Cineventures' Best of 2021 List

TOP TEN MAINSTREAM/ARTHOUSE RELEASES:

• NOUCHKA VAN BRAKEL TRILOGY (A Woman Like Eve/The Debut/The Cool Lakes of Death), Cult Epics (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon.

• A WOMAN LIKE EVE available separately from Amazon.
• THE DEBUT available separately from Amazon.
• THE COOL LAKES OF DEATH available separately from Amazon.
  

• VIY/SVETO MESTO, Eureka (UK) Region B Blu-ray, limited edition no longer available from Amazon
  

• single disc standard edition without SVETO MESTO also available at Amazon

• CELIA, Second Run (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• ADOPTION, Second Run (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Second Run (UK), available from Amazon

• LAKE MUNGO, Second Sight (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• JOHNNY GUITAR, Eureka (UK) Region B Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• THE GREAT SILENCE, Eureka (UK) Region B Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• MALCOLM, Umbrella Entertainment (Australia) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY, Umbrella Entertainment (Australia) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

TOP TEN CULT RELEASES:

• TIE: PERDITA DURANGO, Severin Films (US) Region ALL 4K UHD/Blu-ray and DAY OF THE BEAST, Severin Films (US) Region ALL 4K UHD/Blu-ray

• PERDITA DURANGO 4K UHD/Blu-ray, available from Amazon
• PERDITA DURANGO Blu-ray, available from Amazon
• DAY OF THE BEAST 4K UHD/Blu-ray, available from Amazon
• DAY OF THE BEAST Blu-ray, available from Amazon
  

• 99.9, Cult Epics (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• IREZUMI, Arrow Video (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• TIE: CANNIBAL MAN, Severin Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray and NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM, Severin Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray
• CANNIBAL MAN available from Amazon
• NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM available from Amazon
  

• THE DESIGNATED VICTIM, Mondo Macabro (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• FORGOTTEN GIALLI VOL. 3 (Crazy Desires of the Murderer/Autopsy/Murder Mansion) Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Vinegar Syndrome
  

• SATAN'S BLOOD, Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN, Arrow Video (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• FRANCO NOIR (Death Whistles the Blues/Rififi in the City), Severin Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• AN ANGEL FOR SATAN, Severin Films (US) Region A Blu-ray, available from Amazon

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
For giving a boxed set to a martial arts filmmaker more inconsistent than Godfrey Ho:

• CINEMATIC VENGEANCE! (7 Grandmasters, The 36 Deadly Styles, The World of Drunken Master, The Old Master, Shaolin Kung Fu, The Shaolin Kids, The 18 Bronzemen, Return of the 18 Bronzemen), Eureka (UK) Region B Blu-ray, available from Amazon

For Synapse Films improvements on DEMONS US mono track and the restoration of English stereo soundtrack to DEMONS 2:

• DEMONS/DEMONS 2, Synapse Films (US) Region A Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• 4K UHD also available from Amazon

For making such godawful films look so, so good:

• SHE FREAK, American Genre Film Archive (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon

• THE CURIOUS DR. HUMPP, American Genre Film Archive (US) Region ALL Blu-ray, available from Amazon