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2024 – Resurrection and Revolution
2023, while certainly not an annus horribilis, certainly wasn’t the best year for us here at Salvation; there were too many bumps in the road which made it hard to achieve all of our goals. However, New Year’s offers the chance to begin again and we really hope that 2024 will see Salvation rise to new lows of depravity and vice; and to that end here is a brief overview and outline of our plans and releases for 2024.
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Firstly, our much heralded US range has finally started with the first three titles now available to buy. They are S&M Hunter Begins, Sexy S.W.A.T. Team and Far from the Apple Tree. Followed shortly by Phantasmagoria, Uncle’s Paradise and Nude for Satan.
Still in the US, several of our Jean Rollin titles have been licensed to Shudder, so expect Rollin’s unique take on the vampire to reach more of the uninitiated over the coming months.
Speaking of Rollin, our licensing deal with Indicator is seeing many of the titles in our catalogue remastered in 4K, which, over time, will include all of the Jean Rollin films, including obscurities like Killing Car, The Sidewalks of Bangkok and, amazingly, La Comtesse IXE in all its hardcore glory; something we would have deemed nigh impossible a few years ago!
In the UK we have a truly incredible mix of Pinku, porn, exploitation, sleaze and horror lined up for 2024, including Mask, the Kekko Reborn, Prison Heat, Bloodlust, The Woman Who Sells Pro-biotic Drinks, Nipples, Space Necronomicon, Black Mass of the Brain, Snow Woman, Silence of the Sushi Rolls and many, many more.
Streaming
Our worldwide streaming site, RedemptionTV.net will soon be introducing subscriptions. So in addition to the wealth of filmic material already available to stream and the new titles we add each weekend, we will start to premiere our own newly produced material as well. The first of these productions is very, very nuncentric, and features numerous young women being sacrilegious and disgraceful in ways all Redemption fans will love.
RedemptionTV.net will also be joined by her wicked digital sister in the form of PurgatoryTV.net, our brand-new curated adult channel that will be featuring some of the darkest, gothest, and naughtiest material from around the world including Japan, Europe, and the US, as well as a few offerings from some of the baddest girls in the UK. More PurgatoryTV.net news soon…
Magazine
Encapsulating all of our cultural doings and likes is, of course, SALVATION, our newspaper-format magazine, which despite its somewhat erratic publication schedule, is now in production on its third and fourth issues, as well as its long outstanding special ‘Redemption’ issue 1.5; all of which will be published shortly.
We have some really exciting and innovative things being prepared for SALVATION ensuring that over time this limited publication will become a real collectors’ item.
To further grow the SALVATION magazine brand, we will very shortly be launching Salvationmag.com, a site specific to our publication which will feature related news and media every day. Expect an official announcement when the site goes live across social media later in the year
The Salvation Exploitation Chart
Based On Sales And Streaming In September 2024
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Ricky Greenwood’s Prison Heat, his sizzling adult take on the Women in Prison genre, has consolidated its vice-like grip on the number 1 position by staying there for a second month, and beating its nearest contenders by a considerable margin.
Featuring girls so bad that they make inmates of Saint Judith’s Borstal for young women look like, well, saints; Prison Heat tells the tale of Linda, a new inmate and convicted murderer (you see how BAD these girls are?) who is placed in a cell with the aptly named Hope, who shows her how to keep safe… Added to this mix are a wicked and very horny warden, lesbian bullies, and a depraved prison doctor, making this one of the hottest WIP films around.
At number 2 is Borstal Bitches where the wannabe bad girls of Saint Judith’s spend their time getting spanked, disciplined and occasionally seduced. Featuring lashings of lesbian sex and quite a lot of spanking, this torrid tale of tanned bottoms and coercive lust deserves its own genre. See at all costs.
Dropping one place to number 3 is the Australian gorefest, Bloodlust, directed by Australian bad boys Richard Wolstencroft and Jon Hewitt. Bloodlust is an über gory collection of vampires, criminals, and religious zealots, mixed with copious amounts of sex, violence, and Ozzie black humour. Centred on three violent vampires who steal three million dollars and then find themselves being pursued by even more violent nutters, Bloodlust is relentless, disgusting, and a must-see for lovers of gore, band taste, and mammaries.
Back in at number 4, is yet another Ricky Greenwood title, this time the salacious tale of cloistered nuns and sapphic passion, Confessions of a Sinful Nun, is one of Redemption’s most popular titles. Another re-entry at number 5 is the quite extraordinary Japanese Wife Next Door by Yutaka Ikejima. This absolutely bonkers tale of a quiet office worker who unknowingly marries into a truly dysfunctional family of sex maniacs, psychos, and nymphomaniacs is pink cinema at its wildest best. Meanwhile rising to number 6 is the equally wild and mischievously titled Milk the Maid which, despite its name, is not a film about a lactating maid, but rather a Pink film centred on a woman called ‘Milk’. Directed by Mototsugu Watanabe and starring the curvaceous adult actress Tia Bejean as Milk, who is befriended by a family when she is found wandering in the street. At first, when she claims to be a ‘baby angel’ who must perform good deeds to get her wings, they think she is a lunatic This is a Pinku title though and the deeds Milk performs are sexual and performed with gusto!
The number 7 spot is taken by another re-entry, The Women’s Nature, a spellbinding take on magic and desire. Here an ancient book’s pages unleash forbidden fantasies that its unsuspecting readers enact passionately! At number 8 is Yukio Kitazuwa’s madcap sci-fi tale Deep Contact which shows a comet on a collision course with Earth. A group of scientists working on ways to save mankind develop a special psychic power called Sexual Psychokinesis, powered by a man and a woman with psychic powers, which are unleashed when they have sex. Can they save Earth from Armageddon? Watch it and find out!
However, it was the re-entry of Amazon Hot Box, James Bickert’s brilliant take on the Women in Prison genre at number 9 that caused the most excitement around the Redemption office. If you haven’t seen this yet and buy only one DVD this month then buy this! Featuring insane amounts of nudity, violence and gore, including organ removals, genital mutilation, stabbings, torture, Tristan Risk getting it on with her bitches, and, our favourite, nude shower catfights! A masterpiece on a biblical scale!
Finally closing out the charts at number 10 is Girls of Wrestling, yet another Ricky Greenwood title, that this time features some of the sexiest female wrestlers around, so you can expect to see lots of girl-on-girl action on and off the mat in this epic release.
RedemptionTV.net
This month’s RedemptionTV.net highly eclectic chart has a first, in that for the first time two titles maintained a place in the top five that were also in the previous month’s chart! This may seem a very minor event but as anyone who has followed our monthly chart updates will know, in the digital world nothing is predictable…
Proving just how unpredictable this chart can be is the number 1 stream this month, Jean Rollin’s sexploitation knee trembler, Schoolgirl Hitchhikers. Starring one of the sexiest women ever, Joëlle Coeur, who gets entangled with a gang of jewel thieves.
While at number 2, dropping one place from August, is Prison Heat and its insatiable inmates.
At number 3 is another Jean Rollin title, Night of the Hunted, his disturbing and accomplished foray into science fiction featuring the wonderful Brigitte Lahaie as a disturbed woman who is found wandering at night, while naked and suffering from amnesia. Also featuring a lot of nudity is our scorchingly hot J-Girl Yummy title, featuring the Japanese adult video star Julia, in and out of a variety of outfits and settings. Finally at number 5, and carried over from August’s chart, is Mototsugu Watanabe’s Angels versus Devils which features Milk the Maid, My Hero, Chihiro and Whore Angels all bundled up in one glorious pink package.
See you all next month for our next round-up of your favourite titles.
Don’t Forget You can buy the chart DVDs in our online shop, watch them now on RedemptionTV.net or read about them and everything else in our new magazine, SALVATION, which you can read for free or buy here
This month’s Track To Enjoy the Chart To is Addicted to Love by the late Robert Palmer. Given that the whole world has gone crazy for HULU’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster novel, Rivals, and is hopefully about to embrace some eighties-style excess and party like it’s 1986, we thought we’d join in. This track plays during the Concorde scene in the first episode and is worth the price of a subscription just for that!
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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.
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