Out on: | VOD 7th Feb. 2025 |
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ALIEN KILLERS, VAMPIRIC CHILLERS AND HITMAN THRILLERS THIS VALENTINE’S
HIGH SCHOOL HORROR, A CLASSIC JAPANESE CRIME DOUBLE BILL, A DINNER PARTY NIGHTMARE, JENN WEXLER SELECTS & MUCH MORE
February on the expertly curated cult streaming service ARROW includes a high school slasher chiller, a pair of classic 1960s Japanese assassin actioners, a brilliantly crafted paranoid thriller about a reunion from hell, a season of vampiric Valentine’s, horror film director Jenn Wexler chooses her ARROW favourites, and much more.
First off in February, exclusively on ARROW in the UK, the premiere of the fantastic comedy horror thriller, a Scream for the 21st century, Killer Graduation, starring Ignacio Diaz-Silverio (Primo) as a bullied highschooler pitched against a killer targeting his classmates. A cross between Happy Death Day and Heathers, with a dash of Stephen King-esque psychic powers at play, Killer Graduation is the feature debut of director Clare Cooney, and gives the teen slasher a fresh new coat of blood with its inventive plot and sassy LGBTQ+ vibe.
Then there’s Karyn Kusama’s outstanding thriller The Invitation, starring Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade) as a man attending a dinner party thrown by his ex-wife, where nothing is quite what it seems. Tense, taut, and steadily building to an unguessable and devastating climax, Kusama’s extraordinarily assured nailbiter won Best Film at the prestigious Stiges genre festival in 2015, and won writers Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay (Destroyer) the Best Screenplay award at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.
Also in February, A Certain Killer and A Killer’s Key - directed by prolific Japanese director Kazuo Mori (Zatoichi at Large), both made in 1967, and featuring Raizô Ichikawa (Conflagration) as a former soldier who becomes a hitman for a yakuza gang. Co-scripted by the director Yasuzō Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast), and featuring masterful scope cinematography with an expressionistic eye for colour by one of Japan’s most esteemed cinematographers, Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu), these are two Japanese crime drama essentials you shouldn’t miss.
ARROW also presents Caverna, a fantastical film directed by Daniel Contaldo and Hannah Swayze, about two students being pushed to their limits at an Italian theatre workshop. Asked to explore their innermost thoughts, the film delves deep into the pair’s psyches, revelling in surreal, intense and astonishing visuals. Watch out for the rampaging cyclops!
Also streaming in February: Rick Sloane’s celebrated cult classic sci-fi comedy horror Hobgoblin and its riotous follow up; genre legend Clint Howard in in the gloriously gruesome Ice Cream Man; acclaimed breakdance documentary Shake the Dust; and the provocative, hilarious and uniquely wonderful 1960s satire Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Seasons in February include:
Love Sucks, a collection of vampiric Valentine's delights including Vamp, A Taste of Blood, and Vampire Clay
Jenn Wexler Selects, where the award-winning writer, director and producer picks the films from the ARROW catalogue that have changed the core of her being, including Noroi: The Curse, The Deeper You Dig, and The Addiction
FEBRUARY RELEASE CALENDAR
From February 7
Killer Graduation - 2024
From February 10
A Certain Killer - 1967
A Killer’s Key - 1967
From February 14
The Invitation - 2016
From February 21
Hobgoblins - 1988
Hobgoblins 2 - 2009
Ice Cream Man - 1995
From February 28
Caverna - 2023
Putney Swope - 1969
Shake the Dust - 2015
New Seasons this February
February 14: Love Sucks
Sink your teeth into a vampiric Valentine's. When you're surrounded by lusty bloodsuckers, Love Sucks!
Titles Include: Vamp, A Taste of Blood, Vampire Clay
February 21: Jenn Wexler Selects
Jenn Wexler, writer/director of the SXSW-nominated punk slasher The Ranger and boarding school horror The Sacrifice Game (Fantasia Film Festival Audience Award Winner) picks films from the ARROW catalogue that have nestled their way into her dark little heart and refused to let go.
"My ARROW picks span genres, countries, decades - you know how there are some movies that worm their way into your brain, stick with you, and pull you back again and again? It could be because of an amazing image, a creepy concept, an incredible kill, a breathtaking performance, or a certain something you just can’t find the words for but you know after viewing it that it’s changed the very core of your being.’’
Titles Include: Noroi: The Curse, The Deeper You Dig, The Addiction
FEBRUARY TITLES - IN DEPTH
FROM FEBRUARY 7: KILLER GRADUATION
Graduation is a killer.
When his recent clash with his bullies sends high schooler student Javier (Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Primo) to the hospital, he wakes up feeling… different. Javier is now plagued by psychic visions - but it’s perfect timing as there's’ a masked killer on the loose.
With the help of his best friend Bianca (Ireon Roch, Perpetrator), the teens decide to take matters into their own hands and attempt to unravel the mystery of this deranged mask killer before the body count rises and the killer strikes again.
A smart and sassy queer slasher with whip smart humour and inventive kills, Clare Cooney’s Killer Graduation is Scream for the next generation. “Move over, Ghostface; there’s a new masked killer in town” - Neil Baker, Cinerama
FEBRUARY 10: A CERTAIN KILLER
Shiozaki’s low-profile existence as a chef at a local sushi restaurant serves as a front for his true job as a professional assassin whose modus operandi is poisoned needles. He’s approached by Maeda, a low-ranking member of a local yakuza group, to take out a rival gang boss. But the sudden arrival into his life of a spirited young woman, Keiko (Yumiko Nogawa, Gate of Flesh), has dramatic ramifications on his relationship with his new employer.
A KILLER’S KEY
Ichikawa’s lone wolf assassin is back in A Killer’s Key, this time masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta who is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to powerful figures in the political establishment.
FEBRUARY 14: THE INVITATION
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer's Body), the tension is palpable when Will shows up to his ex-wife Eden and new husband David's dinner party. The pair's tragic past haunts an equally spooky present: Amid Eden's suspicious behavior and her mysterious house guests, Will becomes convinced that his invitation was extended with a hidden agenda.
FEBRUARY 21: HOBGOBLINS
A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.
HOBGOBLINS 2
The film takes place after the original film, where McCreedy has been locked in a psychiatric hospital after blowing up the film studio to destroy the Hobgoblins, which occurred at the end of the first film. Kevin and his friends are now in college, and their Professor introduces them to McCreedy, who warns them that it is still possible to be attacked by Hobgoblins. Despite McCreedy's warning, Kevin and his friends re-encounter the Hobgoblins and must fight against them and their own greatest fears, in order to save their lives.
ICE CREAM MAN
Poor Gregory. After being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So Gregory reopens the old ice cream factory, and all the unappreciative brats are reprocessed into the flavor of the day.
FEBRUARY 28: CAVERNA
A cyclops strangles a man and chases a princess through a forest. In a progressive theater workshop outside of Florence, students Giorgia and Lorenzo act out their dreams and childhood traumas, as teacher Alba pushes them to confront their inner myth.
PUTNEY SWOPE
The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swope.
SHAKE THE DUST
Despite its genesis in the Bronx, Hip-Hop has become a universal language spoken across all cultures. Shake The Dust celebrates this global unity by chronicling three different break dance crews in the slums of Uganda, Yemen and Cambodia where Hip-Hop serves as a saving grace from the drugs, depression and poverty grasping youth. Includes music from Executive Producer Nas and Oscar-winning artist Common.
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