Mondo Macabro

{{Short description|Home video label}}

{{For-text|the book|Mondo Macabro (book)|the TV program|Mondo Macabro (TV programme)}}

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• Pete Tombs
• Andy Starke

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|foundation = {{Start date and age|2002}}

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|key_people = Pete Tombs (Director){{cite book|editor-last=Schneider|editor-first=Steven Jay|date=2003|title=Fear Without Frontiers: Horror Cinema Across the Globe|page=313|isbn=978-1903254158}}

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|homepage = {{URL|https://www.mondo-macabro.com/|mondo-macabro.com}}

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Mondo Macabro is an American-based home video distribution company founded in 2002 by Pete Tombs and Andy Starke.{{cite web|url=https://www.mondo-macabro.com/about-us.html|title=About Us|publisher=Mondo Macabro|access-date=June 22, 2023}} Their focus is releasing cult and exploitation films on DVD and Blu-ray 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.{{cite web|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/uncovering_the_wildest_and_strangest_films_in_the_world|title=Uncovering and Preserving the Wildest and Strangest Films in the World|last=Bickel|first=Christopher|date=August 18, 2015|website=DangerousMinds.net|access-date=June 22, 2023}} Mondo Macabro's catalog of releases includes cult and exploitation films produced in such countries as Argentina, Indonesia, and Pakistan.{{cite book|last1=Sexton|first1=Jamie|last2=Mathijs|first2=Ernest|date=2011|title=Cult Cinema: An Introduction|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|page=239|isbn=978-1405173742|quote=Companies such as Blue Underground (US), Mondo Macabro (US, with a UK arm), Synapse (US), Cult Epics (US), Fantoma (US) and Something Weird (US) can all be seen as specializing in cult cinema. [...] Mondo Macabro focuses on global genre cinema, the majority of which is not well known by Western audiences.}}{{cite book|editor-last1=Perkins|editor-first1=Claire|editor-last2=Verevis|editor-first2=Constantine|date=2014|title=B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjbkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA46|publisher=SUNY Press|page=46|isbn=978-1438449951}} The first title released on the Mondo Macabro label was the 1977 Mexican horror film Alucarda, which the company issued on DVD in 2003. Other films released by Mondo Macabro include The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966),{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Mark|date=2011|title=Smirk, Sneer and Scream: Great Acting in Horror Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c0boCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA246|edition=Reprint|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=246|isbn=978-0-7864-6419-7}} The Mansion of Madness (1973),{{cite book|editor-last1=Shipka|editor-first1=Danny|editor-last2=Beliveau|editor-first2=Ralph|date=2017|title=International Horror Film Directors: Global Fear|publisher=Intellect|page=77|isbn=978-1-78320-653-7}} Challenge of the Tiger (1980),{{cite book|editor-last1=Wroot|editor-first1=Jonathan|editor-last2=Willis|editor-first2=Andy|date=2017|title=Cult Media: Re-Packaged, Re-Released and Restored|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rc7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|page=174|isbn=978-3319636788}} Mystics in Bali (1981),{{cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/195971/horror-globetrotting-mystics-bali-indonesia1981/|title=Horror Globetrotting: Mystics in Bali (Indonesia, 1981)|last=Fisher|first=Kieran|date=January 3, 2017|website=Dread Central|access-date=June 22, 2023}} and Aswang (1994).{{cite book|last=Edwards|first=Matthew|date=2017|title=Twisted Visions: Interviews with Cult Horror Filmmakers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s20pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173|publisher=McFarland & Company|pages=173–174|isbn=978-1476663760}}