70s Cult
Anyone that knows ARROW knows we love films from the 70s. There is something about this era of film that makes our team really happy. Whether it's the grainy, low-budget film-making, the style of the Giallo films or the birth of some of the most well-known horrors the world has ever seen, why not step in to the ARROW Chrysler Town and Country Station Wagon and hitch a ride through 70's nirvana.
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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
1972 • United States • Directed by Bob Clark
Five young kinky actors and their artistic director come to a desolate and nearly forgotten burial island, complete with a morbid history.
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The Psychic
1977 • Italy • Directed by Lucio Fulci
It's been called "amazing" (Oh, The Horror!), "classic" (The Geek Show) and "a magnificent film" (Diabolique Magazine). It remains writer/director Lucio Fulci's ultimate giallo masterpiece: Jennifer O'Neill (SCANNERS) stars as a woman tormented by violent v...
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Messiah of Evil
1973 • United States • Directed by Willard Huyck
A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh.
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The Devils Lover
1972 • Italy • Directed by Paolo Lombardo
When a trio of free-spirited young women - led by a smouldering Rosalba Neri of LADY FRANKENSTEIN fame - insists on spending the night in a castle rumoured to be owned by the Devil himself, their cobweb-and-candelabra lark triggers a nightmare of lust, v...
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Lady Frankenstein
1971 • Italy • Directed by Mel Welles and Aureliano Luppi
Co-produced by Roger Corman, "one of the most underrated horror movies of all time" (Classic Horror) features lurid direction by Mel Welles (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) from a story by by Dick Randall (PIECES), and a cast that includes Hollyw...
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary
1975 • Mexico • Directed by Juan López Moctezuma and René Cardona
A beautiful American artist named, Mary, who just so happens to be a vampire living in Mexico, has authorities baffled and in full investigation, after her lust for blood has left a trail of bodies across the country.
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Torso
1973 • Italy • Directed by Sergio Martino
A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but is undoubtedly best known for hi...
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Bloodsuckers
1971 • United Kingdom • Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
When a brilliant young Oxford professor disappears while researching in Greece, the British government launches an investigation that will trigger a nightmare of ritual sacrifice, sadomasochistic perversion, deranged academia and one of t...
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Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972 • France • Directed by Jess Franco
Inspired by Universal's 1940s monster mash-ups, writer/director Jess Franco instead delivered "a weird and wonderful masterpiece that transports you to a world like no other" (Scream Magazine): With minimal dialogue and maximum gothic atmosphere, Franco cr...
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Count Dracula
1970 • Germany • Directed by Jess Franco
This gothic masterpiece from writer/director Jess Franco can now be experienced like never before, from its brilliant performances by Christopher Lee as the Count, Herbert Lom as Van Helsing, Soledad Miranda as Lucy, Maria Rohm as Mina and Klaus Kinski as...
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Tender Dracula
1974 • France • Directed by Pierre Grunstein
When horror's biggest star (Peter Cushing) announces his retirement from the genre, two dimwit screenwriters and a pair of sexy actresses are dispatched to the actor's castle for a lavish farce d'horreur érotique of violence, whippings, orgies, tender...
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Scream of the Demon Lover
1970 • Italy • Directed by José Luis Merino
Though he made only two horror films, veteran writer/director José Luis Merino here embraces the genre's classic elements and ravishes them to vivid extremes: When a beautiful biochemist (Erna Schurer) arrives at a foreboding castle to work for a sinis...
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The Night of the Scorpion
1972 • Spain • Directed by Alfonso Balcázar
A man brings his new wife to his sinister Spanish mansion, much to the displeasure of his family who also live there. It is then that the sinister happenings start, and it appears a killer might be on the loose trying to cover up the tragic death of wi...
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Bruce's Deadly Fingers
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Joseph Kong Hung
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Lee's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her - and the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers. Plenty of Kung-fu action and mayhem including a par...
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Eaten Alive
1976 • United States • Directed by Tobe Hooper
Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Sa...
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The Shaolin Plot (English version)
1977 • Hong Kong • Directed by Huang Feng
In 1977, fight choreographer Sammo Hung made one last film under his mentor, director Huang Feng (Lady Whirlwind, Hapkido) before graduating to the director's chair himself with The Iron-Fisted Monk. That film was the rarely-seen martial arts ensemble th...
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The End of Man
1971 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins
Diverging from horror toward satirical black comedy, The End of Man sees a naked stranger (played by Marins) emerge from the sea to perform miracles in a nearby town and become a modern messiah whose deeds will affect the whole world, but things are...
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The Awakening of the Beast
1970 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins
Sex, perversion and sadism abound in The Awakening of the Beast as a psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD in this surreal examination of 60s drug culture.
What starts as a pseudodocumentary featuring a panel of psychiatrists and wr...
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Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon
1973 • Mexico • Directed by Juan López Moctezuma
Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon, also known as Mansion Of Madness. A mysterious man is sent into the forest to investigate the bizarre behaviour of the notorious Dr. Tarr. What he stumbles upon is the doctor's torture dungeon, a hellish asylum complete...
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Avenging Eagle (English version)
1978 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sun Chung
Avid wuxia and kung fu films fans have a special place in their hearts for this outstanding martial arts drama about the Thirteen Eagles Assassination Sect of the infamous Iron Boat Clan. Ku Feng is excellent as the poisonously patriarchal leader of the k...
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Wrath of the Wind (Italian version)
1970 • Spain • Directed by Mario Camus
In Mario Camus' Wrath of the Wind (1970), genre superstar Terence Hill (They Call Me Trinity) shows his darker side as an assassin who finds his conscience when he and his brother (Mario Pardo, Knife of Ice) are hired by a ruthless landholder (Fernando Rey,...
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The Four of the Apocalypse (Italian version)
1975 • Italy • Directed by Lucio Fulci
Fabio Testi (What Have You Done to Solange?) and Tomas Milian (Don't Torture a Duckling) star in Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse (1975), in which a quartet of misfits go from sharing the same jail cell to embarking on a savage odyssey that will lead to...
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The Iron-Fisted Monk (Cantonese version)
1977 • Hong Kong • Directed by Sammo Hung
In the years following the passing of Bruce Lee, the flame of Hong Kong action cinema was being kept alive via the masterful choreography of Sammo Hung in a multitude of films, typically under the direction of Huang Feng (Hapkido, The Shaolin Plot). Howe...
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New Fist of Fury (Theatrical cut - Mandarin audio)
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lo Wei
Almost five years after breaking all Hong Kong box office records with the instant classic Fist of Fury, his last collaboration with the late Bruce Lee, director Lo Wei got to work on a sequel. It would be the first major leading role for Lo’s latest discove...