Dark Sky Films is a
DVD distribution company, specializing in classic
horror films,
grindhouse titles,
lost films, and general cinematic oddities. It was founded in
2005 as a wholly ownerd
subsidiary of the
Chicago-based
video company
MPI,
itself famous for its wide range of releases, first in
videotape in 1980s
and then on DVD beginning in the late 1990s.
Among Dark Sky's
releases thus far are the notable cult films
The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre,
Henry: Portait of a Serial
Killer,
Magic, and
The Manson Family.
Among its speciality items are
The College Girl Murders,
Dog Eat Dog,
Violent Midnight. Its horror film
catalog includes
The Horror of Party Beach,
The Curse
of the Living Corpse,
Don't Go Near the Park,
The
Flesh Eaters,
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, and
The Terror Beneath the Sea. Dark Sky Films has also
released "lost" films including
Wet Asphalt and
Without Warning, the motorcycle gang movies
The
Losers and
Werewolves on Wheels, the
documentary
The Serial Killers, television shows such as
the British series
The Invisible Man and the made for TV
movie
Trilogy of Terror. A series of drive-in double bill
discs featuring
Invasion of the Neptune Men with
Prince of Space, and
Creation of the Humanoids
(widely reputed to be
Andy Warhol's favorite film, though no one has
been able yet to track down the source of the quote) with
Prince of Space. Most recently Dark Sky Films has released
a trio of films produced by the
British company
Amicus:
Asylum,
And Now the Screaming
Starts, and
The Beast Must Die.
Tobe Hooper's
Eaten
Alive has been announced as a forthcoming release. Dark Sky
Films was set to release a special edition DVD of
Mario Bava's
Kill Baby...Kill
with audio commentary by
Tim Lucas on
March 27,
2007, but was cancelled because another DVD company,
Anchor Bay Entertainment claimed to
have licensed it from the right person. On
April 3,
2007, Anchor Bay released their own no frills dvd of
Kill Baby...Kill as part of a Mario Bava Box Set.