Arrow Video has announced four new titles to join their collection on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray in March: The Birthday (2004), Red Sonja (1985), Salem’s Lot (1979), and Eiichi Kudo’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy (1963). These represent a forgotten wild and bizarre outing, a swords and sorcery fantasy epic, a horror masterpiece from Tobe Hooper, and a landmark Japanese trilogy. Details on these films can be found below:

The Birthday [4K UHD & Blu-Ray Limited Edition]

Street Date: March 17, 2026

Synopsis: Unreleased for nearly twenty years, The Birthday has achieved near-mythic status among cult film enthusiasts. Shot on a single, meticulously designed location, Eugenio Mira’s deliriously offbeat dark comedy offers a career-best turn from Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys), playing wildly against type.

Painfully awkward Norman Forrester (Feldman) chooses the opulent birthday party of his girlfriend Alison’s (Erica Prior) wealthy father (Jack Taylor, Conan the Barbarian) as the perfect moment to propose. But between bizarre encounters with guests and unnervingly polite hotel staff, Norman stumbles into a nightmarish occult conspiracy that threatens not just his relationship but the fate of the world itself.

Rediscovered at last, The Birthday blends screwball comedy, cosmic horror and feverish style into an unforgettable cinematic experience. Restored from the original negative, Arrow Video is proud to present this one-of-a-kind descent into madness in the release it’s always deserved.

Bonus Materials

• 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• 4K restoration from the original negative
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by actor Corey Feldman and co-writer/director Eugenio Mira
• The Shape of a Miracle, a brand new interview with Mira, shot exclusively for this release
• Pathology, an in-depth breakdown of a scene from the film by Mira, featuring archival behind-the-scenes footage, storyboards and rushes
• 2024 Q&A with Feldman and Mira from the film’s 20th anniversary screening at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas
• Original trailer
• 20th anniversary trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options
• Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by Bryan Reesman

Red Sonja [4K UHD Limited Edition]

Street Date: March 24, 2026

Synopsis: From the mythical world of Robert E. Howard comes Red Sonja, a fierce, fireforged fantasy adventure from director Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green), starring Brigitte Nielsen (Cobra) in her iconic debut as the legendary warrior, joined by Arnold Schwarzenegger at the height of his sword-and-sorcery powers.

When her family is slain and her homeland destroyed by the tyrannical Queen Gedren (Sandahl Bergman, Conan the Barbarian), Sonja is chosen by the goddess Scáthach and gifted with extraordinary strength and skill in battle. Sworn to vengeance, she embarks on a perilous quest to stop Gedren from wielding a deadly talisman with the power to annihilate the world.

A thrilling tale of high adventure packed with stunning spectacle and steel-clashing action, backed by an epic score by maestro Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly), Red Sonja is a bold, larger-than-life epic where destiny is forged in fire and blood.

Bonus Materials

• 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• 4K restoration from the original negative with new HDR grading by Arrow Films
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Original lossless mono audio and optional DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• Brand new audio commentary with comic book expert Dave Baxter
• The Prince and Me, a newly filmed interview with actor Ernie Reyes Jr.
• Swords, Stunts and Sonja, a newly filmed interview with action unit supervisor Vic Armstrong
• The Last of the Invincibles, a newly filmed interview with Schwarzenegger’s stunt double Pietro Torrisi
• The Danish Girl, a newly filmed interview with stuntman Ottaviano Dell’Acqua
• The 12 Labors of Red Sonja, a newly filmed interview with assistant production manager Stefano Spadoni
• The Marvel of Primitive Technology, a newly filmed interview with FX artist Domingo Lizcano discussing the work of Emilio Ruiz del Río
• Moulding Fantasies, a newly filmed interview with make-up FX assistant Adriano Carboni
• Bodybuilding the Imagery, an archival unreleased interview with poster artist Renato Casaro
• The Man Who Raised Hollywood, an archive featurette on Schwarzenegger’s career featuring filmmakers Peter Hyams and Arthur Allan Seidelman, producer Edward Pressman and others
• Red Sonja vs. Kalidor: The Making of a Misunderstanding, an archive interview with assistant director Michel Ferry
• Theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options by Renato Casaro
• Collectors’ perfect-bound booklet featuring new writing on the film by John Walsh, Nanni Cobretti and Barry Forshaw
• Double-sided foldout poster featuring two original artwork options by Renato Casaro
• Six postcard-sized reproduction artcards

Salem’s Lot [4K UHD Limited Edition]

Street Date: March 31, 2026

Synopsis: From Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, comes the mini-series that scarred a generation. Based on Stephen King‘s all-time classic of small-town terror, welcome to Salem’s Lot. Population two-thousand and thirteen, but falling fast!

Author Ben Mears (David Soul, Starsky and Hutch) returns to the town of Salem’s Lot after 25 years to write about the Marsten House, an old mansion with a bad reputation that has haunted the writer since childhood. But the sleepy town of Ben’s youth is beginning to change. There’s an antiques store about to open, run by the mysterious Richard Straker (James Mason, Lolita) and his unseen partner Mr. Barlow (Reggie Nalder, The Dead Don’t Die), and they’re living in the Marsten House. A series of deaths and disappearances leads Ben to believe that a vampire is feeding on the town. But how can he stop them, and will anyone believe him?

With a script by Paul Monash (producer of De Palma’s Carrie, writer of Peyton Place and The Friends of Eddie Coyle) and a superb cast that includes Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard), Fred Willard (Best in Show), Geoffrey Lewis (Every Which Way But Loose) and Elisha Cook Jr. (The Killing), Tobe Hooper breathes vivid life and chilling un-death into the characters of King’s novel. The children of the night await… in Salem’s Lot.

Bonus Materials

• 4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new 4K restorations of both the original two-part miniseries and the shorter theatrical cut distributed internationally
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of both versions of the film
• Original lossless mono audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options
• Collectors’ perfect-bound booklet containing new writing on the film by critics Sean Abley, Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, and Richard Kadrey, plus select archival material including interviews with director Tobe Hooper, and stars Lance Kerwin and Julie Cobb
• Salem’s Lot town sign sticker
• Double-sided foldout poster featuring two original artwork options
• DISC 1 – ORIGINAL TV MINI-SERIES VERSION
• Two viewing modes: Play as miniseries in two parts as per the original broadcast or as extended movie
• Brand new audio commentary by film critics Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes
• Archive audio commentary by director Tobe Hooper
• Alternate TV footage: commercial bumpers and original broadcast version of the antlers death
• Original shooting script gallery
• DISC 2 – THEATRICAL VERSION & EXTRAS
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic Chris Alexander
• King of the Vampires, a new interview with Stephen King biographer Douglas Winter
• Second Coming, a new appreciation by author and critic Grady Hendrix
• New England Nosferatu, a new interview with filmmaker Mick Garris
• Fear Lives Here, a new featurette looking at the locations of Salem’s Lot today
• We Can All Be Heroes, a new featurette with film critic Heather Wixson, co-author of In Search of Darkness
• A Gold Standard for Small Screen Screams, a new featurette with film critics Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman, co-hosts of the podcast Horror Queers
• Trailer
• Image gallery

Eiichi Kudo’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy [Blu-Ray Limited Edition]

Street Date: March 31, 2026

Synopsis: Throughout Japanese cinema, the image of the noble samurai righting wrongs katana in hand remains a fixture of the jidaigeki genre, with the authoritarianism and corruption of the country’s medieval past often attenuated for the sake of spectacle and entertainment. But in the 1960s, director Eiichi Kudo‘s Samurai Revolution Trilogy shattered this idealised conception of the samurai, providing an authentic and scathing portrayal of Japan’s tyrannical past to question the social and political landscape of his day.

Beginning in 1963 with 13 Assassins (remade in 2010 by Takashi Miike), followed by The Great Killing in 1964 and 11 Samurai in 1967, the Samurai Revolution trilogy depicts the rot at the heart of the Tokugawa shogunate: despotic lords oppress their people and abuse their power with impunity, loyalty to the Shogun is valued above compassion and righteousness, and samurai have shed any trace of nobility in favor of their own self-interest, which they pursue with gleeful cruelty. Each film portrays a group of honorable samurai driven to plan the political assassination of a corrupt lord, hoping to light the fuse that will eventually destroy the regime. But the rebels must understand the fatal consequences of their mission. Should the Shogun falter, then their lives and the entire samurai class will be forfeit.

Eiichi Kudo masterfully deploys expressive black and white cinematography, spectacular swordfights and compelling performances to paint a rich visual and narrative tapestry, using each film to further explore questions of ethics and morality. Featuring a who’s who of iconic jidaigeki actors including Chiezo Kataoka (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji), Ko Nishimura (Lady Snowblood), Kei Sato (Hara-Kiri) and Toru Abe (Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman), Kudo’s Samurai Revolution trilogy rank among the most important samurai films ever made and are a must-have for chanbara connoisseurs.

Bonus Materials

• LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• High-Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of all three films
• Original lossless Japanese mono audio on all three films
• Optional newly translated English subtitles for all three films
• Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tom Fournier
• Illustrated collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the films by Chris D., Earl Jackson and Alain Silver
• DISC ONE – 13 ASSASSINS
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic and Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes
• The Samurai Variations, a brand new video essay by music supervisor and Japanese cinema expert James Balmont on legendary composer Akira Ifukube’s score for the film
• Samurai Guerilla Part 1, an archival interview where Eiichi Kudo’s former assistant director Misao Arai and filmmaker Dirty Kudo discuss Eiichi Kudo and Toei’s role in the Japanese film landscape of the 1960s
• Theatrical trailers
• DISC TWO – THE GREAT KILLING
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic David West
• Magician of Light and Shadow, a brand new video essay by film critic and Japanese cinema expert Daisuke Miyao on the cinematography seen in the film
• Samurai Guerilla Part 2, an archival interview where Misao Arai and Dirty Kudo discuss the jidaigeki genre and expand on the political dimension of The Great Killing
• Masaaki Ito Remembers Eiichi Kudo, a tribute to the director by his former assistant and brother-in-law
• DISC THREE – 11 SAMURAI
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic David West
• Fighting the Poison, a brand new video essay by film critic and Japanese cinema expert Jonathan Clements on the historical setting and context of the film
• Samurai Guerilla Part 3, an archival interview where Misao Arai and Dirty Kudo discuss some of the filming techniques seen in the film and the conception of the Samurai as seen in Eiichi Kudo’s jidaigeki films
• Eiichi Kudo: The Art of Realism, an archival interview with Fabrice Arduini, filmmaker and programmer for the House of Culture of Japan in Paris, where he discusses jidaigeki and the films of Eiichi Kudo

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