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.

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- Screen Reviews
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- Screen Reviews
- December 9, 2019
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- Archikulture Digest
- December 9, 2019
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- Archikulture Digest
- December 8, 2019
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- Interviews
- December 6, 2019
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- Music Reviews
- December 5, 2019
Veils of Winter (Riding Easy Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
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- Music Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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The Bakersfield Sound (Bear Family Productions). Review by James Mann.
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- Music Reviews
- December 3, 2019
No Novelties (Blackheart Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
AFI Fest 2019
- Event Reviews
- December 2, 2019
For the fifth straight year, Lily and Generoso assess a selection of new features from the eclectic program at AFI FEST, Los Angeles’ most prominent film festival.