VIPCO (Video Instant Picture Company)

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 & The 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.

Vipco DVD Releases

[[And Now the Screaming Starts

Asylum (1972)

The Beyond (W/S)

The Big Racket (W/S)

A Blade in the Dark (W/S)

Blood Camp Thatcher aka Turkey Shoot (W/S)

Bloody Moon

The Boogeyman

Bronx Warriors (W/S)

Bronx Warriors 2 aka Escape From the Bronx (W/S)

The Burning (CUT)

The Burning (re-issue) Uncut

Cannibal Ferox

Cannibal Ferox 2 aka Massacre in Dinosour Valley (W/S)

Cannibal Holocaust (W/S)

Cannibal Holocaust 2 aka The Green Inferno

The Case of the Bloody Iris (W/S)

City of the Living Dead (W/S)

The Claw (W/S)

The Deadly Spawn

Death Screams

Death Trap aka Eaten Alive

Demons 3: The Ogre (W/S)

The Dungeon

Drive in Massacre

Eaten Alive

Emanuelle in Prison (W/S)

Flesh Eating Mothers

Ghosthouse

God Told Me To

Grave of the Vampire

Gremloids (W/S)

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

Isalnd of Death

The Last Hunter (W/S)

Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (W/S)

The Mountain of the Cannibal God (W/S)

The Mutilator

The New Barbarians (W/S)

Night of the Demon (1980)

Nightkill

The Nostril Picker

Pranks aka The Dorm That Dripped Blood

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 (1978)

The Vault of Horror

Violence in a Women's Prison (W/S)

The Violent Professionals (W/S)

The Werewolf of Washington

Zombie Creeping Flesh (W/S)

Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 aka Zombi 3 (W/S)

Zombie Flesh Eaters 3 aka Zombe 4: After Death (W/S)

The Zombie Dead aka The Nights of Terror (W/S)

Zombie Nosh aka Flesh Eater

Closure

Vipco closed in 2007.

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