Arrow Video kicks off 2025 with Quentin Tarantino’s electrifying WWII thriller Inglourious Basterds on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray.
With an outstanding cast including Mélanie Laurent, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Diane Kruger, the film is brim-filled with shocking violence, thrilling action and excruciating suspense, and was a box office smash around the world, garnering eight Academy Award® nominations, with Christoph Waltz winning Best Supporting Actor for his star-making turn as the chilling SS Col. Hans Landa. Witness the war as it might have been in stunning 4K Ultra HD, packed with explosive extras, new interviews, video essays and archival featurettes. The release includes limited edition ‘Operation Kino’ packaging, a 60-page ‘Films & Filmmakers’ collector’s book, double-sided fold-out poster, replica Nation’s Pride Premiere programme booklet, beermat, art cards, strudel recipe card, and reversible sleeve.
Also lined up in January, The Usual Suspects on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray. Amidst the wave of neo-noir thrillers that swept American cinema in the 1990s, few films made as much impact as this hugely entertaining masterwork, which revolutionised the genre, won two Academy Awards® and is still regarded as one of the greatest crime films ever made. With an unforgettably twisty and tightly written Oscar-winning script by Christopher McQuarrie, and a cast including Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey and Benicio del Toro, The Usual Suspects is an unmissable entry in the canon of American indie cinema. With a new 4K restoration from the original negative, an audio commentary by the director and writer, deleted scenes, featurettes and trailers, the release includes a reversible sleeve, a collector’s booklet and poster.
Next in January, Rampo Noir on Limited Edition Blu-ray, with four filmmakers from completely different backgrounds bringing their radically personal takes to the stories of Japan’s celebrated master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, Blind Beast). Produced by the same team behind Ichi the Killer and Uzumaki, and with a cast featuring some of Japan’s top stars, including Tadanobu Asano (Maboroshi, Silence) and Ryuhei Matsuda (Blue Spring, Gohatto), Rampo Noir is a stylistic tour-de-force that vividly evokes the “erotic grotesque” worlds created by Japan’s pioneering proponent of horror and mystery fiction. The release includes new interviews, a brand new commentary, and a feature-length making-of documentary, and comes with a collector’s booklet and a reversible sleeve.
Arrow deliver the extraordinary in January, with the release of a once-thought-lost cult classic, Leslie Stevens’ unique monochrome marvel Incubus, beautifully restored on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray. Starring a pre-Star Trek William Shatner as a soldier encountering demonic seductresses, this is an eerie and unforgettable American folk horror from the creator of The Outer Limits. Scripted in the obscure Esperanto language, and stylishly filmed in Big Sur and other California locations by cinematographer (and future Academy Award winner) Conrad L. Hall, Incubus is a film unlike any other, now accompanied by hours of bonus features delving into the mysteries of this esoteric gem, and comes with a reversible sleeve and illustrated collector’s booklet.
Also in January, Tarsem Singh’s sublime, grotesque and visually sublime The Cell on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray. Singh’s debut feature starring Vincent D’Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket) and Jennifer Lopez (Out of Sight) delivers on the extraordinary artistry of his work in music videos and commercials as it takes the audience on a journey through the bizarre worlds inside the mind of a killer. With a script by Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend), and a supporting cast that includes Vince Vaughn (Brawl in Cell Block 99) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (In Fabric), The Cell is a gripping, edge-of-the-seat thriller, filled with jaw-dropping imagery that will entrance and unsettle in equal measure. The 2-disc UHD release includes brand new 4K restorations of both the 107-minute Theatrical Cut and the 109-minute Director’s Cut, new commentaries, archive commentaries, visual essays, and a bonus disc containing a previously unseen version of the film, and comes with an illustrated collector’s book, limited edition packaging, and a reversible sleeve.
Finally in January The Gift, where director Sam Raimi combined the spooky underpinnings of his early work with his newly proven talent for handling powerful drama in a supernatural thriller, coaxing nuanced performances from a star-studded cast to bring a gripping script by Billy Bob Thornton & Tom Epperson (One False Move) to life. With a cast including Cate Blanchett, Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves and Hilary Swank, and made right before a certain web-slinger finally catapulted Raimi from the cult fringes onto Hollywood’s A-list, The Gift is an underappreciated but vital entry in his filmography that is ripe for reappraisal with this brand new 4K remaster. With new commentaries and interviews, it comes with an illustrated collector’s booklet, a reversible sleeve, and a double-sided poster, and is available on Limited Edition 4K UHD and Limited Edition Blu-ray.
All of the titles above can be pre-ordered on the Arrow website.
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