All of the new series and films available on AMC Networks’ Streaming Services AMC+, Acorn TV and Shudder this October including Cooper’s Bar, True Crime Story: Citizen Detective, Harry Wild, Granite Harbour, Creepshow, The Puppetman and more!
OCTOBER ON AMC+
Cooper’s Bar – Content Room Original Series
Streaming Exclusively on AMC+
New Premiere Wednesday 11 October
Led by Better Call Saul’s Rhea Seehorn, Cooper’s Bar follows the antics of character actor Cooper, played by Lou Mustillo (Mike & Molly) and the unique group of Los Angeles natives who frequent his neighbourhood bar. When Kris Latimer (Seehorn), an awful Hollywood executive stumbles upon Cooper’s backyard Tiki bar oasis, Cooper and his down-on-their-luck pals pull themselves together for one last shot at their “big break.”
True Crime Story: Citizen Detective
Streaming Exclusively on AMC+
New Documentary Series Premieres Thursday 12 October
The latest installment in the “True Crime Story” franchise, this documentary series examines fascinating true crime stories through the eyes of the untrained amateur sleuths who solved them or are still trying to do so. Each episode spotlights one new crime and the crime- fighter determined to make sure the case he or she is obsessed with is ultimately classified as “closed.”
OCTOBER ON ACORN TV
Harry Wild – Acorn TV Original Series
Series 2 Premieres on Acorn TV and AMC+ Monday 9 October with two episodes; new episodes premiere weekly
Season Two follows former literature professor, Harry Wild (Seymour), who has found an unusual pastime in retirement: solving crimes along with her young partner in PI work, Fergus Reid (Rohan Nedd, Whitstable Pearl). Together the wise-cracking pair investigate cases ranging from missing persons to murders, much to the annoyance of Harry’s son, Charlie (Kevin Ryan, Guilt), who’s a detective in the Dublin Garda. When Fergus’s mother suddenly turns up, years after abandoning her family, they have a deeply personal mystery to solve: What are her intentions? And can he trust her?
The Chase – Acorn TV Exclusive Series
Binge Premiere on Acorn TV and AMC+ Monday 16 October
Welcome to the world of Chevin Chase, a family-run veterinary practice in Yorkshire, where sparks fly and backstabbing is all part of the business. When George Williams (Keith Barron) announces his retirement, his pregnant daughter, Anna (Gaynor Faye) is left to pick up the pieces of the struggling practice with her estranged sister, Sara (Nicola Stephenson). Surrounded by a multitude of animal illnesses, the staff must also contend with problems of their own as tensions mount, personalities clash and dark secrets are exposed.
Granite Harbour – Acorn TV Exclusive Series
Binge Premiere on Acorn TV and AMC+ Monday 30 October
Lance Corporal Davis Lindo (Romario Simpson) arrives in Aberdeen as a new recruit with Police Scotland. After completing his last assignment with the Royal Military Police, Lindo dreams of becoming a detective at New Scotland Yard. Starring Hiftu Quasem, Katia Winter and Gary Lewis.
OCTOBER ON SHUDDER
Creepshow – Shudder Original Series
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Series 4 Binge Premieres Friday 13 October
Based on the 1982 horror comedy classic, Creepshow returns for a new season and is still the most fun you’ll ever have being scared. Executive produced by showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead), Creepshow is a comic book coming 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…
The Puppetman – Shudder Original Film
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 13 October
The Puppetman is a convicted killer on death row. He has always maintained his innocence saying it was an evil force controlling his body as he slaughtered his victims. Now Michal, the killer’s daughter, begins to suspect that there may be some truth to her father’s claim when those around her begin to die in brutal ways. All hope rests on her shoulders to break The Puppetman’s curse. Written and directed by Brandon Christensen and starring Michael Paré, Caryn Richman, Alyson Gorske.
When Evil Lurks – Shudder Original Film
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 27 October
Shudder’s first Spanish-language Original from Demián Rugna (Terrified) is a rural possession thriller revolving around timeless horror concepts and adding contemporary twists. Set in a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to give birth to evil itself. After warning the neighbors in town, they decide to get rid of the man but merely succeed in helping him to deliver the inferno. Starring Ezequiel Rodríguez, Eduardo Salomón and Silvia Sabater.
V/H/S/85 – Shudder Original Film
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 6 October
The next installment in the infamous found footage anthology franchise, V/H/S/85 is an ominous mixtape blending never-before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analogue mashup of the forgotten 80s. Starring Freddy Rodriguez, Dani Deetté, Justen Jones and Rolando Davila-Beltran.
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor – Shudder Original Film
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Monday 30 October
In 2021, a group of internet sleuths travel to the remote Carmichael Manor, deep in the woods of the Rockland County, NY, site of the infamous 1989 Carmichael family murders which have gone unsolved to this day. What they discover are secrets that have been hidden away for decades and a terror that has been lurking in the shadows long before Hell House LLC.
Boulet Brothers’ Dragula – Shudder Original Series
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Series 5 Premieres Tuesday 31 October
Horror’s new icons The Boulet Brothers are on the hunt to find the world’s next drag monster superstar in this brand new, star-studded fifth season of their hit reality competition show. With new competitors, their challenges, special effects makeup, costumes, and performances, it promises to be truly terrifying and out-of-this-world.
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
2 October
Two Witches
An aging and malevolent witch intercedes in the lives of two young women.
Hell House LLC: The Director’s Cut
Stephen Cognetti presents his Director’s Cut of one of the most popular found footage horror films of the last decade. The special edition has eight additional minutes of footage, director’s intro, deleted scenes, cast auditions, a location scout of the Abaddon Hotel and outtakes.
Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel
It’s been eight years since the opening night tragedy of Hell House, LLC and still many unanswered questions remain. Thanks to an anonymous tip, investigative journalist Jessica Fox is convinced key evidence is hidden inside the abandoned Abaddon Hotel.
Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire
The Abaddon Hotel will once again be open to the public. Russell Wynn has taken his audienceinteractive show, Insomnia into the abandoned hotel that is rumored to be haunted.
9 October
Dog Soldiers
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the wilderness of Scotland.
Night of Fear
An insane sadistic hermit stalks and captures those who get lost in his part of the woods. A young woman whose car broke down is about to find out what he does with them next.
Walkabout
Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his “walkabout”: a ritual separation from his tribe.
October 16
Lockdown Tower
The inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows – a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it.
October 23
Audition
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
