The lineup starts with fireworks on July 4 with Cruel Summer (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN).
Sun’s out, screams out. The days are long, the nights are deadly, and in this scorching selection of summer-set shockers, the temperature quickly rises.
From lakeside slashers to beachside bloodbaths, Cruel Summer is a collection of twisted stories where the season of freedom turns fatal. So grab your backpack and say your goodbyes, because this summer is going to be murder!
Titles Include: Deadly Manor, Slaughterhouse, Mako: The Jaws of Death.
Also debuting on July 4 are two very different films about women on a mission.
The World of Kanako (US/ CAN): When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Starfish (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN): With reality rapidly fraying at the edges, Aubrey finds herself following a string of clues left by her friend. Clues that will unlock the secrets of The Signal and could end up either saving the world… or condemning it.
On July 11, North American subscribers can enjoy a pair of chilling titles about isolated characters whose worlds shrink and twist even further.
Tower. A Bright Day. (US/ CAN): Mula lives with her husband, daughter and ailing mother in the country. Just before her daughter’s First Holy Communion, Mula’s long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.
Ladyworld (US/ CAN): After a catastrophic event, eight girls find themselves stranded in a house without electricity. As they run out of food and water, their sanity begins to crumble, and soon they regress to their baser instincts.
On July 14, the theme of the day is robbery!
Deacon (short) (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN): Deacon is an introspective thief who finds jobs through his best friend and accomplice, Patrick. Their discrete operation takes a sudden turn when Deacon uncovers a mysterious photograph that leads him to a distant admirer, Vanessa. Together they plan to rob an ominous house. Unbeknownst to them, it contains malignant energy.
Medusa (US/ CAN): By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection. By night, they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets of Brazil in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, Mari is forced to reflect on her actions and confront her paralyzing inner demons.
On July 18, step into the ARROW archives with Ted Geoghegan Selects (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN).
Ted Geoghegan, the writer/director of We Are Still Here (starring horror icon Barbara Crampton), Mohawk (starring Kaniehtiio Horn), and Brooklyn 45 (starring Anne Ramsay), walks through the ARROW vault and selects his favorite slashers.
“Growing up an 80s “slasher kid”, I was a huge fan of the studio franchises – but as I dug deeper into the genre, I was over the moon with the litany of fantastic titles that had snuck past me. Slasher cinema is more varied than almost any other sub-genre of horror, and picking out something that fits one’s mood is amazingly easy, given the wild variety out there.
Below are lesser-known slasher favorites of mine, each with their own particular vibe, specific sleaze, and buckets of that silly, over-the-top violence that fans of the genre have come to expect and love.”
Titles Include: Terminal Exposure, The Coming of Sin, Dark August.
On July 21, in a stunning new 4K restoration, get overcome by The Stuff (UK/ IRE/ US/ CAN), exclusively on ARROW.
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 of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria… Young Jason seems to be the only one who doesn’t love The Stuff – in fact, he won’t go anywhere near it, after having seen the pudding crawling around the fridge one night. What’s more, everyone who eats The Stuff has started acting really weird… Now, teaming up with wise-cracking industrial saboteur Mo, Jason must put a stop to The Stuff and the organisation behind it or face a gooey, gloopy demise.
The lineup concludes July 28 with a hair-raising crowd pleaser, Shaky Shivers (US/ CAN).
Bitten by a mysterious creature, Lucy believes she’ll become a werewolf. With her best friend by her side, they face a throat-slashing creature in this campy adventure filled with magic and mayhem.
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