90s Cult
It's time to head back to the nineties and scope ARROW's 90s Cult collection.
Slip on your mood ring, slap on your slap bracelet, and make sure you've fed your Tamagotchi before we get into this as it's time to head back to the decade that wasn't just about Beanie Babies and Blockbuster but also saw the release of loads of hella cool Cult films.
ARROW's 90s Cult collection is packed full of action, slashers and monsters, so let's go old skool. Booyah.
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XX: Beautiful Hunter
1994 • Japan • Directed by Masaru Konuma
Assassin and femme fatale Shion rebels against the fanatical religious order who prepared her from birth to be the perfect killer in the pulpy XX: Beautiful Hunter.
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The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991 • Japan • Directed by Teruo Ishii
After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible in legendary director Teruo Ishii's The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses.
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Mute Witness
1995 • Germany • Directed by Anthony Waller
Director Anthony Waller (The Piper, An American Werewolf in Paris) combines cat-and-mouse suspense with classic intrigue in Mute Witness, an updated take on the Hitchcockian thriller in which the only witness to a brutal crime can neither speak nor cry...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat
1991 • Japan • Directed by Toshiharu Ikeda
The sequel to one of the most iconic Japanese franchises of all time, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat sees a female assassin hired to infiltrate a women's prison and search for The Scorpion, a legendary rebellious prisoner hiding in the bowels of...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes The Bullet
1990 • Japan • Directed by Banmei Takahashi
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet sees wannabe yakuza Junko get more than he bargained for when tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member, or face the consequences for betrayal.
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Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1991 • Japan • Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
In Danger Point: The Road to Hell, duo of contract killers' fragile partnership is tested when their most recent hit starts to have unforeseen consequences.
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Burning Dog
1991 • Japan • Directed by Yōichi Sai
Burning Dog is a gripping heist film where a gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.
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Body Count
1995 • United States • Directed by Talun Hsu
New Orleans cops try to capture two ruthless assassins who are trying to avenge themselves against cops who had previously set them up.
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Mirror Mirror
1990 · United States · Directed by Marina Sargenti
A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.
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Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance
1994 • United States • Directed by Jimmy Lifton
The discovery of a demon mirror sets off a bizarre series of "deadly accidents" when a young girl and her brother are caught in an intricate web of evil and deceit. ...
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The Reflecting Skin
1990 · United Kingdom & Canada · Directed by Philip Ridley
An instant cult classic when it premiered to sold out screenings at Cannes in 1990, THE REFLECTING SKIN is a darkly humorous, nightmarish vision of the American dream. Growing up in the 1950s in small-town Idaho, 8-year-old Seth and his ...
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The Addiction
1995 • United States • Directed by Abel Ferrara
The mid-nineties were a fertile period for the vampire movie. Big-name stars such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy flocked to genre, as did high-caliber filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola, veterans Wes Craven and John Landis, independents Michael A...
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Once Upon a Chinese Hero Kickboxer
1993 • Hong Kong • Directed by Wu Ma
While master Wong Fei Hung is away traveling, the impulsive Lau Zhai (Yuen Biao), an initiate into Wong's kung fu school, begins wandering town. He soon allies with police chief Panther, in order to offer assistance in toppling an opium distribution ring.
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Ringu
1998 • Japan • Directed by Hideo Nakata
In 1998, director Hideo Nakata (Dark Water) unleashed a chilling tale of technological terror on unsuspecting audiences, which redefined the horror genre, launched the J-horror boom in the West and introduced a generation of moviegoers to a creepy, dark-ha...
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Suture
1993 • United States • Directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel
Inspired by the paranoid visions of John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate and Seconds, the desert noir of Detour and the black and white widescreen beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another and Woman of the Dunes,...
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Hired to Kill
1990 • United States • Directed by Nico Mastorakis
No man on earth could get him out of prison alive. Seven women will try. Starring legendary actors Oliver Reed and George Kennedy, Hired to Kill is an essential slice of '90s action fare featuring guns, girls and a plethora of budget-busting ex...
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The Sect
1991 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi
The Sect, also known as The Devils Daughter, the third feature by director Michele Soavi - his second collaboration with producer/co-writer Dario Argento - can now be experienced like never before: As a global satanic cabal grows in ferocity, an unwitting...
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Audition
2001 · Japan · Directed by Takashi Miike
One of the most notorious J-horror films ever made, Takashi Miike’s Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film would catapult Miike to the international scene and pave the way for such...
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Tomie
1998 • Japan • Directed by Ataru Oikawa
Based on the smash-hit series of the same name by cult manga artist Junji Itō (Uzumaki), Tomie tells the tale of an evil high-school seductress identifiable by a beauty mark beneath her left eye, whose bewitching kiss drives men to madness.
Photography st...
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Dead or Alive
1999 • Japan • Directed by Takashi Miike
Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongs...
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Deadly Manor
1990 • Spain • Directed by José Ramón Larraz
An old, dark house... A maniac on the loose... An orgy of bloodlust!
All the hallmarks of late master of Spanish macabre José Ramón Larraz (Edge of the Axe, Vampyres) are present and correct in 1990's Deadly Manor - the final horror movie from one o...