VIPCO (Video Instant Picture Company)
VIPCO (Video Instant Picture Company) was a UK based home video distribution company that specializes in releasing obscure and cult horror films. It promotes itself as the leading distributor of video nasties and previously banned films in the UK.
In its first incarnation as an independent company founded in the late seventies, VIPCO were notable for serving the nascent British home video market with early releases for films such as Driller Killer, The Groove Tube, King Frat, The Legacy, Psychic Killer and The Slayer. The company re-emerged in the early 1990s with edited versions of Zombie Flesh Eaters, Horror Hospital and Night of the Demon.
Since then, they have released films like Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, City Of the living dead, The Burning, A Blade in the Dark, Cannibal Ferox, The Nostril Picker Uncut EDition, The Beyond Uncut, The House by the Cemetery, The Toolbox Murders & The Mountain of the Cannibal God. These films fall under their Vipco's Vault of Horror DVD Collection.
Vipco also started a Cult Classic DVD Collection with films such as Bronx Warriors 1 & 2 being released.
Criticisms Of VIPCO
While the movies released by VIPCO would not be released onto the market by other companies, giving genre fans the opportunity to collect films without sourcing them from other countries. Many hard core horror fans are disappointed with the quality of the discs they produce compared to the price they sell for. Most of the criticism is of the picture and sound quality 1 2 with many films being released in the pan & scan picture format.
Closure
Vipco's website currently reads:
"Dear Vipco fans
After many years of supplying the greatest cult movies to grace the homevideo screen we have decided to closedown at the end of the this [sic] year (31/12/07).
We would like to thank each and everyone of you for your patronage through the years (1979 - 2007).
Yours as always
The Vipco Team
email: sales@horrorvideo.com PS. Don't forget to take care of your collections!"