The Unkindness of Ravens were inspired by figures from Norse and Celtic mythology such as the Valkyries and The Morrígan. Filming took place during 2014 in Fife, Edinburgh, and Perthshire, and moved into post-production in 2015. To help with costs, Brewster opened a crowdfunding campaign through Kickstarter, with the goal to raise £40,000. The campaign was successful and marked the first Scottish crowdfunding campaign to raise such a large amount of money and the highest funded British horror film on Kickstarter. Horror film critic Kim Newman reviewed "The Unkindness of Ravens", writing that it was "a demanding, complicated film which might well require repeat
Flaming Creatures laws. Mekas and Susan Sontag mounted a critical defense of "Flaming Creatures", and it became a "cause célèbre" for the underground film movement. Most of the film's characters are sexually ambiguous, including transvestites, intersex, and drag performers. "Flaming Creatures" is largely non-narrative, and its action is often interrupted by cutaways to close-ups of body parts. The film opens with credit sequence set to the soundtrack of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and the announcement that "Ali Baba comes today." Two creatures laze in a garden and dance. In what Smith called the "smirching sequence", characters apply lipstick while a