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Summertime Scares are on The Way on Shudder in June 2021!

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Summer is here and so is the horror as Shudder prepares to roll new and exciting films to their slate in June 2021! From Exclusives and Originals to popcorn classics, the all horror/thriller streamer has something for everyone!

June will also see continuing episodes of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs. We will also see the return of their Queer Horror curated collection which will debut on June 2nd for Pride Month featuring new titles alongside previously available films including  Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, Night Breed, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Resurrection, Mohawk, Spiral, Lyle, Scream, Queen!, Hellraiser, Tammy and the T-Rex, The Quiet Room, Stranger by the Lake, Knife+Heart, The Ranger, Lizzie, The Old Dark House, All Cheerleaders Die, Better Watch Out, Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl, and Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.

Take a look at the full schedule below, and let us know what you’ll be watching in the comments!

Shudder Release Schedule for June 2021

June 1st:

Ginger Snaps: Unleashed: In this sequel to 2000’s Ginger Snaps, Ginger’s sister Brigitte, now a werewolf herself, must try to find a cure for her blood lust before the next full moon while hiding out in a rehab clinic from a relentless werewolf.

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning: Set in 19th Century Canada, this prequel to Ginger Snaps focuses on Brigette and her sister Ginger who take refuge in a Traders’ Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves.

An American Werewolf in LondonTwo American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists in this classic horror comedy from John Landis.

Eve’s Bayou: Samuel L. Jackson leads an incredible star-studded cast in this film from writer/director Kasi Lemmons (Candyman). What did Eve see and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer, Louis Batiste, is the head of an affluent family, but it’s the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

Burn, Witch, Burn!: When a college professor discovers his wife has been practicing witchcraft for years, he forces her to destroy all of her magical trappings despite her warnings that she’s been using them to protect him. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

June 2nd:

Islands: This 23 minute erotic thriller from Yann Gonzalez (Knife+Heart) is an intense journey through a maze of love and lust. The film is featured in Shudder’s Queer Horror Collection.

Terror, Sisters!: Today is a day unlike any before. Today is the day Kalthoum and their girlfriends imagine their revenge. Directed by Alexis Langlois. The film is part of the Queer Horror Collection.

Der Samurai: Set in a small German village, a bloody game of cat-and-mouse ensues between a young, straight-shooting police officer and a cross-dressing villain with a large sword and a predilection for beheadings. The film is part of the Queer Horror Collection.

Thirst: The drug addict Hulda is arrested accused of murdering her brother. After she is let go because of insufficient evidence, she meets Hjörtur, a thousand-year-old gay vampire. Together they have to fight a cult while being investigated by a rogue detective. The film will be featured in the Queer Horror Collection. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

Rift: Two men in a secluded cabin are haunted by the dead relationship in this Icelandic film from Erlingur Thoroddsen. The film is part of the Queer Horror Collection. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

June 3rd:

Caveat: A SHUDDER ORIGINAL. Lone drifter Isaac accepts a job to look after his landlord’s niece, Olga, for a few days in an isolated house on a remote island. It seems like easy money, but there’s a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms. Once Olga’s uncle Barrett leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and mouse ensues as Olga displays increasingly erratic behavior as a trapped Isaac makes a series of horrific discoveries in the house. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

June 7th:

Night of the Living Dead: A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a
horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States in this classic from George Romero. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

Reunion: A pregnant woman returns to her recently deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

Beyond the Door III: An introverted American student travels to Yugoslavia as part of a school trip to witness an ancient pagan ritual with a deadly secret. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

June 8th:

The Amusement Park: A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE. Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, director George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park stars Martin’s Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds. Commissioned by the Lutheran Society, the film is perhaps Romero’s wildest and most imaginative movie, an allegory about the nightmarish realities of growing older, and is an alluring snapshot of the filmmaker’s early artistic capacity and style and would go on to inform his ensuing filmography. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

June 14th:

Monstrous: A young woman goes searching for answers after her friend mysteriously vanishes in Whitehall, New York, an Adirondack town known for its Bigfoot sightings. She quickly learns that an evil more sinister than she could ever imagine is hiding in the woods. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSWhFnELiY

The Retreat: A man finds himself alone and lost after a horrifying encounter with a monster during a backpacking trip into the Adirondack High Peaks. Now, he must fight for his life, and sanity, as he battles the evil Native American legend, The Wendigo. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

Evilspeak: An outcast military cadet taps into a way to summon demons and cast spells on his tormentors through his computer. The film stars Clint Howard. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

June 15th:

The Conspiracy: A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.

Housebound: A young woman is forced to return to her childhood home after being placed under house arrest, where she suspects that something evil may be lurking. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

The Similars: On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight people waiting in a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEg8kV2b7v4

June 17th:

Superdeep: A SHUDDER ORIGINAL. The Kola Superdeep borehole is the largest Russian secret facility. In 1984, at the depth of more than 7 miles below the surface, unexplained sounds were recorded, resembling the screams and moans of numerous people. Since these events, the object has been closed. A small research team of scientists and military personnel had gone down below the surface to find out the secret that the world’s deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found poses the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced. Now the future of the world is in their hands. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

June 21st:

City of the Living Dead: A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

Homewrecker: Two women befriend each other, but one becomes obsessed with the other. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

The Antenna: In a dystopian Turkey, the government begins installing new television antennas at homes throughout the country. Mehmet, a superintendent at a crumbling apartment complex, must supervise the installation of the new antenna. When the broadcast it transmits begins to menace the residents of the apartment complex, Mehmet must seek out the spiteful entity. (Also available on Shudder ANZ)

June 24th:

An Unquiet Grave: A SHUDDER ORIGINAL. A year after losing his wife in a car crash, Jamie convinces her sister, Ava, to return with him to the site of the accident and help him perform a strange ritual. But as the night wears on, it becomes clear that he has darker intentions. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

June 29th:

Vicious Fun: A SHUDDER ORIGINAL. Joel, a caustic 1980’s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim. (Available in all Shudder Territories)

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Cannabis-Themed Horror Movie ‘Trim Season’ Official Trailer

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With tomorrow being 4/20, it’s a great time to check out this trailer for the weed-based horror film Trim Season.

It looks like a hybrid of Heredity and Midsommar. But its official description is, “a suspenseful, witchy, weed-themed horror movie, Trim Season is like if someone took the ‘nightmare blunt rotation’ meme and turned it into a horror film. ”

According to IMDb the film reunites several actors: Alex Essoe worked with Marc Senter twice before. On Starry Eyes in 2014 and Tales Of Halloween in 2015. Jane Badler previously worked with Marc Senter on 2021’s The Free Fall.

Trim Season (2024)

Directed by award-winning filmmaker and production designer Ariel Vida, Trim Season stars Bethlehem Million (Sick, “And Just Like That…”) as Emma, an adrift, jobless, 20-something seeking purpose.

Along with a group of young people from Los Angeles, she drives up the coast to make quick cash trimming marijuana on a secluded farm in Northern California. Cut off from the rest of the world, they soon realize that Mona (Jane Badler) – the seemingly amiable owner of the estate – is harboring secrets darker than any of them could imagine. It becomes a race against time for Emma and her friends to escape the dense woods with their lives.

Trim Season will open in theaters and on demand from Blue Harbor Entertainment on June 7, 2024.

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7 Great ‘Scream’ Fan Films & Shorts Worth a Watch

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The Scream franchise is such an iconic series, that many budding filmmakers take inspiration from it and make their own sequels or, at least, build upon the original universe created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson. YouTube is the perfect medium to showcase these talents (and budgets) with fan-made homages with their own personal twists.

The great thing about Ghostface is that he can appear anywhere, in any town, he just needs the signature mask, knife, and unhinged motive. Thanks to Fair Use laws it’s possible to expand upon Wes Craven’s creation by simply getting a group of young adults together and killing them off one by one. Oh, and don’t forget the twist. You’ll notice that Roger Jackson’s famous Ghostface voice is uncanny valley, but you get the gist.

We have gathered five fan films/shorts related to Scream that we thought were pretty good. Although they can’t possibly match the beats of a $33 million blockbuster, they get by on what they have. But who needs money? If you’re talented and motivated anything is possible as proven by these filmmakers who are well on their way to the big leagues.

Take a look at the below films and let us know what you think. And while you’re at it, leave these young filmmakers a thumbs up, or leave them a comment to encourage them to create more films. Besides, where else are you going to see Ghostface vs. a Katana all set to a hip-hop soundtrack?

Scream Live (2023)

Scream Live

Ghostface (2021)

Ghostface

Ghost Face (2023)

Ghost Face

Don’t Scream (2022)

Don’t Scream

Scream: A Fan Film (2023)

Scream: A Fan Film

The Scream (2023)

The Scream

A Scream Fan Film (2023)

A Scream Fan Film
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Another Creepy Spider Movie Hits Shudder This Month

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Good spider films are a theme this year. First, we had Sting and then there was Infested. The former is still in theaters and the latter is coming to Shudder starting April 26.

Infested has been getting some good reviews. People are saying that it’s not only a great creature feature but also a social commentary on racism in France.

According to IMDb: Writer/director Sébastien Vanicek was looking for ideas around the discrimination faced by black and Arab-looking people in France, and that led him to spiders, which are rarely welcome in homes; whenever they’re spotted, they’re swatted. As everyone in the story (people and spiders) is treated like vermin by society, the title came to him naturally.

Shudder has become the gold standard for streaming horror content. Since 2016, the service has been offering fans an expansive library of genre movies. in 2017, they began to stream exclusive content.

Since then Shudder has become a powerhouse in the film festival circuit, buying distribution rights to movies, or just producing some of their own. Just like Netflix, they give a film a short theatrical run before adding it to their library exclusively for subscribers.

Late Night With the Devil is a great example. It was released theatrically on March 22 and will begin streaming on the platform starting April 19.

While not getting the same buzz as Late Night, Infested is a festival favorite and many have said if you suffer from arachnophobia, you might want to take heed before watching it.

Infested

According to the synopsis, our main character, Kalib is turning 30 and dealing with some family issues. “He’s fighting with his sister over an inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend. Fascinated by exotic animals, he finds a venomous spider in a shop and brings it back to his apartment. It only takes a moment for the spider to escape and reproduce, turning the whole building into a dreadful web trap. The only option for Kaleb and his friends is to find a way out and survive.”

The film will be available to watch on Shudder starting April 26.

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