Source: Spamflix
Spamflix Streaming Platform for Cult and Rare Films is now available with APPs for iOS, Android, Airplay and Chromecast
SPAMFLIX, the Video on Demand platform for “never before seen” cult films is now available on mobile and TVs. With a catalogue of +90 films, starting today, those same films can be rented and streamed inside the Spamflix App. Until 21st May 2020, new users (registration is free) receive a Free Film Coupon to use with any Spamflix film.
Spamflix was founded in 2018 by Markus Duffner, a project manager at the Locarno Film Festival and Julia Duarte, former producer of São Paulo International Film Festival. Called ‘Netflix for Cult Film Fans’ by GEEK SPIN and featured in Forbes, the bulk of Spamflix’s library consists of hard to find and lesser-seen genre titles, many of which garnered acclaim on the festival circuit only to land without significant distribution.
A treasure trove for cult film enthusiasts that has a specialty focus on black comedy and adult animation, the new app makes it easier than ever before to browse and stream films. Spamflix doesn’t run on a monthly subscription. Instead, users rent individual films for 72-hours for the price of around 4€ Euros (AUD6 / NZD7) or acquire multiple titles in a Film Pack deal that offers a special discount.
“With the Apps we want to reach a larger audience in a variety of devices, all with the same catalogue and editorial line that Spamflix offers,” says Spamflix co-founder Markus Duffner. “However, when we planned this, months ago, we couldn’t have accounted for the current worldwide situation, so, alongside the special Film Packs discount already in place, we’ll also offer a Free Film Coupon to every new user, until 15 May 2020.”
Spamflix’s diverse library, which includes film categories like Black Comedy, Crime, Nonsense, WTF Did I Just Watch? And the timely #staythefuckhome tag contains festival hits such as Fish and Cat by Shahram Mokri (Venice Orizzonti winner, 2013) and films by fellow cult directors such as Alex Cox, Denis Côté (each with their own selected retrospective), Sion Sono, Quentin Dupieux, Davide Manuli and Hitoshi Matsumoto.
Recent additions are Alex Cox’s Straight to Hell Returns cult classic, erotic fantasy The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico, For Some Inexplicable Reason by Gabor Reisz’s festival darling, Alberto Caviglia’s mockumentary, Shugo Fujii’s mutant J-horror Mimicry Freaks and Signe Baumane’s shorts collection Ten Animated Stories, available now on Spamflix.
Additional titles to be released include 2018 Cannes Critics Week’s winner Diamantino by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Neurotic Quest for Serenity dir. Teodoro Poppovic Paulinho Caruso (21/05), In the Crosswind dir. Martti Helde (June), Thee Wreckers Tetralogy dir. Rosto (July), Occidental dir. Neïl Beloufa (August) and fantasy first feature Cosmic Candy (Fantastic Fest and Sitges entry 2019) dir. Rinio Dragasaki (September), – The Anooki, French animation shorts collection by Moetu Batlle and David Passegand (2020), Old Man Cartoon Movie by Oskar Lehemaa and Mikk Mägi (Estonia, Animation, 2019), The Bra by Veit Helmer (Germany, Azerbaijan, 2018), Bruno Aleixo’s Film (o Filme do Bruno Aleixo) by João Moreira & Pedro Santo (acclaimed Portuguese comedy animation, 2019), and Crumbs by Miguel Llansó (Estonia, Ethiopia, Spain, 2015), amongst other titles.
Spamflix is also proud to offer special short film programs from partnering festivals. Currently available in the library is the Fantasia Shorts Programme 2019, a collection of Quebecois shorts from the celebrated genre fest in Montreal, and the Trieste Science + Fiction Shorts Programme (a collection of Italian Sci-Fi Shorts). Upcoming blocks include shorts from Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (April 30th), NIFFF (May 14th), Fantastic Fest (May 28th), Lund Fantastik Film Fest (June 11th), Phenomena Film Fest (June 25th), and Morbido Film Festival shorts (TBD), BIFFF (TBD) and Court Métrange (2021).
The Spamflix app is available for iOS, Android, AirPlay and Chromecast CLICK HERE
With over 60 films on the platform for each region, and more being added every month, we’ve spotlighted a selection of titles below:
Antiporno – (2016)
Dir. Sion Sono
Curling (2010)
Dir. Denis Côté + a selected retrospective on the director
Diamantino (2018)
Dir. Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
Fish & Cat (2013)
Dir. Shahram Mokri
France is a Gas (2015)
Dir. Benoit Forgeard
Reality (2013)
Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Straight to Hell Returns (2010)
Dir. Alex Cox + a selected retrospective on the director
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2010)
Dir. Davide Manuli
The Wild Boys (2018)
Dir. Bertrand Mandico
Scabbard Samurai (2010)
Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto
Fantasia (2019)
A collection of shorts from Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival 2019.
Triestes Science + Fiction Festival (2019)
A selection of five shorts screened at Trieste Science + Fiction Festival.
Brooklyn Horror Shorts (2019)
A collection of shorts from Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.
About Spamflix
Launched at the end of 2018, Spamflix was created with the aim to offer a platform with a precise editorial line of cult and avant-garde films for cinephiles and genre enthusiasts that have rarely been seen outside of the film festival circuit, or their country of origin.
Spamflix is co-financed by the Lisboa 2020 programme of the ERDF European Fund
