Salvation Group
Encyclopedia
Salvation Group is a UK based media company, specialising in exploitation film
and alternative music. The company's original name and current trading name is Redemption Films.
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 Satanic Sluts.
, Profondo Rosso and films by Jess Franco, Jean Rollin
, Dario Argento
, Mario Bava
, Bruno Mattei
, Lucio Fulci
among others.
- Jezebel Films - soft-core sexploitation
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 pink cinema.
and all its sub-genres.
- Hydra - an off-shoot of Triple Silence, covers Industrial
, Martial, Neofolk
, Noise and the emerging Military pop genre.
. Salvation ceased their involvement with this project shortly after launch, and the channel was rebranded as ROCKWORLD.TV.
culture and reviews of alternative
music and exploitation
cinema
, 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
shocker Sacred Flesh
and Satanic Sluts 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.
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
and alternative music. The company's original name and current trading name is Redemption Films.
History
Salvation's origins can be traced back to 1993, when founder Nigel WingroveNigel Wingrove
Nigel Wingrove , is the founder of the horror film company Redemption Films and the Salvation Group and creator of the online alternative female collective, Satanic Sluts...
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 Satanic Sluts.
Redemption Films
Redemption showcases the best in European horror and sleaze cinema, with such titles as Killer NunKiller Nun
Killer Nun is an Italian nunsploitation film directed/co-written by Giulio Berruti and co-written by Alberto Tarallo...
, Profondo Rosso and films by Jess Franco, Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
, Dario Argento
Dario Argento
Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....
, Mario Bava
Mario Bava
Mario Bava was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films.-Biography:Mario Bava was born in San Remo, Liguria, Italy...
, Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei
Bruno Mattei was an Italian film director, screenwriter and editor who gained a cult following for a wide variety of exploitation films that covered many genres, ranging from women in prison to zombie films...
, Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...
among others.
Other Film Labels
Salvation distributes films through other film labels, each specialising in their own cinema genres;- Jezebel Films - soft-core sexploitation
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
from the 60s and 70s.
- Purgatory Films - specifically adult interest films, including works by Michael Ninn
Michael Ninn
Michael Ninn is an adult film director and writer known for his innovative, artistic and stylized approach to adult film making. He began his career as a music video director, and made his first adult films in 1992. From 2002 through 2007, Ninn released films through his own production company,...
. Purgatory has both softcore and hardcore titles.
- Sacrament Films - contemporary Japanese pink cinema.
Music
- Triple Silence - Salvation's record label specialising in dark, sexual and satanic music with a recent move towards more dark metalGothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
and all its sub-genres.
- Hydra - an off-shoot of Triple Silence, covers Industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
, Martial, Neofolk
Neofolk
Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial...
, Noise 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 DigitalSky Digital (UK & Ireland)
Sky is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television and radio service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28.2° east and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5°E. The service was originally launched as Sky Digital, distinguishing it from the original...
. 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 gothGothic fashion
Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture; a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical Gothic fashion includes dyed black hair, black lips and black clothes. Both male and female goths wear dark eyeliner and dark fingernails. Styles are...
culture and reviews of alternative
Alternative culture
Alternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures...
music and exploitation
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
cinema
Other Projects
- Satanic Sluts, created in 2004 by Nigel WingroveNigel Wingrove
Nigel Wingrove , is the founder of the horror film company Redemption Films and the Salvation Group and creator of the online alternative female collective, Satanic Sluts...
, is a global community of alternative
Alternative culture
Alternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures...
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 nunsploitationNunsploitation
Nunsploitation is a subgenre of exploitation film which had its peak in Europe in the 1970s. These films typically involve Christian nuns living in convents during the Middle Ages. The main conflict of the story is usually of a religious or sexual nature, such as religious oppression or sexual...
shocker Sacred Flesh
Sacred Flesh
Sacred Flesh is a 1999 British nunsploitation film. It is set in an indeterminate past, and consists of a series of loosely connected vignettes that depict pseudo-lesbian sexuality and some sado-masochistic activity.-Synopsis:...
and Satanic Sluts 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
Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row
The Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row concerned a series of voice messages that English entertainers Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left on the answering machine of actor Andrew Sachs, which were labelled obscene by many media commentators and politicians...
concerning Satanic Slut Georgina Baillie.
External links
- salvation-films.com Company Website
- satanic-sluts.com Satanic Sluts official website
- purgatory-films.com Purgatory Films website
- redemptionfilmstv.com Redemption Films TV
- Sacred Flesh at the IMDb.com database
- Satanic Sluts: The Black Order Cometh at the IMDb.com database
- Satanic Sluts II: The Black Masses at the IMDb.com database
- Satanic Sluts III: Scandalized at the IMDb.com database