Arrow Films Archives • Ink 19

Two Thousand Maniacs!
- Screen Reviews
- June 8, 2018
H.G. Lewis’ southern-fried splatter classic gets the deluxe Blu-Ray treatment from Arrow Films.
Eros + Massacre
- Screen Reviews
- August 9, 2017
A three hour art film about unconventional relations in 1920’s Japan offers wonderful visuals providing you have the patience to endure the story.
Heroic Purgatory
- Screen Reviews
- July 25, 2017
A confusing and idiosyncratic movie about a communist cell in 1950’s Japan and where they ended up in 1970.
The Stuff
- Screen Reviews
- October 10, 2016
Mutant ice cream terrorizes America as evil corporations make money off the resultant exploding brains.
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
- Screen Reviews
- August 8, 2016
Follow the career of landmark animator Ray Harryhausen in this extensive documentary on the King of Stop Motion.
Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion
- Print Reviews
- March 14, 2016
The world of Cult Cinema gets its own guidebook.

Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol 1
- Screen Reviews
- February 15, 2016
Three great post-war Japanese mobster movies are reissued on Blu-Ray.
Wake Up and Kill
- Screen Reviews
- January 7, 2016
A classy Italian crime drama filled with sexy women, exciting chases, and small automobiles.
Your Vice is A Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
- Screen Reviews
- November 18, 2015
Discover the squishy joys of Italian “Giallo” films, they mix sex and horror and groovy cinematography.
Black Cats
- Screen Reviews
- November 2, 2015
Arrow Films releases two different versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Black Cat,” done by two master genre filmmakers.
Contamination
- Screen Reviews
- August 24, 2015
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
La Grande Bouffe
- Screen Reviews
- August 13, 2015
Four well-to-do men gather in an obscure Parisian house to commit suicide by eating themselves to death. Part black comedy, part dated social commentary it mixes sex and humor and some very nice cooking tips.

Society
- Screen Reviews
- August 3, 2015
A well-off teenage boy in Beverly Hills wavers between insanity and believing his family is an incestuous nest of shape-shifting slime monsters with money.
Pit Stop
- Screen Reviews
- June 25, 2015
A great ’60s race film Pit Stop reissued on Blu-ray. Gentlemen, start your engines!
Retaliation and Society
- Screen Reviews
- June 17, 2015
Arrow Films releases another pair of exploitation classics, a stylish Yakuza film and a ’80s body horror film.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
- Screen Reviews
- June 5, 2015
A loving restoration of this 1981 elegant horror story retells the story if Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with more nudity and brutality than you might enjoy.
Massacre Gun, Blind Woman’s Curse
- Screen Reviews
- April 8, 2015
Arrow Films presents two Japanese Yakuza films on Blu-ray for the first time.

Best of Broadway 1990-1995
- Archikulture Digest
- January 24, 2020
The Breakthrough gangs takes us back to the early ’90’s in this excellent evening of Broadway tunes.
Vance Gilbert
- Music Reviews
- January 24, 2020
Good Good Man (Disismye Music). Review by James Mann.
Rebecca Turner
- Music Reviews
- January 23, 2020
The New Wrong Way. Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Harry Styles
- Music Reviews
- January 22, 2020
Fine Line (Columbia Records). Review by Christopher Long.
Men on Boats
- Archikulture Digest
- January 21, 2020
John Wesley Powell lost an arm in the war, but still runs the Colorado river from Wyoming to Nevada with an all-female cast.
Silje Torsøe
- Music Reviews
- January 21, 2020
Closer. Review by Stacey Zering.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Archikulture Digest
- January 20, 2020
Chekov’s tale of family disintegration reappears in the late 20th century.
Grande Royale
- Music Reviews
- January 20, 2020
Take It Easy (Sign Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
A Lion in Winter
- Archikulture Digest
- January 19, 2020
Henry the Second nears the end of his life, and he sets his sons against one another for the crown.
Get Happy!
- Archikulture Digest
- January 19, 2020
Orlando’s greatest pianist breaks the comedic wall with this cabaret featuring actual Doctor Demento Hits.