I was thinking this. Did AIP kill themselves by releasing non-traditional mainstream stuff such as Meteor and Force 10 from Navarone? Their biggest successes were more traditional for AIP, the Amityville Horror and Love AT First Bite, a more original retread of their 1975 flop Vampira/Old Dracula with David Niven. Was Orion Pictures ever a major? I know they won an oscar for Silence of the Lambs, which was a superior horror film, despite their suspiciously un-Arkoffian claims that it was not a horror, but a lot of their stuff was mid-budget genre fare, Terminator, RoboCOP, Mac and Me...
