The Ick

The Ick

Uncomfortable films that push boundaries and make you feel like you need a shower afterwards? No problem. Stomach-churning sickeners? Sure thing!

Guaranteed to gross you out and featuring the sleaziest and skeeziest films on ARROW, this collection is bound to give you The Ick.

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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...

  • Vampire Clay

    2018 • Japan • Directed by Sôichi Umezawa

    From Japanese special effects master Soichi Umezawa comes a singular horror experience in a wildly hilarious marriage of The Blob and The Evil Dead. After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to Aina Academy to finish her prep classes for art school. Quickly...

  • Nosepicker

    2023 • United Kingdom • Directed by Ian Mantgani

    In this slimy ‘tale of the unexpected’, young schoolboy Georgie (Leo Adoteye), bullied for his nasty habit of picking his nose, retreats into himself with macabre results.

  • Vital

    2005 • Japan • Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

    After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryoko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with ...

  • Flamingo

    2016 • United Kingdom • Directed by Bryan M. Ferguson

    While developing a perverse relationship with an obscene phone caller, an alienated dancer considers the loss of her leg as she descends into the world of self-amputation.

  • Earworm

    2022 • United Kingdom • Directed by Bryan M. Ferguson

    A rip roaring film about two knuckleheads facing off against a gnarly tape cassette dwelling worm that really wants inside their ear holes.

  • SUCK

    2020 • United States • Directed by Anthony Sneed

    A strange fetish shared between two men takes over and forever unites them in a dark twist of fate.

  • The Stuff

    1985 • United States • Directed by Larry Cohen

    Are you eating it...or is it eating you? The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It's delicious, low in calories and - better still - doesn't stain the family carpet... What's not to like?! Well, for a start it has a life o...

  • Meat Friend

    2022 • United States • Directed by Izzy Lee

    Nominated for a 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Short Film. An ex-con, sentient pile of hamburger meat (voiced by Steve Johanson) teaches after-school lessons to a child (Marnie McKendry in this absurdist comedic short film directed by festival f...

  • Toys Are Not For Children

    Psychological trauma and aberrant sexuality abound in this twisted 1972 tale of a young woman whose severe daddy issues send her on an unforgettably bleak downward spiral. Yearning for the love of her absentee father, Jamie inhabits an infantilised world surrounded by toys, including those which ...

  • Gwilliam

    2016 ・ United States ・ Directed by Brian Lonano

    A recently released criminal is looking for a good time. He can forget his sins but he can never forget... Gwilliam.

  • Spider Baby

    1967 • United States • Directed by Jack Hill

    This was the first solo feature by Jack Hill (Coffy, Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown), whom Quentin Tarantino dubbed 'the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking', and it remains one of his wildest and weirdest.

    The credits dub this 'the maddest stor...

  • Umbilical Glue

    2017 • United Kingdom • Directed by Bryan M. Ferguson

    In Umbilical Glue, Olga struggles with her odd interest in umbilical cords until she joins a gang of punk belly-button enthusiasts.

  • Doom Asylum

    When a group of horny teens wind up on the grounds of a creepy abandoned asylum, they think they've found the perfect place to party. Little do they know that inside the building's crumbling walls lurks a freakishly deformed maniac, driven to madness by the tragic loss of his fiancée in a car acc...

  • Beyond the Door

    Legendary filmmaker Ovidio G. Assonitis, whose 'Tentacles and Piranha II' sought to cash in on the killer fish craze spawned by 'Jaws', first hit pay dirt in 1974 with 'Beyond the Door' - a gloriously bonkers riff on 'The Exorcist' featuring Emmy Award-winning actress Juliet Mills and distinguish...

  • Basket Case

    1982 • United States • Directed by Frank Henenlotter

    The feature debut of director Frank Henenlotter (Brain Damage, Frankenhooker), 1982's Basket Case is a riotous and blood-spattered "midnight movie" experience, now presented for the first time ever in 4K.

    Duane Bradley seems like a pretty ord...

  • Itch

    2021 • Malta • Directed by Susannah Farrugia

    Sister Jude (Loren O’Dair) is a novice nun about to take her simple vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience in a cloistered convent. However, before she does, she develops a mysteriously severe skin condition that continues to worsen along with her m...

  • Anatomy Maestro

    2023 • United States • Directed by Drew Maxwell Weiss

    The stalker ends up becoming the prey on the mean streets of New York.

  • Hellish Flesh

    1977 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

    In Hellish Flesh, writer and director José Mojica Marins stars as Dr. George Medeiros; a brilliant scientist but neglectful husband, whose wife takes a lover and plans to murder George for his fortune. When the plot fails, the doctor is badly disfig...

  • Blood Feast

    1963 • United States • Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

    The filmography of late movie maverick Herschell Gordon Lewis brims with the mad, macabre, and just downright bizarre. But perhaps the most unhinged of all his directorial efforts, and certainly the most influential, must surely be his or...

  • 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.