Aquarius Releasing founder Terence “Terry” Levene, who launched dozens of B-movies in grindhouse theaters within the Seventies and ’80s and past, died Jan. 13 in Englewood, NJ. He was 90.

After working at Commonwealth United, Levene began Aquarius Releasing, which launched style movies starting from kung fu to sci-fi and much past and function a sub-distributor for Roger Corman and others. Aquarius had workplaces above the Selwyn Theatre on forty second St. in New York, and launched movies together with “Silent Night time, Lethal Night time,” “Isaac Hayes: Black Moses of Soul” and Lucio Fulci’s “The Past” (retitled as “Seven Doorways of Loss of life.”)

Among the many different movies he distributed or booked have been the New York launch of the wildly profitable intercourse movie “Deep Throat,” the Northeastern launch of “Halloween” and John Sayles’ “Alligator.”

Within the custom of different exploitation movie professionals like William Citadel, Levene handed barf baggage to patrons of “Physician Butcher M.D.” (a re-edited model of “Zombi Holocaust”) and selling 1983 movie “Make Them Die Slowly (a re-titling of Italian movie “Cannibal Ferox”) as “The Most Violent Movie Ever! Banned in 31 Nations!”

The Aquarius launch of “Physician Butcher M.D.” additionally featured the Butchermobile, a flatbed truck that drove round New York and New Jersey with an working desk and medical implements and a human topic on the desk, in line with the Cool Ass Cinema weblog

Aquarius jumped on the martial arts craze after Bruce Lee’s 1973 dying, distributing titles similar to “Goodbye Bruce Lee,” “Bruce Lee Fights Again From the Grave” and producing the controversial “Fist of Concern, Contact of Loss of life” with Fred Williamson. Levene is featured within the 2023 documentary “Enter the Clones of Bruce.”

Born in London, Levene began out as a gross sales government for twentieth Century Fox in Philadelphia after which grew to become assistant department supervisor of Columbia Photos in New York Metropolis. He joined Commonwealth United in 1968 as japanese division gross sales supervisor, and left the corporate after it was folded into AIP.

He’s survived by his spouse Sarai, his daughter Dr. Rachel Levene, son-in-law Gregory Kubie, grandchildren Charlotte and Clifford, sister and brother-in-law Mollie and John Summers and a number of nieces and nephews.