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Shudder Sets 11 Terrifying Movie Premieres In 11 Weeks Starting Today!

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AMC’s all horror/thriller streaming platform, Shudder, is setting up to knock the first quarter of 2021 out of the park with 11 Exclusive and Original movie premieres over the course of 11 weeks starting January 14th.

The streaming service had this to say about the rollout:

The eleven films represent vibrant, creative passion driving independent and international genre cinema today, with titles that have been official selections at top film festivals including Sundance, Toronto, SXSW and Tribeca. In addition, five of the eleven are directed or co-directed by female filmmakers. 

The full line-up of releases, including dates, is listed. Take a look at what Shudder has to offer and mark your calendars for your favorites!

January 14th: Hunted

A modern and radical take on the Little Red Riding Hood fable. What started as a flirtatious encounter at a bar turns into a life-or-death struggle as Eve (Lucie Debay, The Confession) becomes the unknowing target of a misogynistic plot against her. Forced to flee as a predator (Arieh Worthalter, Girl) and his accomplice pursue her through the forest, she’s pushed to extremes while fighting to survive in the wilderness—but survival isn’t enough for Eve. She will have revenge. Directed by Vincent Paronnaud, the Academy Award™-nominated co-director of Persepolis. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

January 28th: The Queen of Black Magic

In this terrifying tale of buried secrets and supernatural revenge from two of Indonesia’s modern masters of horror, a middle-class family travels into rural Indonesia to visit the terminally ill director of the orphanage where the father was raised as a child. Sinister events soon befall them and the other visiting families as the orphanage’s dark history comes to light. Starring Ario Bayu and Hannah Al, written by Joko Anwar (writer/director of this year’s Indonesian Best Foreign Film Academy Award submission, Impetigore) and directed by Kimo Stamboel (Headshot).  A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

February 4th: A Nightmare Wakes

A gothic period piece inspired by the torrid love affair of Mary and Percy Shelley and the creation of her famous novel, Frankenstein. As she creates her masterpiece, she gives birth to a monster. Directed by Nora Unkel. Starring Alix Wilton Regan (The Wife), Giullian Yao Gioiello (Scream: The TV SeriesMarvel’s Iron Fist), Philippe Bowgen (The Mick), Lee Garrett, Claire Glassford, and Shannon Spangler. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

February 11th: After Midnight

Hank (Jeremy Gardner) wakes one morning to find the love of his life, Abby (Brea Grant) has vanished after ten years together. With nothing but a cryptic note to explain why she has left, his life unravels, but that’s only the beginning. Soon a terrifying creature emerges from the grove that at the edge of his property and the real terror begins. Directed by Jeremy Gardner. After Midnight was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival. A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE (Also available on Shudder Canada, UK, and ANZ)

February 18th: Shook

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A social media star must solve a series of puzzles to protect her friends and family after she becomes the focus of an online terror campaign. Is it real or only a game? Directed by Jennifer Harrington (Housekeeping). A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder Canada, UK and ANZ)

February 25th: The Dark and the Wicked

On a secluded farm, a man is bedridden and fighting through his final breaths while his wife (Julie Oliver-Touchstone) slowly succumbs to overwhelming grief. Siblings Louise (Marin Ireland) and Michael (Michael Abbot Jr) return home to help, but it doesn’t take long for them to see that something’s wrong with mom—something more than her heavy sorrow. Gradually, they begin to suffer a darkness similar to their mother’s, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that an evil entity is taking over their family. The film was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Bryan Bertino (The Strangers). A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

March 4th: Lucky

Brea Grant wrote and stars in this film about a self-help author who finds herself trying to regain control of her life after she becomes the obsession of a stalker. Lucky was an official selection at the SXSW Film Festival. Directed by Natasha Kermeni (Imitation Girl). A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

March 11th: Stay Out of the F**king Attic

Morgan Alexandria (Forever My Girl), Ryan Francis (Sisters) and Bryce Fernelius (Ruling of the Heart) play a group of ex-cons-turned-movers enticed into working an all-night for their creepy new client. They soon find more than they bargained for, however. As the house is emptied, terrifying secrets revealed and the question becomes, “Can they survive?” Directed by Jerren Lauder. A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder Canada, UK and ANZ)

March 18th: Koko-Di, Koko-Da

An unhappy couple sets out on a camping trip in an attempt to rekindle their marriage. Unfortunately for them, a sideshow artist and his pals are emerge from the woods “terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.” Directed by Johannes Nyholm (The Giant). A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE (Also available on Shudder Canada and Shudder ANZ)

March 18th: Slaxx

All bets are off when a possessed pair of pants are sent to an unscrupulous, but undeniably trendy company’s flagship store. Slaxx is out for blood, and these shop owners won’t know what hit them! Directed by Elza Kephart (Go in the Wilderness). A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder UK and ANZ)

March 25th: Violation

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With her marriage on the verge of collapse, Miriam returns to her hometown to seek solace in the comfort of her younger sister and brother-in-law after years apart. But one evening a small slip in judgment leads to a catastrophic betrayal, leaving Miriam shocked, reeling, and furious. She embarks on an extreme course of action to address the situation, but the price of revenge is high, and she is not prepared for the toll it takes as she begins to emotionally and psychologically unravel. Violation was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Toronto International Film Festival.  Directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli.  A SHUDDER ORIGINAL (Also available on Shudder UK and ANZ.)

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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