Dark Sky Films

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Dark Sky Films is a DVD distribution company, specializing in classic horror films, grindhouse titles, lost films, and general cinematic oddities. It was founded in 2005 as a wholly ownerd subsidiary of the Chicago-based video company MPI, itself famous for its wide range of releases, first in videotape in 1980s and then on DVD beginning in the late 1990s.

Among Dark Sky's releases thus far are the notable cult films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Henry: Portait of a Serial Killer, Magic, and The Manson Family. Among its speciality items are The College Girl Murders, Dog Eat Dog, Violent Midnight. Its horror film catalog includes The Horror of Party Beach, The Curse of the Living Corpse, Don't Go Near the Park, The Flesh Eaters, Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, and The Terror Beneath the Sea. Dark Sky Films has also released "lost" films including Wet Asphalt and Without Warning, the motorcycle gang movies The Losers and Werewolfs on Wheels, the documentary The Serial Killers, television shows such as the British series The Invisible Man and the made for TV movie Trilogy of Terror. A series of drive-in double bill discs featuring Invasion of the Neptune Men with Prince of Space, and Creation of the Humanoids (widely reputed to be Andy Warhol's favorite film, though no one has been able yet to track down the source of the quote) with Prince of Space. Most recently Dark Sky Films has released a trio of films produced by the British company Amicus: Asylum, And Now the Screaming Starts, and The Beast Must Die. Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive has been announced as a forthcoming release.