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Founded in 1991 as a family firm in Hertfordshire, Arrow Films started its Arrow Video imprint in 2009 for cult and horror titles and began releasing in North America in 2015. Its catalogue spans genre, world cinema and arthouse, usually with new restorations, commissioned artwork and heavy extras. The Toy Robot Video sub-label, launched in September 2026, handles lower-priced mainstream and cult releases.

Also known as: Toy Robot

Aliases: arrow, trv, toy robot

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Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Theatrical Cut: 2020 Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: 2013 Arrow Blu-ray

Director: Carl Colpaert

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow US/UK Blu-ray

Best Audio:

US New World VHS

Additional Info:

Arrow US/Britain Blu-ray has dupe-y sounding music from optical elements. The VHS has much better-sounding audio from the original magnetic sources.

Director: Godfrey Reggio

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> Criterion

Additional Info:

Criterion has more extras

Director: Tony Randel

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Director: Terence Davies

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow US ≈ BFI UK

Director: Rob Reiner

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray releasing December 14 2026

Director: Dominique Othenin-Girard

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray possibly teased?

Video Notes:

> Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

TV series

Best English-Friendly & Video:

TV Cuts: 2016 Arrow Blu-ray

Extended Cuts of Eps 5 & 6: 2016 Criterion Blu-ray

Best Audio:

TV Cuts: WB PL DVD

A Short Film About Killing: 2004 Kino Lorber DVD

Director: John Woo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Imprint 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow has a different grade and a better encode, though the difference in either is not major.

Best Audio:

Original mix: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (similar to Criterion LaserDisc, but less distorted)

Alternate mix: Scanbox Nordic PAL DVD

Surround remix: HK Video France 4K Blu-ray (5.0)

Audio Notes:

Arrow used the alternate mix, but with extra filtering and lowered dynamic range. The alternate mix has much better fidelity.

Additional Info:

Arrow has a much better translation.

Arrow LE has the Taiwan Extended Cut which will not be present on the standard edition.

Director: Steve De Jarnatt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Either the 2015 Kino Lorber Blu-ray or the Arrow Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

The 2024 Kino Lorber Blu-ray is botched.

Director: Rowdy Herrington

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray has better color grading, DV, and the best encoding.

Capelight 4K Blu-ray has good encode with the same color grade as Vinegar Syndrome.
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray has mediocre encode and over-saturated skin tones.

Audio Notes:

Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray has the best sounding original stereo mix; Capelight 4K Blu-ray audio is clipped; Arrow 4K Blu-ray is filtered.

Director: Michael Lehmann

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1996 Lumivision LaserDisc

Director: Woody Allen

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Arrow slightly better than US

Director: John Woo

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> US Shout! Factory, better encoding by Engine House and redone opening credits, errors present in Shout! Factory fixed

Audio Notes:

Mono is from an alternate higher fidelity source than Shout! Factory.

Director: Rob Reiner

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · instagram.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> US Kino Lorber/Germany Capelight - caps and audio comparison on this page. Discussion is still ongoing about the 2.0 but as none of the three 4Ks seem to have the true original mix, I think it's fair to leave them all in the blue tier for now and only note that Kino Lorber has the worst PQ.

Best Audio:

Nelson Entertainment USA LaserDisc

Additional Info:

The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.

Director: William Peter Blatty

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow/Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Stereo mix: Arrow has the 2023 restored mix and the original theatrical mix

5.1 mix: Shout! Factory has a improved 5.1 mix, the Arrow has a inferior and older remix

Director: Clive Barker

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Cabal Cut: Very rare Blu-ray self-released by Clive Barker

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray > Shout! Factory see caps

Cabal Cut: Very rare Blu-ray self-released by Clive Barker

Best Audio:

Theatrical Cut: Arrow 4K Blu-ray (stereo), Warner Bros NTSC DVD (5.1 remix)
Director's Cut: Arrow Blu-ray (stereo), 5.1 is the same on all discs

Director: Abel Ferrara

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Audio:

Arrow/Lionsgate 2.0

Audio Notes:

Arrow/Lionsgate 2.0 sounds good, LaserDisc [ID7612IV] maybe better?

Director: Ron Underwood

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Additional Info:

OOP Arrow LE has a bonus disc

Director: Steve Barron

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray see caps

Best Audio:

New Line LaserDisc

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