Skeletons in the Closet
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 3 May
Haunted by a malevolent spirit since childhood, a desperate mother allows herself to become possessed in order to save the life of her terminally ill daughter. Starring Terrence Howard (Iron Man) and Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire).
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 17 May (US/ANZ)
22-year-old medical student Emma (Fanny Leander Bornedal) has just taken a job as the night watch in the same forensic department where her parents were once almost killed by the famed psychopathic police inspector Wörmer. The events led to her mother’s suicide, and her father Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has turned to tranquilizers to suppress the memories. Determined to investigate what exactly happened to them, Emma tracks down and confronts Wörmer, only to unintentionally reawaken his bloodthirst and ignite a violent revenge on everyone who sealed his destiny years ago. *Nightwatch (1994) also streaming exclusively beginning 17 May
Stopmotion
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 31 May (US/ANZ)
Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her. Starring Aisling Franciosi, Tom York and Jaz Hutchins.
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
Shudder Original Series
Season 6 Episodes Continue Biweekly LIVE Premieres on Shudder TV
Friday, May 10; Debuts on-demand Sunday, May 12
Friday, May 24; Debuts on-demand Sunday, May 26
Available in US and CA
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
May 1
The Jester
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween
night, including two estranged sister who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity. (US)
Blood and Black Lace
A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome. (US)
YellowBrick Road
1940: the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a winding mountain trail, leaving
everything behind. 2008: the first official expedition into the wilderness attempts to solve the
mystery of the lost citizens of Friar. (US)
Mean Spirited
A failed YouTuber’s weekend in the Poconos turns into a nightmare when a demon joins the party. (US)
The Toxic Avenger – Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose. (US/ANZ)
The Toxic Avenger Part II – The Toxic Avenger is tricked into traveling to Tokyo to search for his estranged father, leaving Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation. (US/ANZ)
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie – Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries. (US/ANZ)
TA4 – Citizen Toxic: The Toxi Avenger IV – The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender. (ANZ)
Subject – On his way to prison, a man gets intercepted by a secretive government agency who task him to monitor a secret experiment in exchange for commuting his sentence.
Sound of Silence – Emma must uncover the dark secret behind a cursed radio to survive and protect her family.
May 6
Herd
When a woman trying to outrun her past ends up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring
militia groups, she must fight to find her way back home. (US)
Gorgo
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting
the wrath of the creature’s mother. (US)
The Giant Gila Monster
A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community, and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the
creature. (US)
The Stone Tape
A research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to
start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley
witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyze the apparition,
which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a “stone
tape”), but also to exorcise it–with terrifying results. (US)
Mother, May I? – When Anya starts behaving like her fiancée’s recently deceased mother, Emmet must confront his deepest traumas to free his fiancée from this bewildering possession. (US/ANZ)
Beaten to Death – A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature, and his own insanity. (ANZ)
Mad Heidi – Swiss mountain girl Heidi is abducted by brutal government troops and must defend herself and fight a war against a cheese-fueled machinery of hate. (ANZ)
May 8
Mother’s Day (1980) – Three young women are tormented by an insane matriarch and her depraved sons.
*The Last Drive-In: Mother’s Day episode also available. (US/ANZ)
May 13
Landlocked – Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers a video camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed. (ANZ)
Holy Shit! – Architect Frank wakes up from unconsciousness, squashed in a porta-potty. But it gets worse: In order to not be blown up during the imminent demolition, Frank must make his way out of his blue grave in one hour. A race against time. (ANZ)
Fatal Games
A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the
most brutal way. (US)
May 15
Combat Shock – A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle. (US/ANZ)
May 20
Smoking Causes Coughing – A group of vigilantes called the “tobacco-forces” is falling apart. To rebuild the team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world. (US/ANZ)
Down
When the elevators in New York’s 102-story Millennium Building start to malfunction, mechanic
Mark Newman is sent to find the cause. After a series of gruesome and deadly “accidents” occur,
Mark joins forces with spunky reporter Jennifer. (US)
The Lift
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the
perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building. (US)
May 22
The Strangler
An overweight lab technician with low self-esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes
a serial killer of nurses. (US)
May 24
Deathdream
A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night
of his death. (US)
May 27
Graduation Day (1981) – A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30-second 200-meter race. (US/ANZ)
You Were Never Really Here – A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what could be his death trip or his awakening. (ANZ)
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