Joe Lynch Selects
Joe Lynch is a filmmaker or at least he keeps telling people that. Born on Long Island and dealing with life in L.A., Lynch has creatively worked in various medias, including feature films, TV, music videos, commercials, short films, podcasts and more.
Lynch's previous feature films include WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END with Henry Rollins, KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM starring Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn & Ryan Kwanten, EVERLY starring Salma Hayek, MAYHEM starring Steven Yeun and Samara Weaving & POINT BLANK starring Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo & Marcia Gay Harden. His latest film, the provocative Lovecraftian horror-thriller SUITABLE FLESH, starring Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Jonathon Schaech, Bruce Davison & Barbara Crampton, premiered at the 2023 TriBeca Film Festival to rave reviews and as of its limited theatrical release in 2023 and streaming release in 2024 on Shudder and Hulu is currently “Certified Fresh” (or is it Certified FLESH?”). The film is also now avaialble as a “Drive In Double Feature” with his film MAYHEM as part of the popular The Last Drive In series with Joe Bob Briggs’s first Blu Ray released in October 2025.
In TV, Lynch has directed multiple episodes of Shudder’s CREEPSHOW, Disney’s ULTRAVIOLET & THE BLACK SCORPION, 12 DEADLY DAYS for YouTube, Hulu’s MY DEAD EX and has co-starred and executive produced the cult sitcom HOLLISTON with fellow filmmaker Adam Green (HATCHET, FROZEN) and recently directed the pilot for the new anthology series TALES FROM THE VOID.
Lynch is also one half of the popular THE MOVIE CRYPT podcast with Green, which was named one of 2015's Top Podcasts by Entertainment Weekly and has just celebrated its 10th year and 500th episode and the co-host of the YouTube program “A Couple Of Old Fashioneds w Becca & Joe”, a new film discussion show with writer/editor Rebecca Howard.
Hello Arrow Player Addicts!
So instead of writing out some long diatribe about what films I picked for Arrow Selects and why I picked them, I thought I would speak directly to you, my fellow genre film aficionados, with a video for each of my selections.
Wave of the future right?
What’s that?
Grady Hendrix also did video intros?!
DAMMIT GRADY!
Always one-upping me!
Well, if you’re inclined to hear some American schmoe diatribe about some of his favorite films on the service, check out the video intros before watching each of these fantastic fantastical slices of Sinema. Enjoy (at your own risk!)
Joe
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Joe Lynch - Intro
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Deep Red - Intro by Joe Lynch
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Deep Red (Italian version)
From Dario Argento, maestro of the macabre and the man behind some the greatest excursions in Italian horror (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage), comes Deep Red - arguably the ultimate giallo movie. One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow Up), looking up from the street be...
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Mute Witness - Intro by Joe Lynch
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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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Starfish - Intro by Joe Lynch
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The Last Video Store - Intro by Joe Lynch
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The Last Video Store
2023 • Canada • Directed by Tim Rutherford and Cody Kennedy
A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford's debut feature, The Last Video Store, is a genre-loving blast of pure joy: "a real treasure trove for genre fans, both...
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The El Duce Tapes - Intro by Joe Lynch
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The El Duce Tapes
In the early 90s, aspiring filmmaker (and General Hospital co-star) Ryan Sexton lugged a giant camcorder into some of the seediest clubs and filthiest apartments in Hollywood. There he filmed hour upon hour of VHS footage of the jaw-droppingly offensive Shock Rock band The Mentors, focusing on th...
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Ms 45 - Intro by Joe Lynch
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Ms. 45
1981 • United States • Directed by Abel Ferrara
From Abel Ferrara, director of The Driller Killer and King of New York, comes a terrifying revenge-thriller in the tradition of Death Wish and Taxi Driver... Ms. 45 (aka Angel of Vengeance) will blow you away.
New York, 1980. Raped at gunpoint on ...
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My Sweet Satan - Intro by Joe Lynch
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My Sweet Satan (1993)
Short film by Jim Van Bebber, My Sweet Satan (1993). A group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
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Bad Biology - Intro by Joe Lynch
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Bad Biology
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...
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Dead or Alive - Intro by Joe Lynch
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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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The Woman - Intro by Joe Lynch
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The Woman
Almost a decade after Lucky McKee burst upon the indie horror scene and became a 'Master of Horror' in the making thanks to his directorial debut May, he teamed up with legendary cult author Jack Ketchum for his most shocking and brutal film to date: The Woman, an instant cause célèbre on its Sun...
