Posts Tagged ‘Arrow Video’
The Addiction Blu-ray Review: A Very Disturbing but Highly Intelligent Tale of Urban Vampirism
I definitely have to recommend this shocking, masterful film.
Read MoreThe Bloodthirsty Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Dracula Goes East
Three Japanese movies directed by Michio Yamamoto that involve Western-style vampires, with style, atmosphere, and some decent sprays of blood.
Read MoreDeath Smiles on a Murderer Blu-ray Review: I’m Not Smiling
Joe D’Amato’s first horror film is a strange mixture of weird, gore, and boredom.
Read MoreSeijun Suzuki: The Early Years Vol. 2 Border Crossings: The Crime and Action Movies Blu-ray Review: Nikkatsu Noir
Five early films by Seijun Suzuki spotlight Nikkatsu’s early 60s trends and the director’s growing ambition.
Read MoreThe Crazies (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Best Kind of Crazy
The best version yet of an influential classic.
Read MoreBasket Case (1982) Blu-ray Review: Enthusiastically Silly and Sleazy
Frank Henenlotter’s feature debut comes on a ridiculously stuffed Blu-ray, a must for any fan.
Read MoreKiller Klowns from Outer Space (1988) Blu-ray Review: Krazy, Kampy Fun
Take a ride on the nightmare merry-go-round with Arrow Video’s excellent restoration of the Chiodo brothers’ cult classic.
Read MoreScalpel (1977) Blu-ray Review: Eyes with Added Face
Arrow Video releases an oft-ignored ‒ but nevertheless, awesome ‒ thriller guaranteed to get under your skin.
Read MoreHenri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno Blu-ray Review: Lost Masterpiece or Dodged Bullet?
Documentary details Clouzot’s experimental Inferno, using recently discovered footage from the failed production, to mixed results.
Read MorePulp Blu-ray Review: A Discombobulating Crime Comedy
Michael Caine returns with his Get Carter filmmakers to make a movie that is completely different.
Read MoreDon’t Torture a Duckling (1972) Blu-ray Review: Rural Murder Italian Style
Lucio Fulci, famous for his gore and zombie films, brings his lurid vision to the Giallo.
Read MoreThe Suspicious Death of a Minor Blu-ray Review: Two Genres, One Film
An oddball mix of crime drama and horror (with heavy doses of slapsstick thrown in) make for an interesting mix.
Read MoreDon’t Torture A Duckling Blu-ray Review: Fulci Grows a Social Conscience
Gore meister makes a film with an actual plot and social commentary, results are mixed.
Read MoreThe Slayer (1982) Blu-ray Review: Marital Crisis Solved by Slayer
An idiosyncratic semi-slasher that barely got a theatrical release is finally on home video, uncut and restored.
Read MoreNew Battles Without Honor and Humanity Blu-ray Box Set Review: Movies with Honor
Director Kinji Fukasaku and star Junta Sugawara team up again for more impressive results.
Read MoreBook Review: Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji by Tom Mes
Arrow Books presents a critical overview of Lady Snowblood’s entire career.
Read MoreChildren of the Corn (1984) Blu-ray Review: Killer Kids Get Religion
Cult movies aren’t the same as good movies. Good movies generally have decent production values, interesting stories and scripts, nuanced performances, and resonant themes. Cult movies can have any or all of the above, but can often dispense with most or even all of the markers of quality to create their cult moments. That weird…
Read MoreNew Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy Blu-ray Review: More Frenzied Yakuza Madness
Returning to his Yakuza series a whole six months after the last, Fukasaku covers similar ground, but finds new angles.
Read MoreRe-Animator Limited Edition Blu-ray Review: Blood, Boobs, and Fun
Arrow Video’s remastered version of this cult classic is loaded with extras, making it a must-have for fans.
Read MoreErik the Conqueror (1961) Blu-ray Review: Bava Gets Epical
Arrow Video brings us Mario Bava’s unique Italian take on American ‘Vikings’ in this stellar BD/DVD combo release.
Read MoreThe Slayer Blu-ray Review: Definitely Not Buffy
Obscure ’80s horror has more in common with European films than your typical slasher flick, but never quite manages to terrify.
Read MoreAsh vs Evil Dead: The Complete Second Season Is the Pick of the Week
A very full week brings us superhero galore, zombies, Deadites, punks, and much more.
Read MoreSociety Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray Review: Body Horror at Its Best
No matter what they paid “Screaming” Mad George for the practical horror effects, they got their money’s worth.
Read MoreRonin (1998) Blu-ray Review: Welcome Back to Cinematic Reality, Kids
Arrow Video revives John Frankenheimer’s criminally neglected late ’90s gritty crime thriller via a beautiful, all-new 4K scan.
Read MoreStormy Monday (1988) Blu-ray Review: Young Sean Bean Learns How to Make It Sting
Mike Figgis’ impressive feature film debut ‒ also starring Melanie Griffith and Tommy Lee Jones ‒ returns to razzle, dazzle, and jazzle thanks to Arrow Video.
Read MorePulse (2001) Blu-ray Review: Loneliness Is Hell
Japanese horror doesn’t so much scare, but fills you with unnamed dread.
Read MoreRe-Animator Limited Edition Blu-ray Review: One of Horror’s Truly Finest Films
Arrow pulls out all the stops for an all-time horror classic.
Read MoreDoberman Cop (1977) Blu-ray Review: Sonny Chiba Does It Doggy Style
Arrow Video unleashes a truly mind-blowing 1970s exploitation action-comedy equivalent to fusion cuisine starring the larger-than-life Shin’ichi Chiba.
Read MoreWolf Guy (1975) Blu-ray Review: Lycanthropy, Grindhouse Style
Arrow Video throws us a bone in the form of a shapeshifting werewolf feller like no other.
Read MoreDoberman Cop (1977) Blu-ray Review: Sonny Chiba’s Hick Dirty Harry
Entertaining cop movie despite a wildly fluctuating tone, a departure from director Fukasaku’s harder-edged Yakuza material.
Read MoreThe Bird with the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray Review: A Skillfully Crafted Thriller
Dario Argento’s first feature film is given a lovely 4k transfer, and the set is filled with an incredible amount of extras.
Read MoreMadhouse (1981) Blu-ray Review: A Film Where No One is Fully Committed
Arrow Video’s recently discharged slasher flick is so lazy, its composer ripped-off his own work.
Read MoreBrain Damage (1988) Blu-ray Review: The Greatest Drug Parable Never Aired
Frank Henenlotter’s rude, crude, cult horror-comedy classic receives a fresh fix from Arrow Video in this must-have release.
Read MoreCaltiki the Immortal Monster (1959) Blu-ray Review: Bava’s First Horror Bash
Fun, fast paced, and unexpectedly grisly for a late ’50s movie, cult favorite Caltiki gets a lavish Blu-ray treatment.
Read MoreThe Bird with the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray Review: Brought Italian Horror to the World
This Arrow Video set is the Blu-ray with excellent packaging.
Read MoreHouse: Two Stories Blu-ray Review: ’80s Horror Done Weird
The very ’80s horror/fantasy movie series gets a lavish box-set Blu-ray release.
Read MoreEvil Ed Blu-ray Review: Not Evil Dead, but Evil Ed
Still looking for that beaver-rape scene.
Read MoreCops vs. Thugs (1975) Blu-ray Review: Kon’nichiwa, Dirty Harry-san!
Arrow Video busts Kinji Fukasaku’s gritty, offbeat crime drama out of the Toei vaults.
Read MoreCops vs. Thugs (1975) Blu-ray Review: Corrupt Cops Combat Corporatization
A vintage Yakuza story by Fukasaku in his prime about the corrupt links between cops and gangs.
Read MoreWolf Guy Blu-ray Review: Too Much Guy, Not Enough Wolf
A bizarre genre mashup gives plenty of ’70s exploitation awesomeness, but very little werewolf.
Read MoreBrain Damage (1988) Blu-ray Review: Schlock That Loves Being Schlock
Cheerfully sleazy exploitation movie about a singing brain parasite is charmingly repellent.
Read MoreThe Climber (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Stuff Scarfaces Are Made Of
An all-growed-up Joe Dallesandro stars in this nifty (and violent) little Italian crime drama, recently rescued from obscurity by Arrow Video.
Read MoreDead or Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Literally Explosive Cinematic Madness
Yakuza blow up the world, and that’s just first film of this loose trilogy starring Show Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi.
Read MoreDead or Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Typical Takashi Miike, Atypical Arrow Video Release
Miike’s wild, wooly action trilogy gets a disappointing release from Arrow Video.
Read MoreHouse: Two Stories Blu-ray Review: Come on in for Some Goofy ’80s Horror
A couple of not-so-classic comedy-horror films from the 80s get a magnificent release from Arrow Video.
Read MoreDjango, Prepare a Coffin Blu-ray Review: A Slick Spaghetti Western
Terence Hill takes over the Django role in this unofficial prequel.
Read MoreDjango, Prepare a Coffin (1968) Blu-ray Review: Can You Dig It?
Terence Hill digs a name for himself in the only legitimate unofficial prequel to the Sergio Corbucci cult classic.
Read MoreDonnie Darko Movie Review: Still Well Worth Watching
An extraordinary release of an extraordinarily weird movie.
Read MoreCinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: A Timeless Classic
An extremely moving and lyrical tribute to the power of Cinema.
Read MorePsychomania Blu-ray Review: Inexplicable Zombie Biker Cult Movie
Bikers come back from the dead, and it’s pretty groovy in this early 70s cult obsession.
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