Cult Movies Are Getting Their Own Streaming Service In Kino Cult

The independent film distributor, Kino Lorber, is launching a free streaming service called Kino Cult with dozens of horror films and cult classics. Founded as Kino International in 1977, Kino Lorber, Inc. is run by a small team based out of New York City. With a library of over 4,000 films, Kino Lorber is an essential distributor of international, independent, and documentary cinema. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the company launched Kino Marquee, a “virtual cinema” platform whose revenue supported shuttered independent theaters.

Now Kino Lorber is launching Kino Cult, a free streaming service that showcases eclectic cult classics, horror gems, and other genre films. Per the promo reel on Kino Lorber’s YouTube channel, kinolorber, Kino Cult boasts “hundreds of hours of curated content” ranging “from art house to haunted house.” Kino Cult’s offerings will run the gamut across genres, including “horror, drive-in, comedy, sci-fi, [and] shorts,” and will add new titles every month. Check out the promo below:

The Kino Cult library features recent films like Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth (2009), as well as classics like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). Different categories on the site include “’70s & 80s Flashback,” “Occult,” “Hardboiled Horror,” and “Golden Age Exploitation” films like Reefer Madness (1936). It also highlights specific directors, such as European horror aficionados, Mario Bava and Jesús Franco.

Kino Lorber will be completely free and available on both the web and mobile devices. The service can also sync up to Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and other video-on-demand apps. With its focus on deep-cut genre favorites, Kino Cult joins the ranks of more niche streaming services like Shudder and Crunchyroll. “Kino Cult will stream the darkest thrills of visionary midnight cinema to fans at home,” says Kino Lorber CEO Richard Lorber. “With our vast library built over 40 years and key partner labels in many genre specialties, we have enormous potential to hyper serve genre audiences, the most passionate of all film lovers, with a selection of both new and rare films that they can’t find anywhere else, in incandescent HD. You no longer need to live in a big city with a great repertory theater to have access to the kind of curated cult gems we’re able to offer now for free!”

Source: kinolorber