Shudder Continuing ‘Season of Screams’ Through December

Original and Exclusive Films

New Group (Nov 6): A high school student watches her world collapse as a strange cult-like mentality turns community members into violent, hypnotized dancers.

Tinsman Road (Nov 13): A determined young man navigates a dark, serpentine mystery in backwoods New Jersey while searching for his long-missing sister.

Ice Cream Man (Nov 20): A mysterious street vendor rolls into town serving sweet treats that drive local children into an unhinged, deadly killing spree.

The Holy Boy (Nov 27): A troubled teacher discovers a dark secret behind an Italian village’s total devotion to a teenager whose embrace cures all pain.

November Library Additions

• Nov 1:

  • Christmas Evil: A traumatized toy factory worker suffers a mental breakdown and embarks on a murderous holiday rampage.

  • Better Watch Out: A babysitter defends a young boy from home invaders, only to uncover a far more sinister reality.

  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Teens unleash terrifying supernatural forces after exploring a mansion that belonged to the notorious Bellows family.

  • YoYou’reext: A wealthy family comes under violent attack during an anniversary getaway before discovering one victim possesses lethal survival skills.

  • Theatre of Horrors: Four eager actors realize their brilliant, avant-garde theater director is actually a homicidal madman.

  • Sweeney Todd (1928): A man dreams he is the legendary demon barber who murders sailors for their jewels and bakes them into meat pies.

  • The Lighthouse Keepers (1929): A man suffers a rabid dog bite right before isolating himself with his father in a remote lighthouse.

  • Spawn (1997): A slain elite mercenary makes a deal with the Devil and returns from Hell as a reluctant supernatural warrior.

  • The Innkeepers: Two paranormal-obsessed hotel employees experience terrifying supernatural events during the final operating days of an historic inn.

  • The House of the Devil: A financially desperate college student takes an eerie babysitting job that coincides with a terrifying lunar eclipse cult ritual.

  • A Christmas Horror Story: A festive radio host weaves together four terrifying Christmas Eve tales featuring evil spirits, mutant elves, and Krampus.

  • The Green Inferno: A group of naive student activists travels to the Amazon rainforest, only to fall captive to a flesh-eating cannibal tribe.

  • DoDon’tpen Till Christmas: A masked murderer with zero holiday spirit stalks and brutally slays anyone dressed in a Santa Claus suit across London.

• Nov 9:

  • Eerie Tales (1919): A demon, a reaper, and a ghost gather inside a dark bookstore to read and act out classic gothic horror stories.

  • The Living Dead: A relentless reporter tracks down an insane scientist who murdered his wife, walled her corpse up, and fled the scene.

  • The Wizard of Gore: A TV talk show host investigates a sinister magician who uses hypnotism to perform gruesome, realistic stage murders.

• Nov 10:

  • The Company of Wolves: A sleeping teenage girl experiences vivid, disturbing dreams where ancient fairy tales merge with dangerous werewolf legends.

• Nov 16:

  • The Becomers: A shape-shifting alien lands on Earth, reunites with its partner, and navigates the strange complexities of modern American life.

  • The A-Frame: A quantum physicist opens a portal to a subatomic universe, inadvertently unlocking a radical but terrifying cure for cancer.

  • Bury Your Dead: A countryside roadkill collector embarks on a dangerous journey through a desolate landscape after his girlfriend joins a bizarre cult.

  • Hush: A deaf and mute author living in total solitude in the woods must fight for her life when a masked killer appears outside her window.

• Nov 26:

  • Black Christmas (1974): A mysterious, unseen killer stalks and terrorizes a group of sorority sisters from inside their attic during winter break.

  • Black Christmas (2006): An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home—now a sorority house—and murders the residents one by one on Christmas Eve.

December 2026 Premieres

Original Series and Specials

• Unholy Night (Dec 4): A dysfunctional family’s traditional Christmas Eve dinner devolves into bloody mayhem when a resurrected grandmother goes on a murder spree.

• Joe Bob Conquers Christmas (Dec 4): Horror hosts Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl ring in the festive season with infamous holiday horror classics and a live charity fundraiser.

• Red Snow (Dec 11): An emo teenager in Finland meets an aging, beer-bellied vampire in a Santa suit who devours families on Christmas Eve.

• Split Rock (Dec 25): Environmental researchers investigating a subterranean terrain anomaly accidentally unleash an ancient, destructive force buried deep underground.

• The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 7 (Tuesdays through Dec 29): Drag superstars Dracmorda and Swanthula host as extreme drag artists compete in terrifying challenges for a massive cash prize.

December Library Additions

• Dec 1:

  • P2: A businesswoman becomes trapped inside a deserted underground parking garage on Christmas Eve with an obsessed, psychopathic security guard.

  • A Christmas Tale (2005): Five neighborhood kids discover a bank robber dressed as Santa trapped in a pit and hold her hostage for stolen loot.

  • The Ghost (1963): A vengeful wife and her secret lover murder her wealthy husband, only to suspect his vengeful spirit is haunting their estate.

  • Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: Alien invaders kidnap Santa Claus and take him to Mars to cheer up their listless alien children.

  • The Munsters: Rob Zombie’s reboot follows a quirky family of monsters as they relocate from Transylvania to a suburban American neighborhood.

  • Access: Horror 2026 Short Program: Disabled filmmakers present, host, and curate a special festival selection celebrating disability representation in horror.

  • The Shining: A winter caretaker loses his sanity at an isolated hotel as supernatural forces manipulate him into targeting his family.

  • Hannibal Rising: Severe trauma, loss, and brutality during World War II warp young Hannibal Lecter into a ruthless, cannibalistic serial killer.

  • Silent Night: A group of close friends and family gather for a final Christmas dinner right before an apocalyptic environmental event destroys humanity.

  • The Haunted Season: The Fated Hour: A bride-to-be recounts her late sister’s gloomy, mysterious life and dark legacy on the eve of her wedding.

  • We Are Still Here: A grieving couple moves into a quiet New England home that awakens every thirty years to demand a living sacrifice.

• Dec 7:

  • Past Life: A skeptic undergoes hypnotherapy and unlocks terrifying memories suggesting he committed a brutal murder in a previous life.

  • Psycho (1998): Gus Van Sant’s shot-for-shot remake follows an embezzling secretary who checks into the isolated Bates Motel run by Norman Bates.

  • Wer: A defense attorney representing a man accused of brutally murdering a holiday family begins to suspect her client is an actual werewolf.

  • The Wolfman: An American man returns to his ancestral homeland, suffers a fateful bite, and inherits an ancient, bloodthirsty family curse.

• Dec 14:

  • Pure Scum: Two former private schoolboys escape a drug-fueled car accident and descend into a night of chaotic Melbourne debauchery.

• Dec 21:

  • Went Up the Hill: A young man attends his estranged mother’s funeral, where her vengeful spirit possesses both him and her grieving widow.

• Dec 28:

  • The Penthouse (2026): A young family moves into a high-end Kuala Lumpur apartment building, only to face terrifying psychological torment.