Pete Tombs

{{Short description|British author and producer}}

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| known_for = Co-founder of Mondo Macabro and Boum Productions

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| years_active = 1994–present

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Pete Tombs is a British author, television and film producer, and co-founder of the American-based home video distribution company Mondo Macabro, which he established in 2002 alongside fellow co-founder Andy Starke.{{cite web|url=https://www.mondo-macabro.com/about-us.html|title=About Us|publisher=Mondo Macabro|access-date=June 22, 2023}} Tombs also co-founded the production company Boum Productions with Starke,{{cite book|editor-last=Mathijs|editor-first=Ernest|date=2004|title=The Cinema of the Low Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcJofD9R_OUC&pg=PR10|publisher=Wallflower Press|page=x|isbn=978-1904764014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.rookfilms.co.uk/https/rookfilmsgreedbagcom|title=About Us|publisher=Rook Films|access-date=24 June 2023}} and was the head of the UK-based, now-defunct home video labels Pagan (which ran from 1999 to 2000){{cite web|url=https://www.mondo-macabro.com/pagan.html|title=Pagan UK|publisher=Mondo Macabro|access-date=22 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622211957/https://www.mondo-macabro.com/pagan.html|archive-date=22 June 2023|url-status=live}} and Eurotika! (which ran from 2000 to 2001).{{cite web|url=https://www.mondo-macabro.com/eurotika.html|title=eurotika! UK|publisher=Mondo Macabro|access-date=22 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622211906/https://www.mondo-macabro.com/eurotika.html|archive-date=22 June 2023|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sexgoremutants.co.uk/spot36.html|title=Mondo Macabro Interviewed|website=SexGoreMutants.co.uk|access-date=22 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622210852/http://www.sexgoremutants.co.uk/spot36.html|archive-date=22 June 2023|url-status=live}}

Tombs co-wrote the 1994 book Immoral Tales: Sex and Horror Cinema in Europe 1956–1984 with Cathal Tohill, and wrote the 1997 book Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World.{{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=18 August 2015|website=DangerousMinds.net|access-date=22 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622211614/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/uncovering_the_wildest_and_strangest_films_in_the_world|archive-date=22 June 2023}} The latter book served as the inspiration for both the Mondo Macabro home video label and the TV programme of the same name which he produced alongside Starke, and which aired on Channel 4 in 2002.{{cite journal|date=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kGNLAQAAIAAJ |title=Bidoun |journal=Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent|issue=15|page=71|quote="The British duo were preparing a television series based on Mondo Macabro for Channel 4; they also planned to launch a DVD label devoted to recirculating lost genre classics."}} Tombs and Starke also produced the TV programme Eurotika!, which aired in 1999.

Tombs has written about film in various publications, including the newspapers The Guardian and The Independent and the magazines The Dark Side and Sight and Sound. He was also a contributor to the British Film Institute's 1997 book The BFI Companion to Horror.{{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}} He also served as a co-writer and co-producer of the 2007 Pakistani horror film Zibahkhana (Hell's Ground).{{cite book|last=Dendle|first=Peter|date=2022|title=The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000–2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DG6rK0PE2vIC&pg=PA104|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=104|isbn=978-0-7864-6163-9}}