2025 Arrow Releases

[beamish14]

Not that I was going to purchase this either way, but Jason Goes To Hell has got to be one of the ugliest horror film posters I've seen. The giant penis-y monster just would scream to me "stay far away from this film" both now and in 90s.

I’ll never forget passing by a billboard with it every day for at least 2 months in Santa Monica. It’s pretty amazing that it got approved by New Line’s marketing department

[colinr0380]

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Ironically its big scene does involve it doing exactly what you would imagine it does to an unconscious Erin Gray.

That's perhaps the most iffy moment of the film, but a lot of the rest of the film has a kind of nasty-toned approach to its characters. The initial gross out moment of the coroner having the inexplicable munchies for Jason's heart comes to mind. As does the weird attempt at comedy(?) of the bounty hunter progressively breaking the individual fingers of the main character's hand when he gets questions wrong. That leaves nobody left to really root for in the film, which even at their worst all the other films managed to do to some extent.

[colinr0380]

Re-watching this on my old recorded from television tape, I was rather taken with the impressive use of blank space in the film. Even without it being a full widescreen production a lot of the characters are framed in such a way that they are on the margins of the frame and there are large amounts of clinically empty space surrounding them. Figures framed off-centre against white walls that are both antiseptically impersonal and psychologically blank (much as they were at the endings of both Psycho and The Boston Strangler). Also (and I don't know how different the director's cut will be from the television version I have) I love the bookending usage of the helicopter to begin and end the film, with the knowledge of where it comes into play in the story enhancing the impact of that framing device. Plus it uses the Goldberg Variations seventeen years before they turn up as another serial killer's motif in The Silence of the Lambs! I wonder if that could actually have been a conscious reference back to The Terminal Man, given that it also involves a main female authority figure somewhat awkwardly being the surrogate for the audience into empathising with the mind of a killer, when the killer themselves does not (could not even if they wanted to) show signs of remorse for their actions!

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4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original lossless stereo and DTS-HD 5.1 surround audio options
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell
Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Mark Bell
Double Deuce coaster
Collector’s booklet featuring original production notes

DISC ONE – FEATURE AND EXTRAS (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
Audio commentary with director Rowdy Herrington
Audio commentary with Road House fans Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier
A Conversation with Director Rowdy Herrington, an interview with the director about the genesis and making of the film
‘Pretty Good for a Blind White Boy’: The Music of Road House, a featurette on Michael Kamen’s score and blues musician Jeff Healey’s performance in the film
Remembering Patrick Swayze, a tribute to Road House’s iconic lead actor
On the Road House, a featurette where cast and crew members look back on the film’s success
Patrick Swayze Profile featurette
Original theatrical trailer
Image gallery

DISC TWO – EXTRAS (BLU-RAY)
I Did It My Way, an interview with second unit director and stunt coordinator Charlie Picerni
Henchman #2, an interview with actor and stuntman Anthony De Longis
Blonde Ambitions, an interview with actor Laura Lee Kasten
Fightin’ Man, an interview with actor Roger Hewlett
Ain’t Nothing Gonna Kill Me but Me, an interview with actor Travis McKenna
Pain Don’t Hurt: The Stunts of Road House, a featurette on the stunts seen in the film
What Would Dalton Do?, a featurette where professional bouncers show their appreciation for the film
Selected interview soundbites
On the Set, archival behind-the-scenes footage

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4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

4K Ultra HD (2160p) Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original lossless stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio options
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary by director Dominic Sena
Soundtrack Hacker, a brand new interview with composer Paul Oakenfold
How to Design a Tech Heist, a brand new interview with production designer Jeff Mann
HBO First Look: Swordfish, a promotional behind-the-scenes featurette
Effects in Focus: The Flying Bus, a promotional featurette detailing how the film’s iconic climactic scene was created
Planet Rock Club Reel, a music video by the film’s co-composer Paul Oakenfold
Swordfish: In Conversation, a promotional featurette with interviews from cast and crew members including actors Hugh Jackman, John Travolta, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Sam Shepard, director Dominic Sena, and producer Joel Silver
Two alternate endings
Theatrical trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Priscilla Page and an article from American Cinematographer about the film’s opening sequence

[beamish14]

The only really notable thing about this movie is a bus being transported by helicopter, which was used in all the promotional images of Thom Anderson’s Los Angeles Plays Itself. It has some laughably stupid moments, but it’s mostly just dull. Sam Shepard’s character does virtually nothing

[JamesF]

Not sure how it got missed off the announcement copy, but our edition does include the documentary ‘I Thought You’d Be Bigger’: The Making of Road House, which will be on Disc 1.

[brundlefly]

Don't know if it was forbidden by conflict because he contributed an essay to Vinegar Syndrome's limited edition release, but it would be nice to see Sean T. Collins' name somewhere on this.

[colinr0380]

I would not entirely agree. Halle Berry brings a couple of things to one scene in particular! As well as engaging in a rather unorthodox distraction move at one point!

But yes I seem to remember a lot of the more memorable scenes being front loaded (oo-er!) in the film. The most notable shot of all being that (spoiler? Even though the film itself spoils it by putting it at the very beginning of the film and then flashing back from it. Weirdly that exact same structure turns up in Mission: Impossible III a few years later, that also involves the main character failing to save a supporting female character, so I suspect Swordfish exerted a structural influence there. Its also something you can probably trace all the way back to the traumatic opening scene of the Stallone Cliffhanger film too), slow motion explosion move that is obviously trying to outdo the Matrix films.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

The Los Angeles Plays Itself cameo is the second thing I remember this movie for. Being a teenage boy at the time of release, the number one thing I remember this for was how Halle Barry was paid a million dollars to go topless for a second in this movie. I also will never forget the endless shame of seeing this in the theater and having to sit next to my dad while

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Hugh Jackman gets a blowjob at the same time he's supposed to be doing awesome hacker stuff because it's some sort of challenge (or voyeuristic thing?).

[colinr0380]

Speaking of L.A. locations, I'm not entirely certain but is the location of Hugh Jackman's trailer with its oil well outside it the same location that the Beastie Boys video Hey Ladies starts off in?

[nicolas]

Not sure how it got missed off the announcement copy, but our edition does include the documentary ‘I Thought You’d Be Bigger’: The Making of Road House, which will be on Disc 1.

James, did Arrow by any chance undertake a re-grade of the VS master and tone down some of the reddish skin tones? Thanks!

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4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

• Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original 35mm negative by Arrow Films
• 4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original lossless stereo 2.0, 4.0 and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by film critics Kim Newman and Nick de Semlyen
• Brand new audio commentary by film scholars Josh Nelson and Martyn Pedler
• Archive audio commentary by director George P. Cosmatos (1998)
• TV version of the film featuring deleted and alternate scenes, presented for the first time on home video (standard definition only)
• Slashing the Night Away, a new interview with composer Sylvester Levay
• Dark Glasses, Violence & Robots, a new visual essay by film critic Abbey Bender on Cobra and 80s maximalist cinema
• White Line Nightmare, a new visual essay by film critic Martyn Conterio on Cobra and the “Maverick Cop” genre
• Stalking and Slashing, an archive interview with actor Brian Thompson
• Meet the Disease, an archive interview with actor Marco Rodriguez
• Feel the Heat, an archive interview with actor Andrew Robinson
• Double Crossed, an archive interview with actor Lee Garlington
• A Work of Art, an archive interview with actor Art LaFleur
• The Making of Cobra, 1986 featurette
• Trailers and TV spots
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket
• Illustrated collector’s booklet containing new writing on the film by film critics Clem Bastow, William Bibbiani, Priscilla Page, and Ariel Schudson
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tommy Pocket

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LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
High-Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of both films
Original lossless stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio options for both films
Optional English subtitles for both films
Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork for both films by Peter Strain
Double-sided foldout poster featuring newly commissioned artwork for both films by Peter Strain
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by Eva Novrup Redvall

DISC ONE - NIGHTWATCH
Audio commentary by writer-director Ole Bornedal
Not Afraid of the Darkness, a newly filmed interview with director of photography Dan Laustsen
Death in Denmark, an appreciation of Nightwatch and Nightwatch: Demons are Forever by film critic and Nordic Noir specialist Barry Forshaw
Nightwatch making-of documentary
Trailer

DISC TWO - NIGHTWATCH: DEMONS ARE FOREVER
How the Nightwatch Films Explore the Horrors of Adulthood, a brand-new video essay by film critic Heather Wixson
Life (and Death) on Mars: Public and Private Life in the Nightwatch Universe, a brand-new video essay by film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Trailer

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Two married couples collide in Chris Skotchdopole's beautifully shot and wonderfully wild Crumb Catcher, a truly unique and darkly funny home invasion thriller from the stable of Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix (The House of the Devil, The Ranger, Depraved).

After blacking out during his wedding night, Shane (Rigo Garay) and his new wife, Leah (Ella Rae Peck), head to a remote house for their honeymoon. Their plans to find wedded bliss are hampered when there is a knock at their door. It's the waiter, John (John Speredakos), and the bartender, Rose (Lorraine Farris), from the reception blackmailing Shane for something he can't remember doing. As tensions escalate, it soon emerges that the blackmailers don't just want money. They're after business partners for their invention, a revolutionary device called... The Crumb Catcher.

With terrific performances by the entire ensemble cast, this absurdist and satirical peek under the tablecloth is a chilling, yet hilarious, ode to the failure of the American Dream and "an insanely impressive directorial debut" (Collider) from writer-director Chris Skotchdopole, highlighted as one of the Best Horror Films of 2024 by The Hollywood Reporter.

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

High-Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
Original 5.1 surround sound audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new commentary by writer-director Chris Skotchdopole, recorded exclusively for Arrow Video in 2025
Catching Crumbs: The Making of Crumb Catcher, a 38-minute behind-the-scenes, featuring interviews with the film's cast and crew, created exclusively for Arrow Video
The Egg and the Hatchet (2016), a short film by Chris Skotchdopole starring Taylor Zaudtke and Jeremy Gardner (21 mins)
Camp Out (2010), a short film by Chris Skotchdopole (13 mins)
Original trailer
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring an introduction by producer Larry Fessenden and new writing on the film by Richard Newby and Tori Potenza
Reversible sleeve featuring original artwork by Tessa Price and Sister Hyde

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LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
Brand new restoration from the original 35mm negative by Arrow Films
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray™ presentation
Original lossless stereo audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary by director Peter Manoogian with film critics Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Josh Nelson
Den of Vampires, a newly filmed interview with cinematographer Ernest Dickerson
Giving up the Ghost, a newly filmed interview with actor Gary Frank
Theatrical trailer
Image gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley
Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Laurie Greasley
Illustrated collector's booklet containing new writing by film critics Paul Lê and Martyn Conterio

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4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original DTS-HD MA 7.1 and 5.1 surround audio and lossless stereo audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary with Dread Central co-founder Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton and co-host of The Spooky Picture Show podcast Chris MacGibbon
Archival audio commentary with director Marcus Nispel, producer Michael Bay, executive producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form and New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye
Archival audio commentary with Marcus Nispel, director of photography Daniel Pearl, production designer Greg Blair, art director Scott Gallager, sound supervisor Trevor Jolly and composer Steve Jablonsky
Archival audio commentary with Marcus Nispel, Michael Bay, writer Scott Kosar, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form and actors Jessica Biel, Erica Leerhsen, Eric Balfour Jonathan Tucker, Mike Vogel and Andrew Bryniarski
Reimagining a Classic, a brand new interview with director Marcus Nispel
Shadows of Yesteryear, a brand new interview with cinematographer Daniel Pearl
The Lost Leatherface, a brand new interview with actor Brett Wagner
Masks and Massacres, a brand new interview with makeup effects artist Scott Stoddard
Chainsaw Symphony, a brand new interview with composer Steve Jablonsky
Chainsaw Redux: Making A Massacre, a making-of documentary
Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield, an in-depth look at the infamous killer who inspired the character of Leatherface
Severed Parts, a look at the cutting room floor and some of the scenes excised from the final edit
Deleted scenes including an alternate opening and ending
Screen tests for Jessica Biel, Eric Balfour and Erica Leerhsen
Behind-the-scenes featurette
Cast and crew interviews
Theatrical trailers and TV spots
Concept art galleries
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Gingold

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4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of both the Theatrical Version and the Uncut Version
Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 audio on the Theatrical Version and DTS-HD MA 7.1, 5.1 and 2.0 audio on the Uncut Version
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both cuts
Brand new audio commentary on the Uncut Version with Dread Central co-founder Steve "Uncle Creepy" Barton and co-host of The Spooky Picture Show podcast Chris MacGibbon
Archival audio commentary on the Uncut Version with director Jonathan Liebesman and producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller
Hoyt, Actually, a brand new interview with actor Lew Temple
Original Skins: KNB FX, a brand new interview with special effects makeup artist Jake Garber and special effects makeup technician Kevin Wasner
Light and Sawdust, a brand new interview with director of photography Lukas Ettlin
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel, an archival making-of documentary featuring many interviews with cast and crew members
Deleted and extended scenes with optional commentary from director Jonathan Liebesman and producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller
Theatrical trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
Double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Aaron Lea
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Gingold

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4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Ocean View, a brand-new interview with director of photography John Seale
Big Sets for Big-Time Directors, a brand new interview with production designer William Sandell
Surfing the VFX Wave, a brand new interview with visual effects supervisor Boyd Shermis
Bringing Out the Dead, a brand new interview with make-up effects on-set supervisor Michael Deak
Set a Course for Adventure, a brand new retrospective on the film by Heath Holland
Poseidon: A Ship on a Soundstage, a featurette looking at the film's production featuring interviews with cast and crew
Poseidon: Upside Down, a featurette exploring the film's challenging set design
A Shipmate's Diary, a featurette following production assistant Malona Voigt on the set of Poseidon
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacey
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Priscilla Page

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LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new audio commentary by writer-director Jennifer Reeder and director of photography Sevdije Kastrati
Perpetrator: Mirrors and the Monstrous Womb, a brand new video essay by filmmaker Jen Handorf
On-set cast interviews with Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone, Melanie Liburd and Christopher Lowell
Screenplay (2024), a music video for Aitis, directed by Jennifer Reeder
Tiny Baby (2024), a music video for Joan of Arc, directed by Jennifer Reeder
Three short films directed by Jennifer Reeder: All Small Bodies (2018, 20 mins); I Dream You Dream of Me (2018, 11 mins); LOLA, 15 (2017, 5 mins)
Original trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options by Creepy Duck Design and Duke Aber / Shudder
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Kat Hughes and Marianne Lampon

[colinr0380]

Of course The Poseidon Adventure is by far the better film but this does have one interesting addition in the form of the Richard Dreyfuss character. Although to say why involves a Deep Blue Sea-style enormous spoiler:

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Dreyfuss is introduced as an older gay guy who is coming to terms with being single and alone on what should be a romantic cruise liner voyage. In the early opulent dining room scene we see him eyeing up the (much younger) waiter. When they both survive the initial disaster, that suggests that at least some kind of burgeoning relationship might come out of this situation. But that ends in perhaps the most brutal death of either of the films. Which is both horrific in the moment but also in mulling over the implications too, of the horrible pragmatism of having to choose survival at any cost.

That is really the highlight of the film in terms of drama (I seem to remember exchanging Gene Hackman's existentially tormented Priest for Kurt Russell's harried dad interfering too much and having a conflict with Josh Lucas as his daughter's boyfriend was not a particularly novel idea, and it plays out much as you could imagine - it is Armageddon, basically), but if you are OK with a fair amount of dodgy CGI, there are some good setpiece moments.

[feihong]

Oh, nice. I liked this movie quite a bit.

[Jerion]

Hadn't heard of I Will Never Leave You Alone until now. The premise reminds me a bit of Session 9, where the location itself and the characters’ past feed into each other. Curious to see how Medoff blends the psychological with the supernatural, especially with that setup around a mysterious company and the “cleansing” angle.

[yoshimori]

"This Limited Edition release also includes Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s 2022 feature film Goliath, available for the very first time in the UK."

For me, Goliath is the superior film in this release. It does what most Yerzhanov films do - wrap nihilism and its cousin, absurdism, with art film aesthetics in some genre trappings - but does it more successfully than Steppenwolf does. The 2022 movie is the quieter one, so its ultra violence shocks by contrast. The 2024 film (bigger budget, bigger everything, non-stop violence) feels forced, and Berik Aitzhanov, who's perfectly fine in the earlier movie in which all he has to do is drag himself from place to place, can't pull off the pathos or the comedy that the more mainstream actioner requires.

Yerzhanov is one of today's top directors, iyam. He's young (42) and prolific (over a dozen features already). He's already made one great movie: A Dark, Dark Man (2019), a horrifying murder mystery played as deadpan comedy. Goliath is a slow-burning revenge story, and, though not as overtly engaging as A Dark, Dark Man, may be his next most aesthetically unified work.

A Dark, Dark Man Trailer
Goliath Trailer

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4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by Arrow Films approved by director Stephen Hopkins
4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio and lossless stereo audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Archive audio commentary with director Stephen Hopkins and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
Archive audio commentary with visual effects supervisors Angus Bickerton and Lauren Ritchie, director of photography Peter Levy, editor Ray Lovejoy, and producer Carla Fry
A Space Odyssey, a newly filmed interview with director Stephen Hopkins
Lights in the Sky, a newly filmed interview with director of photography Peter Levy
A Journey Through Time, a newly filmed interview with producer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman
Art of Space, a newly filmed interview with supervising art director Keith Pain
Crafting Reality, a newly filmed interview with Kenny Wilson, former mould shop supervisor at Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Sound of Space, a newly filmed interview with sound mixer Simon Kaye and re-recording mixer Robin O'Donohue
Lost But Not Forgotten in Space, a new video essay by film critic Matt Donato
Deleted scenes
Building the Special Effects, an archival featurette with visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton and animatics supervisor Mac Wilson
The Future of Space Travel, an archival featurette exploring the film's vision of the future
TV Years, a Q&A with the original cast of the TV series
Bloopers
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Pye Parr
Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by critic Neil Sinyard, articles from American Cinematographer and an excerpt from the original production notes