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Mercedes Bryce Morgan’s third film is a fascinating mash of genres that keeps its audience guessing. On the face of it, the 2024 picture is a punchy entry in the brewing Airbnb horror subgenre popularised by films like 2020’s The Rental and 2022’s Barbarian. Horror fans, however, may be surprised at how well they take to an opening hour of mystery that unravels as an awkward romantic drama before things take a dramatic turn...

Director’s Cut - Director’s Cut (VOD) [Miracle Media - 2025]

A band’s disappearance in spring 2024 is the springboard for Director’s Cut, a slasher from writer-director Don Capria.

A former band manager, Capria was inspired by filming a music video for a metal band to craft this warning for bands ready to sacrifice everything for fame. He may dodge the idea of a Faustian pact, but by the end, you may think he also has something to say about directors...

If Detonation! Violent Riders (Bakuhatsu! Boso zoku) isn’t the coolest-looking biker film, it’s close. Although it's fantastic shots of riders and an all-too-cool lead combine with an exploitative approach to sex and violence..

The Betrayal - The Betrayal (Blu Ray) [Radiance Films - 2025]

The Betrayal, originally released in 1966, is an evocative and stylish Samurai film that defies expectations. Director Tokuzo Tanaka, a former assistant to legendary helmer of Samurai classics, Akira Kurosawa, stepped out from the shadows with this jidaigeki (period drama). While it may not have afforded him the same fame as Kurosawa, certainly outside Japan, The Betrayal is a must-watch for fans of the swordplay genre...

Director-cinematographer Jonathan Zaurin weaves two sides of a violent crime to explore trauma and grief in his compelling 2024 revenge thriller, Derelict.

It’s a confident film that explores the effects of one brutal crime from two sides. One half follows two dissimilar brothers as they build up to a murder and then suffer the consequences. The other tracks the painful journey of the victim’s grief-ridden daughter...

Sitting in the subgenre of folk horror, 2023's The Seeding is a barren, intense film that puts its protagonist through the wringer. Here on the Arrow Video Player is a VOD release of the film. The Seeding is the first full-length film from Barnaby Clay, who wrote/ directed it. Before this, he had fifteen credits, taking in music videos & shorts. It sits in the legacy of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other Southern Gothic movies...

2011's Rural Gothic Horror Jacob is a relatively straightforward take on the slasher genre, where a disturbed, mistreated and misunderstood figure becomes a local bogeyman. Written, directed, and produced by Larry Wade Carrell, his additional involvement in taking not one but two roles on screen leaves us in no doubt that Jacob is very much his film. Here's a recent Blu-ray release of the picture from Crazed House.

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With his punning stage name, New Jersey resident Bill Zebub has achieved cult notoriety for his promotion of independent movies of dubious taste and heavy metal. If you’re a fan of both, this Blu-ray release of his 2014 horror might be a passable hour and a half.
It’s hard to say which came first, the riff on the name of the 1980 Italian horror Cannibal Holocaust...

Dachra comes to Arrow Player with an impressive pedigree. The Tunisian horror was chosen as the closing film for International Critics' Week at the 2018 Venice International Film Festival and won the Scariest Film Award at The Overlook Film Festival the following year.
It certainly wears its horror credentials on its sleeve, packed as it is with nods and homages to occidental horror movies, from Don’t Look Now to The Woman in Black...