. Zine still available here: experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/product/subt...

experimentalkindergarten.bigcartel.com/product/subt... Vincent's book, Aesthetic Deviations, is THE word on SOV horror imo

if you have any interest in SOV horror, this is an indispensable and phenomenal zine by the great @valbarano.bsky.social Just finished and now need to find every film discussed...

This weekend at Small Talk in #Columbus, OH, @valbarano.bsky.social will be talking about and signing copies of his book, Aesthetic Deviations, and selling some of his fantastic zines. #horror #SOVhorror headpress.com/events/aesth...

My newest piece delves into an underseen and particularly bleak piece of 1970s Canadian cinema. Check it out!

This is a tome of a zine by @valbarano.bsky.social

Spoke with James for the most recent episode of his podcast. Had a great time discussing Aesthetic Deviations, SOV horror, and my approaches to the films. Check it out! audioboom.com/posts/839439...

I should really start posting here. So to kick things off, here’s my in-depth look at Jess Turner’s incredible Zombies Invade Pittsburg for Split Tooth Media’s 2023 Halloween Series www.splittoothmedia.com/zombies-inva...

Excited to dive into this @valbarano.bsky.social book!