April At ARROW Video Channel Has ‘Horror, humour and heart’

British Summer Time is only a few days away and ARROW in April promise a month of Horror, humour and heart.

Streaming voyage of discovery with a pair of brilliant indie debuts, a rediscovered and restored Hitchcockian thriller in 4K, two documentaries on Terry Gilliam, a Japanese V-Cinema bonanza, a found footage frenzy, a selection of out there short films, genre author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas raiding the ARROW library, and much, much more.

First off in April, exclusively on ARROW in the UK, Booger, multi-talented director Mary Dauterman’s unflinching exploration of grief, identity and resilience with a darkly comic edge. With a unique blend of horror, humour and heart, Booger transforms the mundane into the macabre, delivering a deeply human exploration of love, loss, and the strange ways we cope with pain, that lingers long after the credits roll.

Then there’s Stéphane, a bleakly funny and disturbingly twisted thriller set in the world of amateur film-making. Deftly blending elements of Mark Duplass’ Creep with Man Bites Dog and mismatched buddy movies such as The Cable Guy, Stéphane, written and directed by Timothée Hochet and Lucas Pastor, is part found-footage, part sinister thriller and part self-reflexive black comedy – punk filmmaking at its finest.

The month also brings  Mute Witness, showing in 4K . Director Anthony Waller (The Piper, An American Werewolf in Paris) combines cat-and-mouse suspense with classic intrigue, in an updated take on the Hitchcockian thriller, in which the only witness to a brutal crime (Marina Sudina) can neither speak nor cry out in terror. Filmed on location in Moscow and co-starring Fay Ripley (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) and Evan Richards (Society).

If Japanese crime films are your thing, look no further  at the channel in April – streaming nine  V-cinema direct-to-video genre features from the legendary Japanese studio Toei. An electrifying selection of gems from the Japanese video underworld includes Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage, Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet, Stranger, Carlos, Burning Dog, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat, The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses, Danger Point: The Road to Hell, and XX: Beautiful Hunter.

Also streaming in April: Sci-fi chiller Xtro 3, slasher horror Hide and Go Shriek, short film delights, Tanya Roberts stuck in Purgatory, terrifying found footage shocker The Outwaters, theatrical frights in the comedic chiller Ghost Light, chemical chaos in Capsules, Rick Sloane’s sci-fi comedy The Visitants, two Terry Gilliam documentaries, and more.

Seasons in April include:

Found Footage, where you can discover the fates of those who have been caught on film forever, going places they maybe shouldn’t have gone, with their cameras rolling… with titles including Ghost Light, Kolobos and Stéphane.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Selects, where award-winning film critic and author of ten books on cult, horror and exploitation cinema, raids the Arrow archives, with choices including Mirror Mirror, Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times.

The Art of Cult. Head to  ARROW and start your 30-day free trial. Available on the following Apps/devices: Xbox, Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV; iOS devices, Android TV and mobile devices, Fire TV (all Amazon Fire TV Sticks, boxes, etc), and on all web browsers at www.ARROW-Player.com.

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