By WILLIAM J. WRIGHT
Spring is here at last and with the arrival of warmer weather, Arrow Video, the home of cult cinema, is bringing fans a bloomin’ crop of genre favorites, including a Lucio Fulci classic in stunning 4K, haunted houses galore, a selection of shockers curated by filmmakers Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer (Starry Eyes, 2019’s Pet Sematary) and a pernicious pair of bloody, woman-centric revenge thrillers, all courtesy of its premium streaming platform Arrow Player.
If things that go bump in the night are your cup of tea, Arrow has a springtime treat for you with its “Most Haunted” collection, a series of films focusing on ghostly encounters and horrifying paranormal entities. Anchoring this chilling lineup is the Arrow exclusive release I Will Never 
Leave You Alone from writer-director DW Medoff. Kenneth Trujillo stars as Richard, a recently released ex-con with a shady past who’s tasked with spending six days in a crumbling (and allegedly haunted) house. If he can clear the home of evil, he leaves with $5,000. Failure means he returns to prison but staying may have far more devastating consequences. Other newly added “Most Haunted” titles include the Arrow original A Ghost Waits and the atmospheric 1969 thriller Double Face from Italian auteur and horror pioneer Riccardo Freda.
Murder, mayhem and magic rule the season of rebirth as Arrow Player presents Mirror, Mirror, starring genre faves Karen Black (Trilogy of Terror) and Yvonne DeCarlo (The Munsters), and its sequel Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance, which features the film debut of MCU fixture Mark Ruffalo. Grisly goings-on ensue when hapless victims run afoul of a demonically possessed antique looking glass in these supernatural tales from the ’90s.
The filmmaking duo of Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer makes its mark on the streamer with their personal picks. The longtime Arrow fans and horror wunderkinds’ selection includes The Gore Gore Girls, a bloody 1972 classic from the master Herschell Gordon Lewis, and two from indie icon Jim Van Bebber, his debut feature Deadbeat at Dawn and the brutal 1994 short My Sweet Satan.
The day of the woman arrives on March 31, when Meir Zarchi’s notorious rape-revenge video nasty I Spit on Your Grave and its 2019 direct sequel I Spit On Your Grave: Déjà Vu (which reunites Zarchi with the original’s star, Camille Keaton) lands on the cult streamer.
Arrow rounds out its March slate with three shockers from the decade of decadence: horror comedy Blood Theatre (1984), starring B-movie matriarch Mary Woronov; Mausoleum, featuring forgotten scream queen Bobbi Breese (1983); and hicksploitation slasher Slaughterhouse (1987).
However, the crown jewel of Arrow Player’s March mayhem is its stunning 4K release of Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972), premiering on March 24. A disturbing Giallo from the “Godfather of Gore,” Lucio Fulci, Don’t Torture a Duckling stars Tomas Milian (The Four of the Apocalypse) as Andrea Martelli, a big city reporter who teams with spoiled rich girl Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet of The Red Queen Kills Seven Times) to get to the bottom of a series of heinous murders plaguing an isolated Italian village. One of Fulci’s greatest and most shocking films, it rivals even Dario Argento’s best.
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