Arrow Video’s November lineup for its subscription-based ARROW platform is now available, featuring a new month of carefully curated content. This month’s lineup is headlined by the arrival of new genre documentaries hitting the service, including “Living with Chucky,” “Pennywise: The Story of It,” and “Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.”
November will also see the debut of “ARROW After Dark,” a new monthly series featuring classic and lesser-known erotica for subscribers.
To kick off the month of November, ARROW looks to the stars with “The Final Frontier,” a collection of some of the wildest out-there outer space adventures on ARROW. Titles include “Dark Side of the Moon, “Battle of the Worlds,” and “Gamera Vs. Gyaos.”
Other titles that arrived on November 3 include:
Unknown World: As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear annihilation, a team of experts drills into the Earth to find a new ecosystem where humanity can survive.
Kin-Dza-Dza!: Director Georgiy Daneliya’s existential Soviet-era sci-fi comedy about two average Muscovites – a plainspoken construction foreman (Stanislav Lyubshin) and a Georgian violin student (Levan Gabriadze) – who are mysteriously teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke, a desert world whose words for “good” and “bad” are the same and where common wooden matches are tremendously valuable.
Star Odyssey: Earth’s starships battle alien robots and weapons as an extraterrestrial mastermind forces humanity to submit or face destruction.
Killing at Outpost Zeta: A group of soldiers and scientists are sent to a strategically important, desolate planet at the edge of the Milky Way to find out why several space ships sent there have disappeared without a trace.
Phobe: In 1994, Ontario filmmaker Erica Benedikty was working part-time at a community cable channel. Over the course of a year, she wrote, produced, directed, and edited a wildly ambitious, feature-length sci-fi action thriller for only $250. But when she convinced her employers to broadcast the finished film, PHOBE became a local sensation and remains one of Canada’s most infamous cult hits.
The Shape of Things to Come: The time is the tomorrow after tomorrow, and mankind has now populated the Moon, where vast domed cities have been built on what was once a wasteland. But when the power-mad Emperor Omus attacks the lunar colony of New Washington, a team of scientists led by Dr. John Caball launches a dangerous mission to destroy the dictator and his robot army.
On November 7, horror buffs can keep the Halloween spirit alive with a selection of docs about the genre and the underworld of erotic film.
We Kill for Love: “We Kill for Love” explores the forgotten world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late-night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. Balancing film art with scholarship, it pulls back the curtain to reveal the heart and soul of a forgotten and often maligned film movement.
History of Erotic Cinema: Infamous producer Dick Randall (“Pieces”) presents this revealing look at sex on screen. From D.W. Griffith’s “Intolerance” to modern erotica, discover how cinema shed its inhibitions via clips from film archives and private collections, plus appearances by ‘skinema’ icons like Josephine Baker, Barbara Bouchet, Laura Gemser, Hedy Lamarr, and more.
Straight to VHS: Documentarian Emilio Silva Torres searches for the people behind the making of “Act of Violence In A Young Journalist,” Uruguay’s first direct-to-video thriller, a 1980s curio with a cult following. Torres attempts to locate the mysterious director, Manuel Lamas, but can only find his collaborators, who are reluctant to speak on camera. What happened on that film? Are some secrets best left buried?
Inferno Rosso: Joe D’Amato on the Road of Excess: Documentarians Manlio Gomarasca and Massimiliano Zanin reveal the story of Joe D’Amato’s remarkable life and career, featuring an in-depth interview with the late filmmaker, new and archival insights by Michele Soavi, Luigi Montefiori, Eli Roth, Tinto Brass, Roger Corman, Luigi Cozzi, Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso, and more.
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story: Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the “A Nightmare On Elm Street” franchise and features interviews with Englund, Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd, and more.
Pennywise: The Story of It: This in-depth look at the 1990 mini-series, based on Stephen King’s novel, features interviews with many of the cult classic’s key players, including director Tommy Lee Wallace and the legendary Tim Curry, who portrayed the notorious monster clown, Pennywise.
Living with Chucky: “Living with Chucky” takes an in-depth look at the groundbreaking “Child’s Play” franchise from the perspective of filmmaker Kyra Gardner, daughter of special effects icon Tony Gardner, who grew up with the deadly doll.
On November 14, the director behind some of the most insightful recent genre documentaries takes his own trip through the ARROW archives. “Alexandre O. Philippe Selects” takes audiences on a journey with the favorite films of the award-winning documentary filmmaker behind movies like “Chain Reactions,” “78/52,” and “Lynch/Oz.” The titles in this specially curated collection include “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Incubus,” “Keoma,” “Spider Baby,” and “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.”
November 14 brings more documentaries for fans looking to learn more about the fake blood and real sweat that went into creating their favorite films. ARROW brings a double dose of looks into Italian horror and one of the most revolutionary decades of filmmaking.
Fulci Talks: In this extensive interview, legendary Italian director Lucio Fulci offers insight into his prolific career. The maestro shares anecdotes about his early life, his entry into the world of cinema, the various film genres in which he worked, his contentious relationship with fellow legend Dario Argento, and other topics.
Fulci For Fake: He’s been called “Italian Genre Cinema’s Most Unfairly Neglected Director” and “The Italian Ed Wood.” Now Luigi Cozzi tells his own story, from his sci-fi obsessed childhood and collaborations with Dario Argento to his rise as writer/director of such sagas as “Starcrash,” “Contamination,” “Hercules,” “Paganini Horror,” “The Black Cat,” and his first film in 27 years, “Blood On Méliès Moon.”
RoboDoc: ‘Who is he? What is he? Where does he come from?’ Take a deep dive into the making of the sci-fi masterpiece ‘RoboCop’. Hear the origins of how Orion Pictures assembled a magnificent cast & crew, who, unbeknownst to them, have signed up for a turbulent and career-defining ride.
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!: An inside look back at the greatest geek year in cinema ever, 1982, with stars, directors, writers, producers, critics and pop culture historians (including Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Bruce Campbell, and William Shatner) sharing their insights about such classic films as “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Blade Runner,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “Poltergeist,” “Tron,” and many more.
On November 21, ARROW launches “Super Arrow,” a retrospective of superior superhero movies featuring titles such as “Super Inframan,” “The Return of Swamp Thing” (in a new 4K restoration), “The Return of Captain Invincible,” and “Strega.”
November 24 continues Arrow Video’s appreciation of Hong Kong action with four classics from the Shaw Brothers Studio, their ARROW debut with a new 2K restoration.
The Battle Wizard: Pao Hsueh-li, the trusted co-director for several of Chang Cheh’s most memorable productions (including “The Water Margin”), here creates one of his own. A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Python, a sinuous snake-charmer, and a silk-masked beauty (who must kill or wed the first man to see her face) before they can bring peace to their battle-addled family in this special, cliché-smashing production.
Demon of the Lute: The “Scenario and Directed By” credit is rare, but Lung Yi-sheng warranted it for two memorable Shaw movies starring the lovely and lethal Kara Hui. This is the first – a beautiful fight fantasy of lute demons, magical arrows, bottomless abysses, an arduous quest, hermaphrodites, a villain named “Red-Haired Evil,” and a mischievous knight named “Old Naughty.” It’s little wonder Lung also directed, since another director might inadvertently deflate this delicate, but delightful, confection.
Portrait in Crystal: The master of the modern-day crime thriller lends his directing skills to this amazing kung-fu crime fantasy. Hua Shan impressed audiences with films such as “The Criminals” trilogy, then dazzled them in an entirely different way by helming the superheroic “Super Inframan” and “Flying Guillotine 2.” He combines those two genres in this “Martial Arts World” adventure of a mystical mass murderer loose in the underworld. Noble Pai Piao discovers that the killings are the work of a living statue trained to assassinate by the titular demon… and that more murderous statues are on their way if he doesn’t stop them. The poison darts and booby traps start flying as the heroes struggle to discover the real kung-fu criminal behind the deaths.
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Despite the worldwide success of “Star Wars” and “Star Trek,” science fiction is one genre that has seemingly been overlooked in the world of Hong Kong cinema. Well, not entirely! “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” is an extremely rare example of science fiction in the Hong Kong style, and it is unlike any sci-fi flick you’ve ever seen before. Cherie Chung is the victim of an alien abduction; the wacky Yi Lei is a detective whose strange behavior makes him want to leave this world and enter the next. A chance encounter leads the two to enter a suicide pact, with results that touch on such issues as the nature of fame and the reality of science fiction. It’s truly out of this world, and one of the more unusual movies to emerge from the New Wave that swept Hong Kong cinema in the early 1980s.
ARROW is closing out the month with its new monthly series, “ARROW After Dark,” debuting on November 28. Each month, ARROW will debut some of the most infamous and underseen erotic films. “ARROW After Dark” launches in November in North America, with access in the UK and Ireland to follow.
The inaugural “ARROW After Dark” titles include:
Blue Movie: After five years in prison, an ex-con returns to a society where total sexual freedom is now the norm. Michael (Hugo Metsers) yearns for sex and becomes fascinated by the amorous life of an attractive woman next door (Carry Tefsen), eventually organizing a series of sordid orgies with her and the neighbors.
Frank & Eva: Frank (Hugo Metsers) and Eva (Willeke van Ammelrooy) cannot live with or without each other. In the liberal 1970s, Frank sleeps with every woman he can get. Eva, meanwhile, is seeking greater security and wants to start a family.
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.
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