WELCOME TO SALVATION FILMS
This is the website for Salvation Films and the home of the Redemption, Jezebel and Sacrament film labels as well as the notorious Satanic Sluts
Summer 2022 – Welcome to the Inferno
While your local parks and gardens are turning into the Sahara, and the average temperature is akin to Death Valley on a good day, you can now at least appear cool by carrying a copy of our rather wonderful magazine, Salvation. Aside from having some excellent content, Salvation is large enough that if held at the right angle will block out the sun and become a makeshift parasol!
Only eight months late and counting, our magazine is almost finished and the online version should be ready to download before the end of August. The first issue contains a massive feature on Jean Rollin’s vampire films by Reprobate’s main man, David Flint; an introduction to all-girl pop punk band, Lady Rage; a retrospective on the bad boys of art, The Grey Organisation; Sex and Violence a la Français; actress Tristan Risk; Gothic Design; plus multiple reviews and all things Redemption. All presented in a suitably stylish way, the magazine will also be published with two striking and highly collectable covers. One featuring Françoise Pascal from The Iron Rose, and the other featuring a very special artwork showing a scythe-wielding Brigitte Lahaie. Limited to just 100 printed copies of each cover it is available to pre-order here.
We also have some good news regarding the US in that our Salvation Exploitation Collection will soon be available, through Kino Lorber, in the US. Already well-established in the UK, we will now be able to unleash our eclectic mix of sex, Pinku, horror, and exploitation on the population of the United States. We have six titles scheduled for initial release including Far from the Apple Tree, Uncle’s Paradise, Black Mass of the Brain and Human Livestock. Cover art sneak peeks and more details soon…
In the UK we’re adding to the overall rising temperatures by releasing some of our hottest titles ever, these include two sizzling all-girl specials. The first of which is a bad girls in the slammer WIP film (Women in Prison) called Prison Heat, directed by Ricky Greenwood; which stars Carter Cruise and Ana Foxxx as cell mates who find some unique ways of passing the time, while the butch warden (lesbian porn icon Sinn Sage) keeps discipline in her equally unique way.
The second feature is a true all-girl epic directed by one of the sexiest director/performer combos in the industry, the amazing Dana Vespoli, Reform School Girls. This film is so hot that it should come with a global warning from Greta Thunberg! Set amongst the bad girls of Saint Judith’s Reformatory School, Reform School Girls is a mixture of old school girl on girl action spiced up with spankings, canings and scenes of creative pervy discipline, making this one of the best all-girl films we’ve seen. Both titles will be released on our Carnal label in the Autumn.
On the horror front we have Australian gore classic Bloodlust from maverick director and all round troublemaker, Richard Wolstencroft, and Black Mass of the Brain by the amazing Cosmotropia de Xam, a film guaranteed to mess with your head. Finally, on the Pinku side we have Deep Contact (AKA Whore Hospital 2 AKA No Pants Nurse) which is like a weird OTT mash-up of Armageddon, Deep Impact and a full-on sex film. A team of scientists and doctors rush to save the world by using the power of sexual psycho-kinesis and the female orgasm. A must be seen to be believed epic, directed by Yukio Kitazawa.
On RedemptionTV.net our summer of Sinema continues apace with Peter Goddard’s haunting ghost story Anna and the Dead, and Space Vampire, a psychedelic, multimedia meditation on The Vampire from Chris Alexander as our finale on August 26th. We then have a whole slate of exciting new films and the first of our newly commissioned programmes and Live streaming events… More soon.
We also have a brand new streaming site and sister site to RedemptionTV.net coming. PurgatoryTV.net will be a worldwide adult site, featuring European, US and Japanese adult product. Over the coming months Purgatory TV will be making hundreds of adult features available around the world including many features previously unreleased in the West, as well as premiering newly commissioned material. More on this great and exciting new site very soon…
Finally, just in case that’s not enough, be prepared and perhaps a little scared…
the Satanic Sluts are coming back…
Eileen Days’ Sinema – a new series of filmic fun and fangtastic fantasy
Eileen Daly, Scream Queen extraordinaire, curvaceous beauty and, of course, the ‘face’ of Redemption will be hosting her own film show where she’ll be reviewing our releases and, rather alarmingly, telling us what she thinks of them. All in her own very unique way of course, so expect cheers and tears in equal measure…
Eileen Daly’s Sinema is free to view on our new Youtube channel, and is now on RedemptionTV.net where you’ll find Eileen causing trouble in the Cultural section.
More new original programs are coming soon.
The Salvation Exploitation Chart
Based on Sales and Streaming in August 2022
Our twenty-sixth UK DVD chart sees Blind Love holding on to the top spot for the second month in a row, despite some stiff competition from several other Pinku releases, which occupy the top four positions this month.
At number two is a surprising re-entry, Milk the Maid, Motosugu Watanabe’s very naughty tale of a maid called ‘Milk’. Milk, played with gusto by the curvaceous adult actress Tia, is a ‘baby’ angel who must perform good deeds on Earth in order to get her wings. The family whose home she has taken residence in decide that she is insane, as Milk dresses like a lunatic, eats raw fish, and performs sexual favours at every request!
At number three is our Pinku double-bill, Tsumugi and Secret in the Attic, two films of illicit love and lots of illicit sex. While at number four is the extraordinary Twilight Dinner, Yutaka Ikejima’s, strange mash-up of traditional Pinku eroticism, lesbianism, and bloody vampire horror; a must-see for fans of Japanese cinema and exploitation horror.
Redemption isn’t completely excluded this month as Ricky Greenwood’s salacious tale of cloistered nuns and sapphic passion, Confessions of a Sinful Nun has moved up from last month’s chart to take the fifth position. Also, the extreme and bizarre Mexican vampire film, Violent Delights has re-entered the charts and is sunk its fangs into the number ten slot!
As usual, our streaming site, RedemptionTV.net, surprised no one by being completely unpredictable and anarchic. The number one stream this month was our Roberta Gemma triple-bill which just shows how popular this curvacious beauty is with you all. In films like Luna’s Angels and Diary of a Secretary, Roberta can be seen in all her glory and if you haven’t seen them yet you should you make a date with Roberta as soon as you can.
Another well-deserved success this month was director Vince D’Amato’s tale of murder, sex and madness, Reversed, which takes the number two position. Our other streaming chart titles this month include the amazingly sleazy women in prison epic, Amazon Hot Box, Jean Rollin’s surreal and mesmerizing take of immortality and vampires, The Nude Vampire and Motosugu Watanabe’s supernatural erotic comedy, The Succulent Succubus.
Over the channel, in France, they seem to love Pinku as much as we do, with the top three streams all being taken by Japanese pink cinema epics. At number one is Daisuke Gotô’s A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn, while at number two is S&M Hunter, a film so politically incorrect it’s difficult to know where to begin! Described as a pink film comedy, it centres on an all-girl crime gang who kidnap a man to use as their personal sex slave, and the S&M Hunter is brought in to rescue the man and teach the girls a lesson. Crack that Whip!
Other gallic streams this month include Blind Love, Cold Eyes of Fear and the wonderfully insane Italian gothic horror, Nude for Satan.
See you all in October!
You can buy the chart DVDs in our online shop or watch them now on RedemptionTV.net
This month’s Track To Enjoy the Chart To is, rather appropriately as we approach the autumn and nights draw in, Sad Girl Summer by Essex girl gone bad, Cassyette. We like her and think that Cassyette is a singer to watch. See her in September – Cardiff 12th, Sheffield 14th, Manchester 15th and in London 20th.
Salvation Films
No 1
Blind Love
Last Mon.New
Spine No.85
No 2
Milk the Maid
Last Mon.Re-entry
Spine No.55
No 3
Tsumugi/Secret in the Attic
Last Mon.9
Spine No.71
No 4
Twilight Dinner
Last Mon.-
Spine No.84
No 5
Confessions of a Sinful Nun
Last Mon.New
Spine No.73
No 6
A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn
Last Mon.Re-entry
Spine No.76
No 7
The Women's Nature
Last Mon.New Entry
Spine No.28
No 8
Luna's Angel
Last Mon.New
Spine No.70
No 9
Becoming Elsa
Last Mon.4
Spine No.78
No 10
Violent Delights
Last Mon.4
Spine No.74
RedemptionTV
No 1
Roberta Gemma Triple
No 2
Reversed
No 3
Amazon Hot Box
No 4
Succulent Succubus
No 5
Nude Vampire
French Streaming Chart
No 1
A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn
No 2
S&M Hunter
No 3
Blind Love
No 4
Cold Eyes of Fear
No 5
Nude for Satan
Redemption
Exploiting cult sex and horror since 1993!
Redemption was the first film label in the world to see the commercial potential in releasing European exploitation films at a time when euro horror was dismissed and ignored by most critics and the wider film community. Redemption launched, in 1993, by championing the works of Jean Rollin, Jess Franco, Dario Argento, Massimo Dallamano, Bruno Mattei and many, many others. Films like Succubus, Requiem for a Vampire, Deep Red, Venus in Furs, What Have You Done to Solange?, Virgin Witch, and Vampyros Lesbos have all been released by Redemption, though often only after costly battles with the UK censors with whom Redemption has had a difficult history.To help raise awareness of these films, and to grow the Redemption brand, Salvation created a number of related publications and side projects, including The Redeemer magazine and the Nihilista newspaper, nightclub Black Mass, and the online group the Satanic Sluts, an all girl collective, whose live shows, which often mixed gore, sex and outrageous antics, saw them mentioned in the House of Commons and the Black Mass club, at which they performed, banned from three venues in three months!
Now, some 23 years later, Redemption continues to break boundaries, champion new films and hatch new ideas. So please keep checking out this site and join our mailing list.
Exhibition – Redemption Revisited
A selection of 100 images created in and around Redemption and Salvation Films between 1992 and 2014
Licensing Worldwide
For all enquiries regarding the licensing of our films, stills or images relating to our films for physical, digital or merchandising exploitation worldwide, including the films of Jean Rollin.
For more information please email us at
info@salvationgroup.com
Jean Rollin
The Man Who Bought The Vampire To Life
Welcome to Salvation Films’ new dedicated new Jean Rollin section where, over time, we hope to have everything about Rollin; past, present and future covered. We will of course include information on all of our releases, or licensed releases, and related releases like soundtracks or books.
Redemption’s relationship with the films of Jean Rollin and with Rollin himself goes back to 1992 and the very beginning of Redemption when we started out as a company that would specialise in releasing European horror and exploitation films at a time when no one else was. At this time Rollin was virtually unknown and his work dismissed by most critics who had, watched his films, as both nonsense and nonsensical
Redemption TV
VILE, VISUAL & VOLUPTUOUS – TV SO SCINTILLATING IT’S LIKE BEING LICKED BY A CAT
Here at Salvation Films, we started the lockdown in true dystopian style by vowing to become even more antisocial and reclusive than usual and celebrated by expanding our watch section and making as many films and related material available to watch as possible. Indeed, our Watch section spread so rapidly amongst our digital disciples that it has mutated and become Redemption TV…
So, as you emerge tentatively into a new timorous world of social distancing, face masks and hand sanitizers where the smell of disinfectant has replaced perfume and the touching of flesh carries with it the hidden frisson of death and disease, get ready to run back indoors! Get ready for Redemption TV!
Redemption TV is home to some of the best in exploitation, horror, sexploitation and transgressive cinema as well as one of the biggest collections of Japanese Pink film outside of Japan! With new films being added every month Redemption TV will bring a breath of fetid air and digital devilry to your previously stay-safe-at-home world.
Now you can immerse yourself in a satanic wonderland of vampires, witches and salacious decadence mixed with a cornucopia of fleshy delights from Japan! These celluloid epics will be soon be joined by an ever-growing selection of programs featuring the very best in alternative lifestyle and culture, including, but not limited to, fashion, music, sex, short films, art and, on occasions, Satan himself..
The darkness is coming and so is Redemption TV.
Let there be light…
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