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“NOS4A2” Coming To Shudder

“NOS4A2”, the hit vampire series based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill, is coming to Shudder, the premium streaming service dedicated to horror, thriller and the supernatural. Shudder announced today that the first episode of “NOS4A2″ will debut on their service in the U.S. and Canada this August. Showrunner Jami O’Brien and her cast have done an amazing job bringing Joe Hill’s gripping novel to life,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “NOS4A2 is one of the best new horror series in years, and we’re beyond thrilled to bring it to Shudder members.” The series stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Virginia Kull, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jahkara Smith. “NOS4A2″ introduces Vic McQueen (Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx (Quinto). Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls

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Jul 17, 2019
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Shudder Renews “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs” !

Ahead of this Friday’s season finale, Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have announced that they have renewed “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs“! “From our first marathon and subsequent specials in 2018, through this year’s series, Shudder members have been loud and clear: we can never have too much Joe Bob,” said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. “We have read every tweet, every email, and every Facebook comment crying out for more. Message received. Joe Bob will be back.” “It hasn’t even been a full year since the 24-hour Last Drive-In marathon, but since then I’ve made thousands of new friends and reconnected with thousands of old ones,” said Briggs. “The main reason I’m coming back to do another season is that this community of horror fans is greater than the sum of its parts, and it’s about something larger than horror. Don’t ask me what that thing is, but it’s a

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May 23, 2019
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Shudder Acquires Award-Winning Film ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’

It’s been called “one of 2018’s best undistributed films” (SlashFilm) and now you can also call it a Shudder Exclusive. Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, announced today that it has picked up all rights to writer-director Issa Lopez’s acclaimed feature Tigers Are Not Afraid where you can see it later this year. I’m incredibly happy to announce that Shudder will distribute Tigers Are Not Afraid for English-language audiences,” said Lopez. “Shudder is an outstanding curator of the best and the weirdest of international fantastic cinema, including many of my favorite new movies from trailblazing filmmakers. The opportunity to have Tigers Are Not Afraid among them is an absolute honor.” Lopez’s film combines horror and fantasy to deliver a moving portrait of the dire circumstances of the children left behind by Mexico’s brutal drug wars. Estrella ( Paolo Lara) is ten-years-old and alone. Given three magical wishes, she asks first that her missing mother come

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Apr 19, 2019
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Adrienne Barbeau And Tobin Bell Join Shudder’s “Creepshow”

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced the first round of casting for its upcoming horror anthology series, “Creepshow“, based on the iconic 1982 film written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. They’ve also given us a first look at the series “Creep”. The first to join the series is Scream Queen Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), and Tobin Bell (Saw) who will star in the Stephen King story “Gray Matter,” adapted by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi (The Commuter) and directed by series showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead). I feel I’m in great company getting the opportunity to direct a story written by Steve,” said Nicotero. “Between Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary and The Stand, I’ve always found his stories rich in relatable characters forced into supernatural situations beyond their control—the everyday person’s primal fears. To visualize ‘Gray Matter’ for Creepshow with the help of

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This April A Ton Of Premieres Are Coming To Shudder

Ah, Spring, a time when beautiful things grow, including the list horror films, exclusives, and more from the leading streaming genre network, Shudder. And we’ve got a list of all the new features headed your way, including the Shudder Exclusives Lizzie and Monster Party, new weekly episodes of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (series premiere this Friday!), and a special “Halfway to Halloween” collection of the first five Halloween movies, including Halloween III. Be sure to tune in on April 8thfor Shudder‘s premiere of The Haunted (1991), a TV movie based on an Ed and Lorraine Warren case (the paranormal investigators later depicted in The Conjuring franchise), featuring Sally Kirkland in a Golden Globe-nominated performance. As far as we can tell, it’s never officially been out on DVD or Blu-ray in the U.S. SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE MOVIES LIZZIE (2018) — available Thursday, April 11 Director: Craig William Macneil, Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) is

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Mar 27, 2019
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Shudder Announces Spring Movie Premieres

After a record-smashing 2018 that included releases such as Mandy, Revenge, and Summer of ‘84, Shudder kicked off 2019 with Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich and Horror Noire. Shudder, AMC network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, today announced its Spring lineup of acclaimed, bold and genre-bending Shudder Exclusive movies: Lizzie, starring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, crooks vs. killers thriller Monster Party, SXSW and London FrightFest favorite The Ranger, Fantasia International Film Festival special prize winner The Night Shifter, and Australian rampaging creature comedy Boar. LIZZIE (2018) — available Thursday, April 11 (US/Canada) A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE Director: Craig William Macneil, Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) is a social outcast, living a claustrophobic life that’s ready to boil over. In its dark, moody retelling of the notorious 1892 ax murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie is a psychological thriller that reveals many layers of the strange and fragile

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Mar 24, 2019
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Tune In This March For All New Episodes Of “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs”

Proving once again that “the drive-in will never die,” iconic horror host and exploitation movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back with an all-new “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” series exclusively on Shudder, the AMC Networks premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural announced today. The nine-episode original series will air weekly double features streaming live every Friday night at 9:00 p.m ET/ 6:00 p.m. PT, beginning March 29 and concluding on Friday, May 24, Memorial Day Weekend. Each episode will also be made available on demand at a later time. “The Last Drive-In” series marks Briggs return to weekly on-screen appearances for the first time since ending his run on TNT’s MonsterVision in 2000. We’ve had The Last Drive-In 24-hour marathon, The Last Drive-In Thanksgiving marathon, and The Last Drive-In Christmas marathon, but the Shudder audience kept asking for some kind of programming that didn’t require sleep deprivation and controlled substances,” said host Joe Bob

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Shudder Announces New Series ‘Critters: A New Binge’

Shudder has just announced their new series “Critters: A New Binge!” The eight-episode series from Warner Bros. Television and Blue Ribbon Content marks the return of everyone’s favorite hairy, insatiable aliens from the horror franchise that began in 1986. In the series, pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher (Joey Morgan, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), his crush Dana (Stephi Chin-Salvo, iZOMBIE), his best friend Charlie (Bzhaun Rhoden, Van Helsing), and his mom Veronica (Kirsten Robek, The Edge of Seventeen), whose past will come back to bite them—literally. The series also features Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin, Justice League Action) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich). Jordan Rubin directs the series, which is produced by Front Street Pictures Inc. and Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content. Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan, and Al Kaplan, the creative team behind Zombeavers and The Drone, wrote the

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Feb 28, 2019
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Shudder Announces Three Original Podcasts From Eli Roth, Elijah Wood, And Adrienne Barbeau

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, announced today an exciting trio of original podcasts offering candid conversations with many of the most important and iconic figures in the genre: Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut, an expansion of the television series AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth’s History of Horror; She Kills, a podcast by and about women in the horror genre, hosted by Adrienne Barbeau; and Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah, a unique series that invites listeners into the lives and homes of some of the most creative figures working in genre entertainment today. We’re thrilled to be working with amazing talents like Eli Roth, Adrienne Barbeau, Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, who have assembled an unprecedented collection of horror creators for this slate of podcasts,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “They’ll be exploring timely topics, unpacking the history of the genre and pointing the way to its future by talking to

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Feb 22, 2019
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Greg Nicotero Shares First Image From “Creepshow”

Shudder has wrapped filming on the premiere episode of their new original series “Creepshow”, inspired by the movie of the same name. SFX legend Greg Nicotero shared the news via Instagram along with the first official image. The ghastly figure lurking just outside a window is a nod to the original film’s cover. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6KTr1hh0E/ Here’s the image from the original movie: Nicotero will be directing several episodes of the series as well as executive producing. Other episodes will be directed by David Bruckner (The Ritual), Roxanne Benjamin(XX), and Rob Schrab (“Ghosted”). John Harrison, who served as the assistant director for George Romero’s original Creepshow movie will also be directing, Bloody-Disgusting reports. Nicotero’s Oscar and Emmy award-winning company, KNB EFX GROUP Inc., will be doing the creature and make-up effects for the series. “Creepshow” will premiere on Shudder later this year and will feature episodes written by some of the biggest names in horror: “By the Silvery Waters of Lake Champlain”

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Feb 16, 2019

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“NOS4A2” Coming To Shudder

“NOS4A2”, the hit vampire series based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill, is coming to Shudder, the premium streaming service dedicated to horror, thriller and the supernatural. Shudder announced today that the first episode of “NOS4A2″ will debut on their service in the U.S. and Canada this August. Showrunner Jami O’Brien and her cast have done an amazing job bringing Joe Hill’s gripping novel to life,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “NOS4A2 is one of the best new horror series in years, and we’re beyond thrilled to bring it to Shudder members.” The series stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Virginia Kull, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Jahkara Smith. “NOS4A2″ introduces Vic McQueen (Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx (Quinto). Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls

Continue reading →
Jul 17, 2019
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Shudder Renews “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs” !

Ahead of this Friday’s season finale, Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural have announced that they have renewed “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs“! “From our first marathon and subsequent specials in 2018, through this year’s series, Shudder members have been loud and clear: we can never have too much Joe Bob,” said Shudder General Manager Craig Engler. “We have read every tweet, every email, and every Facebook comment crying out for more. Message received. Joe Bob will be back.” “It hasn’t even been a full year since the 24-hour Last Drive-In marathon, but since then I’ve made thousands of new friends and reconnected with thousands of old ones,” said Briggs. “The main reason I’m coming back to do another season is that this community of horror fans is greater than the sum of its parts, and it’s about something larger than horror. Don’t ask me what that thing is, but it’s a

Continue reading →
May 23, 2019
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Shudder Acquires Award-Winning Film ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’

It’s been called “one of 2018’s best undistributed films” (SlashFilm) and now you can also call it a Shudder Exclusive. Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, announced today that it has picked up all rights to writer-director Issa Lopez’s acclaimed feature Tigers Are Not Afraid where you can see it later this year. I’m incredibly happy to announce that Shudder will distribute Tigers Are Not Afraid for English-language audiences,” said Lopez. “Shudder is an outstanding curator of the best and the weirdest of international fantastic cinema, including many of my favorite new movies from trailblazing filmmakers. The opportunity to have Tigers Are Not Afraid among them is an absolute honor.” Lopez’s film combines horror and fantasy to deliver a moving portrait of the dire circumstances of the children left behind by Mexico’s brutal drug wars. Estrella ( Paolo Lara) is ten-years-old and alone. Given three magical wishes, she asks first that her missing mother come

Continue reading →
Apr 19, 2019
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Adrienne Barbeau And Tobin Bell Join Shudder’s “Creepshow”

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced the first round of casting for its upcoming horror anthology series, “Creepshow“, based on the iconic 1982 film written by Stephen King and directed by George A. Romero. They’ve also given us a first look at the series “Creep”. The first to join the series is Scream Queen Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog), Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul), and Tobin Bell (Saw) who will star in the Stephen King story “Gray Matter,” adapted by Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi (The Commuter) and directed by series showrunner Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead). I feel I’m in great company getting the opportunity to direct a story written by Steve,” said Nicotero. “Between Salem’s Lot, Pet Sematary and The Stand, I’ve always found his stories rich in relatable characters forced into supernatural situations beyond their control—the everyday person’s primal fears. To visualize ‘Gray Matter’ for Creepshow with the help of

Continue reading →
Horror Fuel

This April A Ton Of Premieres Are Coming To Shudder

Ah, Spring, a time when beautiful things grow, including the list horror films, exclusives, and more from the leading streaming genre network, Shudder. And we’ve got a list of all the new features headed your way, including the Shudder Exclusives Lizzie and Monster Party, new weekly episodes of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (series premiere this Friday!), and a special “Halfway to Halloween” collection of the first five Halloween movies, including Halloween III. Be sure to tune in on April 8thfor Shudder‘s premiere of The Haunted (1991), a TV movie based on an Ed and Lorraine Warren case (the paranormal investigators later depicted in The Conjuring franchise), featuring Sally Kirkland in a Golden Globe-nominated performance. As far as we can tell, it’s never officially been out on DVD or Blu-ray in the U.S. SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE MOVIES LIZZIE (2018) — available Thursday, April 11 Director: Craig William Macneil, Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) is

Continue reading →
Mar 27, 2019
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces Spring Movie Premieres

After a record-smashing 2018 that included releases such as Mandy, Revenge, and Summer of ‘84, Shudder kicked off 2019 with Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich and Horror Noire. Shudder, AMC network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, today announced its Spring lineup of acclaimed, bold and genre-bending Shudder Exclusive movies: Lizzie, starring Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart, crooks vs. killers thriller Monster Party, SXSW and London FrightFest favorite The Ranger, Fantasia International Film Festival special prize winner The Night Shifter, and Australian rampaging creature comedy Boar. LIZZIE (2018) — available Thursday, April 11 (US/Canada) A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE Director: Craig William Macneil, Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) is a social outcast, living a claustrophobic life that’s ready to boil over. In its dark, moody retelling of the notorious 1892 ax murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie is a psychological thriller that reveals many layers of the strange and fragile

Continue reading →
Mar 24, 2019
Horror Fuel

Tune In This March For All New Episodes Of “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs”

Proving once again that “the drive-in will never die,” iconic horror host and exploitation movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back with an all-new “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” series exclusively on Shudder, the AMC Networks premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural announced today. The nine-episode original series will air weekly double features streaming live every Friday night at 9:00 p.m ET/ 6:00 p.m. PT, beginning March 29 and concluding on Friday, May 24, Memorial Day Weekend. Each episode will also be made available on demand at a later time. “The Last Drive-In” series marks Briggs return to weekly on-screen appearances for the first time since ending his run on TNT’s MonsterVision in 2000. We’ve had The Last Drive-In 24-hour marathon, The Last Drive-In Thanksgiving marathon, and The Last Drive-In Christmas marathon, but the Shudder audience kept asking for some kind of programming that didn’t require sleep deprivation and controlled substances,” said host Joe Bob

Continue reading →
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces New Series ‘Critters: A New Binge’

Shudder has just announced their new series “Critters: A New Binge!” The eight-episode series from Warner Bros. Television and Blue Ribbon Content marks the return of everyone’s favorite hairy, insatiable aliens from the horror franchise that began in 1986. In the series, pursued by intergalactic bounty hunters, the Critters return to Earth on a secret mission and encounter lovelorn high-schooler Christopher (Joey Morgan, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), his crush Dana (Stephi Chin-Salvo, iZOMBIE), his best friend Charlie (Bzhaun Rhoden, Van Helsing), and his mom Veronica (Kirsten Robek, The Edge of Seventeen), whose past will come back to bite them—literally. The series also features Gilbert Gottfried (Aladdin, Justice League Action) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich). Jordan Rubin directs the series, which is produced by Front Street Pictures Inc. and Abominable Pictures in association with Blue Ribbon Content. Jordan Rubin, Jon Kaplan, and Al Kaplan, the creative team behind Zombeavers and The Drone, wrote the

Continue reading →
Feb 28, 2019
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces Three Original Podcasts From Eli Roth, Elijah Wood, And Adrienne Barbeau

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, announced today an exciting trio of original podcasts offering candid conversations with many of the most important and iconic figures in the genre: Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut, an expansion of the television series AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth’s History of Horror; She Kills, a podcast by and about women in the horror genre, hosted by Adrienne Barbeau; and Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah, a unique series that invites listeners into the lives and homes of some of the most creative figures working in genre entertainment today. We’re thrilled to be working with amazing talents like Eli Roth, Adrienne Barbeau, Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, who have assembled an unprecedented collection of horror creators for this slate of podcasts,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s General Manager. “They’ll be exploring timely topics, unpacking the history of the genre and pointing the way to its future by talking to

Continue reading →
Feb 22, 2019
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Greg Nicotero Shares First Image From “Creepshow”

Shudder has wrapped filming on the premiere episode of their new original series “Creepshow”, inspired by the movie of the same name. SFX legend Greg Nicotero shared the news via Instagram along with the first official image. The ghastly figure lurking just outside a window is a nod to the original film’s cover. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6KTr1hh0E/ Here’s the image from the original movie: Nicotero will be directing several episodes of the series as well as executive producing. Other episodes will be directed by David Bruckner (The Ritual), Roxanne Benjamin(XX), and Rob Schrab (“Ghosted”). John Harrison, who served as the assistant director for George Romero’s original Creepshow movie will also be directing, Bloody-Disgusting reports. Nicotero’s Oscar and Emmy award-winning company, KNB EFX GROUP Inc., will be doing the creature and make-up effects for the series. “Creepshow” will premiere on Shudder later this year and will feature episodes written by some of the biggest names in horror: “By the Silvery Waters of Lake Champlain”

Continue reading →
Feb 16, 2019