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Shudder Slips Toward Fall in September with Classics Frights, New Collections, and More!

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Everyone’s favorite all horror/thriller streaming service, Shudder, is getting ready for Fall in a big way in September with an all new line-up of classic frights as well as new exclusive and original content and a brand new collection of films in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

September will also see the premiere of season three of the streamer’s hit anthology series, Creepshow, on September 23rd, and the continuation of Slasher: Flesh and Blood with new episodes each week until its finale on September 16th.

Check out the full schedule of films below, and let us know which ones you’ll be watching as Halloween draws ever-closer!

September Frights on Shudder!

September 1st:

Carrie: After being teased and bullied her entire life by her classmates and living under the thumb of her domineering, religious mother (Piper Laurie), Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) discovers a power growing deep inside her. She can change her environment at will, move object with her mind, and she’s about to make them pay.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time. Starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, and Jeff Goldblum.

Lifeforce: A frightening journey into the unknown awaits when a mission to investigate Halley’s Comet discovers an even stranger phenomenon: an alien spacecraft housing three vampiric aliens hungry for the human lifeforce. The film is directed by Tobe Hooper.

The Haunting (1963): Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, the find themselves trapped by The Haunting.

Poltergeist: JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson lead the cast in this story of the Freeling family who are intrigued at first by the strange phenomena happening in their new home. When the activity turns dark, however, it will test the very bonds that hold their family together.

September 2nd:

Superhost: In Superhost, travel vloggers Teddy (Osric Chau, Supernatural) and Claire (Sara Canning, Nancy Drew) share their experiences in and around vacation homes with their subscribers while maintaining a moderate level of internet fame. When their follower count starts to dwindle, they pivot to creating viral content around their most recent host, Rebecca (Gracie Gillam, Z Nation). With all eyes turned towards their “superhost,” Rebecca, they slowly start to realize something isn’t right and as they investigate further, they unlock a horrifying truth. Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) also stars. (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UKI, and Shudder ANZ)

September 6th:

Grave Encounters: For their ghost hunting reality show, a production crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital that’s supposedly haunted – and it might prove to be all too true.

Grave Encounters 2: A film student who is obsessed with the movie Grave Encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film.

Resolution: A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin outside San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

September 7th:

They Look Like People: Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

Jug Face: A pregnant teen discovers her neighbors plan to sacrifice her to an evil entity who lives in a pit on the edge of her backwoods community. Even though Ada knows that a sacrifice is required to keep the pit happy, Ada decides to escape. But the pit wants what it wants and when it doesn’t get it, there’s usually hell to pay.

Dark Waters: When a young Englishwoman attempts to discover her mysterious connection to a remote island convent, she will unlock an unholy communion of torment, blasphemy, and graphic demonic depravity.

September 9th:

Martyrs Lane: In this unsettling ghost story, Leah, 10, lives in a large, old house with her family but can’t quite work out why her mother seems so distant. At night she is visited by a mysterious guest, who might be able to give her some answers. With a new challenge every night, Leah is rewarded with bits of knowledge that, when pieced together, threaten to shine a dangerous light on both the truth in her nightmares and of the world she lives in. (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UKI, and Shudder ANZ)

 

September 13th:

Ms. 45: Abel Ferrara’s 1981 grindhouse stars the late, great Zoë Lund as Thana, a mute seamstress who gets raped twice in one day. After Thana manages to kill (and dismember) her second attacker, she snaps and embarks on a killing spree aimed at lecherous men, which soon puts the whole city on edge.

#LIKE: Rural teen, Rosie, discovers the mysterious man who exploited and bullied her sister to commit suicide is back on-line trolling for new victims. After the authorities refuse to get involved, she takes justice into her own hands.

September 14th:

Woe: A brother and sister stumble upon their father’s secret one year after his death. They soon learn that this secret may not be his alone.

The Columnist: Columnist Femke Boot wants to shut her critics up – permanently. Hell hath no fury like someone insulted on social media.

Kriya: A young DJ, enticed into a beautiful stranger’s home, is terrified to find himself unable to flee from the death rituals he must perform on the bound and shackled corpse of her father.

The House of the Devil: A man lures a babysitter to a house with an unusually large sum of money.

September 20th:

Hammer House of Horror: In this series, the legendary Hammer presents ghoulish mysteries, vengeance from beyond the grave and timeless tales of undying curses.

The Devil’s Rain: A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, William Shatner, and Ida Lupino.

Extraordinary Tales: An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.

September 21st:

13 Cameras: A newlywed couple, move into a new house across the country, only to find out that their marital issues are the least of their problems. Unbeknownst to them, their grim and lascivious landlord has been spying on them from day one.

Stitches: An evil clown returns from the dead to terrorize the teens who caused his death.

September 27th

Phantasm: When Mike’s parents die, his world is turned upside down. But nothing can prepare him for the
shocking discovery that a mortician (the late, great Angus Scrimm) and his dwarf army have
stolen Mike’s parents’ bodies. Did we mention the flying spheres?

Phantasm III: Reggie teams up with a boy and a young woman to rescue Mike from the Tall Man.

Phantasm IV: Reggie, Mike, Jody, and The Tall Man are drawn to Death Valley for a final showdown.

Phantasm Ravager: While searching for Mike, Reggie prepares himself for one final epic battle with The Tall Man.

September 29th:

Séance: Camille Meadows is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival,
six girls invite her to join them in a late-night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who
reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering
what they may have awakened. (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UKI, and Shudder ANZ)

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Hispanic Heritage Month Collection

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Shudder has grouped together its list of titles already on the site created by Latinx filmmakers from around the world in one place. Titles include:

  • Belzebuth (Mexico)
  • Deadtectives (US/Mexico)
  • The Funeral Home (Argentina)
  • Good Manners (Brazil)
  • La Llorona (Guatemala)
  • Luz: The Flower of Evil (Colombia)
  • Luciferina (Argentina)
  • The Nightshifter (Brazil)
  • Perfect (United States)
  • Terrified (Argentina)
  • Tigers Are Not Afraid (Mexico)
  • The Untamed (Mexico)

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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:

High Desert Hell
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Fede Alvarez Teases ‘Alien: Romulus’ With RC Facehugger

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Happy Alien Day! To celebrate director Fede Alvarez who is helming the latest sequel in the Alien franchise Alien: Romulus, got out his toy Facehugger in the SFX workshop. He posted his antics on Instagram with the following message:

“Playing with my favorite toy on set of #AlienRomulus last summer. RC Facehugger created by the amazing team from @wetaworkshop Happy #AlienDay everybody!”

To commemorate the 45th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s original Alien movie, April 26 2024 has been designated as Alien Day, with a re-release of the film hitting theaters for a limited time.

Alien: Romulus is the seventh film in the franchise and is currently in post-production with a scheduled theatrical release date of August 16, 2024.

In other news from the Alien universe, James Cameron has been pitching fans the boxed set of Aliens: Expanded a new documentary film, and a collection of merch associated with the movie with pre-sales ending on May 5.

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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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