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  • Bastard Swordsman
    Movie + 2 extras

    Bastard Swordsman

    Movie + 2 extras

    1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lu Chun-ku

    Actor Lu Chun-ku really hit his stride as a director of mystical kung-fu epics such as this, truly one of the best of its kind. Norman Tsui stars as a put-upon illegitimate son of a “Martial Arts World” master, who nearly sacrifices all to learn the “Sil...

  • The Lady Hermit
    Movie + 4 extras

    The Lady Hermit

    Movie + 4 extras

    1971 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-hua

    Shaw Studios knew a good thing when they teamed their remarkable star Cheng Pei-pei with versatile director Ho Meng-hua. This wuxia film was considered one of the director’s most notable from a filmography spanning more than forty films. Cheng plays the...

  • Noroi: The Curse
    Movie + 4 extras

    Noroi: The Curse

    Movie + 4 extras

    2005 • Japan • Directed by Koji Shiraishi

    The chilling Noroi: The Curse adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon.

  • The Church

    Movie

    1989 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

    For his second feature film - and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento - writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a "mind-blowing" (Bloody Disgusting) "masterwork" (DVD Drive-In): In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass gra...

  • The One-Armed Swordsman

    Movie + 11 extras

    1967 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chang Cheh

    Even non-kung-fu lovers will be mesmerised by Jimmy Wang Yu in the role that made him a superstar. As the mysterious swordsman whose one arm is more powerful than his two-armed rivals, Wang and director Chang Cheh revolutionised the Hong Kong action genr...

  • St. John's Wort
    Movie + 1 extra

    St. John's Wort

    Movie + 1 extra

    2001 • Japan • Directed by Ten Shimoyama

    Megumi Okina (Ju-On: The Grudge) plays the art designer for a horror-themed videogame in the innovative St. John's Wort, who is forced to confront her childhood traumas when her colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from the creepy gothic mansion ...

  • House
    Movie + 2 extras

    House

    Movie + 2 extras

    1986 · United States · Directed by Steve Miner

    ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!
    Step into the House of horror! From the team that brought you Friday the 13th comes one of the all-time ’80s horror greats, at long-last right here on ARROW!
    William Katt (Carrie) stars as Roger Cobb, a divorced horror noveli...

  • Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

    Movie

    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.

  • Zombie Holocaust

    Movie

    1980 • Italy • Directed by Marino Girolami

    It sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS and forever set an insane standard for Italian zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide: Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE), Alexandra Delli Colli (THE NEW YORK RIPPER), Sherry Buchanan (TENTACLES)...

  • Curtains

    Movie

    1983 • Canada • Directed by Richard Ciupka

    John Vernon (CHAINED HEAT, National Lampoon's ANIMAL HOUSE) and Samantha Eggar (THE BROOD, THE EXTERMINATOR) star in this horror classic from the golden age of the slasher genre. A group of women gather for a weekend casting call at the secluded mansion...

  • Bad Biology

    Movie

    2008 • United States • Directed by Frank Henenlotter

    For his first film in 17 years, splatter master Frank Henenlotter returned with the most graphic, transgressive and jaw-droppingly depraved black comedy shocker of his career: Jennifer is a homicidal nymphomaniac who spontaneously births mutan...

  • Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary

    Movie

    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.

  • The Devils Lover

    Movie

    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...

  • Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein

    Movie

    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...

  • Zombie Holocaust

    1980 • Italy • Directed by Marino Girolami

    It sparked riots on 42nd Street, spawned a generation of gorehounds on VHS and forever set an insane standard for Italian zombie/cannibal carnage worldwide: Ian McCulloch (ZOMBIE), Alexandra Delli Colli (THE NEW YORK RIPPER), Sherry Buchanan (TENTACLES)...

  • Curtains

    1983 • Canada • Directed by Richard Ciupka

    John Vernon (CHAINED HEAT, National Lampoon's ANIMAL HOUSE) and Samantha Eggar (THE BROOD, THE EXTERMINATOR) star in this horror classic from the golden age of the slasher genre. A group of women gather for a weekend casting call at the secluded mansion...

  • Bloodsuckers

    Movie

    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...

  • Count Dracula

    Movie

    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...

  • Tender Dracula

    Movie

    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...

  • Terror at Tenkiller

    Movie

    1986 • United States • Directed by Ken Meyer

    Leslie and Jana are a couple of attractive young ladies, who take off on a vacation and strange things start to happen at their remote cabin in the woods.

  • The Night of the Scorpion

    Movie

    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...

  • Castle Of Blood

    Movie

    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...

  • Offspring
    Movie + 20 extras

    Offspring

    Movie + 20 extras

    2009 • United States • Directed by Andrew van den Houten

    Against the backdrop of grisly murders and child abductions, a clan of cannibalistic savages which plague the North-east Coast since 1858, is after an unsuspecting family and their innocent baby girl. Do they have what it takes to survive?

  • Scream of the Demon Lover

    Movie

    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...