Christmas Comes Early, and It’s a Black One: Arrow Video Unveils Its December 2026 Releases
Arrow Video has unwrapped its December 2026 slate, and horror collectors have a particularly nasty present waiting underneath the tree. Bob Clark’s Black Christmas is getting the Arrow 4K Ultra HD treatment, bringing one of the most important films in the development of the slasher movie to UHD with Dolby Vision, restored audio and a sizeable collection of old and new extras. It is joined by an unusually strong December line-up that stretches well beyond horror, with Logan’s Run, When Harry Met Sally…, Pedicab Driver, Bullitt and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet all receiving new collector-focused editions.
It makes for a December announcement with considerably more variety than the average Christmas stocking. There is science fiction, romantic comedy, martial arts, crime, David Lynch at his most unsettling and, sitting right at the top of the Stalk & Slash shopping list, a sorority house where Christmas is about to go catastrophically wrong.
Black Christmas Gets the Arrow 4K Treatment
If you’re going to announce Black Christmas for December, there really isn’t much point pretending anything else is going to be the horror headline.
Released in 1974, Bob Clark’s Canadian nightmare remains one of the essential films in the development of the slasher. Four years before Michael Myers walked into Haddonfield in Halloween and six years before Jason Voorhees’ unfortunate summer camp began filling cinemas in Friday the 13th, Clark was trapping a group of young women inside a sorority house with an unseen killer, obscene telephone calls and the increasingly horrible realisation that the threat may be much closer than anybody suspects.
The premise remains beautifully simple. As Christmas approaches, the women of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house begin receiving disturbing telephone calls from an unknown man. When Clare Harrison disappears, what initially appears to be obscene harassment becomes something considerably more sinister. Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea, John Saxon, Andrea Martin and Lynne Griffin are among the cast, while the mysterious Billy remains one of horror’s most unnerving killers precisely because Clark refuses to provide the sort of neat explanation that would later become commonplace in the genre.
That ambiguity is part of why Black Christmas has aged so well. There is no elaborate mythology to explain Billy, no tragic childhood flashback laying out exactly why he kills and no final reel devoted to tying everything together. We hear fragments of his deranged telephone calls, occasionally glimpse him and spend much of the film knowing that somebody is inside that house while the characters remain unaware of it. Clark understood that sometimes knowing less about the monster makes him considerably worse.
Arrow’s Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD presents the film in 2160p with Dolby Vision and HDR10 compatibility, alongside restored original lossless English mono and an optional restored DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix. English subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers are also included.
The supplements are extensive. A brand-new commentary from critics Drusilla Adeline and Joshua Conkel joins existing commentaries from Bob Clark, John Saxon and Keir Dullea, while Nick Mancuso provides the wonderfully titled “Billy Is Watching” commentary. There is also an archival audio interview with Clark and individual material featuring Art Hindle and Lynne Griffin.
Arrow has also gathered together a considerable amount of material documenting the film’s history. The package includes the 2015 documentary Black Christmas Legacy, The 12 Days of Black Christmas from 2006, the 2005 documentary On Screen!: Black Christmas and Black Christmas Revisited from 2002. A 40th anniversary Fan Expo Canada reunion brings together John Saxon, Art Hindle, Lynne Griffin and Nick Mancuso, while a Nuart Theatre screening Q&A features Clark, Saxon and composer Carl Zittrer. Expanded archival interviews include Clark, Hindle, Saxon, Hussey and Kidder.
There’s more for anyone who enjoys digging into the technical history of a film. Restoring the Sound examines work on the mono and 5.1 tracks, two scenes are presented with alternative audio effects, and alternative title sequences are included alongside a newspaper advertising gallery, image gallery, trailers and television and radio spots. The physical package finishes things off with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch, plus a collectors’ booklet containing new writing by Sam Moore, Chris Alexander and Kimberly Lindbergs.
For horror collectors, this is comfortably the biggest announcement in Arrow’s December batch. Black Christmas doesn’t need to be retrospectively forced into slasher history simply because it arrived before the genre had settled into its familiar formula. You can see the DNA right there on screen: the young victims, subjective killer photography, isolated location, obscene calls, unseen murderer and escalating body count. What makes it particularly effective more than half a century later is that it doesn’t feel like a film following those rules. It was helping establish them.
Christmas has come early. Unfortunately, Billy is already in the house. Order HERE.
Logan’s Run Finally Runs Into a New 4K Restoration
Away from horror, Arrow is giving Michael Anderson’s 1976 science-fiction favourite Logan’s Run a substantial new edition built around a brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative. Set in 2274, the film imagines a society whose inhabitants enjoy an apparently idyllic existence inside a sealed city, provided they accept one fairly significant condition: nobody gets to live beyond the age of 30. Those attempting to escape are designated Runners, hunted by Sandmen including Michael York’s Logan 5, until Logan finds himself forced to become exactly the sort of fugitive he previously pursued. Jenny Agutter co-stars as Jessica 6, with Richard Jordan, Peter Ustinov and Farrah Fawcett also appearing.
The Limited Edition Blu-ray is particularly packed, with the new restoration accompanied by lossless stereo, mono, the 70mm six-channel mix presented in DTS-HD MA 6.0 and a legacy 5.1 option. A second disc contains previously unreleased interviews with Anderson, York, Agutter and Ustinov, along with newly produced material examining the costumes, the wider Logan’s Run world and MGM’s dystopian science-fiction films. One especially interesting feature, Logan’s Loss, examines the film’s longer 70mm preview version, which is now considered lost. Promotional films, rare news footage, deleted material, trailers, galleries, a book, poster, art cards and stickers turn this into far more than a simple catalogue upgrade. Order HERE.
When Harry Met Sally… Gets the 4K Treatment
December doesn’t have to consist entirely of people being murdered, hunted or terminated by futuristic computers. Arrow is also bringing Rob Reiner’s 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally… to Limited Edition 4K UHD, giving Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan’s repeatedly interrupted journey from antagonistic acquaintances to close friends another premium physical release.
Written by Nora Ephron, the film follows Harry Burns and Sally Albright across years of encounters while repeatedly returning to its central question about whether men and women can remain purely platonic friends. Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby provide the film’s essential supporting performances, while Ephron’s screenplay received an Academy Award nomination. Arrow’s UHD presents the film in Dolby Vision with original lossless stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 options.
Extras include commentaries involving Reiner, Ephron and Crystal, a new interview with orchestrator Marc Shaiman, the 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival discussion with Reiner, Crystal and Ryan, and a new look at the film’s New York locations. There are numerous archival featurettes, deleted scenes, the theatrical trailer and Harry Connick Jr.’s “It Had To Be You” music video, while the physical edition includes a booklet and reversible sleeve with new artwork from Marc Aspinall. Order HERE.
Sammo Hung’s Pedicab Driver Rolls Onto 4K
Martial arts fans haven’t been forgotten either. Sammo Hung’s Pedicab Driver receives a brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative, bringing the 1989 Hong Kong mixture of kung fu, comedy, romance and drama to Limited Edition UHD.
Hung stars as Lo Tung alongside Max Mok as Malted Candy, two Macau pedicab drivers whose romantic ambitions lead them into increasingly serious trouble. The cast also includes Nina Li-Chi, Corey Yuen, Maria Cordero and Lau Kar-leung, giving the film more than enough martial arts pedigree before anybody has thrown the first punch. Arrow’s edition includes original Chinese and English front titles, lossless Cantonese, Mandarin and English mono tracks and newly translated English subtitles for the Cantonese and Mandarin versions.
A new commentary comes from Hong Kong cinema specialists Frank Djeng and F.J. DeSanto, while screenwriter Yuen Kai-chi appears in a new interview and critic and historian Tony Rayns contributes a new appreciation. The package also includes promotional footage, the theatrical trailer, image gallery, reversible artwork from Sam Hadley and a collectors’ booklet featuring new writing from Sean Gilman, Jonathan Clements and Johnny Burnett. Order HERE.
Bullitt Comes Roaring Back in 4K
If Arrow wants to demonstrate exactly what 4K can do for old-fashioned celluloid cool, Bullitt isn’t a bad place to start. Peter Yates’ 1968 thriller stars Steve McQueen as San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Bullitt, whose protection of a witness goes catastrophically wrong and sends him into an investigation that ultimately makes Bullitt himself a target.
Of course, mention Bullitt and one sequence inevitably arrives before everything else: that car chase. The pursuit through San Francisco between McQueen’s Ford Mustang and the Dodge Charger remains one of cinema’s defining automotive sequences, and its influence can be felt across decades of action filmmaking. Arrow’s new Limited Edition comes from a brand-new 4K restoration of the original 35mm camera negative, presented with Dolby Vision, restored lossless mono and lossless stereo surround.
Peter Yates’ archival commentary is joined by a new track from critics Jason Bailey and Matt Zoller Seitz, while composer and historian Neil Brand examines Lalo Schifrin’s score in the newly produced The Sound of Cool. Also included are the vintage behind-the-scenes featurette Bullitt: Steve McQueen’s Commitment to Reality, a 1996 BFI interview with Yates and the feature-length documentary The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing. Reversible artwork by Ben Turner and a booklet featuring Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Priscilla Page complete the edition. Order HERE.
Blue Velvet Brings Something Much Darker to December
Finally, December gets weird.
David Lynch’s Blue Velvet is joining the Arrow catalogue as a two-disc Limited Edition 4K UHD, and while it isn’t straightforward horror, its inclusion on Stalk & Slash hardly requires much justification. Few films have exposed the darkness lurking beneath supposedly perfect American suburbia quite like Lynch’s 1986 nightmare.
Kyle MacLachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a college student who discovers a severed human ear in the apparently peaceful town of Lumberton. His curiosity leads him, with the help of Laura Dern’s Sandy, towards nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, played by Isabella Rossellini, and eventually into the orbit of Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth. From there, Jeffrey’s amateur investigation becomes an increasingly disturbing descent into violence, sexual obsession and the grotesque underside of small-town America.
Arrow’s release uses a director-approved 4K restoration, presented in Dolby Vision, and includes the rediscovered Lost Footage deleted scenes, outtakes, an opening-scene comparison, trailers, television spots and extensive galleries. A second Blu-ray devoted to extras contains Peter Braatz’s feature-length Blue Velvet Revisited, the archival documentary Mysteries of Love and a new location featurette, Welcome to Lumberton. There’s also a 2025 Isabella Rossellini interview, material featuring cinematographer Frederick Elmes and editor Duwayne Dunham, an archival Dennis Hopper interview and, wonderfully, newly assembled excerpts from the notorious television version.
The Limited Edition packaging includes a perfect-bound book featuring new and archival writing, a double-sided poster and reversible sleeve options. For Lynch collectors, particularly following the director’s death in 2025, it is another substantial physical edition of one of the films that most clearly defined what the word “Lynchian” would eventually come to mean. Order HERE.
Arrow Has a Very Busy Christmas Planned
Taken together, Arrow’s December announcements make for an unusually broad end to 2026. When Harry Met Sally… could hardly be further removed from Black Christmas, while Pedicab Driver, Logan’s Run, Bullitt and Blue Velvet each occupy completely different corners of cinema. That eclecticism has long been part of Arrow’s identity, with the label extending well beyond its horror roots into cult cinema, world cinema, action, science fiction and established classics.
For Stalk & Slash readers, however, there is an obvious winner underneath this particular Christmas tree. More than 50 years after Bob Clark turned festive phone calls, plastic sheeting, attic spaces and one seriously dysfunctional sorority Christmas into nightmare fuel, Black Christmas is getting a lavish Arrow UHD edition.
Just don’t go upstairs to see where that ringing telephone is coming from.
