Arrow Video today announced the first wave of the February 2021 lineup for its subscription-based ARROW platform, with first-time writer/director Adam Stovall’s haunted love story A Ghost Waits at the top of the list.
An ingeniously unique and unpredictable combo of horror, humor, and heart, A Ghost Waits is a DIY labor of love years in the making. The film has screened at festivals around the globe, including Arrow Video’s Frightfest London and Glasgow, as well as Screamfest in Los Angeles, where the filmmakers took home the awards for Best Picture, Best Director for Stovall, and Best Actor for the film’s producer and star MacLeod Andrews. The film has been hailed as “chock full of delightful narrative surprises, imaginative genre tweaks, and warming performances” by the Guardian and “an unexpectedly heartfelt gem of micro-budgeted filmmaking” by Cine-Vue.
Tasked with renovating a neglected rental home, handyman Jack (MacLeod Andrews) quickly finds out why the tenants keep leaving in droves – this house is haunted. The ghost in question is Muriel (Natalie Walker), herself employed from beyond the veil to keep the home vacant. Against the odds, Jack and Muriel find they have a lot in common… pulse notwithstanding. Having found a kindred spirit in an otherwise lonely existence, they must fight for their newfound affection as pressure mounts for them each to fulfill their “cross-purposes.”
A Ghost Waits begins streaming today alongside the Slamdance Audience Award winning offbeat comedy Dave Made A Maze.
Stateside fans of ARROW will also enjoy new lineup standouts Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Landmine Goes Click, and Meatball Machine.
John DeBello’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, “hailed” by Variety in 1978 as not “even worthy of sarcasm,” features sentient tomatoes who rise up against the human race. The film has become a cult classic, spawning three sequels and an active franchise, including an animated series for kids.
Landmine Goes Click is a diabolical thriller following a hapless American tourist trapped standing on an active landmine. Vacationing in a mountainous region of Europe, he steps on a landmine that threatens to go off if he moves, forced to watch as his girlfriend becomes a victim in a sadistic game of humiliation.
In Meatball Machine, a young Japanese pair of lovers find their fresh feelings complicated when alien parasites invade the Earth turning people into cyborg fighters.
Later this month, ARROW will drop the backwoods creature feature Jug Face, which premiered at Slamdance and was later lauded by Bloody Disgusting for its “strong performances” and Cropsey, a documentary about a New York City urban legend boogeyman.
Check out this month’s highlight reel of upcoming features below!
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