Midnite Movies

Midnite Movies
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Industry	Motion picture video production
Genre	Science fiction/Horror/Cult
Founder	MGM
Products	VHS, DVD
Owner	MGM

Midnite Movies is a line of B movies released first on VHS and later on DVD by MGM Home Entertainment. The line was begun by MGM in March 2001 following its acquisition of Orion Pictures, which bought out Filmways, the owner of American International Pictures. AIP had a library of B movies from the 1950s and 1960s that were science fiction, horror, and exploitation films. The "Midnite Movies" collection is primarily derived from the AIP library (including most of Roger Corman and Vincent Price's horror films) but also included Hammer Film Productions, Amicus Productions, United Artists, and Empire International Pictures films as well. The DVDs were first released as single films, but most later releases would be double features on single double-sided discs.^[1] Sony Pictures Home Entertainment later became owners of the MGM library and continued the "Midnite Movies" line with distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. All double feature titles released on the 20th Century Fox label were two-disc packages. By 2011, no new titles were forthcoming; the previous catalog titles slowly went out of print and the "Midnite Movies" website was taken down.^[2]

Beginning in 2013, independent media labels such as Shout! Factory, Scream Factory, Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Twilight Time and Olive Films have licensed titles from the former “Midnite Movies” line for Blu-ray release.

DVD releases[]

Box sets[]

Midnite Movies: Creepy Classics (OOP)
- X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
- The Dunwich Horror
Midnite Movies Volume One: Creatures & Monsters (OOP)
- Yongary, Monster From the Deep / Konga
- Chosen Survivors / The Earth Dies Screaming
- The Food of the Gods
- Gorilla at Large / Mystery on Monster Island
- The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues / The Beast with a Million Eyes
Midnite Movies Volume Two: Vampires & Witchcraft (OOP)
- The Beast Within / The Bat People
- Devils of Darkness / Witchcraft
- Witchfinder General
- The House on Skull Mountain / The Mephisto Waltz
- The Return of Dracula / The Vampire
Vincent Price: MGM Scream Legends Collection
- Tales of Terror / Twice-Told Tales
- The Abominable Dr. Phibes / Dr. Phibes Rises Again
- Theatre of Blood (also as Theater of Blood) / Madhouse
- Witchfinder General / Disc of Horrors (bonus disc)

Selected VHS releases[]

These 12 films were not later released as "Midnite Movies" DVDs:
The Amazing Transparent Man (a public domain film released on several different DVDs)
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (a public domain film released on several different DVDs)
A Bucket of Blood (released on an MGM DVD with the same cover sleeve art/text, but no "Midnite Movies" title)
Burn, Witch, Burn (released on DVD-R as part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection)
Frogs (released on an MGM DVD with the same cover sleeve art/text, but no "Midnite Movies" title)
High School Hellcats (released on DVD-R as part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection)
The Incredible Melting Man (released on DVD-R as part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (a public domain film released on several different DVDs)
Master of the World (released on DVD-R as part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection)
Pajama Party (released on an MGM DVD with the same cover sleeve art/text, but no "Midnite Movies" title)
The Phantom Planet (a public domain film released on several different DVDs)
The Quatermass Xperiment (released on DVD-R as part of the MGM Limited Edition Collection)

Blu-ray releases[]

There have been no Blu-rays released under the "Midnite Movies" label; however, MGM is/has been licensing many of the "MM" titles to independent labels for Blu-ray release. The U.S. releases are as follows.

Scream Factory[]

The Vincent Price Collection
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Haunted Palace
The Masque of the Red Death
Witchfinder General
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
The Vincent Price Collection II
The Raven (1963)
The Comedy of Terrors
The Last Man on Earth
The Tomb of Ligeia
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The Vincent Price Collection III
Tower of London
An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe
Cry of the Banshee

Empire of the Ants/Jaws of Satan
The Food of the Gods/Frogs
Tentacles/Reptilicus
Tales from the Crypt/Vault of Horror
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)/The Dunwich Horror
Crawlspace
Die, Monster, Die!
Invasion of the Bee Girls
The Return of Count Yorga
The Vampire Lovers

KINO Studio Classics[]

At the Earth's Core
Donovan's Brain
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant
Invisible Invaders
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
Journey to the Seventh Planet
The Land That Time Forgot
Madhouse
The Monster That Challenged the World
The Oblong Box
Panic in Year Zero!
The People That Time Forgot
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Planet of the Vampires
The Premature Burial
Tales of Terror
Twice-Told Tales
War-Gods of the Deep
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Yongary, Monster from the Deep

MGM[]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Olive Films[]

It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Muscle Beach Party
Psych-Out
The Return of Dracula (BestBuy exclusive release)
The Thing with Two Heads
The Wild Angels

Twilight Time[]

Count Yorga, Vampire
Scream and Scream Again
Strange Invaders

Shout! Factory[]

Invaders from Mars (1986)
Motel Hell

Synapse Films[]

Countess Dracula

All released titles in alphabetical order[]

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (OOP)
Alien from L.A.
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Angel Unchained
The Angry Red Planet (OOP)
At the Earth's Core (OOP)
Attack of the Puppet People (OOP)
The Attic
The Bat People
Beach Blanket Bingo (OOP)
Beach Party
The Beast with a Million Eyes
The Beast Within (OOP)
Bikini Beach
A Blueprint for Murder
The Boy and the Pirates
Captain Blood (1960)
Captain Pirate
Chosen Survivors
Chrome and Hot Leather
The Comedy of Terrors
Count Yorga, Vampire (OOP)
Countess Dracula
Crawlspace
Cry of the Banshee

Cycle Savages
Deranged
Devils of Darkness
Die, Monster, Die! (OOP)
Donovan's Brain (OOP)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (OOP)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (OOP)
The Dunwich Horror (OOP)
The Earth Dies Screaming
Empire of the Ants (OOP)
The Fall of the House of Usher
Fireball 500
The Food of the Gods
Fortunes of Captain Blood
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Gas-s-s-s
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow
Gorilla at Large
The Haunted Palace
Hell's Belles
The House on Skull Mountain
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
I Bury the Living (OOP)
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant
Invaders from Mars (1986) (OOP)
Invasion of the Bee Girls
Invasion of the Star Creatures
Invisible Invaders
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) (OOP)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (OOP)
Journey to the Seventh Planet
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Konga
The Land That Time Forgot
The Last Man on Earth
Madhouse (OOP)
The Man from Planet X (OOP)
Man in the Attic
Mars Needs Women (OOP)
The Masque of the Red Death
The Mephisto Waltz
The Mini-Skirt Mob
The Monster That Challenged the World
Morons from Outer Space (OOP)
Motel Hell
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) (OOP)
Muscle Beach Party
Mystery on Monster Island
The Oblong Box
Panic in Year Zero!
The People That Time Forgot (OOP)
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) (OOP)
Planet of the Vampires (OOP)
The Premature Burial
Psych-Out (OOP)
The Raven (1963) (OOP)
Reptilicus (OOP)
The Return of Count Yorga
The Return of Dracula
Scream and Scream Again
Ski Party
Strange Invaders (OOP)
Tales from the Crypt
Tales of Terror
Tentacles
Theatre of Blood (also as Theater of Blood) (OOP)
The Thing with Two Heads (OOP)
Thunder Alley
The Tomb of Ligeia
Tower of London
The Trip (OOP)
Twice-Told Tales (OOP)
The Vampire
The Vampire Lovers
The Vault of Horror
Village of the Giants (OOP)
Voodoo Island
War-Gods of the Deep (OOP)
What's the Matter with Helen? (OOP)
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (OOP)
The Wild Angels (OOP)
Wild in the Streets
Witchcraft
Witchfinder General
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (OOP)
Yongary, Monster from the Deep

OOP = out of print

References[]

^ Arnold, Thomas K. (April 27, 2003). "Before the A-films arrive, 'psych out' with a good B-movie". USA Today. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
^ Kehr, Dave (September 27, 2005). "Critic's Choice: New DVDs". The New York Times. Retrieved November 26, 2008.

External links[]

[1] Arnold, Thomas K. (April 27, 2003). "Before the A-films arrive, 'psych out' with a good B-movie". USA Today. Retrieved November 26, 2008.

[2] Kehr, Dave (September 27, 2005). "Critic's Choice: New DVDs". The New York Times. Retrieved November 26, 2008.

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