Arrow Films

City of the Living Dead (Arrow)

There was a time when horror films pushed against the boundaries of what the mainstream press laughably referred to as “good taste” and earned and invoked the ire of hundreds of thousands of morally uptight…



Edge of the Axe (Arrow Films)

Arrow Films, with the re-release of cult 80’s slasher Edge of the Axe, have taken us back to a simpler time. Since the original release of these type of movies, audiences have become more sophisticated…






The Voices

The Voices (Arrow Films) Do not be concerned to see Ryan Reynolds name headlining this blackly comic psychological horror, because this is more a tour de force turn in keeping with his ‘Buried’ role than…


Society

Society (Arrow Video) The late Eighties grist mill churned out so many shocking horror films – many of them shockingly bad, it has to be said – it took something that was a different shade…


Return to Sender

Return to Sender (Arrow) No, this isn’t an Elvis biopic (unfortunately), it’s a quietly lurid rape/revenge potboiler. Without dropping too many spoilers, a nurse is raped in her own home by a stranger, and then,…


The Long Good Friday

The Long Good Friday (Arrow Films) Decades before ‘Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels’ and ‘Snatch’, there was the eminently quotable  ‘The Long Good Friday’, a British gangster film with both heart and bollocks. Central to…