Arrow Player – March 2025 Lineup

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HOLD YOUR NERVE THIS MARCH – HAUNTED HOUSE HORRORS, 60’s JAPANESE GEM, FULCI IN 4K, KEVIN KÖLSCH AND DENNIS WIDMYER SELECTS & MUCH MORE

March on the expertly curated cult streaming service ARROW includes an inventive and chilling ghost story, a Fulci masterwork in 4K, a rediscovered erotic gem from Japan, some choice Eighties chillers, horror directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer choose their scary ARROW favourites, and much more.

First off in March, exclusively on ARROW in the UK, I Will Never Leave You Alone, a nerve-wracking exploration of trauma from an exciting new voice in American independent horror. Writer and director DW Medoff’s innovative, atmospheric and chilling take on the haunted house formula is a surreal nightmare where the psychological and the supernatural collide to terrifying effect. The Hollywood News says this is “not a film to venture into lightly”, while Projected Figures’ Anton Bitel describes it as a “bewitching psychodrama”. Would you last six days in a dilapidated house? Find out on ARROW in March.

Then there’s Play It Cool, a chic and erotically charged drama starring popular Japanese singer of the day Mari Atsumi as a college girl negotiating her way through the male-dominated hierarchies of Tokyo’s seductive but treacherous nightclub culture. ARROW is proud to present this little-seen gem by one of Japan’s most highly regarded directors of the 1960s, Yasuzō Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi), a filmmaker known for his social satires and powerful portrayals of women.

Also in March, Don’t Torture a Duckling in sparkling 4K. From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (The Psychic, The Beyond), comes his 1972 masterpiece, and one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced. Starring Florinda Bolkan (A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), Tomas Milian (The Four of the Apocalypse) and Barbara Bouchet (The Red Queen Kills Seven Times), the film was deemed shocking at the time for its brutal violence, depiction of the Catholic Church and themes of child murder and paedophilia. It is widely regarded today as Fulci’s greatest film, rivalling the best of his close rival Dario Argento.

There’s more horror in March, with Mirror Mirror, featuring genre favourites Karen Black and Yvonne De Carlo; onstage carnage in Blood Theatre from Hobgoblins director Rick Sloane; the superbly entertaining Mausoleum, with an unforgettably frightening Bobbie Bresee and featuring superb practical effects from John Buechler (From Beyond); and Rick Roessler’s slasher favourite Slaughterhouse.

Also streaming in March: South Korean crime thriller Beasts Clawing at Straws starring The Housemaid’s Jeon Do-yeon and Jung Woo-sung from The Good The Bad And The Weird.

Seasons in March include:

Most Haunted, a collection of cult films full of our most ghost-infested homes, including I Will Never Leave You Alone, A Ghost Waits, and Double Face

Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer Selects, where the co-writers and directors of the superbly sinister Hollywood-set Starry Eyes and the co-directors of the hit 2019 adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary choose their favourites from the Arrow catalogue, including The Gore Gore Girls, My Sweet Satan, and Deadbeat at Dawn

MARCH RELEASE CALENDAR

From March 3
Play It Cool – 1970

From March 7
Beasts Clawing at Straws – 2021

From March 10
I Will Never Leave You Alone – 2023

From March 14
Mirror Mirror – 1990

From March 21
Blood Theatre – 1984
Mausoleum
Slaughterhouse

From March 24
Don’t Torture A Duckling (4K) – 1972

New Seasons this March

March 14: MOST HAUNTED

If our chilling new release, I Will Never Leave You Alone, has given you a taste for spook-saturated shacks, then you have come to the right place. Plus, the door just swung shut behind you and you couldn’t leave now, even if you wanted to. Most Haunted is a collection of Cult films full of our most ghost-infested homes, just waiting for a curious stranger to stop by, step inside… and never leave!

Titles Include: I Will Never Leave You Alone, A Ghost Waits, Double Face

March 21: KEVIN KÖLSCH AND DENNIS WIDMYER SELECTS

Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer are the co-writers and directors of the superbly sinister Hollywood-set Starry Eyes and the co-directors of the hit 2019 adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.

“We have to admit, whenever we saw our friends and colleagues sharing their recommendations on ARROW, we were a bit jealous! We’ve always wanted to do one ourselves, so it’s an incredible honor to finally take part. ARROW has become the first app we open when looking for something to watch. And if you’re here now doing the same, let us recommend to you a few of our favorite movies currently playing on the platform…”

Titles Include: The Gore Gore Girls, My Sweet Satan, Deadbeat at Dawn

MARCH TITLES – IN DEPTH

FROM MARCH 3: PLAY IT COOL

Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a pretty fashion student who shares a cramped home with her mother Tomi (Akemi Negishi, The Saga of Anatahan) and good-for-nothing stepfather Ryoichi. Tomi
works at a local hostess bar and hopes for a better fate for Yumi. When Ryoichi violently forces himself upon her blossoming daughter, Tomi is not afraid to take action to protect her, an act which lands her in jail. Left to fend for herself, Yumi is taken in by her mother’s former place of employment, where she finds herself fighting off the unwanted attentions of the men who
swarm around her. Then one day, a rescue by handsome former lawyer Nozawa (Yusuke Kawazu, Cruel Story of Youth) from a vicious gangster seems to offer an escape into an
altogether glitzier world, albeit one that turns out fraught with similar dangers.

FROM MARCH 7: BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS

A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.

FROM MARCH 10: I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE

After being released from prison, Richard is given an opportunity to restart his life by a mysterious company who offers him five thousand dollars to spend six days in a dilapidated house to cleanse it of evil spirits. His handler assures him this is only to put any potential buyers’ superstitions to rest, and that he has nothing to fear.

But Richard’s sojourn is haunted by an inscrutable figure hiding in the dark corners of the house that seems to have a connection with his dark past. As his sinister neighbour’s appearances become more frequent, Richard must confront the terrifying reason that sent him to prison and risk slipping into madness.

FROM MARCH 14: MIRROR MIRROR

A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.

FROM MARCH 21: BLOOD THEATRE

An old movie house plagued with a history of unexplained tragedies is reopened with bloody history repeating itself.

MAUSOLEUM

A 10 year-old girl, mourning the death of her mother, becomes possessed by a demon, who has been preying on her female ancestors for centuries. Years later, the demon starts to take over her, mentally and physically.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE

The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his obese and mentally disabled son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.

FROM MARCH 24: DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (4K)

When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local “witch”, Maciara (Florinda Bolkan, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin). With the bodies piling up and the community gripped by panic and a thirst for bloody vengeance, two outsiders – city journalist Andrea (Tomas Milian, The Four of the Apocalypse) and spoilt rich girl Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) – team up to crack the case. But before the mystery is solved, more blood will have been spilled, and not all of it belonging to innocents…

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