In December, ARROW presents a magnificent Christmas with a bumper bundle of goodies including an intense Christopher Walken vampire film in 4K, an ode to the glory days of VHS rental stores in a superb horror debut, a far East Western like you’ve never seen, a pair of bonkers martial arts gems, the Pusher trilogy, horror auteurs The Adams Family choose their favourite ARROW flicks, and more.
In December, exclusively on ARROW in the UK, The Addiction, on 4K, which sees director Abel Ferrara reunited with his King of New York star Christopher Walken, in a distinctly personal take on the vampire story, also starring Lili Taylor (The Conjuring) and Annabella Sciorra (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). Shot on the streets of New York, like so many of his major works – including The Driller Killer, Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant – and beautifully filmed in black and white, The Addiction sees the filmmaker on his own terms and at his very best: raw, shocking, intense, intelligent, masterful. With a brand new 4K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Video, don’t miss this on ARROW in December.
Genre fans will have a blast this Christmas with Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford’s debut feature, The Last Video Store, a love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls – here brought to life with “Blaster Video”, a time capsule to an era in which cover art and a catchy movie title were king, run by Kevin, a human encyclopaedia of VHS.
Watch the December trailer in the player below:
Next in December, the Pusher trilogy, a white-knuckle, nerve-shattering plunge into the Danish criminal underworld from uncompromising director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives). 1996’s critically acclaimed Pusher was Winding Refn’s first film, and also the screen debut of Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round), who would go on to star in the 2004 follow-up Pusher II; while Pusher III concentrates on Milo, the Serbian drug lord from the first two films, played by Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness). Gritty, grimy and shocking, the Pusher trilogy packs a punch.
Also next month, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, genre maestro Kim Jee-woon’s rollicking kimchi western, starring three of Korea’s biggest stars – Jung Woo-sung (12.12: The Day), Lee Byung-hun (A Bittersweet Life), and Song Kang-ho (Parasite). An audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains, this was the biggest and most ambitious production ever undertaken in Korea.
ARROW’s selection of short films include Froggy, written and directed by Amelia Joyce, about a teenage girl who fights back against bullies in a very unexpected way; and Affentanz – Hunter, written and directed by Cyprian Hercka, and eerie forest-set chiller with knockout visuals and atmosphere to spare.
Finally in December on ARROW, two martial arts films that will knock your socks off – get ready to go on a Drag-Fu odyssey, filled with face-crunching action, corset-busting comedy, gut-munching horror, and soul-touching musical numbers in Enter the Drag Dragon, a blast of true independent cinema will leave you wobbly in your heels; and The Deadly Art of Survival, director Charlie Ahearn’s super-8 martial arts epic shot around the projects (next door to his apartment) in the Lower East Side in New York.
Take a look at the full calendar for the month:
From December 6
From December 9
- The Addiction 4K – 1995
- The Last Video Store – 2023
- The Good, The Bad, The Weird – 2008
From December 20
- Pusher I – 1996
- Pusher II – 2004
- Pusher III – 2005
- Brothers James Retribution – 2023
- Enter The Drag Dragon – 2023
From December 27
- The Deadly Art Of Survival – 1979
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