Producing and distributing
modern Genre classics since 2008
1976
It starts
with a tape.
Our parent company begins putting movies into American living rooms two years before Michael Myers ever came home. Home video is brand new. So is the idea that horror belongs to the audience now.
We were early. We stayed late.
THE 1980s
The forbidden shelf gets a name.
Gorgon Video becomes our VHS label and the reason the back room needed a curtain. Faces of Death. Oversized clamshells. The tapes you rented with a permission note you wrote yourself.
Your parents were right to worry.
1986
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
We produce it. The ratings board hands it an X. Critics hail it as a landmark of American horror, while its controversy helps drive the creation of the MPAA’s NC-17 rating.
Some certificates you frame.
2006
THE CHAINSAW STAYS RUNNING.
Dark Sky becomes a longtime home for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, distributing and restoring the film for new generations and preserving one of the most influential films in horror history.
The most important power tool in movie history.
THE 2000s
Dark Sky Films is born.
MPI gives its genre obsession a name and a mandate: discover bold filmmakers, push the genre forward, and keep the classics breathing.
The shelf gets a second life.
2009
WE BACK THE NEXT WAVE.
We produce The House of the Devil, a slow-burn throwback that finds a new audience and helps usher in a new wave of independent horror.
Staff pick. Obviously.
2010
Hatchet II. Unrated. In theaters.
We put an unrated slasher into more than sixty AMC theaters, the first horror film to go wide unrated since Dawn of the Dead in 1978. It lasted one weekend before it got pulled.
Zero regrets. We go on to release Hatchet III and Victor Crowley.
2026
THE MISSION NEVER CHANGED.
From Frankenstein’s Army, Stake Land, Starry Eyes, Deathgasm, Willow Creek, Bliss and We Are Still Here to Marama, Chain Reactions, A Desert and CAMP, Dark Sky continues to seek out filmmakers with something different to say, taking chances on bold genre films and bringing them to audiences.
Be kind. Rewind.
Dark Sky Films is an independent genre film production and distribution company, and a wholly owned subsidiary of MPI Media Group. The company is home to some of the world’s most influential genre films and is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and producing both new and classic horror, sci-fi, and cult films from around the globe.