You’ll Feel The ‘Chills’ At Arrow Video In October
New Exorcist Cuts Of Exorcist Sequels, Cult Halloween Anthology in 4K and J-Horror galore In October…
We’re only a few months away from Hallows Eve and Arrow Video are making sure your viewing in October will bring you ‘Chills’.
That spooky season will see The Exorcist sequels getting new cuts with legendary actors, filmmakers and composer all in 4K. Both metaphysical and daring, like all this month’s Arrow releases with limited edition extras, commentaries, and artwork.
This month will finally see the 4K release of cult horror anthology Trick ‘r Treat (2007). Coming from Michael Dougherty (Krampus), starring Dylan Baker , Anna Paquin and Brian Cox. The film communes with the spirits of classic horror portmanteaus like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, weaving together four chilling tales, all taking place during the same fateful Halloween night.
J-Horror fans, it will be like Christmas come early with the release of J-Horror Rising, a seven film, four disc Limited Edition Blu-ray box set. Seven of the genre’s most distinctive titles: Shikoku, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Inugami, St. John’s Wort, Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, Noroi: The Curse, and Persona.
Exorcist II: The Heretic Limited Edition Blu-ray 7th October
It has been four years since the exorcism that saved the life of Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) and caused the deaths of Lankester Merrin (Max Von Sydow) and Damien Karras, the priests who helped her. Regan remembers nothing, but her therapist Dr Tuskin (Louise Fletcher) believes those memories are simply repressed and waiting. Meanwhile, Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton) – his own faith shaken by a failed exorcism – is tasked by the Vatican with investigating Father Merrin, who faces posthumous charges of heresy for his controversial writings. His investigation will lead him to Africa, New York and Georgetown as he and Regan are drawn together in a spiritual battle that encircles the globe.
The Exorcist III Limited Edition 4K UHD 7th October
Set 15 years after the events of the first film, Lieutenant Kinderman (George C. Scott, The Changeling) investigate a series of horrific murders that follow the modus operandi of the notorious Gemini Killer… who died several years earlier in the electric chair. After his friend Father Dyer (Ed Flanders) is murdered in his hospital bed, Kinderman’s investigations lead him to ‘Patient X’, a sociopath housed at the same hospital who claims to be the Gemini Killer, and who knows intimate crime scene details. Their encounter leads to a fiery climactic confrontation between the eternal forces of good and evil…
Also available: Limited Edition 4K UHD Original Artwork
Trick ‘r Treat Limited Edition 4K 28th October
Follow the secretive and disturbing life of a high school principal (Dylan Baker, Spiderman 2) who leads a double life as a ruthless serial killer; the journey of a young girl (Anna Paquin, X-Men) looking for love who finds something infinitely more macabre; a group of teenagers playing a prank with disastrous consequences; and an old man (Brian Cox, Succession) confronted by Sam (Quinn Lord, The Man in the High Castle), a mischievous trick-or-treater with a terrifying secret.
Also available: Limited Edition 4K Original Artwork
J-Horror Rising Limited Edition Blu-ray 28th October
In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl’s mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region’s famous pilgrimage – but why is she walking backwards? The aftermath of the devastating Kobe Earthquake of 1995 creates fissures in the already fractured mind of a high-school girl in Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, allowing an unwelcome intruder to set up home in her head and leaving a volunteer worker with psychic powers to determine which of her personas is the fake one. Shikoku also provides the mystical backdrop to Inugami, as a teacher from Tokyo finds himself drawn to a local papermaker, only to find himself the subject of some hostility from her extended family, who have long ties to the region and are rumoured to be the descendants of the guardians of ancient evil canine spirits.
Megumi Okina (Ju-On: The Grudge) plays the art designer for a horror-themed video game in the innovative St. John’s Wort, who is forced to confront her childhood traumas when her colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from the creepy gothic mansion she has inherited from her estranged artist father. Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman features the titular predatory murderess drawn from urban legend, where it turns out home isn’t the safest place for her potential child victims in this disturbing supernatural horror. A new craze for wearing ceramic masks sweeps the students of a high school, unleashing a wave of anonymous juvenile delinquency amongst the literal fashion-victims of Persona, which boasts early appearances from Battle Royale stars Tatsuya Fujiwara and Chiaki Kuriyama. Last but not least, the chilling Noroi: The Curse adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon.
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