Cult Film VOD Platform Spamflix Launches App
Available worldwide for iOS, Android, AirPlay and Chromecast
As featured in Forbes!
The cult film VOD platform Spamflix has launched a new worldwide app, available now for mobile and smart TV compatible. Via the app users can browse, rent and stream from the full catalog, which includes a wide range of feature and short films from around the globe.
Visit spamflix.com/app.do for more information, or available directly on Google Play and the Apple Store.
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 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 navigate and stream films. On both the website and app users can rent individual films for 72 hours for the uniform price of 5$ USD, or acquire multiple titles in a Film Pack deal, with special discounts and a Free Film Coupon to newly registered users until May 22nd.
“With the app we aim to reach a larger audience through a variety of devices, all offering the same catalogue and attention to showcasing cult and genre cinema that Spamflix excels in,” says Spamflix co-founder Markus Duffner. “However, when we planned this months ago we couldn’t have accounted for the current worldwide situation, and hope that releasing it now helps those stuck indoors to pass their days more pleasantly.”
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 Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra’s Good Manners (Winner – Best Directors, Locarno 2017), and films by notable cult filmmakers such as Alex Cox, Denis Côté (who each have retrospectives specially curated by Spamflix on the platform), Sion Sono, Quentin Dupieux, Peter Strickland, Davide Manuli, Yeon Sang-ho and Hitoshi Matsumoto.
Recent additions include acclaimed art-house erotic fantasy The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico, surreal Ethiopian sci-fi Crumbs by Miguel Llansó, Ten Animated Stories, a collection by Signe Baumane, festival darling For Some Inexplicable Reason by Gábor Reisz, comedic mockumentary Burning Love by Alberto Caviglia and Shugo Fujii’s mutant J-horror Mimicry Freaks.
Additional titles to come include: 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 (July) and fantasy debut and Fanastic Fest and Sitges 2019 selection Cosmic Candy dir. Rinio Dragasaki (September).
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, the Trieste Science + Fiction Shorts Programme, curated by the internationally acclaimed Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, and shorts from the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, with upcoming slates from 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), Maskoon Fantastic FF (TBD) and Court Métrange (2021).
The Spamflix app is available for iOS, Android, AirPlay and Chromecast
With over 50 films on the platform for each region, and more being added every month, below is a spotlight selection of titles for the US, Canada, and UK, in addition to recent additions available in multiple territories, including The Anooki, a block of french Animation shorts from David Passegand and Moetu Batlle, Old Man Cartoon Movie, by Oskar Lehemaa and Mikk Mägi, and Bruno Aleixo’s Film, by João Moreira & Pedro Santo.
Available in the USA
Crumbs (2015)
Dir. Miguel Llansó
Curling (2010)
Dir. Denis Côté + a selected retrospective on the director
Fish & Cat (2013)
Dir. Shahram Mokri
For Some Inexplicable Reason (2014)
Dir. Gabor Reisz
France is a Gas (2015)
Dir. Benoit Forgeard
Gandu (2010)
Dir. Q
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2010)
Dir. Davide Manuli
Liza the Fox-Fairy (2015)
Dir. Károly Ujj Mészáros
Scabbard Samurai (2010)
Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto
And animated short films by Signe Baumane
Available in Canada
The ABCs of Death 1 & 2 (2012 & 2014)
Anthology
Carcasses (2009)
Dir. Denis Côté + a selected retrospective on the director
Good Manners (2017)
Dir. Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas
How to Get Rid of the Others (2007)
Dir. Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Love & Other Cults (2017)
Dir. Eiji Uchida
Symbol (2009)
Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto
The Whispering Star (2015)
Dir. Sion Sono
The Wild Boys (2017)
Dir. Bertrand Mandico
Wrong Cops (2013)
Dir. Quentin Dupieux
Available in the UK
The Bra (2018)
Dir. Veit Helmer
Cold Fish (2010)
Dir. Sion Sono + seven-film retrospective and documentary
Death by Death (2016)
Dir. Xavier Seron
The Fake (2013)
Dir. Yeon Sang-ho
Fish & Cat (2013)
Dir. Shahram Mokri
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2010)
Dir. Davide Manuli
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore (2014)
Dir. Khavn
Suffering of Ninko (2016)
Dir. Norihiro Niwatsukino
Straight to Hell Returns (2010)
Dir. Alex Cox + five film retrospective
The Wild Boys (2017)
Dir. Bertrand Mandico
GOOGLE PLAY
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spamflix.app
APPLE STORE
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spamflix/id1503005927
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.