Founded in the early 1990s by the late Mike Vraney, Something Weird Video (SWV) began as a quest to preserve "lost" cinema. Named after the 1967 Herschell Gordon Lewis film Something Weird , the company became the premier resource for exploitation, horror, and "sleaze" cinema that would have otherwise vanished into obscurity.
Rather than focusing on mainstream accolades, SWV sought out the "nervy pieces of trash" that provided a unique, often bizarre, regional time capsule of 20th-century Americana. Something Weird Videos
In 2024, the company ended in-house DVD-R manufacturing to focus on film restoration and high-quality physical releases. Founded in the early 1990s by the late