The April 2025 lineup for Arrow Video’s subscription-based ARROW platform has arrived, and this month’s highlights include found footage frights, a collection of films curated by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and the arrival of Anthony Waller’s debut feature “Mute Witness” in 4K.
The April lineup kicks off on April 4 with “Found Footage,” a collection of found footage films from the ARROW vault that include titles like “Ghost Light,” “Kolobos,” and “Grave Encounters.”
Additionally, on April 4, ARROW will introduce a pair of trios (one feature length, one shorts) that showcase some of the best of the found footage genre.
- Ghost Light: Disgruntled actor shouts “Macbeth” on an empty stage and unwittingly unleashes the play’s legendary curse on his fellow Shakespearean troupe… with unfortunate consequences. All’s well that ends well, but not for everyone.
- Grave Encounters: A reality TV show crew films inside an abandoned mental hospital, where unexplained phenomena were reported. They quickly realize that the building is not only haunted, but it has no intention of ever letting them leave.
- Grave Encounters 2: Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of “Grave Encounters,” film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.
- Rejected: In “Rejected,” a short horror parody, three twisted tales of macabre horror unfold, all linked by an antiquated digital camera from 1997. The tales intertwine, creating a narrative that is both terrifying and hilariously absurd.
- FROM.BEYOND: A kaleidoscopic vision portraying mankind’s first meeting with alien life, told through faux archival footage combined with practical FX, miniatures, and old school in-camera trickery—winner of the prestigious Méliès D’or in 2023.
- They Called Me David: David was created in a lab, a strange being of immense power. But they are also just a lonely child, searching for their father.
For fans of Japanese crime films, April’s schedule includes a selection of films from legendary Japanese studio Toei’s direct-to-video classics V-Cinema. These explosive titles represent some of the best the Japanese crime film has to offer. The first set of titles arrives on April 7, with new titles being added each week in April.
April 11 brings a foursome of films all about how consequences always catch up…with interest.
- Capsules: After experimenting with mysterious substances, four chemistry students find themselves addicted in the worst way possible: they’ll die unless they take more.
- The Cold (The Game): Three bored millionaires gather nine people at an old mansion to play “The Game”… if they can meet and conquer their fears, they’ll receive a million dollars in cash. But all is not as it seems!
- The Demons of Ludlow: The population of a small, quiet town prepares to celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of its founding, but the town of Ludlow has a very dark past, and when a piano arrives at auction, the ghosts of its past return to seek retribution.
- The Visitants: Aliens chase a teenager who stole one of their ray guns.
Also on April 11, take a walk through the ARROW catalog guided by the hand of film critic and author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas with “Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Selects.” Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an award-winning film critic and author of ten books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema, that “1000 Women in Horror, 1895 – 2018,” “Eyes Without Faces: Masks in Horror Cinema,” and her latest book, “The Cinema Coven: Witches, Witchcraft and Women’s Filmmaking.”
“Raiding the Arrow archives is the cinephile equivalent of being a kid in a candy store,” says Heller-Nicholas. “From classic beats to deeper cuts, I’ve primarily selected titles that tie into the subjects I’ve written about in my books, with a couple of personal favourites thrown in for good measure.”
Titles in the collection include “Mirror Mirror,” “Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion,” and “The Red Queen Kills Seven Times.”
On April 18, ARROW will introduce a collection of four films that show what happens when you venture where you shouldn’t.
- Squeal: Lost in a remote part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner searching for his biological father when a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig farmer’s daughter, who captures him, making him a slave on the farm.
- Xtro 3: Marines travel to a deserted island to diffuse bombs, only to be terrorized by a deadly alien creature.
- Hide and Go Shriek: A group of teens decide to spend the night at a furniture store that the father of one of them owns. A homeless ex-con security guard is staying the night too. During the night, someone with a taste for cross-dressing breaks in and begins to pick off the teens one by one during a game of hide and seek. The killer changes clothes with each victim, male or female, when stalking the next one.
- Hide & Seek: Sung-soo has everything that a man would want, but he suffers from insomnia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. When his estranged brother disappears, Sung-soo visits the shabby apartment complex where he’d been living, and strange things soon start to happen. Sung-soo’s house keys disappear, and someone tries to break in when only his children are home. Mysterious whispers are heard, terrifying the entire family. With his family quivering in fear, Sung-soo’s compulsiveness and nightmares get worse.
Finally, on April 25, ARROW subscribers in every territory will be able to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “Mute Witness” as it makes its 4K debut on ARROW. Director Anthony Waller (“The Piper”) combines cat-and-mouse suspense with classic intrigue in “Mute Witness,” an updated take on the Hitchcockian thriller in which the only witness to a brutal crime can neither speak nor cry out in terror.
Billy Hughes (Marina Sudina) is a mute special effects artist working on a low-budget American slasher movie being shot in Russia. Accidentally locked in the studio late one night, she stumbles upon two men shooting what appears to be a snuff film. Having borne witness to their victim’s final moments, Billy desperately flees – but this is only the start of a protracted night of terror, drawing her and her friends into a tangled web of intrigue, involving the KGB, the Moscow police… and a mysterious crime kingpin known as “The Reaper”.
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