About Blood Sick
Blood Sick is dedicated to creating a community of independent filmmakers and genre fans. We produce our own movies as well as distribute and exhibit movies from other like minded artists. Blood Sick Productions is our distribution and productions company founded by Brewce Longo and Michael DiFrancesco. We have a monthly screening series known as Blood Sick Underground Cinema that screens every 2nd Monday at PhilaMOCA. The very first Blood Sick Underground Film Fest will take place on April 18th 2026. Blood Sick events are curated by Brewce Longo.
Blood Sick Underground Film Fest
We are proud to announce the lineup of the first ever Blood Sick Underground Film Fest!
Saturday April 18th at PhilaMOCA Noon-Midnight
& Sunday April 19th at Ortliebs Noon-11pm
SATURDAY Lineup at PhilaMOCA:
-All Feature Films will be followed by a Q&A with the director.
-Most short films will be introduced by their director.
Feature Films
-Nekromantik with Jörg Buttgereit via live zoom
-Lilith with Jay Crimson
-I Was A Teenage Gargoyle with Janice.Click
-Curse of the Baby Eater with Joe Bizarro
-Gator Man with David "The Rock" Nelson
-Video Transcendence with Erica Schreiner
-The Demonatrix with Aurelio Voltaire
-Mulva: Demon Asskicker with Chris Seaver
Saturday Short Films
-Forms of Flesh by Marko Plejic
-Private Line with Matt Minter
-It Felt Like Night with James Hollenbaugh
-Dinner Time by Magic Wand Pictures
-Never Fingerbang a Wendigo with John Brennan
-I Saw A Car by Andy Heck Boyd introduced by stars Kasper Meltedhair & Josh Christensen
-Repertoire of Death by Guadalupe Arellanes
SUNDAY's Lineup 4/19 at ORTLIEBS
-Sunday Morning Cartoons: a mix of underground animations and puppetry!
-Dead Hands Dig Deep by Jai Love
-SHORTS BLOCK
-Anthony Leroy's Bum
-Joe Meredith's Harvest Brood starring Anthony Leroy
-Exhumed Cadaver Lover by SamHel
-Pinocchio Forever
-Deformelody
-Blood Sick is dedicated best movies in the underground scene. Transgressive genre films, shot-on-video, metal / punk made, outsider art, backyard horror, and movies made outside the studio system on a DIY ethos speak to us.
This festival comes from the curators of Blood Sick Underground Cinema, a monthly screening series in Philadelphia that has hosted a wide variety of guest filmmakers like Joe Swanberg, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Adam Green, David "The Rock" Nelson, Janice.Click, Kasper Meltedhair, Rock Savage, JR Bookwalter, Todd Sheets, Hayden Hall, Dylan Mars Greenberg and many more.
Blood Sick Underground Film Fest is a two festival that will run from noon to midnight with a brief intermission and short film between each feature. It is primarily focused on screening new or undiscovered movies but we may also include an anniversary screening of a beloved underground classic.
The festival will take place on April 18th 2026 at PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia's only theatre devoted strictly to independent film and music and April 19th 2026 at Ortliebs.
Submission are now closed
https://filmfreeway.com/BloodSickUndergroundFilmFest
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