Corin Hardy - Director - The Hallow, The Nun, Gangs Of London

“Pick 10 you say? I say I’m picking 21. And that was tough as well. My ARROW selection is determined specifically by movies that blew my mind in one way or another, when I first saw them (and continue to do so!). There’s some of Asian cinema’s finest revenge and J-Horror, nightmarish horror dream-worlds, monsters, demons and ‘shunting’, so definitely something for everyone. In no particular order… 

Kinji Fukasaku’s Japanese original 'Hunger Games’ BATTLE ROYALE has to be one of the most wickedly entertaining and brilliantly bloody dystopian action/horror movies of all time, starring the prolific Beat Takeshi. If you have not yet seen this, what are you waiting for, just hit play! 

Park Chan Wook’s lushly crafted, knuckle-grazing, hammer-wielding Korean puzzlebox-revenge-epic OLDBOY just cannot be bested...
 
Kim Jee Woon’s emotionally patterned, eerie, Korean ghost story A TALE OF TWO SISTERS contains one of the most nerve shredding, foot-of-the-bed moments in a horror movie.

Don Coscarelli’s nightmarish and otherworldly first two PHANTASM movies hold a special place in my horror heart with Angus Scrimm’s terrifying undertaker The Tall Man, his driller-killer silver sphere’s and a quadruple-barrel shotgun. Yup. “Booooooy!”

The dream world of Richard Kelly’s psychological sci-fi-high-school Noir DONNIE DARKO always calls me back, like some kind of dark destiny, especially around Halloween.

Stephen King and George Romero’s CREEPSHOW II delivers a trilogy of fun, creepy, comic-book tales and ’The Raft’ is always a stand out story… “Raaaanndddddiiieeee”

Steve Miner’s HOUSE plays out like a perky cross between Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 via Amblin, its a really fun, cartoonish haunted house movie, perfect for a quiet night in. 

Watch Hideo Nakata’s Japanese original RINGU and DARK WATER in a J-Horror double bill. But if you have to get up for a bowl of cornflakes, don’t answer the phone if it rings, or go inspecting that damp patch in the ceiling...

What can be said about Takashi Mike’s romantic revenge (rom-venge?) movie AUDITION? If you haven’t seen it. Be prepared. If you have seen it, watch it again. “Kiri Kiri Kiri…”

I saw Dario Argento’s DEEP RED again recently at a cinema in LA with Edgar Wright and it's pure cinema. Hit it.

I haven’t revisited William Lustig’s grimy 80’s MANIAC COP (it does what it says on the tin) since childhood, but I am putting this one on my Arrow list, so that I can do just that. Fond memories of it paying off on it’s bold, gory psychotic policeman premise, and starring the heroic Bruce Campbell. 

Clive Barker (and Tony Randel’s) HELLRAISER and HELLBOUND : HELLRAISER II live on in the back of my head as movies that still haunt me with their wild, perverse & imaginative Cenobite-summoning puzzle boxes and bloody demonic sex pacts.  

Another great, grimy 80’s double-bill for a horror night in would be Frank Henenlotter’s BASKET CASE and BRAIN DAMAGE featuring star turns from their enigmatic, parasitic monster leads ‘Belial' and ‘Elmer'.

Not a huge disciple of the found footage genre, but Juame Balaguero and Paco Plaza’s apartment-building-set nightmare [REC] is the best of its kind, and at an incredibly efficient 1 hour 15 min run time, you still have time to grab another bowl of cornflakes and pair up with another from my Arrow list, in fact perhaps a nice accompaniment would be….

Lamberto Bava’s heavy-metal-soundtracked, trapped-in-a-cinema-set horror, DEMONS. Yeah, [REC] and DEMONS would make a killer, crazy, gory, scary, fun double bill. 

Abel Ferrara’s gritty KING OF NEW YORK sits nicely in between movies like Goodfellas, Scarface, Reservoir Dogs and Carlito’s Way - watch it for Christopher Walken (also Laurence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes and Steve Buscemi). I need to rewatch this again, its been ages.

If you have yet to see Brian Yuzna’s wildly original, social paranoia, body-horror masterpiece SOCIETY, now is your chance. It’s fantastic! “Let the shunting begin!”

And lastly, WHEN ROMERO MET DEL TORO - at the time of writing, I have not yet seen this, but it’s Guillermo Del Toro sitting down with George Romero, so you know, it’s gonna be special. I’m adding this to my list to remind myself to watch it. 

I hope you enjoy something from my selection! And thank you ARROW FILMS for keeping all these iconic films alive on physical media and now streaming!”

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