Next month will be Hallows Eve, the one time of the year we get so close to the spirit world. Over at Shudder, they will bring us a taster of the horrors that may lie ahead. A month of sociopaths and classic demonic possessions not forgetting found footage anthology, return of Hell House LLC!
V/H/S/85 – Shudder Original Film Streaming Exclusively on Shudder Film Premieres Friday 6th October
The next instalments 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.
Creepshow – Streaming Exclusively Series 4 Binge Premieres Friday 13th 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 – Streaming Exclusively Film Premieres Friday 13th 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.
Night of the Hunted – Streaming Exclusively Film Premieres Friday 20th October
When an unsuspecting woman (Camille Rowe, No Limit) stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she’s made the plaything of a sociopathic sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
When Evil Lurks Streaming Exclusively Film Premieres Friday 27th 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.
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor – Streaming Exclusively Film Premieres Monday 30th 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.
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula –Streaming Exclusively Series 5 Premieres Tuesday 31st 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
2nd October
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 includes 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 audience-interactive show, Insomnia into the abandoned hotel that is rumoured to be haunted.
16th October
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.
