VIPCO (Video Instant Picture Company)
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
VIPCO RELEASES
- 1990: Bronx Warriors (W/S)
- And Now The Screaming Starts
- Asylum
- The Beyond (W/S)
- The Big Racket (W/S)
- A Blade in The Dark (W/S)
- Bloody Moon
- The Boogey Man
- The Burning (CUT/Uncut)
- Caged Women (W/S)
- Cannibal Ferox
- Cannibal Ferox 2 (W/S)
- Cannibal Holocaust (W/S)
- The Case of The Bloody Iris (W/S)
- City Of The Living Dead (W/S)
- The Claw (W/S)
- The Deadly Spawn
- Death Screams
- Demons 3: The Ogre
- The Dorm That Dripped Blood
- Drive-In Massacre
- The Dungeon
- Emanuelle in Prison (W/S)
- Escape from the Bronx (W/S)
- Flesh Eating Mothers
- Ghosthouse
- God Told Me To
- Grave of the Vampire
- The Green Inferno
- Gremloids (W/S)
- Hell of the Living Dead (W/S)
- The House by the Cemetery (W/S)
- The House of Clocks (W/S)
- The House of Lost Souls (W/S)
- The House of Witchcraft (W/S)
- The House On The Edge of The Park (W/S)
- The Incredible Melting Man
- Island of Death
- The Last Hunter (W/S)
- Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (W/S)
- Mountain of The Cannibal God (W/S)
- The Mutilator
- The New Barbarians (W/S)
- Night of The Demon (1980)
- Nightkill
- The Nostril Picker
- Prozzie aka Olivia
- Psychic Killer
- Rats: Night of Terror (W/S)
- Shock Waves
- Shogun Assassin (W/S)
- The Slayer
- Snowbeast
- Spookies
- StageFright (1987)
- Suicide aka Final Cut.Com
- The Sweet House of Horrors (W/S)
- The Toolbox Murders
- Turkey Shoot (W/S)
- The Vault of Horror
- The Violent Professionals (W/S)
- The Werewolf of Washington
- Zombi 3 (W/S)
- Zombe 4: After Death (W/S)
- The Zombie Dead (W/S)
- Zombie Nosh aka Flesh Eater
Overview
VIPCO (Video Instant Picture Company) was a UK based home video distribution company that specialized in releasing obscure and cult horror films - in particular, low budget Italian and American films produced during the seventies and eighties. It promoted itself as the leading distributor of Video Nasties and previously banned films in the UK.
In its first incarnation as an independent company founded by Mike Lee in the late seventies, VIPCO was notable for serving the nascent British home video market with early releases for films such as Driller Killer, The Groove Tube, King Frat, The Legacy, Psychic Killer and The Slayer. The company was originally named VIPC, but customers often misread its trademark - the letters VIPC surrounded by a graphic resembling the spools of a video cassette - as 'Vipco', so the company's name was changed soon after their first titles were released.
The company re-emerged in the early 1990s with edited versions of Zombie Flesh Eaters, Horror Hospital uncut and Night of the Demon. Since then, it has released a large number of films on video and DVD including Zombi 2, City Of The Living Dead, Cannibal Holocaust, The Burning, A Blade in The Dark, Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Ferox II, The Nostril Picker Uncut Edition, The Beyond Uncut, The House by the Cemetery, The Toolbox Murders & Mountain of The Cannibal God. Many of the titles had previously been cut or rejected by the BBFC, or had never before received a UK release. These films fell under the banner of the "Vipco's Vault of Horror" DVD Collection.
In the early 2000s, Vipco also started a Cult Classic DVD Collection, which featured obscure non-horror films such as Bronx Warriors, The Last Hunter and Gremloids.