DVD & Blu-Ray Suppliers

Sometimes it can be a bit of a quagmire collecting DVDs and Blu-Rays with the multitude of small companies that are out there. This list includes third-party suppliers, film-makers who self release as well as those film companies themselves.
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88 Films

88 Films

Home of slashers, Italian shockers, Cannon classics and much more! We don't do pretentious.
Anchor Bay

Anchor Bay

The Big Daddy of genre releasing. I'm sure most of us have at least one Anchor Bay DVD on their shelves.
Another World Entertainment

Another World Entertainment

Another World Entertainment (also known as simply AWE) is a Danish home video distribution company. Another World Entertainment was established in January 2006 and has been a leading distributor of a number of titles on DVD and more recently, Blu-ray Disc. Horror films are the company's most released genre, having released several cannibal, zombie and vampire films. However, other genres do include drama, comedy, sci-fi, thriller, action and western.
Arrow Films

Arrow Video

Arrow Video brings you the best cult films in deluxe editions with newly commissioned artwork, specially curated extras and booklets.
Arrow Video editions take in genre staples like Italian horror, grindhouse classics and much more. Explore the range through a variety of genres and collections below.
Blue Underground

Blue Underground

It's any time between the late '60s and mid '80s, and you're standing in front of a decrepit movie theater in an unsavory part of town. The titles on the marquee called you like a beacon. You were lured by the reputation of an obscure director, the talents of a notorious star or even the promises made by an amazing poster. You honestly don't know what you may be getting yourself into, or even if you'll get out of the theater alive. For some strange and wonderful reason, you are compelled to see movies about psychopaths, cops, robbers, zombies, cannibals, madmen, strange women and more, with an audience often comprised of the same.
Camera Obscura Filmdistribution

Camera Obscura Filmdistribution

A German company specialising in restorations of obscure genre releases. You can usually buy their, admittedly expensive, releases through DiabolikDVD.
Code Red DVD

Code Red DVD

Bill Olsen's DVD releasing company. It would have been nice if they had a little info on their site but they release all sorts of nice goodies that are hard to source elsewhere.
Dark Sky Films

Dark Sky Films

Dark Sky Films is an independent film production and distribution label founded in 2008, working with emerging talent as well as established veterans to develop, package, produce and finance feature films and episodic television projects. Representing films from some of most talented directors working today, such as Ti West’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and THE INNKEEPERS, and Jim Mickle’s STAKE LAND, Dark Sky continues to identify original talent and projects to bring a vibrant slate of films to the world market, with such recent productions as WE ARE STILL HERE, DEATHGASM , APPLESAUCE and CHERRY TREE.
Forbidden Films

Forbidden Films

The people who brought you "Found" and "Headless". Forbidden Films is a privately owned film production company based in Bloomington, Indiana. The LLC was founded by filmmakers Shane Beasley, Arthur Cullipher, Scott Schirmer, and Leya Taylor, for the purpose of developing, producing, marketing, and releasing low-budget genre films.
Grindhouse Releasing

Grindhouse Releasing

Grindhouse Releasing is a Hollywood-based distribution company dedicated to the restoration and preservation of classic exploitation films. Founded in 1996 by Bob Murawski and Sage Stallone, Grindhouse has produced spectacular deluxe editions of Lucio Fulci's "THE BEYOND", Ruggero Deodato's "CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST", Umberto Lenzi's "CANNIBAL FEROX", David Durston's 1970 drive-in classic "I DRINK YOUR BLOOD", and Juan Piquer Simón's outrageous chainsaw epic "PIECES".
Njutafilms

Njutafilms

A Scandinavian company that kindly releases region 2 DVDs that our goverment deems too scary for us. Thank you Njutafilms!
Severin Films

Severin Films

Since their founding in 2006, Severin Films has become the foremost studio dedicated to rescuing, restoring and releasing the most controversial and provocative features from around the world. With offices in Los Angeles and London, the company’s international successes in DVD, Blu-Ray and niche theatrical of films from Oscar nominees and cult icons alike has garnered applause in The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times and The Onion AV Club, and led BlogCritics.org to proclaim, “Severin Films are well on their way to becoming the greatest indie label of all time.”
Shameless Screen Entertainment

Shameless Screen Entertainment

“Shameless Screen Entertainment is a highly visible, pulp-inspired, in-your-face exploitation brand of discovery offering up carefully picked vile, evil, gore-soaked, demented, disturbing, deranged, naked flesh-filled, flesh-ripping, depraved, tormenting movies that will delight horror and exploitation fans. Working from a growing vault of films, Shameless – which releases mostly region free – will from time to time also offer films never before available on video”.

Behind the banter of our sales pitch, under the hood, there is serious intent though! The Shameless team is determined not only to source the best possible materials for the films it publishes, but also the closest possible version to the Director’s original – and / or the Director’s preferred – vision of his film. This is paramount and our overriding mission statement. Shameless wants fun but only with quality: we may be tongue-in-cheek about ourselves but we take our customers very seriously because like them, we love and care about films.
Shout/Scream Factory

Shout/Scream Factory

Scream Factory is a subsidiary of Shout! Factory, dedicated to releasing genre films with cult followings. Scream Factory has released a slate of fan-favorite thrillers from the 1980s, many of which have never been available on Blu-ray before. Each title is presented in anamorphic widescreen, and most are released in a “Collector’s Editions” with new bonus content, archival materials, a collectible cover featuring newly rendered retro-style artwork, a reversible wrap with original theatrical key art and more.
Something Weird Video

Something Weird Video

Something Weird Video is an American film distributor company based in Seattle, Washington. They specialize in exploitation films, particularly the works of Harry Novak, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman and Herschell Gordon Lewis. The company is named after Lewis' 1967 film Something Weird, and the logo is taken from that film's original poster art. Something Weird usually focus on B to Z movies. Something Weird has distributed well over 2,500 films to date.
Subkultur Entertainment

Subkultur Entertainment

The people who brought you the uncut Cannibal Man!
Synapse Films

Synapse Films

Synapse Films is an American DVD/Blu-ray label owned and operated by Don May, Jr. and his business partners Jerry Chandler and Charles Fiedler. The company was started in 1997 and it specializes in cult horror, science fiction, and exploitation films.

Synapse's focus has been to provide quality restoration and video transfers to genre films usually neglected or granted shoddy release on home video. May has brought to the company an expertise in video mastering and film restoration gleaned from nearly a decade of experience in the LaserDisc industry, and personal enthusiasm for exploitation film of all stripe.

The Synapse catalog ranges from European horror touchstones like Vampyros Lesbos, and Castle of Blood, to important genre documentaries including Roy Frumkes' Document of the Dead, from drive-in favorites like The Brain That Wouldn't Die to Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi film Triumph of the Will.
Toetag

Toetag

At TOETAG we specialize in creating artistic visions of the macabre. As an Independent Film Studio we are known for edgy original content. Our trademark EFX are award winning as well as cringe inducing. Along with producing original features TOETAG offers our filmmaking, EFX and creative services to other productions that would like TOETAG’s signature sickness. In addition to feature films we create horror inspired apparel, 2D and 3D art that we merchandize in our online store, at conventions, and through other resale outlets. To promote the underground culture we offer a platform for other artists as to achieve their vision by helping discuss, promote and possibly distribute their work. It is our ultimate goal to showcase there is an alternative to mainstream cinema thriving in the underground.
Twistedanger

Twistedanger

For those impossible to find gems. Online rare movie specialists catering for open minded movie collectors of Cult movies, Horror films and Exploitation cinema. Shocking videos and bizarre imports including grindhouse films from the 70's, obscure rare horror, rape & revenge movies, euro-trash, psychotronic, drive-in movies, midnight movies, made-for-tv, forgotten gems and more.
Very Fine Crap Videos

Very Fine Crap Videos

James Bell and Very fine Crap Videos make some of the most messed up underground films around. James also hand-makes every case so you know your DVD will be one-of-a-kind.
Vinegar Syndrome

Vinegar Syndrome

Vinegar Syndrome is an exploitation film focused distribution company and film archive located in Bridgeport, CT. Founded by genre-film lovers for genre-film lovers, Vinegar Syndrome’s mission is to preserve, restore and release the massive number of exploitation titles in our archive.
XT Video Entertainment

XT Video Entertainment

I'd love to tell you more about this secretive Austrian company who release those sexy DVD hardboxes but I can't even find a website for them. You can buy their releases from BeyondMedia and other places.

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