60s Cult

60s Cult

There's less swinging and more stabbing in the ARROW 60s Cult collection, but whether it's horror, sci-fi or a Western you choose, there will be plenty of far-out thrills from this wild and creative decade in Cult cinema.

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  • Samurai Wolf

    1966 • Japan • Directed by Hideo Gosha

    Isao Natsuyagi stars as Kiba, a charismatic ronin who wanders into a small town and ends up ensnared in a local conflict that becomes increasingly treacherous. After dispatching a pair of highway criminals seen robbing a courier wagon, Kiba agrees to assist...

  • Samurai Wolf 2 Hell Cut

    1967 • Japan • Directed by Hideo Gosha

    Charismatic ronin Kiba (Isao Natsuyagi) returns and finds himself entangled in a complex web of intrigue involving a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical swordsman, and an arrogant dojo master. Master filmmaker Hideo Gosha brings his trademark tight pacing and...

  • Red Peony Gambler

    1968 • Japan • Directed by Kōsaku Yamashita

    Wandering female gambler Oryu the Red Peony (Junko Fuji), so known for the tattoo on her shoulder, rambles into town searching for her father’s killer with a wallet left at the crime scene as her only clue. At a card game she meets a kindred spirit, th...

  • A Killer's Key

    1967 • Japan • Directed by Kazuo Mori

    Ichikawa’s lone wolf assassin is back in A Killer’s Key, this time masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta who is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to powerful figur...

  • A Certain Killer

    1967 • Japan • Directed by Kazuo Mori

    In A Certain Killer, Shiozaki’s low-profile existence as a chef at a local sushi restaurant serves as a front for his true job as a professional assassin whose modus operandi is poisoned needles. He’s approached by Maeda, a low-ranking member of a local yaku...

  • Wolves, Pigs, Men

    1964 • Japan • Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

    Three brothers find themselves pitted against each other as rivals in the Yakuza underworld. Jiro robs stolen loot from his younger brother, Sabu, and his gang. When their eldest brother, Kuroki, learns of this, he makes his own plans to conspire against...

  • Incubus

    1966 • United States • Directed by Leslie Stevens

    EVIL HAS NEVER BEEN SO SEDUCTIVE.

    It is often said that films about the Devil are cursed with bad luck, but Leslie Stevens’ Incubus might be the most cursed of them all. By the time it premiered in 1966, two of its stars had tragically taken th...

  • $10,000 Blood Money (Italian version)

    1967 • Italy • Directed by Romolo Guerrieri

    In Romolo Guerrieri's $10,000 Blood Money (1967; a.k.a. $10,000 for a Massacre), Gianni Garko - best known for his portrayal of supernatural gunslinger Sartana - takes on the part of another beloved western antihero, Django, who is on the trail of band...

  • 100 Monsters

    1968 • Japan • Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda

    A greedy slumlord’s attempts to forcefully evict his tenants invite the wrath of the titular spirits when a cleansing ritual is botched, with terrifying results.

  • A Fugitive From the Past

    1965 • Japan • Directed by Tomu Uchida

    Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 poll of the Top Japanese Films...

  • A Pistol For Ringo

    In A Pistol for Ringo, the eponymous hero, played by Giuliano Gemma (Day of Anger, Tenebrae), infiltrates a ranch of Mexican bandits to save a beautiful hostage (Nieves Navarro, Death Walks on High Heels).

  • A Taste Of Blood

    Businessman John Stone receives a mysterious package from Europe containing an unusual gift from his ancestors - two aged bottles of plum brandy. No sooner has he drunk both bottles than he transforms into a bloodsucking vampire, setting out to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged his bloodl...

  • Along with Ghosts

    1969 • Japan • Directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Kimiyoshi Yasuda

    The yokai are roused to defend a young girl on the run from deadly yakuza.

  • At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    1964 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

    Once seen, never forgotten! Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) makes his screen debut in José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, the first Brazilian-produced horror film. 

    Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for t...

  • Bandidos (Italian version)

    1967 • Italy • Directed by Massimo Dallamano

    Massimo Dallamano (What Have You Done to Solange?, Colt 38 Special Squad), cinematographer of the first two instalments in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy, steps into the director’s chair for the first time with Bandidos, an action-packed and visual...

  • Black Test Car

    Japanese maverick director Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) helms a bitingly satirical espionage thriller set in the heart of the Japanese auto industry in his 1962 landmark 'Black Test Car', which launched a series of similarly themed "Black" films. In a bitter, take-no-prisoners corporate war betw...

  • Blind Beast

    1969 • Japan • Directed by Yasuzô Masumura

    Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japan’s foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpilla...

  • Blood Feast

    1963 • United States • Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

    The filmography of late movie maverick Herschell Gordon Lewis brims with the mad, macabre, and just downright bizarre. But perhaps the most unhinged of all his directorial efforts, and certainly the most influential, must surely be his or...

  • Castle Of Blood

    1964 • France • Directed by Antonio Margheriti

    It was begun by Sergio Corbucci (DJANGO), completed by Antonio Margheriti (THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH) and remains one of the true masterpieces of Gothic Horror: When a journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it w...

  • Come Drink With Me (English version)

    1966 • Hong Kong • Directed by King Hu

    A group of bandits kidnaps the governor's son and demands their imprisoned leader to be set free in exchange.

  • Daimajin

    1966 • Japan • Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda

    As the earth tremors beneath their feet, rumors of an ancient god called the Majin that lies beneath the rock abound amongst the peasant denizens of a small mountain village community ruled over by the benevolent feudal lord Handabusa (Ryūzо̄ Shimada)....

  • Death Curse of Tartu

    1968 • United States • Directed by William Grefé

    Made in Florida in the mid-1960's, Death Curse of Tartu tells the story of a group of young people who venture into the everglades to party. However by going there they disturb the burial ground of Tartu, a witch doctor who has been dead for 400 y...

  • Double Face

    In the post-war years, the proliferation of transnational European co-productions gave rise to a cross-pollination of genres, with the same films sold in different markets as belonging to different movements. Among these, Riccardo Freda's ('I vampiri', 'The Horrible Dr. Hichock') 'Double Face' wa...

  • Find a Place to Die (Italian version)

    1968 • Italy • Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo

    In Giuliano Carnimeo's Find a Place to Die (1968), Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers) plays Joe Collins, a disgraced former soldier who assembles a ragtag band of scoundrels. They are lured into helping a woman (Pascale Petit, A Queen for Caesar) to rescu...