ARROW Player Unleashes a Brutal January 2026 Lineup Packed With Cult, Giallo & Action Chaos

ARROW Player kicks off 2026 with giallos, grindhouse revenge, and cult chaos across its January lineup.

ARROW Player Kicks Off 2026 With Cheap Thrills, Giallos, Dubbed Fu & Joe Lynch Selects

If you needed a reminder why Arrow Video remains one of the most essential platforms for genre diehards, ARROW Player’s January 2026 lineup is your wake-up call.

Ring­ing in the new year with cult chaos, martial-arts mayhem, Italian murder mysteries, and one filmmaker-curated deep dive after another, ARROW’s January slate is stacked for viewers who like their streaming menus a little dangerous. Even better: the service is now officially available on LG Smart TVs, bringing Arrow’s vault of blood, fists, and celluloid sleaze to even more living rooms worldwide.

Cheap Thrills Leads the Charge

Headlining the month is the razor-sharp indie favorite Cheap Thrills, landing on ARROW January 26 (US exclusive). Director E.L. Katz’s brutal social thriller remains one of the most uncomfortable “how far would you go?” films of the last decade — a pitch-black morality play that only gets nastier the longer it goes on.

Joe Lynch Selects: A Filmmaker’s Playlist From Hell

January 2 launches Joe Lynch Selects, a filmmaker-curated collection from the Suitable Flesh director himself. Rather than a bland playlist, Lynch delivers personal video intros and a lineup that feels like a love letter written in blood and VHS tape hiss.

Expect essentials like Deep Red, Ms. 45, The Woman, Bad Biology, and Mute Witness — films that helped shape the grindhouse, exploitation, and transgressive cinema DNA that still pulses through genre filmmaking today.

Dubbed Fu, Popcorn & Punches, and Peak Van Damme

Action fans eat especially well this month. January turns into a full-contact festival of fists with:

• Dubbed Fu (January 9): A glorious celebration of badly dubbed martial-arts insanity.

• Popcorn & Punches (January 16): Forgotten ’90s action heroes punching first and asking questions never.

• Lionheart, Knock-Off, Hard Hunted, Fit to Kill, and more Jean-Claude Van Damme chaos rolling throughout the month.

It’s pure comfort food for anyone raised on late-night cable and video-store cover art.

Giallo-ary Brings the Knives Out

Italian horror fans get their annual fix with Giallo-ary beginning January 22. ARROW pulls no punches here, serving up genre landmarks like Blood and Black Lace and Death Laid an Egg, alongside deeper cuts that reward longtime devotees and curious newcomers alike.

If you like black gloves, razor blades, and murder mysteries soaked in style, this section alone is worth the subscription.

While most platforms chase algorithms, ARROW continues to curate — spotlighting cult cinema, international genre gems, and filmmaker perspectives that rarely get this kind of care. January 2026 doesn’t just feel like a content dump; it feels like a mission statement.

Between Cheap Thrills, Joe Lynch’s picks, martial-arts madness, and wall-to-wall giallo carnage, ARROW is starting the year exactly how genre fans like it: loud, bloody, and unapologetically weird.

ARROW Player’s January 2026 lineup begins January 2. Choose wisely — or don’t.