New movie premieres, new original series, plus new additions to Shudder’s growing library, including genre classics and recent fan favourites.
NEW SHUDDER ORIGINAL & STREAMING EXCLUSIVE FILMS
Superhost
2 September
Teddy and Claire are travel vloggers who run a channel called “SUPERHOST” where they travel and share their experiences in and around vacation homes – and, until recently, had become successful doing it. With a dwindling subscriber count, they find the perfect opportunity to create content that people want to see when they meet Rebecca, the host of their most recent trip.
Slowly they start to realise that something isn’t right with Rebecca and, as they investigate it further, they unlock a horrifying truth. She doesn’t just want a great review, she wants something far worse.
Written and directed by Brandon Christensen. Starring Sara Canning, Osric Chau, Gracie Gilliam and Barbara Crampton.
Possessor
3 September
From the visionary mind of Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral), Possessor is a game-changing sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high-profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Martyrs Lane
9 September
Leah, 10, lives in a large, run-down vicarage with her parents and hostile older sister. She can’t quite work out why her mother seems distant and is fascinated by the locket she wears around her neck. At night the vicarage seems to come alive with sounds. One morning, Leah spots the locket left on the bathroom shelf. She opens it and steals what she finds inside, sparking a chain of events that will turn the sounds that she hears at night into something much more frightening.
Written and directed by Ruth Platt. Starring Denise Gough, Anastasia Hille and Steven Cree.
Séance
29 September
Camille Meadows is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.
Written and directed by Simon Barrett. Starring Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty and Inanna Sarkis.
NEW SHUDDER SERIES
Creepshow
23 September
Season 3 premiere – New episodes every Thursday
Based on the 1982 horror comedy classic, the anthology Creepshow returns for a third season and is still the most fun you’ll ever have being scared! A comic book comes to life in a series of vignettes, exploring terrors ranging from murder, creatures, monsters and delusions to the supernatural and unexplainable. You never know what will be on the next page.
Slasher: Flesh & Blood
New episodes every Thursday to September 16
Starring horror legend David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome), Slasher: Flesh & Blood follows a wealthy, dysfunctional family that gathers for a reunion on a secluded island only to learn they’ll be pitted against one another in a cruel game of life and death, all while being stalked by a mysterious masked killer. Nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe as the tension – and body count – ratchets up.
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S MOVIE LIBRARY
September 6
Ben
A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.
Willard
A social misfit uses his only friends, his pet rats, to exact revenge on his tormentors.
September 13
The Lawnmower Man
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
The Lawnmower Man 2
Jonathan Walker resuscitates Jobe because he wants him to create a special computer chip that would connect all the computers in the world into one network for Walker to control and use. But what Walker doesn’t realise is a group of teenage hackers are on to him and out to stop his plan.
September 14
Kriya
Kriya is the nightmare odyssey of a young DJ named Neel who is picked up one fateful night by the beautiful Sitara, only to be thrust into a hallucinatory world of ritual magic surrounding the imminent death of her father.
September 20
The Masque of the Red Death
A European prince terrorises the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.
The Beast Must Die
Eight people have been invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?
