Summer is just barreling ahead. With rising temperatures (and inflation), there’s no better place to beat the heat (and prices) than in your home with Shudder. This July looks to be the best yet, with the streaming service adding several original and exclusive films. There are also several watch parties planned, including one featuring a new TV special, and a slew of new-to-Shudder titles sure to satiate that bloodlust.
Faces of Death
Shudder Original
Directed by Daniel Goldhaber
Streaming: July 10
Faces of Death continues the exploration of the original film’s infamous ‘Is it real or not?’ when a woman (Barbie Ferreira, Euphoria) working as a content moderator for a major video platform discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from the original film. In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fiction or unfolding in real time.
Check out the interview with Goldhaber and co-writer Isa Mazzei
Saccharine
Shudder Original
Directed by Natalie Erika James
Streaming: July 24
Hana (Midori Francis, Grey’s Anatomy, The Sex Lives of College Girls) is a lovelorn medical student who becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze: eating human ashes. Also starring Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$) and Madeleine Madden (The Wheel Of Time).
Nightborn
Shudder Original
Directed by Hanna Bergholm
Streaming: July 31
With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga (Seidi Haarla, Compartment No. 6) and her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint, Harry Potter franchise) move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.
Exit 8
Shudder Exclusive
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Streaming: July 17
Based on the video game, Exit 8 follows a man (Kazunari Ninomiya) trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway as he sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
Touch Me
Shudder Exclusive
Directed by Addison Heimann
Streaming: July 3
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. Starring Olivia Taylor Dudley (The Magicians, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension), Lou Taylor Pucci (You) and Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black).
July’s Watch Parties
Every Friday night at 9pm EST
July 10: “Joe Bob’s Savage Summer” Watch Party (Brand New Special)
July 17: “Faces of Death Double Feature” Watch Party
July 31: “Twisted Christmas in July” Watch Party – Christmas Bloody Christmas and Black Christmas
New to Shudder
July 1
Daydreamers
A young vampire raised in a secluded river community that suppresses its thirst for human blood, is drawn into a dangerous world that tests his loyalty, beliefs and survival.
Amer
As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy other-worldly forms.
Ghost Ship
A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea and son notices that its long-dead inhabitants may still be on board.
A Grand Mockery
Josie’s mundane life changes when mental illness drives him to Queensland’s rainforests. Shot on super-8, this playful diptych shifts from dark comedy to transformation alongside its protagonist.
Cabin in the Woods
Five teens visit a remote cabin and explore its cellar, finding strange items. When Dana reads from a book there, she unleashes zombie killers. But the situation is more complex than it appears.
Oscar Tango Hellwater
Ottoman Moore loses his strongest employee to a gruesome bear attack and is forced to accept help from a mysterious preacher whose presence deepens his growing suspicions about his wife and his town.
The Scarecrow
A group of friends disturb an ancient spirit inhabiting a scarecrow.
The Covenant
The death of a student at an elite academy in New England threatens the centuries-old secret of four families.
The Craft
A young girl new to a Catholic school befriends a coven of witches whom the other students either shun or fear. But when a powerful invocation goes wrong, the consequences could endanger their lives.
The Evil Dead (1983)
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Dream Eater
A filmmaker documents her boyfriend’s violent parasomnia during their holiday at a remote cabin in the woods, and as his sleepwalking gets worse, she believes the cause might be something far more sinister.
July 6
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey
After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a boody rampage as they search for a new source of food.
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl and Tigger take their fight to the town of Ashdown, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake.
Bambi: The Reckoning
A car wreck strands a mother and son in the deep woods where a mutated, vengeful deer stalks them. As local hunters and an obsessive grandmother converge, the forest becomes a bloody arena for a grieving creature’s primal rage.
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan. Along the way she meets Tinkerbell who is seen taking heroin, believing that it’s pixie dust.
I Heart Willie
In this horrific origin story of the most beloved cartoon character of modern times, an obsessed fan of Steamboat Willie leads her friends into a deadly mousetrap where pure evil seeks to harvest their skin.
July 8
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
An aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
July 13
Sleepaway Camp
Bunks and showers are a mad stabber’s beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.
The Outwaters
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
Dead Snow
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
July 20
Cold Road
On a frozen highway in the remote Canadian North, an Indigenous woman and her dog are hunted by a stranger in a semi-truck.
Baby in the Basket
A baby in a basket is left on the steps of an isolated monastery on a Scottish island. The nuns take it in, planning to care for it until a storm passes. Soon though, strange and unexplained events begin to happen at the convent.
Nina Wu
Nina Wu lives a solitary life and dreams of becoming an actress. One day, she lands a role in a 70s spy movie and devotes herself entirely to the character, but she is haunted by threats and unfortunate events.
A Good Woman is Hard to Find
A recently widowed young mother will go to any lengths to protect her children as she seeks the truth behind her husband’s murder.
July 27
Terminal Island
After the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one led by a psychopath and the other determined to bring him down.
Cut Throats Nine
After bandits attack a wagon transporting prisoners, a sergeant and his daughter must trek through harsh, snow-covered terrain to get seven sadistic convicts to their destination.
Night Train to Terror
Horror anthology where God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals.
Leave a Reply