ARROW AWAKEN THE BEAST IN NOVEMBER

IN NOVEMBER, ARROW PRESENTS HOCKNEY, JOHN WATERS, KAMIKAZE GIRLS, ANDY NYMAN, A COFFIN JOE SEASON & MORE

Key highlights this November on the essential, alternative streaming service ARROW includes documentaries on John Waters and David Hockney, a brand new cult short from Brian Lonano, beloved horror auteur José Mojica Marins, Andy Nyman Selects, and a Found Footage Collection and much more.

In November, ARROW are proud to present two documentaries from Paul Joyce - Hockney On Photography and Other Matters, in which the celebrated and innovative artist David Hockney, considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, talks about his 40 year love affair with photography; and Growing Up With John Waters, where the self-proclaimed ‘Pope of Trash’ and king of US Independent Cinema (director of the likes of Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Polyester and Hairspray) discusses his traumatic childhood in Baltimore and the films which came out of these experiences.
Also showing in November, Kamikaze Girl, starring Kyoko Fukada (The Ring 2, Dolls) and Anna Tsuchiya (Dororo and Sakuran) as two misfits who form a unique and riotous friendship. Born from the pages of favourite cult author Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls is a frenetic roller-coaster ride brimming with day-glo visuals and wild hilarity that you will never forget!

Seasons include Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe: Part One, featuring cultural icon Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), the creation of Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins, who wrote, directed and starred in a series of outrageous movies from 1964 to 2008. Included in the first of two seasons are five lurid horrors by Marins, as well as newly-restored doc The Strange World of José Mojica Marins is a love letter to one of the great iconoclasts of horror.

Next month’s Selects include picks from actor, writer and magic man Andy Nyman, who has starred in films such as Severance, Kick-Ass 2 and Death at a Funeral, as well as starring, co-writing and co-directing Ghost Stories; and cult horror filmmakers Brian Lonano & Blake Myers, co-directors of the utterly bonkers Content: The Lo-Fi Man, debuting on ARROW in December; as well as Steven Kostanski, the writer/director/producer of films including The Void and Psycho Goreman.

Other seasons in December include Lonanorama: The Brian Lonano Collection, a collection of films by the truly outrageous director, led by the festival decimating Content: The Lo-Fi Man, and also including the utterly outrageous Gwilliam and gruesome comedy-horror Crow Hand!!!; and Found Footage a collection of the unearthed, the dangerous, the forbidden and the behind-the-scenes, including The El Duce Tapes, Phantom and Kolobos.

NOVEMBER RELEASE CALENDAR

New Titles – From November 3
Kamikaze Girls - 2004

From November 10
Hockney on Photography and Other Matters - 1988
Growing Up with John Waters - 1993

From November 17
Content - The Lo-Fi Man - 2023

From November 24
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul - 1964
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse - 1967
The Strange World of Coffin Joe - 1968
The End of Man - 1971
The Awakening of the Beast - 1970
The Strange World of José Mojica Marins - 2001

New Seasons this November

November 6: Andy Nyman Selects

Actor, writer, director, producer, magician - Andy Nyman is a true renaissance man as well as huge horror film fan, and his choices from the ARROW catalogue unveil a man with eclectic and consummate taste, including Giallo masterworks, splatter epics and J-horror classics.

Titles Include: Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Ringu

November 10: Dance with Death

Beware busting a move! Shaking it can lead to snuffing it in this curated collection of foxtrotting flicks where getting down is likely to get you killed.

Titles Include: Enter the Void, Showgirls, The Escapees

November 17 : Lonanorama: The Brian Lonano Collection

This is what you wanted! ARROW are happy and proud to showcase a collection of weird, wonderful and downright insane award-winning short films from director Brian Lonano, including the streaming debut of his and Blake Myers' brand new film, Content: The Lo-Fi Man.

Led by the festival decimating Content: The Lo-Fi Man, Lonanorama also includes the utterly outrageous Gwilliam (winner of the ‘Most Effectively Offensive’ award at the Boston Underground Film Festival), gruesome comedy-horror Crow Hand!!!, a superhero story like no other in BFF Girls, the Halloween-themed nuttiness of Gwilliam’s Tips for Turning Tricks into Treats, chilli demon opus The Devil’s Asshole, and much, much more, even including some exclusive extras!

Titles Include: Content: The Lo-Fi Man, Gwilliam, BFF Girls

November 17: Brian Lonano & Blake Myers Selects

Blake Myers: “It is really kind of Arrow to let me select 10 films from their amazing library to share with you. Many of these films have shaped me as a filmmaker. They are great examples of how to push boundaries and expand the language of cinema.”
Brian Lonano: “I’ve chosen 10 films that I believe to be excellent examples of persistence of vision, wild unhinged storytelling and underdog outsider filmmaking.”

Titles Include: Children of the Corn, The Boxer’s Omen, Basket Case

November 20: Steven Kostanski Selects

Steven Kostanski, director of such cult faves as Father’s Day and 2016’s otherworldly The Void (as well as a special effects man of note who has worked on Crimson Peak, Suicide Squad and It) has ensured his picks include plenty of practical effects and mind-bending horror.

Titles Include: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Dead or Alive

November 24: Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe: Part One

Cultural icon, anti-establishment statement, sadistic lord of carnival horror! With his iconic long fingernails, top hat and cape, Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) was the creation of Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins, who wrote, directed and starred in a series of outrageous movies from 1964 to 2008.

An unholy undertaker in search of the perfect woman to propagate his bloodline, Zé do Caixão made his screen debut with the first Brazilian-produced horror film, At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul. Three years later, his quest would continue in This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse, with Zé embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.

The Strange World of Coffin Joe, meanwhile, is an anthology of three short horror films featuring a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals. Sex, perversion and sadism abound in The Awakening of the Beast as a psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with Lsd in this surreal examination of 60s drug culture.

Diverging from horror toward satirical black comedy, The End of Man sees a naked stranger emerge from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

Newly restored from the best available elements and packed with new and archival extras, The Strange World of José Mojica Marins is a love letter to one of the great iconoclasts of horror, who forged his films in the face of military dictatorship and religious censorship to become Brazil’s national Boogeyman.

Titles Include: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse, The End of Man

November 24: Found Footage

From terrifying and troubling events caught on camera by our heroes (or villains), to forbidden footage that when uncovered and viewed spells doom, to seldom-seen peeks at the unseen lives of everything from slime mould to the stars of Barbarella, Found Footage is a collection of the unearthed, the dangerous, the forbidden and the behind-the-scenes.

Titles Include: The El Duce Tapes, Phantom, Kolobos

NOVEMBER TITLES - IN DEPTH

FROM NOVEMBER 3: KAMIKAZE GIRLS

Meet Momoko (Kyoko Fukada from The Ring 2 and Dolls), a self-absorbed dreamer who fantasizes about fleeing her backcountry home and living life in 18th century Versailles. When she unexpectedly meets the rebellious Ichigo (Anna Tsuchiya from Dororo and Sakuran), a rough-and-tumble biker chick, the two misfits form a unique friendship together, nothing can stop them! Born from the pages of favourite cult author Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls is a frenetic roller-coaster ride brimming with day-glo visuals and wild hilarity that you will never forget!

FROM NOVEMBER 10: HOCKNEY ON PHOTOGRAPHY AND OTHER MATTERS

The celebrated and innovative artist David Hockney, considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, talks about his 40 year love affair with photography.
GROWING UP WITH JOHN WATERS

The self-proclaimed ‘Pope of Trash’ and king of US Independent Cinema (director of the likes of of Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Polyester and Hairspray) discusses his traumatic childhood in Baltimore and the films which came out of these experiences.

FROM NOVEMBER 17: CONTENT - THE LO-FI MAN

All director Brian Lonano wants to do is talk about the cult film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, only he’s been replaced by a content creator saying he is Lonana - meaning the real Lonano must break from from his robot guards and stop the imposter influencer from his nefarious opinions!

FROM NOVEMBER 24: AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL

An unholy undertaker in search of the perfect woman to propagate his bloodline, Zé do Caixão made his screen debut with the first Brazilian-produced horror film, At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul.

THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE

The undertaker Zé embarks on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.

THE STRANGE WORLD OF COFFIN JOE

An anthology of three short horror films featuring a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.

THE END OF MAN

Diverging from horror toward satirical black comedy, The End of Man sees a naked stranger emerge from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world.

THE AWAKENING OF THE BEAST

Sex, perversion and sadism abound in The Awakening of the Beast as a psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with Lsd in this surreal examination of 60s drug culture.

THE STRANGE WORLD OF JOSÉ MOJICA MARINS

Newly restored from the best available elements and packed with new and archival extras, The Strange World of José Mojica Marins is a love letter to one of the great iconoclasts of horror, who forged his films in the face of military dictatorship and religious censorship to become Brazil’s national Boogeyman.

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