Mondo Macabro
IndustryHome video
Founded2002 (2002)
Founders
Headquarters
U.S.
Key people
Pete Tombs (Director)[1]
ProductsDVDs and Blu-ray Discs
Websitemondo-macabro.com

Mondo Macabro is an American-based home video distribution company founded in 2002 by British duo Pete Tombs and Andy Starke.[2] A specialty label whose mission is "to hunt down strange, bizarre, and forgotten films and bring them back to life" on DVD and Blu-ray, the company was inspired by Tombs' 1997 book Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World;[2] the book also served as inspiration for Tombs and Starke's TV program of the same name, which aired on the British Channel 4 in 2002.[3]

Mondo Macabro was initially based in the United Kingdom, before Starke suggested basing it in the United States.[4] Mondo Macabro's catalog of releases includes cult and exploitation films produced in such countries as Argentina, Indonesia, and Pakistan.[5][6] The first title released on the Mondo Macabro label was the 1977 Mexican horror film Alucarda, which the company issued on DVD in 2003.[4] Other films released by Mondo Macabro include The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966),[7] The Mansion of Madness (1973),[8] Challenge of the Tiger (1980),[9] Mystics in Bali (1981),[10] and Aswang (1994).[11]

References

  1. ↑ Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. (2003). Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe. p. 313. ISBN 978-1903254158.
  2. 1 2 "About Us". Mondo Macabro. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  3. ↑ Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent (15): 71. 2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=kGNLAQAAIAAJ. The British duo were preparing a television series based on Mondo Macabro for Channel 4; they also planned to launch a DVD label devoted to recirculating lost genre classics. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. 1 2 Bickel, Christopher (August 18, 2015). "Uncovering and Preserving the Wildest and Strangest Films in the World". DangerousMinds.net. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  5. ↑ Sexton, Jamie; Mathijs, Ernest (2011). Cult Cinema: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 239. ISBN 978-1405173742. 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.
  6. ↑ Perkins, Claire; Verevis, Constantine, eds. (2014). B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value. SUNY Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-1438449951.
  7. ↑ Clark, Mark (2011). Smirk, Sneer and Scream: Great Acting in Horror Cinema (Reprint ed.). McFarland & Company. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-7864-6419-7.
  8. ↑ Shipka, Danny; Beliveau, Ralph, eds. (2017). International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear. Intellect. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-78320-653-7.
  9. ↑ Wroot, Jonathan; Willis, Andy, eds. (2017). Cult Media: Re-Packaged, Re-Released and Restored. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 174. ISBN 978-3319636788.
  10. ↑ Fisher, Kieran (January 3, 2017). "Horror Globetrotting: Mystics in Bali (Indonesia, 1981)". Dread Central. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  11. ↑ Edwards, Matthew (2017). Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers. McFarland & Company. pp. 173–174. ISBN 978-1476663760.


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