COMING TO SHUDDER THIS NOVEMBER
With yet another Halloween behind us, SHUDDER are making sure to keep us frightened as winter truly gets underway. Now that the nights are getting longer there is no better excuse to check out the new additions as well as a healthy dollop of vintage horror, with a particular focus on some J-Horror films that have never been available on the streaming service before. The highlight of November’s exclusive premieres seems to be THE CREEP TAPES, the long awaited spin-off series that follows up on Peachfuzz, one of the friendliest and most unnerving serial killers you’re likely to come across in some time. Also on offer is BLACK CAB, which sees Nick Frost as a mad cabbie and the premiere of DOC OF CHUCKY. The full list is as follows…
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
THE CREEP TAPES – Shudder Original Series
Series Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 15 November
From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, The Creep Tapes continues to unravel the mind of a secluded serial killer who lures videographers into his world with the promise of a paid job documenting his life. Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behaviour and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.
DOC OF CHUCKY – Shudder Original Documentary
Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 1 November
The ultimate account of the Child’s Play film franchise and Chucky, a horror villain for the ages. With contributions from cast, crew, critics, historians, and experts, as well as clips, photographs, archival documents, behind-the-scenes footage, and more, experience the making-of story that proves you can’t keep a good guy down in a series of films that have created an icon.
BLACK CAB – Shudder Original Film
Film Premieres
Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 8 November
When Anne and Patrick hail a black cab after a night out their driver is chatty, jovial even, but they are in no mood to talk. In fact, the couple is barely on speaking terms. That is, until they realise the driver has no intention of taking them home. Locked in the cab with no means of escape, the driver transports the couple to a stretch of deserted and supposedly haunted road. But what is his purpose? Is he mad or just plain evil? And why has he selected Anne and Patrick as his victims? Starring Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead).
RITA – Shudder Original Film
Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 22 November
While fleeing a neglectful household, thirteen-year-old Rita is placed in an oppressive state-run orphanage. Rita’s arrival provides a glimmer of hope to the girls inside, who share a prophecy that an angel will appear to release them. Encouraged by one another, the girls plan an escape to claim their freedom and expose the orphanage’s abuses of power. Based on the true story behind one of Guatemala’s most harrowing tragedies, RITA shines a light on the brave orphans whose fight for survival inspired a nationwide outcry for justice and reform.
OUT COME THE WOLVES – Shudder Original Film
Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 29 November
Retired hunter Sophie invites her fellow hunter and childhood best friend Kyle to her family’s secluded cabin deep in the woods. There, she plans for Kyle to meet and teach her fiancé Nolan how to hunt for an article he's writing and to share the news of their engagement. Tensions flare between Kyle and Nolan over their shared history with Sophie, escalating during the hunt that goes awry when they are ambushed by a vicious pack of territorial wolves. As alliances fracture under the pressure of survival, Sophie is forced to rely on her long-abandoned hunting prowess to face the deadly predators and save the one closest to her heart.
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
November 1
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT
Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 2
The now-adult Ricky talks to a psychiatrist about how he became a murderer after his brother Billy died, which leads back to Mother Superior.
November 4
THE SLIT MOUTHED WOMAN
A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman’s spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.
TOMIE
A traumatised young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name “Tomie” but is unable to recall where she knows it from.
SHIKOKU
When Hinako was a child she was separated from Fumiya and Sayori as she moved to Tokyo. Now she has returned to Shikoku, but it turns out that Sayori drowns. When Hinako starts seeing Sayori in her dreams, she seeks help from Fumiya.
ISOLA
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with multiple personality disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped.
INUGAMI
Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family’s urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.
ST JOHN’S WORT
A game designer, and his girlfriend Nami, drive out to a decrepit mansion she just inherited, to film backgrounds for a new video game called St. John’s Wort.
ONE MISSED CALL
Several people start receiving voicemails from their future selves- messages which include the date, time and some of the details of their deaths.
ONE MISSED CALL 2
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter’s cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it’s a ghost?
ONE MISSED CALL 3: FINAL
The timid, young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending them a cursed phone message they can either pass on or die.
BULL
Bull mysteriously returns home after a 10-year absence to seek revenge on those who double crossed him all those years ago.
WAKE
Desperate for a lead role in a Hollywood remake, a struggling actress tracks down the lead of the original film who’s now a mysterious recluse. Strange occurances quickly turn the meeting into a nightmare.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
A family on Christmas Eve is having a Christmas gathering but as the gathering goes on, the bodies start to pile up and as the days go by, things are getting more and more out of touch with reality.
THE J-HORROR VIRUS
Charting the origins of Japanese horror films at the turn of the millennium, films featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay.
November 11
CHILDREN OF THE CORN
A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE
A journalist and his son travel to Nebraska to investigate the mysterious town of Gatlin where, unbeknownst to them, a murderous cult of children is still waiting in the corn fields.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST
Two brothers connected to the murderous children’s cult of Gatlin, Nebraska are taken to Chicago by an adoptive couple.
SEE FOR ME
When blind Sophie cat-sits a secluded house, thieves break in. Her defense is Kelly, an army vet who helps her survive.
NIGHTMAN
A young pregnant woman discovers that her perfect boyfriend may be a dangerous sleepwalker when she finds out about strange disappearances and murders taking place in the region.
PORCELAIN
After learning that her estranged father has died, a young woman returns to her hometown to face a forgotten past and something sinister lurking within her childhood house.
November 18
A BANQUET
A widowed mother is radically tested when her teenage daughter insists a supernatural experience has left her body in service of a higher power.
SILENCE & DARKNESS
Blind and deaf sisters, Anna and Beth, live happily in a secluded small town with Father. However, when a neighbour stops by, Anna and Beth begin to realise Father’s intentions are more sinister than they could have imagined.
THE CREEPING
A concerned young woman moves home to look after her ailing grandmother and soon finds herself fighting a malevolent presence with a dark secret.
November 25
NO FILTER
Anna, the top social influencer at her high school, struggles to balance her real and virtual followers, causing a blurred line between the two.
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