Midnite Movies
The 3 main mastheads for VHS and DVD releases
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| Industry | Motion picture video production |
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| Genre | Science-fiction/Horror/Cult |
| Founder | MGM |
| Products | VHS, DVD |
| Owner | MGM |
Midnite Movies is a line of B movies released first on VHS and later on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment. The line was begun by MGM in March 2001 following its acquisition of Orion Pictures, which bought out Filmways, Inc., the owner of American International Pictures. AIP had a library of B movies from the 1950s and 1960s that were science fiction, horror, and exploitation films. The "Midnite Movies" collection is primarily derived from the AIP library (including most of Roger Corman's and Vincent Price's horror movies) but also included Hammer Film Productions, Amicus Productions, United Artists, and Empire International Pictures movies as well. The DVDs were first released as single films but most later releases would be double features on single double-sided discs. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment later became owners of the MGM library and continued the "Midnite Movies" line with distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. All double feature titles released on the 20th Century Fox label were two-disc packages. By 2011, no new titles were forthcoming; the previous catalog titles slowly went out of print and the "Midnite Movies" website was taken down.
Beginning in 2013, independent media labels such as Shout Factory!, Scream Factory, Kino Classics, Twilight Time and Olive Films have licensed titles from the former “Midnite Movies” line for Blu-ray release.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (OOP)
The Angry Red Planet(OOP)
At the Earth's Core (OOP)
Attack of the Puppet People (OOP)
Beach Blanket Bingo (OOP)
The Beast Within (OOP)
Count Yorga, Vampire (OOP)
Die, Monster, Die! (OOP)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (OOP)
The Dunwich Horror (OOP)
Empire of the Ants (OOP)
The Fall of the House of Usher (OOP)
Invaders from Mars (1986) (OOP)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (OOP)
The Man from Planet X (OOP)
The Monster That Challenged the World
Morons from Outer Space (OOP)
The People That Time Forgot (OOP)
The Pit and the Pendulum (OOP)
Strange Invaders (OOP)
Theatre of Blood (also as Theater of Blood) (OOP)
The Thing with Two Heads (OOP)
Twice-Told Tales (OOP)
Village of the Giants (OOP)
War-Gods of the Deep (OOP)
The Wild Angels (OOP)
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