Industry | Home video |
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Founded | 2002 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | U.S. |
Key people | Pete Tombs (Director) [1] |
Products | DVDs and Blu-ray Discs |
Website | mondo-macabro.com |
Mondo Macabro is an American-based home video distribution company founded in 2002 by Pete Tombs and Andy Starke. [2] Their focus is releasing cult and exploitation films on DVD and Blu-ray and was named after Tombs' 1997 book Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World. [2]
Mondo Macabro was initially based in the United Kingdom, before Starke suggested basing it in the United States. [3] Mondo Macabro's catalog of releases includes cult and exploitation films produced in such countries as Argentina, Indonesia, and Pakistan. [4] [5] The first title released on the Mondo Macabro label was the 1977 Mexican horror film Alucarda, which the company issued on DVD in 2003. [3] Other films released by Mondo Macabro include The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966), [6] The Mansion of Madness (1973), [7] Challenge of the Tiger (1980), [8] Mystics in Bali (1981), [9] and Aswang (1994). [10]
Companies such as Blue Underground (US), Mondo Macabro (US, with a UK arm), Synapse (US), Cult Epics (US), Fantoma (US) and Something Weird (US) can all be seen as specializing in cult cinema. [...] Mondo Macabro focuses on global genre cinema, the majority of which is not well known by Western audiences.