{{unsourced, date=February 2021 Salvation Group is a UK-based media company, specialising in

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and alternative music. The company's original name and current trading name is Redemption Films. The Salvation Group was dissolved in November 2014.

History

Salvation's origins can be traced back to 1993, when founder

Nigel Wingrove Nigel Wingrove (born 26 October 1957) is the founder of the horror film company Salvation Films and the Redemption film label and creator of the online alternative female collectivethe Satanic Sluts He is also a film director and the only directo ...

started up a film distribution label under the name Redemption Films. Since then, the company has broadened its scope to include the distribution of music and literature and the online model community, the

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Labels

Today, Salvation Group comprises the following projects;

Redemption Films

Redemption showcases the best in European horror and sleaze cinema, with such titles as

Killer Nun ''Killer Nun'' ( Italian: ''Suor Omicidi'', ''Sister Murders'') is a 1979 Italian nunsploitation horror film directed and co-written by Giulio Berruti, co-written by Alberto Tarallo, and starring Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, an ...

, Profondo Rosso and films by

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Jean Rollin Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 193815 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre. Overview Rollins' career, spanning over fifty years, featured early short film ...

Dario Argento Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and critic. His influential work in the horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ''giallo'', has led him t ...

Mario Bava Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter, frequently referred to as the "Master of Italian Horror" and the "Master of the M ...

Bruno Mattei Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including women in prison, nunsploitation, zombie, mondo, cannibal, and Nazisploitation films. ...

Lucio Fulci Lucio Fulci (; 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedies and Spaghetti Westerns, he garn ...

among others. They also release classics such as

Nosferatu ''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ( ...

, Vampyr, The Phantom Carriage, M and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Other film labels

Salvation distributes films through other film labels, each specialising in their own cinema genres; * ''Jezebel Films'': soft-core

sexploitation A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit se ...

from the 60s and 70s. * ''Purgatory Films'': specifically adult interest films, including works by Michael Ninn. Purgatory has both softcore and hardcore titles. * ''Sacrament Films'': contemporary Japanese

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cinema.

Music

* ''Triple Silence'': Salvation's record label specialising in dark, sexual and satanic music with a recent move towards more

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and all its subgenres. * ''Hydra'': an offshoot of Triple Silence, covers Industrial,

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Neofolk Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of experimental music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s. Neofolk may either be solely acoustic or combine acoustic folk instrumen ...

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and the emerging Military pop genre.

Television

Redemption TV was a brief partnership between Salvation and Carnaby Media to create an alternative lifestyle channel, which aired on Sky Digital. Salvation ceased their involvement with this project shortly after launch, and the channel was rebranded as ROCKWORLD.TV.

Magazines

''Nihilista'' is a free magazine, containing articles on goth culture and reviews of alternative music and exploitation cinema

Other projects

, created in 2004 by

, is a global community of alternative women, who create horror-themed imagery and performance. Salvation have produced three DVDs and one coffee-table book of photography, called "Blood and Dishonour: The dark, bloody and perversely erotic world of the Satanic Sluts – Satan’s true Sirens" (published by Fab Press in 2007), under the name Satanic Sluts. Salvation has created the first online horror movie streaming website, called redemptionfilmstv.com, where it showcases a selection of films from the Redemption catalogue Salvation also runs an adult content website named purgatory-films.com

Production

Salvation Group also produces its own films, including nunsploitation shocker Sacred Flesh and

series, including
"Satanic Sluts: The Black Order Cometh"
(2008), featuring horror-themed performances from members of the Satanic Sluts
"Satanic Sluts II: The Black Masses"
(2008), which is a documentary on the nightclub ''Black Mass'', where each night members of the Satanic Sluts performed horror burlesque routines; and ''Satanic Sluts III: Scandalized'' (2009), an erotic imagination of the Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row concerning Satanic Slut Georgina Baillie.