In Dead & Beautiful, five rich, spoiled Asian twenty-somethings (Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Philip Juan, Anechka Marchenko) are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out, to find they have developed vampire fangs and an unquenchable thirst for flesh, blood, and adventure at any price. Directed by David Verbeek.
In this color-saturated psychedelic thriller, lesbian stoner Marcy returns home to help her grandparents handle her beloved grandmother’s strange sudden visions. Having initially dismissed them as “part of her grandmother’s dementia,” Marcy quickly succumbs to horrors of her own, plagued by the warping reality and psychosexual ghosts seeping into her home. But when a deadly entity from a Victorian photograph steals her grandfather in the night, Marcy has no choice: teaming up with her eccentric southern belle neighbor, her ice-cream-truck-driving weed dealer, her ailing grandmother, and an enigmatic phone psychic, Marcy must confront the dark phantasm before everyone she knows is snatched to the deadly bosom of The Invisible Mother.
Acclaimed director of indie horror hit Jug Face (aka The Pit), Chad Crawford Kinkle, returns with Dementer, a psychological horror thriller branded as “an unexpected gem” (Pophorror.com) and “an impressionistic, poetic occult-horror film” (Nashville Scene).
Fleeing from a cult that has left her scarred both physically and mentally, Katie (Katie Groshong, Jug Face, A Measure of the Sin) is keen to get her life together. On her path to recovery, she takes a job in a care centre supporting adults with special needs, among them Stephanie (Stephanie Kinkle), a woman with Down syndrome. Convinced that the “devils” are coming for Stephanie, and tormented by flashbacks of her experience within the cult and with their leader Larry (Larry Fessenden, The Dead Don’t Die, Habit), Katie takes increasingly extreme measures to ward off the evil that is making Stephanie sick. But what if her rituals are doing more harm than good?
Raw and unsettling, Dementer is a brave and unflinching story of lives lived on the fringes of society, and a battle with demons inside and out. Shot on real locations with many non-actors playing versions of themselves – including Kinkle’s real life sister Stephanie – this is a deeply personal genre film with an emotional punch that lingers long after the credits have rolled.
What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968’s The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch, a fantastically phantasmagorical slice of twisted tokusatsu terror ostensibly made for children that will irreparably traumatise any child that sees it!
A young girl named Sayuri is reunited with her estranged family after years in an orphanage – but trouble lurks within the walls of the large family home. Her mother is an amnesiac after a car accident six months earlier, her sullen sister is confined to the attic and a young housemaid dies inexplicably of a heart attack just before Sayuri arrives… is it all connected to her father’s work studying venomous snakes? And is the fanged, serpentine figure that haunts Sayuri’s dreams the same one spying on her through holes in the wall?
Making its worldwide Blu-ray debut and its home video premiere outside Japan, this rarely-screened, nightmarishly disorienting creepshow not only displays a seldom-seen side of kaiju auteur Yuasa, but its skilful blending of Umezu’s comics (published in English-language markets as Reptilia) arguably anticipates many of the trends seen in J-horror decades later.
A chilling tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after a mysterious disappearance, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the trees
A chilling tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after a mysterious disappearance, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the trees
Benny’s entire world is turned upside down after picking up two mysterious girls who expose him to a secret world he never knew existed. He is suddenly hurled into their cryptic underworld on a mission to save his city from dripping in blood.
A chilling tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after a mysterious disappearance, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the trees
A chilling tale about a group of hikers hunted by a sinister presence in the woods. Twenty years after a mysterious disappearance, a group of friends find themselves along the same trail unaware of a long-forgotten evil lurking just beyond the trees
When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to protect him from a vampire hunter. Besotted by the creature, she feeds him animal blood, but any chance of romance is soon thwarted when a gang of fellow bloodsuckers invade her home in search of their missing friend.
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive. Joining forces with two of the original survivors, they soon discover they’ve all played the game before.
In Night of the Animated Dead, siblings Barbara and Johnny visit their father’s grave in a remote cemetery in Pennsylvania when they are suddenly set upon by zombies. Barbara flees and takes refuge in an abandoned farmhouse along with stranded motorist Ben and four local survivors found hiding in the cellar. Together, the group must fight to stay alive against the oncoming horde of zombies while also confronting their own fears and prejudices.
A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge.
STARRING: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse LaVercombe, Obi Abili
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity, in writer-director Keith Thomas’ electrifying feature debut.
STARRING: Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig, Malky Goldman, Fred Melamed, Lynn Cohen
1974: a young nurse is forced to work the night shift in a crumbling hospital as striking miners switch off the power across Britain. But inside the walls lurks a terrifying presence that threatens to consume her and everyone around her.
STARRING: Rose Williams, Charlie Carrick, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Theo Barklem-Biggs
Harper (Katie Stevens) and her roommate Bailey (Lauryn Alisa McClain) go out to celebrate Halloween with two other friends Mallory (Schuyler Helford) and Angela (Shazi Raja). While Harper is struggling with a trauma from her youth and is dealing with an alcoholic and abusive boyfriend, they meet up with two guys Nathan (Will Brittain) and Evan (Andrew Caldwell) and decide to go to do something fun. They end up at an extreme haunted house attraction which seems a perfect way to have a fun Halloween. But once inside, they find out what extreme means and things are starting to get a little too real.
STARRING: Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, Lauryn Alisa McClain, Andrew Lewis Caldwell
Halloween is too special for just one month, so Shudder has supersized the holiday with a two-month, 61-day celebration of new movies, series and specials along with old favorites. In this spot, get a sneak peek at upcoming Shudder Originals & Exclusives like V/H/S/94, The Medium and the new Horror Noire anthology film and see why Shudder has your Halloween covered. #61DaysofHalloween
Marco is running out of time to find a job before his girlfriend, Dana, has their first baby. He’s also losing his mind. As Marco’s grip on reality begins to slip into a psychological nightmare, Dana’s safety and the lines between fiction and fact disappear. Notes with threatening messages start appearing around the apartment, a secret burner phone won’t stop ringing, and an uninvited guest pushes Marco to the edge. If he can’t figure out how to make it all stop before it’s too late he might lose Dana, the baby, and his sanity.
Starring: Nicholas Saenz, Brea Grant, Dave Buckman, Jon Michael Simpson, Adriana Guerra , Richard C. Jones and Kat Barrilleaux
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. V/H/S/94 is the fourth installment in the hit horror anthology franchise and marks the return of the infamous found footage anthology with segments from franchise alumni Simon Barrett (Séance) and Timo Tjahjanto (May the Devil Take You Too) in addition to acclaimed directors Jennifer Reeder (Knives & Skin), Ryan Prows (Lowlife) and Chloe Okuno (Slut).
