CULT EPICS LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE ON LOGIC CMX

Cult Epics launches new website just in time for Black Friday

The Cult Epics sale kicks off on Friday, November 28th, and will feature their catalog of hard-to-find, curated collections of cult film classics on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD, including new acquisitions from the director Nobuhiko Obayashi, available for pre-order.

Cult Epics, a film distribution company originally founded in Amsterdam, in 1991, specializes in controversial art films with a cult following. The first works Cult Epics acquired for distribution were The Exotic Dances of Bettie Page, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Cannibal Holocaust, and Tokyo Decadence. In 1998, Nico B, the company’s founder, moved to the US and continued acquiring rights and releasing cult movies on video in the art-house, horror and erotica genres, specializing in the work of such directors as Walerian Borowczyk, Tinto Brass, Jean Genet, Fernando Arrabal, Rene Daalder, Abel Ferrara, Radley Metzger, and Irving Klaw, among others. Most recently, Cult Epics has acquired Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first groundbreaking teen idol films now available for pre-order from the website.

Cult Epics founder Nico B is also known for directing the 1998 underground horror film Pig, the last work from acclaimed singer/songwriter Rozz Williams (Christian Death) before his passing. Pig premiered at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles and went to play at film festivals around the world, including the highly regarded Rotterdam Film Festival. Nico B directed a follow up film, 1334, in 2011. In 2004 he wrote, produced and directed the biographical movie Bettie Page: Dark Angel, which premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival. Between 2005-2009 he wrote, produced and directed the film SIN, and is currently finishing the documentary film: Romeo's Distress: The Art of Rozz Williams. Cult Epics is based in Los Angeles and continues to release rare cult films, both the sought-after and the unknown, the mainstream and the underground, for a new generation of hardcore fans.

Cyber-NY is excited to collaborate with Nico and Cult Epics to create a new home for this amazing collection of films.  The catalog uses a combination of older trailers hosted on YouTube, and restored trailers streamed directly from Logic's internal video platform.  This flexibility was important to Cult Epics due to issues with trailers being randomly removed from Vimeo and YouTube due to nudity, even though they were properly flagged as not suitable for children, and do not contain strong sexual content.  The trailers, instead, are rather tame, if not outright campy, by today's standards. This has been an ongoing struggle for arthouse film distributors, caught off guard by random and changing standards. 

Check out the collection at cultepics.com