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Arrow Video US – October 2019 Release Schedule

New from Arrow Video US and Arrow Academy US
KILLER NUN[Blu-ray] (10/15)
THE DEAD CENTER [Blu-ray and DVD] (10/22)
RINGU [Blu-ray] (10/29)
RINGU COLLECTION [Blu-ray] (10/29)
MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES [Blu-ray] (10/29)
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Haunted VHS tapes, American Werewolves, and Killer Nuns, Oh My! It’s October, Arrow Style!
As we head into October we know that means one thing – we’ve officially entered Halloween season! And this Halloween, Arrow is abandoning the tricks in favor of a few extra treats. With 9 new releases hitting retailers this month, there’s sure to be something to satisfy everyone’s sweet tooth.
On October 1st, the month’s first release comes in the form of The Prey. This early ’80s effort about a group of teens attacked by a disfigured killer while camping in the Rocky Mountains has been languishing on VHS for over thirty years. Arrow has rescued this cult classic, presenting it with a brand new 2K restoration and 3 different cuts. Slasher enthusiasts everywhere are going to want this one immediately.
Toys Are Not for Children is a psychological drama about a woman with daddy issues suffering through a devastating downward spiral that DVD Drive-In describes as, “an underrated gem hiding behind an exploitative title.” This gem comes home on October 8th with a new 2K restoration and toy chest full of bonus content. This quirky tale of perversion from director Stanley H. Brassloff is not to be missed.
Director Giulio Berruti’s Killer Nun is one of the holiest of sisters that make up the loving and gratuitously crude community that is nunsploitation. Anita Ekberg stars as Sister Gertrude, a nun lured into the world of drugs and perversion. This cult classic and “video nasty” comes to Blu-ray with a new 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative that shines this sleaze up quite nicely. The film hits shelves on October 15th.
Two releases head home on October 22nd. First is Guillermo del Toro’s modern masterpiece of gothic romance, Crimson Peak. This story about an aspiring author that travels to a remote English mansion, where she is haunted by ghostly visions, was praised by Stephen King as, “gorgeous and just fucking terrifying”. The second release on the 22nd is Billy Senese’s The Dead Center. Shane Carruth stars as a hospital psychiatrist that is pushed to the edge of insanity when a deranged patient claims to have died and brought something awful back from the other side.
The month comes to the close with 4 must-have releases on October 29th. Leading the way, and just in time for Halloween, is the John Landis classic An American Werewolf in London. In what is arguably the greatest werewolf movie ever made, David Naughton stars as an American tourist attacked by a vicious creature while hiking in the Yorkshire Moors. The jaw-dropping, Oscar-winning special effects from the legendary Rick Baker are restored in 4K using the original camera negative and approved by Landis. This release comes with so many special features you’ll need a whole lot of big teeth to chew on them all.
Hideo Nakata almost single-handedly helped launch the J-Horror boom in the late ’90s with Ringu, the film Sight & Sound called a “timeless terror”. Now fans can own this creepy flick about the cursed VHS tape with a brand new 4K restoration approved by DP Junichiro Hayashi. If one VHS tape isn’t enough to quench your thirst for technological terror, then the Ringu Collection may be more your speed. This boxset includes the original film alongside the sequel Ringu 2, the eerie origin story Ringu 0, and the “lost sequel”, Jôji Iida’s Rasen – also known as The Spiral.

Rounding things out is Man of a Thousand Faces. This biopic about one of horror’s first icons, Lon Chaney, stars James Cagney as the multifaceted silent screen legend. Director Joseph Pevney not only chronicles Chaney’s rise to stardom but captures the drama is his day-to-day personal life. The screenplay, written by R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, and Ben Roberts, was nominated for an Oscar. This release comes with a number of special features including a new audio commentary from film scholar Tim Lucas.

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COMPLETE DETAILS, SPECIAL FEATURES, and HI-RES ART BELOW

The Prey [Limited Edition]

It’s not human, and it’s got an axe! One of the most underrated efforts to hail from the slice-and-dice boom, The Prey at last emerges from the VHS wilderness in a brand new 2K restoration from the recently unearthed original camera negative.

BLU-RAY DISC
SKU: AV220
UPC: 760137280088
SRP: 39.95 (NEW PRICE)
Street Date: 10/01/19
PreBook Date: 08/13/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Run Time: 80 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

Toys Are Not For Children

Yearning for the love of her absentee father, Jamie inhabits an infantilized world surrounded by toys, including those which her wayward pops bizarrely keeps sending her. Unable to consummate her marriage with dashing colleague Charlie, Jamie’s chance encounter with aging sex worker Pearl leads her into the murky world of prostitution where her most disturbing erotic fantasies begin to play out.

BLU-RAY
SKU: AV221
UPC: 760137295587
SRP: 39.95
Street Date: 10/08/19
PreBook Date: 09/03/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run Time: 85 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

Killer Nun

The sordid story of Sister Gertrude, a disturbed woman of the cloth who degenerates into a mire of drugs, sexual perversion, sadistic torture and murder. Joe Dallesandro (The Climber, Flesh for Frankenstein), Alida Valli (The Possessed, Suspiria) and the ample Paola Morra (Behind Convent Walls) offer spirited performances and able support to Ekberg, in this shocking tale based on real events.

BLU-RAY
SKU: AV215
UPC: 760137296683
SRP: 39.95
Street Date: 10/15/19
PreBook Date: 09/10/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Horror
Language: Italian
Run Time: 88 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

The Dead Center

Psychiatrist Daniel Forrester is drawn to help a mysterious patient who is brought to the emergency psych ward in a catatonic state with no memory of how he reached the hospital. The doctor tries to break through to his mysterious patient, but as a spate of mysterious deaths shake the ward to its core, Forrester comes to suspect that there is more to his new ward than meets the eye.

BLU-RAY
SKU: AV224
UPC: 760137295884
SRP: 29.95
Street Date: 10/22/19
PreBook Date: 09/17/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Language: English
Run Time: 93 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

The Dead Center

Psychiatrist Daniel Forrester is drawn to help a mysterious patient who is brought to the emergency psych ward in a catatonic state with no memory of how he reached the hospital. The doctor tries to break through to his mysterious patient, but as a spate of mysterious deaths shake the ward to its core, Forrester comes to suspect that there is more to his new ward than meets the eye.

DVD
SKU: AV225
UPC: 760137295990
SRP: 19.95
Street Date: 10/22/19
PreBook Date: 09/17/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Language: English
Run Time: 93 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

Ringu

A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko, a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the phenomenon, and uncovers an urban legend about a cursed videotape which causes anyone who views it to die within a week – unless they can persuade someone else to watch it and pass on the curse…

BLU-RAY
SKU: AV239
UPC: 760137295686
SRP: 39.95
Street Date: 10/29/19
PreBook Date: 09/24/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Horror
Language: Japanese
Run Time: 96 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

Ringu Collection [Limited Edition]

A group of teenage friends are found dead, their bodies grotesquely contorted, their faces twisted in terror. Reiko, a journalist and the aunt of one of the victims, sets out to investigate the phenomenon, and uncovers an urban legend about a cursed videotape which causes anyone who views it to die within a week – unless they can persuade someone else to watch it and pass on the curse…

BLU-RAY
SKU: AV238
UPC: 760137295389
SRP: 99.95
Street Date: 10/29/19
PreBook Date: 09/24/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Horror
Language: Japanese
Run Time: 290 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

An American Werewolf In London [Limited Edition]

American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. David awakes in a London hospital to find his friend dead. Retiring to the home of a beautiful to recuperate, he soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body, undergoing a full-moon transformation that will unleash terror on the streets of the capital…

BLU-RAY
SKU: AV226
UPC: 760137296584
SRP: 49.95
Street Date: 10/29/19
PreBook Date: 09/24/19
Label: Arrow Video
Genre: Horror
Language: English
Run Time: 97 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)

Man Of A Thousand Faces

James Cagney give a multifaceted portrayal of silent cinema legend Lon Chaney. In early horror classics such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of The Opera, Lon Chaney captivated audiences with his vivid personifications of grotesque characters. Despite his talent and success, Chaney led a life plagued by hardship and heartache. This film traces the trajectory of the actor’s career.

BLU-RAY
SKU: AA053
UPC: 760137290889
SRP: 34.95
Street Date: 10/29/19
PreBook Date: 09/24/19
Label: Arrow Academy
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Run Time: 122 mins
Hi-Res Cover Art (JPG)  High-res Cover Art (JPG)
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