"[5] After producing and distributing direct-to-video horror films, including Death Factory, Hell's Highway, and The Vulture's Eye, Brain Damage Films created a fan following which continues to grow.

Brain Damage Films has explored other territories, including television and music.

Its only release so far has been Arizona metal band Reign of Vengeance's album "Disemboweling Swine".

[9][10] On 22 June 2005, the British Board of Film Classification rejected Traces of Death, stating that "the work presents no journalistic, educational or other justifying context for the images shown.

"[11] On 14 December 2005, the German government banned Brain Damage Films' website from appearing on major search engines such as Google, stating that the website was "reported as illegal by a German regulatory body".