| As the year comes to a close and days get shorter, December 6 starts ARROW’s Seasons with Fear of the Dark (UK/IE/US/CAN).
Don’t turn off the light!
All the scariest things we can imagine lurk in the darkness. Creeping around in the impenetrable black, just waiting for the chance to grab our feet as we run up the stairs or jump into bed.
Banish this terror, or maybe make it worse, with a curated collection of Cult films where what hides in the shadows is more terrifying than anything you can think of. Shine a flickering flashlight on any of the horrors below and give yourself a real Fear of the Dark.
Titles Include: The Monkey’s Paw, Legs, BLEEP.
On December 6, wake up and stream Nightmare (US/CAN): When a homicidal mental patient flees an experimental drug program, he’ll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this “devastating masterpiece” (Cinefear) has been scanned from the internegative and various foreign print sources to create the most complete version ever assembled.
The rest of the December 6 lineup includes shorts and features, all centered around the animal kingdom.
Froggy (Short) (UK/IE/US/CAN): A teenage girl with a significant connection to nature is attacked by bullying classmates. A reckoning is unleashed to defend herself, and the creatures she cherishes.
Affentanz Hunter (Short) (UK/IE/US/CAN): A hunter is on the prowl. He has his sights on a stag and his finger on the trigger. But then – a crack and a smack from a faceless hooded figure. A knock out and darkness. From that moment on, everything changes.
Cocaine Crabs From Outer Space (US/CAN): When a couple of intergalactic space crabs land on Earth, they encounter the one thing they didn’t expect… A duo of dumb frat boys force-feeding them cocaine! As it turns out, cocaine gives space crabs an overbearing impulse to kill! Their string of peculiar homicides has Detective Charlie Reese thinking that something smells fishy… literally!
Spider Labyrinth (US/CAN): For more than three decades, the remarkable debut feature by award-winning director Gianfranco Giagni has been one of the most elusive Italian horror titles in home video history…until now: When an American professor is sent to Budapest to complete a mysterious research project, he’ll become ensnared in a mind-bending web of sexual provocation, occult carnage and arachnidian havoc.
On December 9, take a trip into the ARROW archives with the family foursome that created The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams, and Hellhole. The Adams Family Selects debuts for subscribers in the UK, IE, the US, and CAN.
Toby, John, Lulu and Zelda shared, “We love Arrow’s wide range of films and had a lot of fun picking our own eclectic mix of styles, eras, and tones here.
From exploitation to coming of age, German new wave to video nasty; illuminating documentaries (pick your own poison!) to Dollar Baby short; 70s sleaze and Austrian folk horror; modern punk middle finger fun to modern-retro-vaudevillian… We’ve got a bubbling cauldron of great picks here – including a number of films by women filmmakers to watch (Julia Marchese, Jill Gervargizian, Izzy Lee) or those who set the stage decades ago (21 year old Fhiona-Louise).
Pop some corn, crack a beer, or do what you do…. and thanks for checking out our ARROW Selects!”
Titles Include: The Stylist, Meat Friend, Basket Case.
Also on December 9, a pair of great titles join the streamer.
The Addiction 4K (UK/IE/US/CAN): Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to vampire films in the 90s, as did high-caliber filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael Almereyda and Jeffrey Arsenault, and up-and-comers Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro. Amid the fangs and crucifixes, Abel Ferrara reunited with his King of New York star Christopher Walken for The Addiction, a distinctly personal take on creatures of the night making its 4K premiere on ARROW!
Philosophy student Kathleen (Lili Taylor, The Conjuring) is dragged into an alleyway on her way home from class by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle) and bitten on the neck. She quickly falls ill but realizes this isn’t any ordinary disease when she develops an aversion to daylight and a thirst for human blood…
Having made a big-budget foray into science fiction two years earlier with Body Snatchers, Ferrara’s approach to the vampire movie is in a lower key. Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works – including The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant – and beautifully filmed in black and white, The Addiction sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful.
The Last Video Store (UK/IE/US): When her estranged father passes, twenty-something Nyla is tasked with the thing she hates the most – cleaning up his mess. Left behind are a collection of VHS tapes, and with them, the burden of returning them to “Blaster Video” a time capsule to an era in which cover art and a catchy movie title were king, run by Kevin, a human encyclopedia of VHS history and a friend of her father. Amongst the returns is an unknown tape, a movie not even Kevin has heard of. Was this the last movie Nyla’s father watched before he died? The mystery is too much to resist. But when Kevin and Nyla press play, they unwittingly activate a long-dormant curse and a series of classic cinematic villains are plucked from B-movie heaven and hell to be unleashed into the store itself! |
