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  • Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan

    Movie + 6 extras

    1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chor Yuen

    The most famous erotic film in the history of Hong Kong cinema, Chor Yuen’s Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan shocked Chinese audiences in 1972, and even today exerts a raw power. Lily Ho, in her most daring role, is an aristocratic maiden abduc...

  • The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune

    Movie

    2022 • United States • Directed by Daniel Griffith

    The brand new feature-length documentary ‘The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune’ chronicles the creation of David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved sci-fi epic which starred Kyle MacLachlan, Patrick Stewart, Sean Young, Virginia ...

  • Burial Ground

    Movie

    1981 • Italy • Directed by Andrea Bianchi

    Burial Ground, also known as The Nights of Terror, Mariangela Giordano (of THE SECT and PATRICK STILL LIVES fame) stars in this '80s splatter classic about a cursed country estate besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans and the unusual relationsh...

  • Buddha's Palm
    Movie + 5 extras

    Buddha's Palm

    Movie + 5 extras

    1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Taylor Wong

    In the arsenal of classic martial arts secret weapons, there is none more lethal than the Buddha’s Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Koo, a blind recluse living in a cave, knows its secret, which proves ...

  • The Sect

    Movie

    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...

  • Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon

    Movie

    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...

  • Nightmare

    Movie

    1981 • United States • Directed by Romano Scavolini

    When a homicidal mental patient flees an experimental drug program, he'll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini, this "devas...

  • 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...