Birth.Movies.Death.

Devin Faraci left the fan site CHUD in 2010 to launch Badass Digest with the backing of Austin's Alamo Drafthouse, Variety reported. The site was posting by October 2010. Its 2012 About page said it sprang "from the movie-loving culture of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas" and listed Faraci, Drafthouse founder Tim League, managing editor Meredith Borders, horror writer Brian Collins, Phil Nobile Jr. and the pseudonymous Film Crit Hulk. Regular features included Faraci's column The Devin's Advocate and Collins' Crypt.

The Hollywood Reporter described Faraci as a prominent figure at Fantastic Fest, the Drafthouse's genre festival, where he hosted panels and Q&As and once stepped into a boxing ring with director Joe Swanberg after calling his films unwatchable. Between April and May 2015 the site was renamed Birth.Movies.Death., which its About page explained as: you are born, you die, and in between you go to the movies. Scott Wampler joined in 2013, and Evan Saathoff wrote regularly. BMD also published a print magazine.

In October 2016, after Faraci tweeted about the Access Hollywood tape, a woman alleged on Twitter that he had grabbed her years earlier in New York. Faraci replied that he did not remember the incident but believed her, and on October 11 he resigned as editor in chief, Variety and THR reported. On September 12, 2017, THR reported that League had quietly hired Faraci back as a copywriter, including blurbs for the Fantastic Fest guide. Fantastic Fest programmer Todd Brown resigned in protest, and Faraci resigned again the next day. Borders, then BMD's editor, said Faraci had not worked for the site since 2016.

In a March 27, 2020 post, Saathoff wrote that the site would continue despite the furlough of nearly everyone at the Drafthouse. On May 1, 2020, Saathoff announced that Alamo Drafthouse had sold BMD to Dallas Sonnier's Cinestate, which also owned Fangoria, with Saathoff as editor in chief and Wampler as managing editor. Weeks later, IndieWire reported, The Daily Beast published an investigation into Cinestate's alleged complicity in sexual misconduct. On June 8, IndieWire reported, BMD and Fangoria's top editors said they would not work until Cinestate met anti-harassment demands; on June 10 they said both titles could not continue under Cinestate and that new buyers were being sought. The site's newest posts, as archived in 2023, were dated June 5, 2020. By October 2026 the domain returned an access-denied error.