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New Genre and Cult Streaming Platform SPAMFLIX launches in the US

Imagine a platform where viewers watch never before seen cult films which have yet to reach their audience through traditional means of distribution.. Now imagine you can also play thematically tied quizzes, puzzles, and other fun, online challenges. This is the goal of SPAMFLIX, a platform where genre enthusiasts can become ensorcelled with cinematic oddities from around the world.

Spamflix gives access to bonus content like making of clips and interviews with the directors. In the Games section users win prizes by playing trivia games about the films available in the platform. 

was released last October out of Lisbon, Portugal, by Italo-German Markus Duffner, a project manager at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) team and Julia Duarte, ex-producer of São Paulo International Film Festival (Brazil). 

After several successful partnerships in the international festival community, including Sitges, Spamflix will be an official partner at the Fall editions of Fantastic Fest and Brooklyn Horror, launching with a meticulously curated selection of films specifically targeted for US audiences.

Gandu“, one of the platform’s inaugural films

“Spamflix movies will surprise, shock, entertain and amaze you due to their poetical zaniness, powerful visual identities, outrageous social commentaries, silliness, ingenious comedy or absolute absurdity”, says Markus. The name “Spamflix” was inspired by the Spam Sketch in Monty Python’s Flying Circus- from whom Markus is a lifelong fan and even wrote his doctorate thesis about the British group.

Spamflix functions on a pay-per-view business model. All the films share the same price of five dollars ($5) storewide and are available to stream for 72 hours after purchase. With more services becoming subscription-based, Spamflix wants everyone to have access to the content they want with no strings attached. For those more passionate about cult cinema, there’s a variety of Film Packs that provide deeper discounts, starting at 5 Films for thirteen dollars ($13 US).

For the US market, Spamflix has started a collaboration with New York acquisitions agency Aspect Ratio (USA) to distribute films exclusively in the US.

Asian titles now available in the US:

– GANDU by Q (India, 2010)
A wildly inventive and visually stunning tale of weird, poor teen and his ambition to become a rapper.

– HARD ROMANTIKER by Su-yeon Gu (Japan, 2011)

A cocky young gangster finds that all kinds of people are out to kill him in this frenetic crime thriller.

Hard Romantiker

Upcoming Asian titles for US releases:

– Horror Stories by Bum-shik JUNG, Dae-woong LIM, Ji-young HONG, Gok KIM, Sun KIM (South Korea, 2012) – October 31st

– Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories by Shahram Mokri (Iran, 2008) – November 7th

– Crumbs by Miguel Llansó (Spain, Ethiopia, Philippines, 2015) – December 5th

– The Suffering of Ninko by Norihiro Niwatsukino (Japan, 2016) – December 12th

These titles will join other international titles already available on Spamflix:

– The Whispering Star, Sci-fi film from Japanese cult director Sion Sono, about an android who delivers mail for Humans scattered through the galaxy.

Spamflix is co-financed by the Lisboa 2020 programme of the ERDF European Fund.  

About the author

Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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