Hearing impaired Kyung-mi (Ki-joo Jin) catches the attention of Do-Sik (Wi Ha-Jun; SQUID GAME), a mysterious serial killer that’s been stalking their neighbourhood. Do-Sik targets Kyung-mi, presuming her deafness will make her an easy target, sparking a twisted game where the killer hides in plain sight.
An intense, unpredictable thriller from debut director Kwon Oh-seung; MIDNIGHT joins the pantheon of great South Korean thrillers.
Eva (Eugénie Derouand, Paris Police 1900) has been paraplegic for the past three years. When her birthday arrives, she receives a strange advent calendar as a gift. But instead of the traditional sweets, every day reveals something different; sometimes pleasant but often terrifying, and increasingly bloody. It’s going to be a very deadly Christmas this year. Written and directed by Patrick Ridremont.
Read more “The Advent Calendar “The Rules” | A Shudder Original”Trailer for the Fantasy Horror movie Werewolf Castle from writer/director Charlie Steeds (Death Ranch, Winterskin) Out on UK DVD & Digital January 31st
Read more “Werewolf Castle (2022) Official Trailer [HD]”TERROR! SCREAMING! DEATH! COMING SOON TO THIS CINEMA!
A trip to the movies takes a deadly turn in this stylish neo-giallo love letter to classic slashers that will send your popcorn flying and have you diving behind your seat!
A cold, wet day. A declining cinema. All you want is to get out of the rain and watch a good film. But who else is in there, hiding in the dark? When Ana takes over projection duties from her ailing father, she doesn’t expect anything worse than a broken reel or a burned-out bulb. But there’s a sadistic killer in the auditorium, and soon blood is running in the aisles as he starts picking off the audience members one by one. Can Ana and the few remaining survivors escape the murderous madman, or will they be victims of his matinee massacre?
Read more “The Last Matinee Clip – Let me in”Psycho Santa – While en route to a holiday gathering, young Ron teases his wife about the legend of a backwoods Santa with an axe to grind. However, when the legend comes to life, the Christmas bash turns into a holiday bloodbath!
Psycho Santa 2 – A killer in a Santa Claus suit returns to the quiet town that burned him and, along the way, finds his son and makes the Christmas killing a family affair.
Read more “Psycho Santa 1&2”A film crew working on an Unsolved Mysteries-type-show (Myths & Mysteries) in the mid-90s gets more than they bargained for when they arrive to film at an abandoned house, only to find out it may not be abandoned after all. The story goes that a couple of bank robbers known as the Wallach Brothers once used this house as their safe house. Unbeknownst to them, it had been recently sold to a young newlywed couple, who ended up spending their first night alone in their new home at precisely the wrong time. The bank robbers arrived at the house to lay low after another successful robbery, and brutally murdered the couple they weren’t expecting to be there. Afterwards, the Wallach Brothers disappeared. What happened to the bank robbers has been a mystery ever since. And some mysteries, it turns out, are better left unsolved.
Read more “The Reenactment TRAILER | 2021”The Fly (1958) When a scientist attempts to transfer matter through space, things go horrifically wrong and two grotesque man-fly hybrids are created. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place of one of his arms, the scientist desperately hopes that he, his wife and his brother can capture the other mutant and reverse the experiment.
The Return of the Fly (1959) Despite warnings from his uncle Francois, the young scientist Philippe Delambre is determined to reattempt his late father’s teleportation experiments with the help of his assistant Ronald. But Ronald schemes against Philippe and turns him into the same horrifying man-fly creature that his father had become… and with the same disastrous fate! Once again, it is up to Francois to try and make things right.
The Curse of the Fly (1965) After escaping from a mental institution, Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray) is rescued by scientist Martin Delambre (George Baker), the grandson of the doomed teleportation experimenter Andre Delambre. The two fall in love and marry, but Patricia quickly realises her new husband’s science experiments are as horrific as his family’s past. As she investigates further, Patricia learns the unnerving secrets of the Delambre family and has to find a way to escape them before she becomes the next human-insect hybrid!
STARRING: Richard Riley, Vincent Price, Brian Donlevy, David Hedison, Al Hedison
Read more “The Fly 1958-1965 Trilogy (Import) Available December 10”The Fly (1986) When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test it’s abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a merger of man and insect. Initially, Brundle appears to have undergone a successful teleportation, butthe fly’s cells begin to take over his body. As he becomes increasingly fly-like, Brundle’s girlfriend (Geena Davis) is horrified as the person she once loved deteriorates into a monster.
The Fly II (1989) Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson), the CEO of a research laboratory, acts as the self-appointed guardian of orphan Martin Brundle, whose father had been a researcher at the lab. Though Martin is scarcely five, he has the appearance of a 20-year-old (Eric Stoltz) because of mutant insectoid genes in hissystem. Martin grows up searching for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by the nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father’s experiments with only pretty scientist Beth Logan (Daphne Zuniga) to call a friend. Soon, the fly within begins to emerge.
STARRING: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga
Read more “The Fly / The Fly II (Import) Available December 10”Feature adaptation of the video game where werewolves attack a small town.
STARRING: Sam Richardson, Milana Vayntrub, George Basil
Read more “Werewolves Within (2021) Available December 7”A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND’S LAST MOVIE – ABOUT HUMANKIND’S FIRST MISSING LINK ENCOUNTER.
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. Few claim to have seen these links to our primitive past. But when a wild half-man/half-ape emerges from his countryside cave, TV cameras are there to observe the event – and the ensuing terror!
People call him Trog, short for a prehistoric cave dweller known as the troglodyte. To a determined anthropologist (Joan Crawford in her final film role), he’s the scientific discovery of the age. To others, he’s walking death. A grocer is impaled on a meat hook, a car is tossed aside like a twig, a child is kidnapped – all after local resident Sam Murdock (Michael Gough) prods the brute into a blind rampage. In true horror tradition, the world’s Murdocks leave no doubt who the real savages are … but what will become of he who is part-man, part-monster, all Trog!
STARRING: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Read more “Trog (1970) Available December 7”Another SRS Retro Release!! No one will ever be able to forget the unspeakable atrocities committed one dark midnight at the Barnes farmhouse. Now, years later, Abraham (Matthew Jason Walsh), the last surviving member of the crazed family, has taken up residence in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Armed with a video camera and his various implements of death, he stalks the streets of the city to satisfy his bloodlust…searching the psyches of his victims for his perfect mate. Enter Rebecca (Jo Norcia), a beautiful young bank teller who has unwittingly come under Abraham’s deadly camera lens. With the help of a hard-boiled police detective (Chuck Pierce), she may be able to solve the murder of her best friend…or become the ultimate sacrifice in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. From writer/director John A. Russo (Heartstopper, Night Of The Living Dead) comes a suspense-filled, nightmarish voyage through the mind of a serial killer…a voyage that leads straight into the heart of Midnight 2: Sex, Death And Videotape!
STARRING: Matthew Jason Walsh, Jo Norcia, Chuck Pierce Jr.
Read more “Midnight 2: Sex, Death & Videotape (1993) Available December 10”While logging video tapes of decades old TV broadcasts, college graduate James is propelled into a terrifying investigation when he comes across a surreal and disturbing video clip of what appears to be an imprisoned android. Evidently the product of a mysterious broadcast signal hacking, his discovery takes a sinister dread-filled turn when James tracks down similar, previously unseen broadcast intrusions that send him on a furious and obsessive pursuit across the country. Now James must confront two very real possibilities: that the videos may be clues to a crime beyond all comprehension; and that whoever was behind them may be very aware that James is coming uncomfortably close to the truth.
STARRING: Harry Shum Jr, Kelley Mack, Anthony E. Cabral
Read more “Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) Available December 7”After unexpectedly, and mysteriously, inheriting his estranged grandmother’s mansion, Stanley DeFeo finds himself in the small town of Amityville – surrounded by buried family secrets and a sinister plot against him.
STARRING: Chance Gibbs, Micha Marie Stevens, Tom Young
Read more “Amityville Cult (2021) Available December 7”Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. when her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad – Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death around her.
Read more “Thursday, December 2, 2021: The Advent Calendar Premieres Today on Shudder”Movies:
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Torso
Strip Nude for Your Killer
STARRING: Claudio Cassinelli, Giovanna Ralli, Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Edwige Fenech
Read more “Giallo Essentials Collection Vol. 2 Available December 21”Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of MARVEL’S greatest and most complex characters. In search of his next big story, journalist Eddie Brock lands an exclusive interview with convicted murderer and death row inmate Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson), who discovers Eddie’s secret and becomes the host for Carnage, a menacing and terrifying symbiote.
STARRING: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham
Read more “Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Available December 14”A demented grab-bag of sinister cinematic tropes set in the picturesque Bavarian countryside, Venom (1971, aka The Legend of Spider Forest) spins a wicked web complete with a winsome seductress (Neda Arneric) who lures curious young men to a nasty death, all in the shadow of a Nazi-styled scientist (Terence Soall) aiming to craft an arachnid-derived nerve drug. Meanwhile, an unsavory brood of conspiratorial locals is keen on maintaining the mythos of the lethal “spider goddess,” while an undaunted artist (Simon Brent) perilously investigates. Director Peter Sykes here takes a first evocative leap into screen horror that would bear more frightful fruit with the later Hammer Studios productions Demons of the Mind (1972) and To the Devil…a Daughter (1976).
STARRING: Simon Brent, Neda Arneric
Read more “Venom (1971) (aka The Legend Of Spider Forest) Available December 14”While touring to promote their first record, a heavy metal band break down in the desolate countryside, and must spend the night in a strange small town, populated by a family of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic maniacs – who are looking for their latest sacrifice to the patron saint who they worship. And they’ll stop at nothing until they take the band apart – piece by piece.
STARRING: Yolanda Berenguer, Hilario Blas, Pedro García Oliva
Read more “The Spanish Chainsaw Massacre (2017) Available December 14”Brand is a unique kind of businessman, providing his clients with snuff videos. He doesn’t do the dirty work, instead hiring others to carry out the nefarious deeds. For this job, he hires two men to kidnap a girl from a local home and torture her. What unfolds onscreen is a a marathon of pain and sadism that will leave the viewer insane…
STARRING: Thomas Goersch, Navarro, Rahina
Read more “Snuff Tape Massacre (2019) Available December 14”When a fractious aristocratic family gathers at an ancestral Scottish castle, a straight razor-wielding murderer is also an unwelcome guest in Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eyes (1973, aka Corringa or La morte negli occhi del gatto), a blood-laced thriller – complete with giallo flourishes, tantalizing sexuality, a pet gorilla and an omnipresent ginger tabby – from genre filmmaker Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson). Singer/actress Jane Birkin plays the willowy heroine whose arrival foreshadows several unnatural deaths, Hiram Keller is the possibly unhinged lord of the manor with a cursed history, and the ensemble includes schemers with homicidal tendencies, all underscored by the shudder-inducing music of the great Riz Ortolani.
STARRING: Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller
Read more “Seven Deaths In The Cat’s Eyes (1973) (aka Corringa Or La Morte Negli Occhi Del Gatto) Available December 14”The survivor of a double murder returns home and discovers that a paranormal presence has occupied the house, haunting its sacred land.
STARRING: Tamara Austin, Laila Lockhart Kraner, Steven Grayhm
Read more “The Secret of Sinchanee (2021) Available December 14”Kevin takes his wife Joy to the beach for a vacation. What he doesn’t realize is that there are clowns coming out of the ocean.
STARRING: Blake Blalock, Cynthia Bonner, Ricky Brewer
Read more “Ripple (2017) Available December 14”Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His goal is to rule the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him to return. A young man begins to suffer from visionary flashbacks – of the past lives he lived. On his father’s birthday, a case containing an old book is found in their garden, which was hidden by a Warlock in 1943. When the young man touches with the book, he mutates into a monster and awakens an army of zombies, ready to bring back the fallen Angel Premutos.
STARRING: André Stryi, Christopher Stacey, Ella Wellmann
Read more “Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997) (Extended Director’s Cut) Available December 14”First time filmmaker Gem Deger explodes on the film scene with this wildly colorful, dangerously sexy and dark-edged fantasy tale about a young man and the bizarre world he finds himself in. Demir (played by director Deger) suddenly wakes up with no memory of the past and in an unfamiliar apartment. Surrounded by balloons and an oinking pig, he scurries his way out only to be stopped by the hunky and handsome Andrew (Austin Chunn) who assures the teen that he actually lives there, with the hunk, his girlfriend and their pet pig. As he uncomfortably settles into this new reality, Demir quietly longs for his heterosexual roommate. He gets his chance when Andrew’s girlfriend Drew (Issy Stewart) ODs and they stash her body under the sofa. Demir now does everything he can to be possessed by this man, all the while ignoring the violent clues of how he got there. An intoxicating blend of fantasy, violence, passion and control.
STARRING: Gem Deger, Austin Chunn, Issy Stewart
Read more “Playdurizm (2020) Available December 14”Detective Mike Jericho is changing. He stops showing up for work and shuts out the people once important to him. Now, he spends all his time hanging out with his new friends, having fun, and learning how to hunt and kill innocent people. Mike is changing; and his new friends aren’t quite human.
Detective Jimi Cannon is searching. He’s hitting the streets, fiercely looking for his best friend, Mike.
Now, Jimi must enter a world of shadows and face off – guns blazing – against an enemy that won’t die. He’ll do everything he can to save Mike, but it will take more than courage for Jimi to survive the NIGHT!
STARRING: Various
Read more “Night: The Final Cut (2006) Available December 14”Both opulent and humanly scaled, director Vittorio Cottafavi’s Messalina (1960, aka Messalina Venere Imperatrice) is a rare Italian-made historical spectacle headlined by a solo-above-title female star, the ideally cast English-born Belinda Lee, in one of the final roles of her tragically shortened life. Playing the young beauty plucked from country life as the Vestal Valeria to enter an arranged marriage with the newly crowned Roman emperor Claudius, she ably portrays the sexual manipulativeness and raw hunger for power of the murderous empress of legend. Seducing several high-born lovers to gain political influence, Messalina learns that balancing her grasp on the aristocracy and the common folk is too much to handle, even as she longs for the affections of her true love, the ultimately incorruptible tribune Lucius Maximus (Spiros Focas).
STARRING: Belinda Lee, Spyros Fokas
Read more “Messalina (1960) Available December 14”When Taylor’s (Taylor Lennox) father unexpectedly passes away, he inherits all of his property, including a secluded little lake house in Montana. Soon after, Taylor and his new bride Ann (Maiah Wynne) decide to honeymoon by the lake for some much\-needed rest and relaxation. But as the two begin to settle in, things are not as serene as they thought. There’s no one around. The forest is almost too quiet and they soon encounter an overbearing neighbor named Chuck (Jeff Medley), who likes to carry around an axe…
STARRING: Maiah Wynne, Taylor Lennox, Jeff Medley
Read more “Loon (2017) Available December 14”HE’S ICIN’ AND SLICIN’!
Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald), the chiller killer is back and he’s mad as hell. An accidental lab experiment resurrected the evil snowman, but this time, the crystal killer can’t be stopped by fire, bullets or even his worst enemy, chemical anti-freeze. With revenge on his mind, Jack sets out to finish off his nemesis, Sheriff Sam (Christopher Allport), who is vacationing on a Caribbean island. Sam’s balmy paradise turns into a Winter Terrorland when Jack freezes the island and quickly ices everyone around him. No one can stop the chilling killing spree when Jack can travel as lethal liquid or fatal, frosty flakes. Just when you thawed it was safe to go back in the fridge!
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Jennifer Lyons
Read more “Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) (Special Edition) Available December 14”HE’S CHILLIN’ AND KILLIN’!
He’s got ice in his veins and he’s giving cold-blooded a whole new meaning… his name is JACK FROST. After five years of terror and 38 bodies in five states, serial killer Jack is on his way to execution. But a freak accident with a truckload of genetic material in the middle of a snowstorm mutates Jack into a killer snowman. Now only an army can stop the slayride of terror from this frosty monster with icicle fangs. Hell has just frozen over… he’s the abominable Jack Frost.
STARRING: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Shannon Elizabeth, Stephen Mendel, Eileen Seeley
Read more “Jack Frost (1997) Available December 14”
