ARROW Offers Classic and Cutting Edge Cult Cinema
March 2022 Lineup Includes Swedish Thriller Knocking
Streaming on ARROW March 11
Month Kicks Off with the Works of Jess Franco March 1
March 2022 Seasons:
Nightmares Come At Night: The Jess Franco Collection,
Vinegar Syndrome Collection Vol 2, All in Your Head,
Master of Darkness: The Fritz Lang Collection,
Lies & Deceit: The Films of Claude Chabrol, Dead Silent
Praise for Knocking
“an elegant indictment of gaslighting culture, and Kempff uses it to take the audience to task over their own perceptions.” — Bloody Disgusting
“In addition to its mind-bending narrative, the visual style of Knocking is equally as striking.” — RogerEbert.com
London, UK – Arrow Video is excited to announce the March 2022 lineup of their new subscription-based ARROW platform, available to subscribers in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
The March 2022 lineup leads with the ARROW release of Frida Kempff’s debut thriller Knocking, available to subscribers in the US and Canada. The film will debut on ARROW March 11
March 1 bites into the lineup with a number of blood-curling titles featuring the monsters from the dark corners of the human imagination: Dr Orloff’s Monster (US/CA), Female Vampire (UK/US/CA/IRE), Nightmares Come at Night (UK/US/CA/IRE), Oasis of the Zombies (UK/US/CA/IRE), The Awful Dr Orloff (UK/US/CA/IRE), The Sadistic Baron von Klaus (UK/US/CA/IRE), A Virgin Among the Living Dead (UK/US/CA/IRE), and Eugeine de Sade (UK/US/CA/IRE).
March 1 will also see the debut of White Zombie (US/CA), a remarkably atmospheric treatment of the Haitian zombie myth, which would evolve into one of the most popular and enduring subgenres of the horror film.
Finally, March 1 will bow Crimson (UK/US/CA/IRE), Demoniac (US/CA), Black Magic Rites (UK/US/CA/IRE), and Chained for Life (US/CA).
March 1 begins this month’s Seasons with Nightmares Come At Night: The Jess Franco Collection (UK/US/CA/IRE).
A filmmaker as notorious as his output, Jess (Jesús) Franco made at least 173, and maybe more than 180, films and was a workaholic pumping out as many sexploitation, horror and sexploitation-horror films as he was able and allowed to. Most often working with little to no money, Franco is famous for recycling actors and footage in his productions, to the extent where cast members would be surprised to see themselves and their name crop up in another one or two films atop the one they were actually hired for, and his fans would recognise footage in his latest feature from one of his previous ones!
Titles include: Oasis of the Zombies, The Awful Dr Orlof, Nightmares Come at Night, Eugeine De Sade, The Sadistic Baron von Klaus.
March 7 goes to the depths of Hell and back to bring audiences the horrors of Blood Beat (US/CA), Deadline (UK/US/CA/IRE), Hollywood Horror House (UK/US/CA/IRE), Bloody Sect (US/CA), Night Owl (UK/US/CA/IRE), The Corruption of Chris Miller (US/CA), Zombie 5: Killing Birds (US/CA), and Star Time (UK/US/CA/IRE)
March 7 follows up with a new Season of dark underground titles with Vinegar Syndrome Collection Vol 2 (UK/US/CA/IRE).
Vol. 1 was so good and so much fun, there was no way we weren’t going to be bringing you more brilliant and bonkers Vinegar Syndrome titles, and Vol. 2 features more underground genre films that will have you questioning your sanity, high-fiving your TV, or both!
Titles include: Night Owl, Hollywood Horror House, Star Time, Deadline.
On March 11, ARROW takes audiences on a rollercoaster with Knocking, a slow-burning thriller that teeters between reality and delusion. Kempff’s acclaimed debut feature views social issues through a blurred lens streaked with horror.
Knocking headlines a Season of films that ask: When no one believes you and what’s happening seems so far-fetched, is this all really happening? Or is it All In Your Head (US/CA). Characters are pushed to the edge of their sanity, and sometimes beyond, and dreams, reality, imagination and mental health can combine, distort, become indistinguishable and even break. Not being able to trust your own mind, having doubts cast over what you believe is and isn’t happening and not really knowing what is and isn’t real unites this collection.
Titles include:Knocking, Kotoko, Dream Demon, Rude Awakening, Threshold.
On March 14th, go back to the early days of cinema with Master of Darkness: The Fritz Lang Collection (UK/US/CA/IRE). Nicknamed “Master of Darkness” by the British Film Institute for a retrospective in 2000, Fritz Lang was indeed a genius when it came to expressionistic wielding of light and shadow, but he was also a connoisseur of capturing the darkness in his films’ subject matter and in the hearts of the characters that populated them. ARROW are proud to present a collection of Fritz Lang’s films from both his German period and his Hollywood career, some well-known and highly influential and some less seen and ripe for reexploration and rediscovery.
Titles include: Metropolis and Dr Mabuse the Gambler.
March 14th will also see the bow of To Sleep So As to Dream (UK/US/CA/IRE) and
Come Drink With Me (US/CA).
On March 18th, celebrate the French New Wave with a Season ofLies & Deceit: The Films of Claude Chabrol (UK/US/IRE).
Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means of lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol: anything can be corrupted, and usually will be.
Titles include:Cop Au Vin, Inspector Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty.
March 18th will also launch Torment (UK/US/IRE).
March 21st caps this month’s Seasonal lineup with Dead Silent (UK/US/CA/IRE), a showcase of cinematic masterpieces from the pre-sound era of movies, when filmmakers could blow minds with not a single scream or sound effect.
Titles include: Metropolis, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu.
March 21st closes out new releases with Faust (US/CA), The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (UK/US/CA/IRE), and The Golem (UK/US/CA/IRE)
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.
Two private detectives hunt for an actress trapped within the reel of a silent ninja film in the dreamlike debut of Kaizo Hayashi (Circus Boys, Zipang), a magical double-handed cinephilic homage to the movie worlds of the 1910s and 1950s. When private eye Uotsuka (Shiro Sano, Violent Cop, Shin Godzilla) and his sidekick Kobayashi are approached by an aged former actress, Madame Cherryblossom, to go in search of her kidnapped daughter Bellflower, their investigations lead them to the studios of the mysterious M. Pathe company. Here Uotsuka has a strange vision in which he comes face to face with the beautiful star of a 1915 chanbara film that appears to have no ending. From then on, things begin to get a little strange… Drifting between illusion and allusion, it is chock full of references to Japan’s rich cinematic heritage and features cameos from a host of veteran talent and baroque sets created by Takeo Kimura, the Nikkatsu art designer fondly remembered for his flamboyant work with Seijun Suzuki in the 1960s.
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