"Viewers with a fondness for the esoteric will be hard-pressed to find more quality bang for their streaming buck" The New York Times

‘TIS THE SEASON FOR ABEL FERRARA IN 4K, A LOVE LETTER TO VHS, THE ADAMS FAMILY SELECTS & MUCH MORE

Christmas comes early this year on the expertly curated cult streaming service ARROW - that none other than The New York Times calls “a terrific subscription streamer for genre film fans” - with a bumper bundle of goodies including an intense Christopher Walken vampire film in 4K, an ode to the glory days of VHS rental stores in a superb horror debut, a far East Western like you’ve never seen, a pair of bonkers martial arts gems, the Pusher trilogy, horror auteurs The Adams Family choose their favourite ARROW flicks, and more.

In December, exclusively on ARROW in the UK, The Addiction, on 4K, which sees director Abel Ferrara reunited with his King of New York star Christopher Walken, in a distinctly personal take on the vampire story, also starring Lili Taylor (The Conjuring) and Annabella Sciorra (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). 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. With a brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Video, don’t miss this on ARROW in December.

Genre fans will have a blast this Christmas with Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford’s debut feature, The Last Video Store, a love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls - here brought to life with “Blaster Video”, a time capsule to an era in which cover art and a catchy movie title were king, run by Kevin, a human encyclopaedia of VHS.

Next in December, the Pusher trilogy, a white-knuckle, nerve-shattering plunge into the Danish criminal underworld from uncompromising director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives). 1996’s critically acclaimed Pusher was Winding Refn’s first film, and also the screen debut of Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round), who would go on to star in the 2004 follow-up Pusher II; while Pusher III concentrates on Milo, the Serbian drug lord from the first two films, played by Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness). Gritty, grimy and shocking, the Pusher trilogy packs a punch.

Also next month, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, genre maestro Kim Jee-woon’s rollicking kimchi western, starring three of Korea’s biggest stars - Jung Woo-sung (12.12: The Day), Lee Byung-hun (A Bittersweet Life), and Song Kang-ho (Parasite). An audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains, this was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea.

ARROW’s selection of short films include Froggy, written and directed by Amelia Joyce, about a teenage girl who fights back against bullies in a very unexpected way; and Affentanz - Hunter, written and directed by Cyprian Hercka, and eerie forest-set chiller with knockout visuals and atmosphere to spare.

Finally in December on ARROW, two martial arts films that will knock your socks off - get ready to go on a Drag-Fu odyssey, filled with face-crunching action, corset-busting comedy, gut-munching horror, and soul-touching musical numbers in Enter the Drag Dragon, a blast of true independent cinema will leave you wobbly in your heels; and The Deadly Art of Survival, director Charlie Ahearn’s super-8 martial arts epic shot around the projects (next door to his apartment) in the Lower East Side in New York.

Seasons in December include:

Fear of the Dark, a curated collection of Cult films where what hides in the shadows is more terrifying than anything you can think of, including The Monkey's Paw, Legs, BLEEP

The Adams Family Selects, with the director family of The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams and Hellhole, choosing from exploitation to coming of age, German new wave to video nasties, illuminating documentaries, 70s sleaze and Austrian folk horror, including The Stylist, Meat Friend and Basket Case

60s Cult, with plenty of far-out thrills from this wild and creative decade in Cult cinema, including Two Thousand Maniacs, The City Tramp and Lady Morgan's Vengeance

Monochrome Madness, a collection of Cult films that, while lacking in colour, are not lacking in horror, imagination and unforgettable thrills and imagery, including A Ghost Waits, At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul and Laguna Ave

DECEMBER RELEASE CALENDAR

From December 6
Froggy - 2024 - Short Film
Affentanz - Hunter - 2023 - Short Film

From December 9
The Addiction 4K - 1995
The Last Video Store - 2023
The Good, The Bad, The Weird - 2008

From December 20
Pusher I - 1996
Pusher II - 2004
Pusher III - 2005
Brothers James Retribution - 2023
Enter The Drag Dragon - 2023

From December 27
The Deadly Art Of Survival - 1979

New Seasons this December

December 6: Fear of the Dark

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

December 9: The Adams Family Selects

Award-winning The Adams Family, makers of low budget horror favourites The Deeper You Dig, Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams, and Hellhole, choose their Arrow favourites.

"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. We’ve got a bubbling cauldron of great picks here - including a number of films by women filmmakers to watch (Julia Marchese, Jill Gervarzian, Izzy Lee) or those who set the stage decades ago (21 year old Fhiona-Louise)."

Titles Include: The Stylist, Meat Friend, Basket Case

December 13: 60s Cult

There's less swinging and more stabbing in the ARROW 60s Cult collection, but whether it's horror, sci-fi or a Western you choose, there will be plenty of far-out thrills from this wild and creative decade in Cult cinema.

Titles Include: Two Thousand Maniacs, The City Tramp, Lady Morgan's Vengeance

December 20: Monochrome Madness

The blood doesn't have to be red, for you to be scared half-dead!

Monochrome Madness is a collection of Cult films that, while lacking in colour, are not lacking in horror, imagination and unforgettable thrills and imagery.

You don't need to be afraid to watch films in black and white - but maybe you should be!

Titles Include: A Ghost Waits, At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, Laguna Ave

DECEMBER TITLES - IN DEPTH

FROM DECEMBER 6: FROGGY

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

In ‘Affentanz - Hunter’ 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.

DECEMBER 9: THE ADDICTION 4K

The mid-nineties were a fertile period for the vampire movie. Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to genre, as did high-calibre 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.

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 realises 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

A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford’s debut feature, The Last Video Store, is a genre-loving blast of pure joy: “a real treasure trove for genre fans, both new and old.” (Kat Hughes, THN)

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 encyclopaedia 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!

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD

ONE MAP. THREE VILLAINS. WINNER TAKES ALL.

Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains.

In the 1930s, three gun-toting Koreans converge on a train with different objectives but after an explosive altercation they leave it with the same goal: track down a map leading to an unfathomable treasure. The ‘Good’ is bounty hunter Park Do-won (Jung Woo-sung, 12.12: The Day), who is chasing down the ‘Bad’, the ruthless bandit Park Chang-yi (Lee Byung-hun, A Bittersweet Life), rumoured to be the notorious ‘Finger Cutter’. Meanwhile, wily thief Yoon Tae-goo (Song Kang-ho, Parasite), the ‘Weird’, is on the hunt for anything he can get his hands on. Backs are stabbed, fingers are cut, and many bullets fly as this dangerous trio blast their way through the desert in search of untold riches.

This glorious resurrection of the Manchurian Western was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea.

DECEMBER 20: PUSHER I

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

PUSHER II

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

PUSHER III

Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organisation, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.

ENTER THE DRAG DRAGON

Get ready to go on a Drag-Fu odyssey, filled with face-crunching action, corset-busting comedy, gut-munching horror, and soul-touching musical numbers! You've never experienced anything like Enter the Drag Dragon! This blast of true independent cinema will leave you wobbly in your heels as you try to recover from the non-stop thrill ride of adventure, laughs, screams, and romance.

DECEMBER 27: THE DEADLY ART OF SURVIVAL

Before Charlie Ahearn shot his seminal hip-hop film Wild Style in 1982, he was directly exposed to the bourgeoning hip-hop, break-dancing and graffiti movement, while shooting his super-8 martial arts epic The Deadly Art of Survival around the projects (next door to his apartment) in the Lower East.

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