Arrow Video has announced the October 2021 lineup for its subscription-based ARROW platform, and it’s kicking off the season with the return of “The Shocktober 31.”
31 days, 31 movies. This October ARROW is bringing back the infamous Shocktober 31 and highlighting some of their favorite horror titles streaming on ARROW each day. From classic bloody chills to new thrills, the lineup changes daily so you won’t need to spend hours scrolling for your fright fix this Halloween season.
This year’s lineup of films will include titles like “Dementer,” “Threshold, Kolobos,” “Beyond the Door,” “Dark Water,” “The Woman,” “Audition,” “Ringu,” “Deep Red,” “The Hills Have Eyes,” “The Stylist,” “The Mutilator,” and more.
Also launching on October 1 is Shocktober Essentials. This Halloween, ARROW is bringing home a devilishly curated selection of twelve must-watch collections with categories that include: Zombies, Vampires, Monsters, Spirits, Giallo, Slashers, Comedies, Gore, Psychological, Documentaries, 70s Horrors, and 80s Horrors.
The October new arrivals list leads with the ARROW release of Chad Kinkle’s sophomore feature “Dementer.” Raw and unsettling, “Dementer” is a brave and unflinching story of lives lived on the fringes of society, and a battle with demons inside and out. Shot on real locations with many non-actors playing versions of themselves – including Kinkle’s real life sister Stephanie – “Dementer” is a deeply personal genre film with an emotional punch that lingers long after the credits have rolled. The film will debut on ARROW October 1.
ARROW Stories will be home to a number of exclusive extras for “Dementer,” including several audio commentaries with director Chad Crawford Kinkle and the cast, “The Making of Dementer,” a brand-new in-depth look behind the scenes of how and why the film was made and In the Words of Larry, a new interview with actor Larry Fessenden discussing his role in “Dementer” and what drew him to the project.
Ahead of the ARROW premiere of his latest film, Kinkle shared, “The idea for Dementer came from my desire to build a horror film around my sister Stephanie, who has Down syndrome. I wanted to go through this journey with her and see what type of experience it would be like to create a film like this and also to see what kind of film it would make.”
Other films making an October 1 arrival on ARROW include “Patrick,” “Ban the Sadist Videos,” Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth,” “The Changeling,” “Tales of the Uncanny,” Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters,” “The Frankenstein Complex,” and “The Initiation.”
October 2 sees the arrival of F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu.” An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” Murnau’s surreal 1922 cine-fable remains the original and landmark entry in the entire global tradition of “the horror film”.
October 4 will debut Clive Barker’s “Rawhead Rex,” following a hulking, ancient demon as it tears a bloody swathe across the Irish countryside.
October 8 packs the spooky schedule with “Anthropophagous,” “The Manson Family,” “Paganini Horror,” and “Vampyros Lesbos.” October 8 will also mark the premiere of Monster Mash: a suitably spooky offering of five Japanese monster movies that include “100 Monsters,” “Along with Ghosts,” “Spook Warfare,” “The Great Yokai War,” and “The Snake Girl and the Silver Haired-Witch.”
October 11 gets full with the spirit of Halloween, launching “Fulci for Fake,” “Thirst,” “Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals,” “Zombie 3,” “Primitives,” and “Massacre in Dinosaur Valley.” Additional Fulci films will be available starting October 11 as part of Maestro of the Macabre: The Films of Lucio Fulci. Titles include: “Demonia,” “Zombie,” “Aenigma,” “Massacre Time,” and “Manhattan Baby.”
October 15 brings with it the dangers of the animal kingdom and the Amazon with the arrival of “The Uncanny,” “Killer Crocodile,” “Killer Crocodile 2,” “Emanuelle and the last Cannibals,” “Robowar,” and “The Annihilators.”
October 22 caps off the month, heading straight towards Halloween with a celebration of death and gore with “Zombie 4” and 1982’s “Death Screams,” a body count-heavy, long overlooked slice of Southern fried hack-and-slash. Lovingly restored from the only-known existing 35mm print, this little-seen slasher classic is ready to carve its way into the bleeding hearts of horror fans everywhere!
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