ARROW Player’s August 2025 Lineup: Cats, Crack, Beavers, and Gaspar Noé — Your Streaming Brain Just Melted
ARROW Player just dropped its August 2025 schedule, and once again, it reads like a fever dream scrawled across a Fangoria back issue.
This month?
- Cats that kill.
- Beavers that organize.
- Anime that scars.
- Gaspar Noé doing Gaspar Noé things.
- A crack-addicted raccoon.
- And somehow, Tim Lucas holding it all together with curated dignity.
Subscribe to ARROW Player here — unless you’re afraid of rodents, surrealism, or VHS memories that hit too hard.
Streaming August 8: Kittens, Carnage & Cult Chaos
Here, Kitty Kitty… (UK/US/CA/IRE)
Cats. Everywhere. Jump scares, satanic familiars, and comfort companions turned evil. This feline-focused season proves that horror movies have always used cats as mood lighting — and sometimes murder weapons.
Titles include:
- Nekromantik – because you weren’t using your appetite anyway
- At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul – Coffin Joe returns
- The Gore Gore Girls – as trashy as the title promises
Lux Æterna (US/CA)
Gaspar Noé, the guy who once filmed a 12-minute assault scene and thought Irreversible would make a good date movie, returns with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle playing themselves… in a movie about making a movie… about witches. Chaos reigns.
Shot in five days, mostly improvised, and guaranteed to freak out your eyeballs.
Also dropping:
- Sator – forest-dwelling supernatural trauma
- 100 Bloody Acres – fertilizer + murder = business model
- Breaking the Surface – scuba survival horror (yes, that’s a thing now)
August 15: Anime Nightmares and Tim Lucas Digs Deep
ARROW-me (US/CA)
Forget your cute crunchyroll subscription. This is the part of the anime aisle they kept behind a curtain.
Titles include:
- Wicked City – body horror + demon sex = date night?
- Angel Cop – cold war brain-melting cyberpunk
- Goku Midnight Eye – robot-eye noir meets Blade Runner cosplay
Also Streaming:
- Cyber City Oedo 808 – criminals with bomb collars clean up the city
- Angel Cop (full series) – your 80s VHS nightmares come alive
- Goku Midnight Eye (2 episodes) – women, crime, and metal arms
- Wicked City – just a reminder this film is uncomfortably horny and brilliant
Tim Lucas Selects (UK/US/CA/IRE)
The godfather of home video scholarship gets the keys to the Arrow vault. Expect a cinematic mixtape equal parts obscure and unsettling.
Titles include:
- Toys Are Not for Children – the title is not ironic
- Season of the Witch – George Romero does bored housewife witchcraft
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne – Fassbinder-era sleaze meets classic horror
Lucas describes Arrow’s catalog as “a jukebox, a roller coaster, or a resource of higher education.”
We describe it as “Film School for the Damned.”
August 22: Crackcoon & The Return of Beavers
Crackcoon (US/CA)
You heard of Cocaine Bear? This is the smaller, angrier, trash-panda version.
A raccoon on crack terrorizes a mountain town. That’s the movie. That’s the pitch. That’s the reason we subscribe to ARROW.
Hundreds of Beavers (US/CA)
The frostbitten indie darling that everyone pretends they discovered first gets a home on ARROW.
- Mascot suits
- Slapstick wilderness survival
- A love story? Maybe?
- Possibly a manifesto against the fur trade?
This is Looney Tunes meets The Revenant, filmed like a 1920s silent cartoon and powered by applejack and trauma.
TL;DR: August on ARROW Player
| Date | What’s Dropping |
|---|---|
| August 8 | Here, Kitty Kitty…, Lux Æterna, 100 Bloody Acres, Sator, Breaking the Surface |
| August 15 | ARROW-me, Cyber City Oedo 808, Angel Cop, Wicked City, Tim Lucas Selects |
| August 22 | Crackcoon, Hundreds of Beavers |
Still Not Subscribed?
If beavers in suits, cats in horror, anime that will haunt your dreams, and Gaspar Noé blinding you with strobes doesn’t sell you on ARROW Player, nothing will.
Subscribe now, and pray your eyeballs forgive you later.
