# Salvation Group

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'''Salvation Group''' is a UK-based media company, specialising in [exploitation film](/source/exploitation_film) and alternative music. The company's original name and current trading name is [Redemption Films](/source/Redemption_Films). The Salvation Group was dissolved in November 2014.

==History==
Salvation's origins can be traced back to 1993, when founder [Nigel Wingrove](/source/Nigel_Wingrove) started up a film distribution label under the name [Redemption Films](/source/Redemption_Films). Since then, the company has broadened its scope to include the distribution of music and literature and the online model community, the [Satanic Sluts](/source/Satanic_Sluts). 

==Labels==
Today, Salvation Group comprises the following projects;

===Redemption Films===

Redemption showcases the best in European horror and sleaze cinema, with such titles as [Killer Nun](/source/Killer_Nun), [Profondo Rosso](/source/Profondo_Rosso) and films by [Jess Franco](/source/Jess_Franco), [Jean Rollin](/source/Jean_Rollin), [Dario Argento](/source/Dario_Argento), [Mario Bava](/source/Mario_Bava), [Bruno Mattei](/source/Bruno_Mattei), [Lucio Fulci](/source/Lucio_Fulci) among others.
They also release classics such as [Nosferatu](/source/Nosferatu), [Vampyr](/source/Vampyr), [The Phantom Carriage](/source/The_Phantom_Carriage), [M](/source/M_(1931_film)) and [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari](/source/The_Cabinet_of_Dr._Caligari).

===Other film labels===

Salvation distributes films through other film labels, each specialising in their own cinema genres:

* ''Jezebel Films'': soft-core [sexploitation](/source/Exploitation_film) from the 60s and 70s;
* ''Purgatory Films'': specifically adult interest films, including works by [Michael Ninn](/source/Michael_Ninn);
* Purgatory has both softcore and hardcore titles;
* ''Sacrament Films'': contemporary Japanese [pink](/source/Pink_film) cinema.

===Music===
* ''Triple Silence'': Salvation's record label specialising in dark, sexual and satanic music with a recent move towards more [dark metal](/source/Gothic_metal) and all its sub-genres.
* ''Hydra'': an offshoot of Triple Silence, covers [Industrial](/source/Industrial_music), [Martial](/source/Martial_industrial), [Neofolk](/source/Neofolk), [Noise](/source/Noise_(music)) and the emerging [Military pop](/source/Martial_industrial) genre.

===Television===
[Redemption TV](/source/Redemption_TV) was a brief partnership between Salvation and Carnaby Media to create an alternative lifestyle channel, which aired on [Sky Digital](/source/Sky_Digital_(UK_%26_Ireland)). Salvation ceased their involvement with this project shortly after launch, and the channel was rebranded as [ROCKWORLD.TV](/source/ROCKWORLD.TV).

===Magazines===
''Nihilista'' is a free magazine, containing articles on [goth](/source/Gothic_Fashion) culture and reviews of [alternative](/source/Alternative_culture) music and [exploitation](/source/Exploitation_film) cinema.

===Other projects===
[Satanic Sluts](/source/Satanic_Sluts), created in 2004 by [Nigel Wingrove](/source/Nigel_Wingrove), is a global community of [alternative](/source/Alternative_culture) women, who create horror-themed imagery and performance. Salvation have produced three DVDs and one coffee-table book of photography, called "Blood and Dishonour: The dark, bloody and perversely erotic world of the Satanic Sluts – Satan’s true Sirens" (published by [Fab Press](/source/Fab_Press) in 2007), under the name Satanic Sluts.

Salvation has created the first online horror movie streaming website, called redemptionfilmstv.com, where it showcases a selection of films from the Redemption catalogue.

Salvation also runs an adult content website named purgatory-films.com.

==Production==

Salvation Group also produces its own films, including [nunsploitation](/source/nunsploitation) shocker [Sacred Flesh](/source/Sacred_Flesh) and [Satanic Sluts](/source/Satanic_Sluts) series, including; [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1366942/ "Satanic Sluts: The Black Order Cometh"] (2008), featuring horror-themed performances from members of the Satanic Sluts; [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371641/ "Satanic Sluts II: The Black Masses"] (2008), which is a documentary on the nightclub ''Black Mass'', where each night members of the Satanic Sluts performed horror burlesque routines; and ''Satanic Sluts III: Scandalized'' (2009), an erotic imagination of the [Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row](/source/Russell_Brand_Show_prank_telephone_calls_row) concerning Satanic Slut [Georgina Baillie](/source/Georgina_Baillie).

==External links==
* [http://www.salvation-films.com salvation-films.com] Company Website
* [http://www.satanic-sluts.com satanic-sluts.com] Satanic Sluts official website
* [http://www.purgatory-films.com purgatory-films.com] Purgatory Films website
* [http://www.redemptionfilmstv.com redemptionfilmstv.com] Redemption Films TV
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237680/ Sacred Flesh] at the IMDb.com database
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1366942/ Satanic Sluts: The Black Order Cometh] at the IMDb.com database
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371641/ Satanic Sluts II: The Black Masses] at the IMDb.com database
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423987/ Satanic Sluts III: Scandalized] at the IMDb.com database

Category:Mass media companies of the United Kingdom

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