ABOUT

Shameless Films is a highly visible, pulp-inspired, exploitation brand of discovery offering up carefully curated films that will delight horror and exploitation fans.

Shameless wants fun but only with quality; we may be tongue-in-cheek about ourselves but we have great respect for the films we release and their audience, our customers –  like you, we love and care about films.

So behind the banter of our sales pitch, under the hood, there is serious intent! The Shameless team is determined not only to source the best possible materials for the films it publishes, but also the closest possible version to the Director’s original – or the Director’s preferred – vision of his film. Notably, Ruggero Deodato re-edited his 1st and only ever version of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (removing most animal cruelty to meet 21st century sensitivities) and Corrado Farina re-edited, expressly for Shameless, an additional 8 minutes into his BABA YAGA ‘redux’ for the 1st time ever since it had been hacked to pieces by his producers.

Most Shameless release feature interviews with the filmmakers and / or cast and crew or renowned genre experts with fascinating insights about the film making process. Kim Newman is on camera speaking about the rarely seen gem THE TENTH VICTIM (starring Ursula Andress, fresh out of James Bond’s Dr No), directed by the unjustly unappreciated and criminally overlooked genius Elio Petri. Sergio Martino introduces his ‘giallos’ ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK, THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH (both starring the mythical Edwige Fenech:) and his suspenseful hitchcock-ian TORSO. In his last ever interview, the late Umberto Lenzi is outspoken about his CANNIBAL FEROX.  The maverick filmmaker Anna Biller takes us behind the scene of her ‘Warhol-like’  lurid tongue-in-cheek feminist take on LA’s 70s sexual revolution in VIVA… to mention but very few..