David Farnor | On 29, May 2022

Arrow is a streaming service curated by members of the Arrow Video team, bringing together new horror, cult classics, cutting edge cinema, international favourites and more – from Lars von Trier to Park Chan-wook, plus TV shows such as The Bridge and Gomorrah.

Arrow steps up the controversy this month with a double-bill from Gasper Noe. They’re joined by six Trancers films, a classic spaghetti western and a slice of Lucio Fulci. Other collections include The Art of Cult, a selection of carefully curated films as likely to straight up shock, surprise or delight you as it is to boggle, blow or expand your mind, and more movie madness from the vaults of Vinegar Syndrome and the AGFA Collection. Plus there’s the debut of Canadian horror The Righteous, which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2021.

Here’s what’s coming soon to Arrow Video in June 2022:

Trancers – 1st June

Jack Deth is a cop from the bleak Los Angeles of the future in 2247. He’s become obsessed with chasing Whistler – an evil criminal who uses powerful hypnotic powers to convert people into zombie like creatures known as Trancers. Whistler has managed to escape through time travel and is loose in 1980s L.A. but Deth is on his trail.

Trancers II – 1st June

Los Angeles, 1991. It’s been six years since Jack Deth wiped out the last of the zombie-like Trancers – Jack has rebuilt his life with new wife Lena and his old buddy, Hap. Now Jack’s got a strange feeling in his gut – and Jack’s sixth sense proves him right when he discovers a Trancer at Hap’s place. Jack’s vacation is over. He’s back to Trancer-hunting and must find the source of the Trancers.

Trancers III – 1st June

Jack, beginning to get his life back, is time-jacked back to 2247 to save Angel City from a new wave of Trancers. His mission – find the origin of this new wave of Trancers and end it. Jack learns that the new Trancer program is government sponsored. With R.J. and Shark, a crystal powered cyborg, Deth will have to find a way inside the Trancer program and shut it down – for good!

Trancers 4 – 1st June

Jack is back to the future. Having since lost Lena, he finds he’s lost his other wife Alice to Harris. While heading out for another assignment, something goes wrong with the TCL chamber. Jack finds himself in a whole new, more dangerous dimension and runs across a different version of the zombie-like Trancers who have total control of this new planet.

Trancers 5 – 1st June

Welcome Jack back for another round with the Trancers; he must find his way home from the other-dimensional world of Orpheus, where magic works and the Trancers are the ruling class. However, Jack’s quest to find the mystical Tiamond in the Castle of Unrelenting Terror may be thwarted by the return of Caliban, king of the Trancers who was thought dead.

Trancers 6 – 1st June

Jack Deth is back – travelling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine, on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he’s ever faced beforeÖthe saga continues!

Torso – 1st June

A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting the picturesque university town’s female students. Alarmed at the plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa – only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they’ve brought it with them!

The Psychic – 1st June

The Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci, returns to the giallo genre to direct his fourth horrifying whodunit, The Psychic. Jennifer O’Neill (Scanners) stars as Virginia, a psychic since childhood, who has become tormented by terrifying recurring waking visions and soon discovers that they are actually petrifying previews of deaths to come. The Psychic, aka Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes’ score also features the piece of music Seven Notes in Black used by Fulci fan Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill Vol. 1.

Hell High – 1st June

Teenage kicks take a decidedly dark turn in director Douglas Grossman’s Hell High – a twisted tale of delinquency pushed to its horrifying extreme, where Class of 1984 meets I Spit on Your Grave!
When high school football hero Jon-Jon (Breaking Bad’s Christopher Cousins) quits the team, he winds up falling in with a group of outcasts led by the sadistic Dickens (played to unhinged perfection by the late Christopher Stryker). With a willing new recruit in tow, the gang’s youthful hijinks soon spiral into a night of abject horror when they decide to play a cruel prank on the home of their teacher Miss Storm – who, unbeknownst to the youngsters, harbors a dark and tormented past.

Lux Æterna – 3rd June

Gaspar Noé, the arch provocateur of New French Extremity responsible for Irreversible and Enter the Void, blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction in Lux Æterna, his ode to the suffering and sacrifices involved in the creation of art. French cinema icons Charlotte Gainsbourg (Ismael’s Ghosts, Antichrist) and Béatrice Dalle (Betty Blue, Inside), playing themselves, star as the lead actress and the director of an experimental film about witches. But as preparations for the shoot get underway, the increasingly chaotic production slowly unravels as egos and bitter resentments rise to the surface, threatening to derail the entire enterprise. Shot over just five days and largely improvised by the superlative cast, Lux Æterna is a powerful, hypnotic assault on the senses like no other, cementing Noé’s position as one of the most incendiary voices in cinema today.

Enter the Void – 10th June

Eight years after the controversial and shocking Irreversible, director Gaspar Noé cemented his reputation as the enfant terrible of New French Extremity with perhaps his most challenging film to date – a hallucinatory meditation on life, death and rebirth, shot entirely in the first person. American siblings Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and Linda (Paz de la Huerta, The Limits of Control) eke out a shared existence in Tokyo – he by dealing drugs, she by working as a stripper. However, tragedy strikes when a deal turns sour and Oscar is shot by the police. As his lifeless body lies on the floor of a public toilet, his soul floats high above the neon-drenched Tokyo streets, observing the effect of his death on his sister and reliving the events in his life that brought him to this juncture. Described by Noé himself as a “psychedelic melodrama”, Enter the Void boasts mesmerising cinematography by the award-winning Benoît Debie (Climax, Spring Breakers) and a hypnotic soundtrack of experimental and electronic music. Powerful and transcendent, it offers viewers an immersive cinematic experience like no other.

The Righteous – 10th June

A brooding occult horror with echoes of Bergman and Pasolini, The Righteous insinuates its way beneath the skin by way of an intelligent script, taut direction, and strong performances. Writer and actor Mark O’Brien (Ready or Not) pulls no punches as he confronts grief, guilt, faith and atonement in his directorial debut.

Intruder – 17th June

Ace check-out girl, Jennifer, has a deranged ex-boyfriend who’s fresh out of prison. When he appears outside, weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut, and the night crew starts dying…one by one, in the most gruesome ways imaginable. An ex-cop is trying to find out who the killer is and what possessed him to start the bloody rampage. But is it the ex-boyfriend…or is it someone or something else?

Blood Dolls – 17th June

Virgil is an eccentric freak…a brilliant billionaire whose mask conceals a horrific secret. He finds amusement in his personal ‘house band’…four beautiful rock and roll girls-in-a-cage who play on command. He’s also a ‘biological inventor’. His latest creations, the BLOOD DOLLS.

The Harder They Come – 17th June

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Django – 20th June

In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero (Keoma, The Fifth Cord) gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him. After saving imperilled prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak), Django becomes embroiled in a brutal feud between a racist gang and a band of Mexican revolutionaries… With Django, director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) upped the ante for sadism and sensationalism in westerns, depicting machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes and savage mutilations. A huge hit with international audiences, Django’s brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of unofficial sequels.

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