Grindhouse Releasing

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Grindhouse Releasing (also referred to as "Grindhouse") is a cult film distribution company started by director/actor Sage Stallone (son of Sylvester Stallone) with co-partner and well-known film editor, Bob Murawski (Sam Raimi's film editor). Stallone lends his name and enthusiasm, and Bob Murawski is largely the workhorse who digitally remasters, restores and puts together "B-movie" and cult film DVDs for distribution.

Grindhouse Releasing particularly specializes in distributing rare and little-seen "exploitation films." "Exploitation films" is a loosely defined term for what some think is a sub-genre of films that typically sacrifice traditional notions of artistic merit for more sensationalistic uses of violence, sex and/or gore and where the focus is on the style and independent filmmaker's point-of-view (as opposed to traditional studio consensus filmmaking).

Grindhouse Releasing was the first company to digitally remaster and restore cult classic horror films such as: Make Them Die Slowly (aka Cannibal Ferox (1981)) and Lucio Fulci's spaghetti-horror masterpiece, E tu vivrai nel terrore (aka The Beyond) (1981) as well as the notorious cult classic, Cannibal Holocaust (1980).