Cod Red, also known as Code Red DVD and Code Red Releasing, is a California-based DVD company that specializes in releasing mostly American and European cult genre movies.

History

Code Red formed in 2006 by Bill Olsen and quickly gathered attention with their first release "Don't Go in the Woods" through distributor Media-Blasters. They released a few more releases through Media-Blasters before switching distributors to the Navarre Corporation. Most of their catalog has been cult exploitation films in varying genres but they have released a handful of critically acclaimed art films as well. Over the years Code Red has been praised for their effort put into releasing rare cult films and for utilizing original poster artwork but have been criticized for allowing some of their releases to go out-of-print not long after their release, a practice president Bill Olsen attributes to poor DVD sales.

DVD releases

Alice Goodbody

Alice in Wonderland (1976)

Bad Girls' Dormitory

The Being / Cop Killers

Beyond the Door

Black Klansman

Blade (1973) / Ring of Death (aka Detective Belli) (OOP)

Boarding House (OOP)

Brute Corps

Burbank Drive-In: Between the Covers / Swinging Wives

Can I Do It... Till I Need Glasses

The Carrier

Challenge the Dragon / The Needle Avenger

The Chilling (OOP)

Choke Canyon (aka On Deadly Ground)

Christine Lindberg vs. Laura Gemser (OOP)

The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse

Cut-Throats Nine / Joshua

Joshua

Joshua , is a minor figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel and in few passages as Moses's assistant. He turns to be the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua...

Day at the Beach

The Dead are Alive! (OOP)

The Dead Pit

Death Journey

Derby (OOP)

Devil Times Five (OOP)

Don't Go in the Woods

Doom Asylum (OOP)

Exterminators of the Year 3000 (OOP)

The Fabulous Journey to the Center of the Earth (aka Where Time Began) (OOP)

The Forest

God's Bloody Acre! / Tomcats

Tomcats (film)

Tomcats is a 2001 American comedy film written and directed by Gregory Poirier.- Plot :The story concerns a group of guys who have made a deal to each invest in a fund, which would be paid to the last remaining bachelor of the group...

The Godfather Squad / Bruce's Last Battle

Girls in Chains (OOP)

Group Marriage

Horror High

Hot Moves

How to Score with Girls / White Rat

James Bryan Film Festival (3 Film Collection)

- Escape to Passion
- Dirtiest Game in the World

- I Love You, I Love You Not

Julie Darling

Killer's Delight

The Last Chase

Light Blast (OOP)

A Long Ride From Hell (OOP)
Love Me Deadly

Madman

Marcy

Mean Johnny Barrows

Messiah of Evil

The Night Child (OOP)

Night of the Dribbler

Nightmare

Pets (OOP)

Primal Rage (OOP)

Quadroom

The Redeemer (aka Son of Satan)

Riot on 42nd Street

Rituals (OOP)

Rivals

Rivals (film)

Rivals is a 1925 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Billy West - Billy* Oliver Hardy - The Rival* Ethelyn Gibson - Ethlyn * Ernie Young - Henry, the butler...

Running Hot (OOP)

Saturn Drive-In: Velvet Trap / Hot Nights on the Campus

Scream(1981)

Slithis

Sole Survivor

Stanley

The Statue

Stigma

Stigma (film)

Stigma is a 1972 American drama film. It was produced by Charles Moss, while David E. Durston was both the writer and the director. Prominent themes in the film include racism and sexually transmitted disease....

Stoney / The Killer Likes Candy

The Strangeness

Stunt Rock (OOP)

Sweet Sixteen

Teenage Hitchhikers

Terminal Island

Terror Circus

Terror Circus / Schoolgirls in Chains

Trapped

The Undertaker

The Unknown Comedy Special

The Unseen (OOP)

The Visitor

The Weekend Murders (OOP)

Wild Malibu Weekend

The Witchmaker

Working Girls

Exploitation Cinema Double Features

Devil Times Five / Mark of the Witch

Deliver Us From Evil / Fox Affair

The Forest / Don't Go in the Woods

Lonely Wives

Lonely Wives (film)

Lonely Wives is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Russell Mack and starring Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, and Laura La Plante.It was released on DVD by Roan/Troma Entertainment in 2001.- Cast :...

 / [Sorry Wrong Number

Superfan / Jailbait Babysitter

Teenage Graffiti / Teenage Mother

Wacky Taxi / Superargo

Where Time Began / Encounters with the Unknown

Maria's B-Movie Mayhem

Caged Men (aka I'm Going to Get You... Elliott Boy)

Haunted

Love Me Deadly / The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse

Mardi Gras Massacre

Night of the Demon

Riot of 42nd St. / Bad Girl Dormitory

Scream / The Barn of the Naked Dead

Teenage Hitchhikers / Teenage Tramp

Vampire at Midnight

Voodoo Dolls / Madonna


^In order to boost sales, Code Red released the line "Maria's B-Movie Mayhem", where a host in "Elvira" fashion introduces and does a lead out on B-movies. All these releases can be viewed with with or with-out Maria hosting.

OOP = out-of-print

See also

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Poliziotteschi

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Sword and sandal

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