, which launched in April, continues to beef up its catalogue while expanding deals with distribution partners.
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee re-teamed in Eugenio Martín’s 1973 train thriller “Horror Express.”Cultpix has increased its offering from an initial 400 titles when it went online to some 600 films and TV shows, adding an average of five to six new titles a week, von Sychowski said. The streamer’s latest pickups include Christopher Monger’s 1983 U.K. drama “Voicer Over,” from the British Film Institute ; Ernst Hofbauer’s “What Schoolgirl’s Don’t Tell” from Austria’s Lisa Film; and Hans Hatwig’s Swedish sci-fi romp “Little Green Men from Outer Space.”
Among Cultpix’s most watched films is “Project: Kill,” William Girdler’s 1976 action pic starring Leslie Nielsen.Cultpix has just expanded its deal with Seattle-based distributor Something Weird Video . The exploitation cinema specialist has launched its own branded genre section on the platform with such films as “Battle Beyond the Sun,” a 1959 Soviet sci-fi pic by Mikhail Karyukov and Aleksandr Kozyr that was bought by Roger Corman and re-edited by Francis Ford Coppola in 1962 for the U.S.