An independent production company created by Ed Glaser, Dark Maze Studios is notable for having low budgets, yet creating high quality products such as Press Start (2007), Space Ninja, Robo Girl and Ed Glaser's own review series, Deja View. Dark Maze was an affiliate of Channel Awesome until May 2014.
Originally founded as Mobled Queen Entertainment, a horror film production company, which changed its name to Dark Maze Studios after Amazon bought its distributor company Custom Flix in 2005 and started pre-production on Press Start (2007).
The creator of Press Start (2007), Ed Glaser spends most of his time behind the camera (except when doing introductions to each episode of his ten-part series Robo Girl), but occasionally cameos in his and others' videos on TGWTG.com. He's also a fan of foreign schlock cinema, and was instrumental in bringing the infamous Rampage (better known as "Turkish Rambo") to DVD. In 2016, to cement his reputation as one of the foremost experts in Turkish knockoff cinema, Glaser located the only known 35mm print of ''Turkish Star Wars''
and is working to restore it as well.
Press Start Adventures, the animated sequel to Press Start (2007) is featured on his section of the site, and he recently started his own section of movie reviews, based in foreign remakes of American films, called Deja View. He reviews the movies in a MUCH less caustic manner than his fellow members of the TGWTG team, since he does actively enjoy the movies he reviews, and offers professional, almost encyclopedic insights into the merits of the movies, as well as how they compare to the American originals. He has collaborated with Brad Jones on a variety of projects, including the Ninja the Mission Force webseries and episodes of The Bruno Mattei Show.
The company's official statement on the name change is: "It was time for a format change, for a number of reasons. First of all, nearly all of the Mobled Queen movies were short – generally less than an hour long. The shift to Dark Maze represents a shift in focus toward feature-length films. Additionally, with all the horror movies we had been doing, Mobled Queen had started to seem like just another low-budget horror studio, which was never really the plan. We love horror movies and have had a blast making them, but it was time to diversify. A little image shift seemed like a good way to start that process."
Their material can be found at Dark Maze Studios's website, Newgrounds and blip.tv.
In 2013, the studio changed its name to Neon Harbor.
- Hunted
- Dead by Dawn (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Re Make)
- Dead by Dawn 2: The Mask of Conrad
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Redux (With new title cards and a new Industrial score by Steve "Acrylic Flames" Wentzel)
- Night of Anubis (The Mummy Strikes Re Make)
- Press Start (2007)
- Press Start: Bio Haphazard (Special short made for X-Strike Studios' Resident Horror DVD, also available on the Press Start 2 Continue DVD)
- Rampage [Korkusuz] (A cult film better known outside Turkey as "Turkish Rambo", distributed in North America by Dark Maze)
- Press Start 2 Continue
- Dial "V" for Vile
- Press Start Adventures
- Robo Girl
- Deja View
- Space Ninja
- Ninja the Mission Force
- Marathon of Fright
- Marathon of Fright: Mummy Madness!
- Affectionate Parody: Robo Girl and Press Start (2007) are made of everything the creators love about old, cheesy sci-fi movies and video games.
- Compilation Re-release: The Marathon of Fright DVD, which contains Dead by Dawn, Dead by Dawn 2: The Mask of Conrad and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Redux.
- Cultured Badass: Peter A. Davis. He is an associate professor of theatre history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has a PhD in Communication, wrote a book, From Androboros to the First Amendment: A Cultural and Political History of America’s First Play, and has scaled six of the Seven Summits, with only Vinson Massif in Antarctica remaining.* Keep Circulating the Tapes: Every single film before Press Start (2007).
- The Merch: DVDs, shirts, posters, mugs, mousepads, wall clocks, lunchboxes, VCDs and thongs.
- Production Posse: DMS frequently collaborates with Brad Jones on such projects as the "Kung Tai Ted" series, "The Bruno Mattei Show," Ninja the Mission Force and The Cinema Snob Movie. Both are based in Illinois, making it easy to get together.
- The Remake: Dead by Dawn is a remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Night of Anubis is a remake of The Mummy Strikes.
