[News] Arrow Video's March Lineup includes The Stylist!
Arrow Video is excited to announce the March 2021 lineup of their new subscription-based ARROW platform, now also available to UK subscribers, joining the US and Canada.
The March lineup blooms with the March 1 release of Jill Gevargizian's debut feature The Stylist. Based on Gevargizian's award-winning short of the same name, The Stylist reunites Gevargizian with the short's lead actor Najarra Townsend (Contracted, Wolf Mother). Townsend stars as Claire, a lonely hairstylist who becomes obsessed with her clients...to their peril. Brea Grant (After Midnight, director of 12 Hour Shift) joins the feature as Olivia, an unsuspecting bride who makes the deadly mistake of hiring Claire for her big day. The Stylist streams exclusively on ARROW in the US, Canada and the UK.
ARROW Stories will be home to a host of exclusive extras for The Stylist, including the original award-winning short, an introduction to the film by Gevargizian, behind the scenes featurettes and more, giving fans an insight into how the acclaimed thriller came together.
March will also see the ARROW bow of collected shorts from filmmakers Jim Cummings and Brian Lonano. The Brian Lonano Collection, Volume 1 drops March 1, featuring five shorts showcasing Lonano’s bizarre aesthetic and DIY effects: Crow Hand!!!, Gwilliam, BFF Girls, Gwilliam’s Tips for Turning Tricks into Treats and the exclusive premiere of The Devil's Asshole. Jim Cummings, fresh off the release of The Wolf of Snow Hollow, delights audiences with his early shorts starting March 15: The Minutes series, including Parent Teacher, Cory Comes to Xmas, The Stop, Marty Hearts Katie, Sundance-nominated The Robbery, Native Stand Up, as well as the short film Us Funny.
ARROW's curated Seasons begin March 1 with Traffic Was Murder, a collection of automotive annihilation to kick the month into high gear with Whiskey Mountain, Burst City, Pit Stop, Hitchhike to Hell and more joined by Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji, a month-long celebration of one of exploitation cinema’s greatest female stars featuring the Stray Cat Rock and Female Prisoner Scorpion films and more.
March 1 will also see the release of Japan's homages to H.G. Wells' classic character: The Invisible Man Appears (1949) and The Invisible Man Vs. the Human Fly (1957).
March 8 kicks off with Caught on Tape, films where a photograph or a security camera lead to nightmares: The El Duce Tapes, the Ringu series, Videoman, and Ivansxtc.
The Makeup Effects Masterclass begins March 12, a collection that highlights the goriest and most gruesome practical effects including Bride of Re-Animator, Doom Asylum and Inferno of Torture.
March closes out the month with the March 19th release of Marina Sargenti's Mirror, Mirror, starring Karen Black and Yvonne De Carlo, and on March 22, The Flower of Evil, Mata Hari H21, the animated Gulliver's Travels from 1939 and Madame Bovary, the Golden Globe nominated adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's seminal novel starring Isabelle Huppert as the doomed doctor's wife.
ARROW Essentials curates collections based on genre, decades and themes; and ARROW Stories takes a fresh look at the world of film and TV with exclusive documentaries, interviews and video essays diving deeper into the many curated seasons and titles on the platform for a richer and deeper viewing experience.
With a slickly designed and user-friendly interface, and an unparalleled roster of quality content from westerns to giallo to Asian cinema, trailers, Midnight Movies, filmmaker picks and much, much more, ARROW is the place to go for the very best in on-demand entertainment.
We all dream of being someone else… but for Claire (Townsend), that dream goes from an obsession to a living nightmare. Hairstylist by day, serial killer and collector of scalps by night, Claire’s lonely existence is thrown into turmoil when her regular client, Olivia (Grant), asks her to style her hair for her wedding day. Increasingly fixated on Olivia’s seemingly flawless life, Claire vows to lock up her scalp collection and change her ways for good – only to discover that repressing your deadly desires is easier said than done…