Arrow Video has announced its January 2024 lineup for its subscription-based ARROW platform, and this month’s highlights include Brea Grant Selects, a collection of films from Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins, and Canine Chaos, a collection of hound-based horror films.
ARROW kicks off the new year on January 5 with “Brea Grant Selects,” a selection of horror films from the star of “The Stylist” and the director of “12 HR Shift,” Brea Grant. “I am thrilled to be teaming up with Arrow to share some of my all-time favorite horror movies with you,” says Grant. “From the delightful to the horrifying, these movies remind me of why I wanted to make movies in the first place (yes, including Basket Case).” Titles in the collection include “Ringu,” “The Stylist,” and “Leech.”
Also, on January 5, audiences in every territory can discover a new short homage to the classic Spaghetti Westerns with “They Call It… Red Cemetery.” Among the crosses of an old cemetery, two outlaws have a dispute over honor, companionship, and greed.
On January 12, ARROW examines genre-bending cinema history with “Cult Classics.” This collection of films has been curated to show genre film lovers that Cult isn’t just horror, it’s about alternative storytelling and iconic filmmaking. Titles in the collection include “Children of the Corn,” Re-Animator,” and “Hellraiser.”
On January 15, ARROW pays tribute to cultural icon and the lord of carnival horror with the collection “Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe: Part One.” 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, “Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe” 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.
On January 19, North American subscribers can relish Samm Hung’s last film under his mentor director, Huang Feng, “The Shaolin Plot.”
Based on a story by legendary storyteller Ni Kuang (“The 36th Chamber of Shaolin”), “The Shaolin Plot” is a classic tale of martial arts intrigue and deception, combining the incoming new wave of action with the old, resulting in one of the most overlooked and underrated kung fu classics from one of the most prolific Hong Kong film studios of all time!
ARROW rounds out the month of January with “Canine Chaos” on January 26. This collection features plenty of frightening fleabags, from the snapping jaws of a family pet gone wrong to packs of lycanthropic howlers at the moon. Titles include: “The Pack,” “Wolf Guy,” and “Madhouse.”
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