Mondo Macabro is an American-based

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distribution company founded in 2002 by Pete Tombs and Andy Starke. Their focus is releasing cult and exploitation films on

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and

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and was named after Tombs' 1997 book '' Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World''. Mondo Macabro was initially based in the United Kingdom, before Starke suggested basing it in the United States. Mondo Macabro's catalog of releases includes

cult Cults are social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal is another characteristic often ascribed to cults. The term ...

and

exploitation film An exploitation film is a film that seeks commercial success by capitalizing on current trends, niche genres, or sensational content. Exploitation films often feature themes such as suggestive or explicit sex, sensational violence, drug use, nudi ...

s produced in such countries as Argentina, Indonesia, and Pakistan. The first title released on the Mondo Macabro label was the 1977 Mexican

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its viewers. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with Transgressive art, transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include Mo ...

Alucarda ''Alucarda'' (Spanish: ''Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas'', or ''Alucarda, the daughter of darkness'') is a 1977 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Juan López Moctezuma, and starring Tina Romero, Claudio Brook, Susana Kamini, and D ...

'', which the company issued on DVD in 2003. Other films released by Mondo Macabro include ''

The Diabolical Dr. Z ''The Diabolical Dr. Z'' () is a 1966 horror film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Mabel Karr as Irma Zimmer, a surgeon who creates a machine that turns people into zombified slaves. Ms. Zimmer is the daughter of a Professor Zimmer (a di ...

'' (1966), '' The Mansion of Madness'' (1973), '' Challenge of the Tiger'' (1980), ''

Mystics in Bali ''Mystics in Bali'' (), also released as ''Leák'' and ''Balinese Mystic'', is a 1981 Indonesian supernatural horror film directed by Tjut Djalil. Based on the novel ''Leák Ngakak'' by Putra Mada, the film stars Ilona Agathe Bastian, Yos Sant ...

'' (1981), and ''

Aswang Aswang is an umbrella term for various shape-shifting evil creatures in Filipino folklore, such as vampires, ghouls, witches, viscera suckers, and transforming human-beast hybrids (usually dogs, cats, pigs). The aswang is the subject of a ...

'' (1994).

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