Arrow Video is getting ready to premiere the September lineup on its subscription-based ARROW platform, which includes “Shocking Dark,” “The House on Straw Hill,” and much more!
September 2 starts the month with a Season of films featuring foul abominations. “MUTANTS!” is a curated collection of movies featuring the abnormal and deformed – terrifying freaks of nature that only live to kill or maim mankind. Featuring a menacing menagerie of deformed deviations that will cause you to point and scream “MUTANTS!” The collection will include titles like “Head of the Family,” “Hideous,” “Mutant War,” “Trapped Alive,” and “Creepozoids.”
Also arriving on September 2 are “Shocking Dark” and “Absurd.” “Shocking Dark” is a bravura rip-off of both “Aliens” and “Terminator” that features a team of badass marines, a tough female civilian, and an orphaned girl that battle monsters beneath the Venice canals while being chased by an indestructible killer cyborg. In “Absurd,” a priest-doctor chases a man with supernatural regenerative abilities who has recently escaped from a medical lab and reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
September 9 brings North American audiences a pair of bloodthirsty nightmares. Even by the sleaziest standards of ’80s EuroTrash, “Cannibal Terror” remains a film that must be seen to be believed. When a pair of criminal knuckleheads and their busty moll kidnap the young daughter of a wealthy tycoon, they foolishly choose to hide in a local jungle infested with ferocious cannibals. What follows is a mind-roasting exercise in atrocious acting, gratuitous nudity, and gut-munching mayhem by a ravenous tribe of flesh eaters who inexplicably sport comb-overs and Elvis sideburns.
Then, in “Devil Hunter,” Laura, on a modeling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carries her off into the jungle, where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, unaware of the horrors Laura is enduring in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthirsty world. Laura’s rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors – but also the horrifying lust for blood from a primitive and cruel god.
On September 16, ARROW’s curation team crosses the Channel and heads to Germany to put together a Season of Teutonic cult classics with “Deutsche Horrorfilme.” Titles in this Season include “Sleep,” “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” “The Golem,” and “Hagazussa.” Direct from Deutschland these titles are sure to chill and thrill you just as much as an ice-cold stein of alpine pils.
Also available on September 16 is a quartet of cult titles featuring depravity, incest, graphic violence, period piece torture, and gory set pieces: perfect for ARROW! “Tourist Trap,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Bloody Moon,” and “Beyond the Darkness.”
On September 26, head up to “The House On Straw Hill.” Banned in Britain for 30 years, “The House on Straw Hill” is a shockingly violent and erotic tale of seduction, brutality, and revenge. Cult movie icon Udo Kier (“Mark of the Devil,” “The Theatre Bizarre”) stars as a successful novelist suffering from writer’s block who rents a country cottage in the hope of finding inspiration. But the arrival of a sensual secretary, played by Linda Hayden (“Blood on Satan’s Claw,” “Taste the Blood of Dracula”), sets in motion of chain of events that culminate in an unrestrained explosion of sex and savagery.
Also available on September 26 “A Fugitive From the Past.” Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida, this adaptation of Tsutomu Minakami’s 1700-page novel is a landmark in master director Uchida’s oeuvre. Its gritty monochrome photography has the immediacy of newsreel as Uchida uses the landscapes of postwar Japan to explore the massive social upheaval and unspoken legacies of the war and create an unsettling karmic allegory of a man’s struggle to escape his past sins.
September 30 caps off the month with the true ending for all mankind: “Judgement Day.” This curated Season of cult films all have one thing in common: judgment is coming. This Season praises all the crazy cult filmmakers who have blessed us with a bounty of bizarre and brilliant takes on faith on film that will leave audiences praying for more. Titles include: “The Righteous,” “Children of the Corn,” “The Day of the Beast,” “Dream No Evil,” “Hell On Earth: The Desecration,” and “Resurrection of Ken Russell’s The Devils.”
Rounding out the month’s lineup on September 30 are “A Day of Judgement” and “Laserblast.” In “A Day of Judgement,” a 1930s small-town rife with lust, corruption, and sin is visited by a mysterious figure wielding a scythe to cut an unholy swath of murder, madness, and moralizing that may lead to Armageddon. In “Laserblast,” Billy, an ostracized teenager, finds a laser gun in the California desert, and with each use, he begins to mutate into a grotesque being. Becoming more malevolent with each blast, he sets his weapon on terrorizing the locals in his small desert town. Now it’s a race against time to save Billy’s life before he becomes completely possessed by the weapon. But the aliens that accidentally left the laser gun behind are on their way to claim the powerful weapon…and Billy’s life along with it!
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