Arrow Video’s December 2025 lineup for its subscription-based ARROW platform kicks off today, December 1, 2025, featuring a new lineup of carefully curated titles.
The final lineup for 2025 is headlined by the4K restoration of the Italian giallo thriller, “The House with Laughing Windows” (arriving December 2). Directed and co-written by Pupi Avati, this 1976 film is often counted among the greatest gialli ever made, offering a uniquely eerie twist on the genre and culminating in an unforgettable ending.
Kier-La Janisse Selects
To kick off the holiday season, ARROW has debuted “Kier-La Janisse Selects,” a curated selection of films from the acclaimed film writer, producer, and academic. Kier-La Janisse is the founder of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and the author and editor of numerous film books, including the award-winning documentary “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror.”
Titles in the selection include: “The Ballad of Narayama,” “Cold Light of Day,” “Toys are Not for Children,” and “Massacre at Central High.”
Santa, Satan, and Style! (December 1)
December 1 also includes a quartet of films blending holiday cheer with dark style:
- Wild Style: In this unique hybrid of fiction and documentary, the story of lone graffiti artist Lee “Zoro” Quiñones trying to achieve success is brought to vivid life with support by Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, Sandra “Lady Pink” Fabara, and Patti Astor. Featuring historic music performances by such luminaries as Grandmaster Flash and The Rock Steady Crew, Wild Style is the truest portrait of the hip-hop scene during its early years, and remains one of the most important music films ever made.
- Santa Claus: A wild and wonderful, and strangely charming, children’s classic! This holiday season Lucifer himself is out to ruin Christmas and has sent his chief minion to Earth to turn all the children of the world against Santa.
- Infinite Santa 8000: It is the year 8000, and not much remains except for mutants, scum, and robo-people. When his beloved Martha is kidnapped, Santa and his robotic reindeer head out into the post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue her and carry on the Christmas spirit.
- Everything Is Terrible! – The Great Satan: The found footage collective, “Everything is Terrible!” Has taken over 2,000 forgotten VHS tapes and re-contextualized them in order to tell the tale of The Dark Lord himself, Lucifer.
The House with Laughing Windows (December 2)
On December 2, North American subscribers can enter the newly restored giallo classic. Art restorer Stefano (Lino Capolicchio, “The Bloodstained Shadow”) arrives at an isolated Italian village to repair a fresco depicting the agonizing martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. The original painter was a death artist – a madman so obsessed with mortality that, according to whispered rumors, he tortured his models in their final moments of life. When people begin to turn up dead, Stefano is forced to consider the possibility that the artist has returned to continue his brutal career – and that he is the primary target.
December with the Devil & Witchy Tales (December 5)
On December 5, ARROW invites subscribers to stuff their stockings with Satan courtesy of “December with the Devil.” Celebrate the season with psychopaths, perverts, and the type of people Krampus would drag back to the underworld with him. Titles in this collection include “The Leech,” “The Sect,” and “13 Slays till Xmas.”
December 5 also marks the arrival of a selection of six witchy and occult tales from the 70s and 80s, including titles from the Shaw Brothers’ “Black Magic” trilogy:
- Black Magic: Martial arts hero Ti Lung flexes his dramatic muscle in this horror movie about evil magic spells. Ti Lung plays Hsu Lo, who runs up against an evil black magic practitioner, San Kan-mi (Ku Feng). San Kan-mi wants to seduce Hsu’s fiancée, Wang Chu-ying (Lily Li), and places a death spell on Hsu and a love spell on Wang, hoping to kill two birds with one stone. Matters are further complicated when sexy widow Lo Yin (Tanny Tien Ni) casts her lascivious eyes on the tall and handsome Hsu. Fortunately for the spellbound lovers, Wang’s friends manage to find another veteran witch doctor to take on the evil San Kan-mi. Supernatural battles of epic proportions ensue as this bone-chilling tale of good versus evil races to a heart-stopping ending.
- Black Magic Part 2: Young doctor Lin Wei-tu finds that many of his patients suffer from strange symptoms caused by black magic of the wicked Lo Lieh. His friend Ti Lung refuses to believe, only for his wife Tanny Tien Ni to become a victim. Written by Hong Kong’s science fiction guru Ni Kuang and directed by Ho Meng-hua.
- Hex: Director Kuei Chih-hung’s original eerie, frightening, supernatural mystery thriller. What starts as an Asian variation of the classic suspense film “Diabolique” becomes an exercise in fervid and frightening Hong Kong horror as one ghost after another appears to wreak havoc.
- Hex Vs. Witchcraft: Director Kuei Chih-hung combines hilarious comedy with bone-chilling horror in a tale of a marriage made in hell! A compulsive gambler’s botched suicide attempt results in his wedding to a ghost who haunts him in weird, wonderful, and hilarious ways.
- Hex After Hex: Hell has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! A handsome chauffeur (Lo Meng) turns down a demon, which arranges to have his true love killed and then possesses her, setting off a chain of chaos and vengeance.
- Bewitched: Another stunning horror film from the director of “Hex.” A noble police detective investigates a child killer’s claims of an evil spell, leading to a grim journey that doesn’t let up until the final, maggot-ridden cadaver falls.
December 5 concludes with murder and mayhem in “Oily Maniac,” a horror hit starring Danny Lee as the creature that kills people at night and covers them in oil.
Shaw Brothers Showcase (December 8)
December 8 marks the arrival of four more of Hong Kong’s wildest films from the Shaw Brothers:
- Bat Without Wings: Acclaimed director Chor Yuen brings mystery thriller ingredients into this atmospheric martial arts epic, where a notorious rapist-murderer destroys one swordsman’s fiancé and frames another. The race is on to find the truth amid incredible traps, duplicity, and betrayal.
- Bloody Parrot: Let’s get one thing straight: there is no blood-splattered bird in this fast-paced kung-fu film. Instead, there’s a swashbuckling mercenary of that nickname, who seems to be helping the Chief of the Imperial Vault recover the Emperor’s stolen riches. But when the Chief is stabbed to death by the imperial concubine, and a famous constable is mortally wounded, it is up to mercenary swordsman Yeh Ting-feng to find the jewels… and the Bloody Parrot.
- The Fake Ghost-Catchers: This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before “Ghostbusters.” This showcase for Chang Chan-peng and exceptional martial arts acrobat Hsiao Hou features Alexander Fu Sheng, Shaw Brothers’ kung-fu queen Lily Li, and director Lau Kar-wing.
- Seeding of a Ghost: Originally planned to be part three of the “Black Magic” trilogy, this erotic gore-fest stars Phillip Ko in a non-fighting role as a taxi driver who seeks vengeance against the hooligans that raped and killed his wife. By soliciting the help of a demented magician, his enemies perish in gut-wrenching, blood-spurting glory.
Double the Cheer and Fear (December 12)
December 12 brings a double feature of Christmas cheer with “A Cadaver Christmas” and “13 Slays till Xmas.”
In “A Cadaver Christmas,” a ragtag group of heroes are humanity’s only hope as an evil force in a cadaver lab recruits an army of the undead to claim the living for Christmas. In “13 Slays till Xmas,” five seemingly random men are invited to a dive bar on Christmas Eve by a mysterious email. They decide to pass the time by telling scary stories.
Shawscope Volume Four (December 19)
December 19 marks the arrival of “Shawscope Volume Four,” the biggest collection in Arrow Video’s Shawscope series yet! This collection features sixteen of the wildest and weirdest films the company ever made, gorgeously restored, showcasing the special effects-driven horror and sci-fi cinema of Hong Kong in the 1970s.
Titles include: “The Super Inframan,” “Oily Maniac,” “The Battle Wizard,” “Black Magic,” “Black Magic 2,” “Hex,” “Bewitched,” “Hex After Witchcraft,” “Hex After Hex,” “Bat Without Wings,” “Bloody Parrot,” “The Fake Ghost-Catchers,” “Demon of the Lute,” “Seeding of a Ghost,” “Portrait in Crystal,” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.”
Arrow After Dark (December 22)
And last, but not least, Arrow closes out the month with a new selection of films for “ARROW After Dark.”
- My Nights With Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie: Susan (Willeke Van Ammelrooy) lives in an idyllic farmhouse, along with the sex-loving youngsters Sandra, Olga, and Julie, and the unstable voyeur Albert. Several killings take place by the sex-vampires.
- Cheerleaders Wild Weekend: A busload of three cheerleading teams is hijacked by an ex-football player jock (Jason Williams) and are held for ransom. Plotting an escape, the victims, led by Debby Williams (Kristine DeBell), use their hidden charms to entice their captors. But eventually kidnappers and victims are drawn together in exhilarating excitement while plotting to steal the ransom money and foil the cops.
- Bikini Carwash Company: Bikini-clad car wash attendants give a sudsy Los Angeles establishment a slippery edge on the competition.
- Bikini Carwash Company II: Comely carwash attendants turn to televised lingerie sales to save their financially strapped establishment.
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