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Premieres, Exclusives, Episodes, Movies And More This March On Shudder (Schedule)

Shudder’s coming strong this March with a ton of exclusives, premieres, episodes, and great movies. We’re here to make sure you don’t miss a moment of it. Check out the schedule and highlights, grab a bag of popcorn and get ready to be entertained! SHUDDER ORIGINAL/EXCLUSIVE MOVIES THE ROOM Premieres Thursday, 3/12 Best Feature Winner – Bucheon International & Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival He’s a struggling comic book artist, she’s tired of her job in a big law firm. In search of a more authentic and healthy life, they leave the city and move into an old house in New Hampshire. They soon discover a secret hidden room that has the extraordinary power to materialize anything they wish for. Like children in a fairy tale, they spend days and nights indulging their every material desire. And then one day, they ask for something different: a child, a little boy of their own, only to discover some wishes have dire

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 21, 2020
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Everything Coming To Shudder This February

This February many bloody good premieres and movies are being added to Shudder’s already impressive library. Here’s everything coming this month. NEW ORIGINAL SERIES THE DEAD LANDS — New Episodes Thursdays through March 5 A supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The Dead Lands features a disgraced warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka encounters a determined young woman, Mehe (Darneen Christian), who becomes both his protégé and moral compass. Together, they navigate tribal politics, the unsettled ghosts of Ancestors and other forces both natural and supernatural, on a quest to discover who “broke the world” and how to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 24, 2020
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Shudder’s Horror Fantasy Series “The Dead Lands” Premieres This January

Shudder’s new supernatural fantasy adventure series “The Dead Lands” is ready to premiere later this month. Set in a mythical Aotearoa—New Zealand in a time before time. A dishonored warrior, Waka Nuku Rau dies, but his Ancestors in the Afterlife send him back to the world to find redemption and honor. There, in the world of the living, he is aided by Mehe, a determined young woman, and together they discover the world has been disrupted by forces, not of the living. Someone, or something, is preventing the dead from entering the Afterlife and now the dead are thrown back into their decaying bodies to hunt the living.“The Dead Lands” is the first genre TV showcase of Māori mythic storytelling and martial traditions, created by a mainly Māori cast with significant Māori involvement at all levels of the production. Directed by Peter Meteherangi, Tikao Burger and Michael Hurst, “The Dead Lands” stars Te Kohe Tuhaka (Monster Problems) as “Waka Nuku

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2020
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Shudder Announces Premiere Of New Original Series “The Dead Lands”

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that its new original series “The Dead Lands”, a co-production with New Zealand’s TVNZ, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, January 23rd, across all of Shudder’s territories (US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland). It will also air on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand immediately after its international debut. Subsequent episodes will premiere on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand weekly. “The Dead Lands” tells of a supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The series features a murdered Māori warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 6, 2019

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Premieres, Exclusives, Episodes, Movies And More This March On Shudder (Schedule)

Shudder’s coming strong this March with a ton of exclusives, premieres, episodes, and great movies. We’re here to make sure you don’t miss a moment of it. Check out the schedule and highlights, grab a bag of popcorn and get ready to be entertained! SHUDDER ORIGINAL/EXCLUSIVE MOVIES THE ROOM Premieres Thursday, 3/12 Best Feature Winner – Bucheon International & Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival He’s a struggling comic book artist, she’s tired of her job in a big law firm. In search of a more authentic and healthy life, they leave the city and move into an old house in New Hampshire. They soon discover a secret hidden room that has the extraordinary power to materialize anything they wish for. Like children in a fairy tale, they spend days and nights indulging their every material desire. And then one day, they ask for something different: a child, a little boy of their own, only to discover some wishes have dire

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Feb 21, 2020
Horror Fuel

Everything Coming To Shudder This February

This February many bloody good premieres and movies are being added to Shudder’s already impressive library. Here’s everything coming this month. NEW ORIGINAL SERIES THE DEAD LANDS — New Episodes Thursdays through March 5 A supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The Dead Lands features a disgraced warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka encounters a determined young woman, Mehe (Darneen Christian), who becomes both his protégé and moral compass. Together, they navigate tribal politics, the unsettled ghosts of Ancestors and other forces both natural and supernatural, on a quest to discover who “broke the world” and how to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 24, 2020
Horror Fuel

Shudder’s Horror Fantasy Series “The Dead Lands” Premieres This January

Shudder’s new supernatural fantasy adventure series “The Dead Lands” is ready to premiere later this month. Set in a mythical Aotearoa—New Zealand in a time before time. A dishonored warrior, Waka Nuku Rau dies, but his Ancestors in the Afterlife send him back to the world to find redemption and honor. There, in the world of the living, he is aided by Mehe, a determined young woman, and together they discover the world has been disrupted by forces, not of the living. Someone, or something, is preventing the dead from entering the Afterlife and now the dead are thrown back into their decaying bodies to hunt the living.“The Dead Lands” is the first genre TV showcase of Māori mythic storytelling and martial traditions, created by a mainly Māori cast with significant Māori involvement at all levels of the production. Directed by Peter Meteherangi, Tikao Burger and Michael Hurst, “The Dead Lands” stars Te Kohe Tuhaka (Monster Problems) as “Waka Nuku

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

Shudder Announces Premiere Of New Original Series “The Dead Lands”

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that its new original series “The Dead Lands”, a co-production with New Zealand’s TVNZ, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, January 23rd, across all of Shudder’s territories (US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland). It will also air on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand immediately after its international debut. Subsequent episodes will premiere on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand weekly. “The Dead Lands” tells of a supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The series features a murdered Māori warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 6, 2019