Arrow Video’s June 2026 Line Up Brings Gore and Goro
Arrow Video has unveiled its June 2026 slate, and while there is plenty in there for action fans, noir lovers and Hong Kong cinema devotees, let’s be honest about why we are here. This is a horror site, and June belongs to blood, dread, and people making very poor life decisions. Leading the charge are a new Mortal Kombat 4K and Blu-ray set, Audition in 4K UHD, and Wake in Fright in both 4K and Blu-ray. In other words, Arrow has once again looked at our shelves and decided they were not expensive enough.
The horror highlight with the broadest cult appeal is undoubtedly Mortal Kombat, with Arrow bringing together the 1995 original and 1997’s Mortal Kombat: Annihilation in a new 2-disc 4K Ultra HD Limited Edition. The first film, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, remains one of the most fondly remembered video game adaptations of the 1990s, which is impressive considering most of its contemporaries were about as subtle as a kick to the spine. Released in 1995, it took the wildly controversial fighting game series and turned it into a fast, entertaining fantasy-action film built around Liu Kang, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage and Raiden battling for the fate of Earth. It helped that the film embraced the game’s mythology rather than being embarrassed by it, and it certainly did not hurt that it came armed with one of the most instantly recognisable soundtracks in genre fandom. Arrow’s new set includes brand new 4K restorations of both films, Dolby Vision presentations, new commentaries, new interviews, fold-out posters, and a booklet with new writing. Whether you consider Annihilation a delirious mess or a masterpiece of camp chaos depends on your tolerance for late 90s excess, but Arrow are giving both films the deluxe treatment. Get your Kopy HERE.
Then there is Audition, which is not so much a film as a very elegant invitation to psychological collapse. Takashi Miike’s 1999 shocker remains one of the most notorious J-Horror titles ever made, and Arrow’s new 4K Ultra HD Limited Edition looks like the sort of release that will make collectors start breathing heavily. Based on the novel by Ryu Murakami, the film follows widower Shigeharu Aoyama, played by Ryo Ishibashi, who stages a fake audition in the hope of finding a new partner. That is already a terrible idea, and things only get worse once Asami enters the picture. Miike’s film famously lulls viewers into a false sense of calm before descending into one of the most harrowing final stretches in horror cinema. It helped launch Miike onto the international genre scene and remains one of the defining titles of turn-of-the-century extreme cinema. Arrow’s edition features a brand new 4K restoration from the original Super 16mm negative, approved by cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto, along with multiple commentaries, new and archival interviews, an audio essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, a booklet, and reversible artwork. If you know, you know. If you do not know, maybe keep the piano wire at a safe distance. Pre-order right HERE
The third major genre pick is Wake in Fright, which may not be horror in the traditional monster-or-slasher sense, but anyone who has seen it knows the film is pure psychological hell. Directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gary Bond and Donald Pleasence, this 1971 Australian classic follows schoolteacher John Grant, who becomes stranded in the outback town of Bundanyabba and slowly unravels in a haze of drink, sweat, machismo and existential despair. It is the kind of film that leaves you wanting a shower, a glass of water and perhaps a full relocation to somewhere with fewer men shouting “Have a drink, mate?” Arrow is releasing it as a Limited Edition with a high-definition Blu-ray presentation, original mono audio, commentaries, interviews, featurettes, archival material, booklet and reversible sleeve. It has long since been reclaimed as one of the great Australian films and one of cinema’s most uniquely oppressive depictions of masculine self-destruction. Horror fans who like their nightmares sunburnt and human-shaped should already have it on the list. Order HERE
Outside the horror core, Arrow’s June slate still has plenty worth shouting about. Bullet in the Head arrives in a substantial 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Limited Edition, bringing John Woo’s 1990 war epic back in style. Set during the Vietnam War, it stars Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Jacky Cheung and Waise Lee as three friends whose escape from Hong Kong turns into a nightmare of violence, greed and betrayal. The set includes both the theatrical and festival cuts, new interviews, new commentaries, archival material and a booklet. It is a bruising, emotionally savage film and one of Woo’s finest, even if it tends to live in the shadow of The Killer and Hard Boiled. Order HERE.
Arrow are also going big with Breakout Hits!, a Limited 10-disc 4K UHD collection dedicated to Jackie Chan’s phenomenal 1990s run: Drunken Master II, Rumble in the Bronx, Thunderbolt, Police Story 4: First Strike, Mr. Nice Guy and Who Am I? all restored in 4K and absolutely loaded with extras. It is not horror, obviously, unless you are the sort of person who winces every time Jackie hurls himself off a building, through glass, or into a moving vehicle, which is to say, all of us. Its a big expensive set, but essential for Chan fans. Order HERE!
Rounding out the line-up is Marlowe, the 1969 neo-noir starring James Garner as Raymond Chandler’s famous private investigator. Based on The Little Sister, the film is getting a Limited Edition Blu-ray with a new restoration, booklet, new appreciation by Howard S. Berger and reversible artwork. It is a classy addition to the slate, and the cast includes Rita Moreno, Carroll O’Connor and Bruce Lee in his American feature debut, which is not too shabby for a release that has to share the month with fighting tournaments, Asian horror and outback madness. Order HERE
Arrow Video going all-out for June 2026
So yes, Arrow Video’s June 2026 line-up is stacked. But for horror fans, the headline titles are clear. Mortal Kombat brings bone-crunching 90s nostalgia, Audition brings elegant trauma, and Wake in Fright brings the kind of dread that slowly crawls under your skin and refuses to leave. Which is to say, it is a very strong month to be both a genre fan and a person with alarmingly weak financial restraint.
