J-Horror Season at Arrow Streaming Service UK

Date: 2024 October 19 10:45

Posted by Joe

It's October so it's that spooky time of year again. To celebrate the good folks from Arrow have sent us details of their J-Horror month available on their streaming service (or should we say screaming service?) in the UK. They'll be showing seven scary films. They range in different themes of scary, from childhood trauma, deadly curses and even some yokai.

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Press release as follows:

SEVEN OF JAPAN'S MUST-SEE HORRIFIC AND TERRIFYING FILMS COME TO ARROW

This month exclusively streaming on ARROW in the UK, seven seriously scary films from the wave of horror and mystery that emerged in Japan at the turn of the millennium, collectively labelled as 'J-Horror' featuring childhood trauma, urban legends, high school hysteria, deadly curses and folklore demons!

The films included in the J-Horror Rising collection are Shikoku, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Inugami, St. John's Wort, Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman, Noroi: The Curse, and Persona.



Vengeful ghosts returning from beyond the grave, young women with supernatural abilities, investigative narratives, a terror of technology, and an ominous aura of urban alienation and isolation mark the wave of horror and mystery films that emerged in Japan at the turn of the millennium, collectively labelled as "J-Horror" J-Horror Rising presents seven of the genre's most distinctive titles.

CARVED: THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN

Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman features the titular predatory murderess drawn from urban legend, where it turns out home isn't the safest place for her potential child victims in this disturbing supernatural horror.

INUGAMI

A teacher from Tokyo finds himself drawn to a local papermaker, only to find himself the subject of some hostility from her extended family, who have long ties to the region and are rumoured to be the descendants of the guardians of ancient evil canine spirits.


ISOLA: MULTIPLE PERSONALITY GIRL

The aftermath of the devastating Kobe Earthquake of 1995 creates fissures in the already fractured mind of a high-school girl in Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, allowing an unwelcome intruder to set up home in her head and leaving a volunteer worker with psychic powers to determine which of her personas is the fake one.


NOROI: THE CURSE

The chilling Noroi: The Curse adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon.

SHIKOKU

In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku , a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region's famous pilgrimage - but why is she walking backwards?


ST. JOHN'S WORT

Megumi Okina (Ju-On: The Grudge) plays the art designer for a horror-themed videogame in the innovative St. John's Wort, who is forced to confront her childhood traumas when her colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from the creepy gothic mansion she has inherited from her estranged artist father.

PERSONA

A new craze for wearing ceramic masks sweeps the students of a high school, unleashing a wave of anonymous juvenile delinquency amongst the literal fashion-victims of Persona, which boasts early appearances from Battle Royale stars Tatsuya Fujiwara and Chiaki Kuriyama.

J-Horror Rising will be available on ARROW and in Limited Edition Blu-Ray from 28th October.

OCTOBER RELEASE CALENDAR

From October 4

• Sator - 2021
• Come True - 2020

From October 11

• Broadcast Signal Intrusion - 2022
• Rent-A-Pal - 2020

From October 18

• Slumber Party Massacre - 2021
• King Knight - 2022

From October 25

• Werewolf - 2020
• We Forgot About The Zombies - 2022
• Blood Shed - 2017
• Strange Creatures - 2024

From October 28

• Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman - 2007
• Inugami - 2001
• Isola: Multiple Personality Girl - 2000
• Noroi: The Curse - 2005
• Shikoku - 1999
• St. John's Wort - 2001
• Persona - 2000

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About ARROW

From Arrow Films, a recognised world-leader in curation and creation, ARROW is a premium platform giving you an unparalleled viewing experience across multiple devices, so you can explore the films and TV shows that the Arrow brand is famous for.

Specially curated by members of the ARROW team, ARROW will be home to premium film and TV entertainment, exclusive new premieres, cutting edge cinema, international classics and cult favourites - such as the works of Lars Von Trier, Brian De Palma, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg and Park Chan-wook - plus the very best in acclaimed TV series, including The Bridge and Italian crime series Gomorrah, and brand-new short films from both new and established filmmakers. In the coming months, ARROW will be adding Oscar-winning hits, European classics, Asian cinema masterworks, rediscovered Westerns, offbeat gems and much more, along with such festival favourites The Sacred Spirit and Dinner in America as part of ARROW's international strategy to support and celebrate the medium of film.

ARROW will also be home to ARROW Stories - an ever-growing collection of interviews, trailers, documentaries and additional extras, newly created just for the service and from its extensive archives. The service will be updated regularly with fresh content, new curation focuses and never-before-seen content, all selected by the ARROW team as well as the filmmakers themselves. With a slickly designed and user-friendly interface ARROW is the new alternative place to go for the very best in On-Demand entertainment.

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