The summer kicks off with Shudder’s sweltering June lineup. With the release of their originals, exclusive films, and new-to-Shudder titles, it’s guaranteed to help you beat the heat. You’ll find fairy tales, gripping and savage social commentary, and a religious horror film that’ll knock your socks off.
Additionally, The Terror: Devil in Silver and Tales from the Crypt premiere with new seasons. There are also several watch parties happening throughout the month. Sit back, relax in the a/c, and take a bite out of these must-watch entries.
The Ice Tower
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Streaming: June 5
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot or a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star Cristina Marion Cotillard (Inception), an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.
Find Your Friends
Directed by Izabel Pakzad
Streaming: June 12
Amber and her four best friends flee Los Angeles for a girls’ trip in Joshua Tree, only to find themselves unwelcome in a desert town simmering with quiet hostility. As isolation sets in and encounters with aggressive locals grow more threatening, festering resentments within the group begin to surface. What begins as fun and reckless escape spirals into a violent struggle for control and survival, as past wounds and present dangers collide in a night that turns their trip into a revenge-fueled nightmare. Starring Bella Thorne (Divinity), Chloe Cherry (Euphoria), Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), and Zion Moreno (Gossip Girl).
The Voices of Our Mother
Directed by Mark O’Brien
Streaming: January 19
The Voices of Our Mother follows Harriet Scaflen (Sheila McCarthy, Women Talking, The Umbrella Academy) after the death of her mother at the age of 95. Harriet then has an unexplainable health scare, bringing her four estranged children to the family home to care for her. As their past animosities and secrets are revealed, they soon realize their mother’s health issues may be supernatural, and the awoken evil inside her is seeking revenge on her children for her own survival. Directed by and starring Mark O’Brien (The Righteous, Ready or Not, Halt and Catch Fire).
Forbidden Fruits
Directed by Meredith Alloway
Streaming: June 26
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours – with fellow fruits Cherry and Fig. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges their performative sisterhood, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate. Starring Lili Reinhart (Hustlers), Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Victoria Pedretti (You), Alexandra Shipp (Barbie), and Emma Chamberlain in her debut performance.
The Terror: Devil in Silver
New Episodes Every Thursday. The Season Finale premieres June 11
The newest installment in the acclaimed horror anthology, executive produced by Ridley Scott, stars Dan Stevens (Abigail, Downton Abbey) as Pepper – a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with those society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients working against him, doctors harboring grim secrets, and perhaps even the Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde’s walls – but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him. Also starring Judith Light (Before, Out of My Mind), CCH Pounder (Rustin, NCIS: New Orleans), Aasif Mandvi (Evil, This Way Up), John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C, Lilly), Stephen Root (Barry, Heads of State), Michael Aronov (The Americans, Operation Finale) and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete, Glass Chin), Chinaza Uche (Silo, A Good Person), Hampton Fluker (Shades of Blue, Instant Family), b (WeCrashed, You), Hayward Leach (Tom Swift, Love Life), and Philip Ettinger (First Reformed, I Know This Much Is True).
Tales From the Crypt
Season Binges Premiere Fridays Until the Final Season 7 Premieres June 12
Tales from the Crypt, the popular 90s horror anthology series inspired by the 1950s EC Comics is back exclusively streaming on Shudder! Each episode is a self-contained story often featuring well-known talent and directors – and hosted by the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir), a wisecracking corpse known for his macabre puns. With its signature unrestricted gore, profanity, and dark irony, the show’s episode styles range from comedy to drama and deliver twisted moral lessons where “bad people” meet poetically horrific ends – and issues like greed, lust, and moral decay lead to tragic consequences. The series features a long list of A-list guest stars, including Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, John Lithgow, Christopher Reeve, Catherine O’Hara, Steve Buscemi, Brooke Shields, and many more. Several episodes have been directed by well-known talent, including Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper, and William Friedkin, as well as acclaimed actors such as Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael J. Fox.
June’s Watch Parties
June 5: “Summer Camp at Shudder” Watch Party – Don’t Go in the Woods and Madman
June 12: “Vacations From Hell” Watch Party – Find Your Friends and Influencers
June 19: “Shudder Pride” Watch Party – Queens of the Dead and Bad Things
June 26: “Comedies of Terror” Watch Party – Forbidden Fruits and Cannibal Mukbang
New to Shudder
June 1
The Burning
Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
In the follow-up to the cult classic slasher horror movie Sleepaway camp, psychopathic camp counselor undergoes gender-reassignment surgery and becomes a counselor at Camp Rolling Hills.
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Slasher Angela’s back, posing as a camper.
Squirm
A storm causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.
Interview with the Vampire
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness and hunger.
Raw
A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.
Evil Dead II
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
30 Days of Night (2007)
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and wreak havoc in the foreign land.
Fright Night (1985)
Charlie Brewster, a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.
John Carpenter’s Vampires
Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in the sunlight.
June 8
The Wait
Portrays the macabre descent into hell of a man facing the consequences of a morally fraught decision.
June 15
Cannibal Mukbang
An exploration of one’s relationship with food, sexuality, and revenge. It asks, “How far would you go in the name of love?”
The Columnist
A columnist must continuously deal with threats and negative comments on her social-media pages. One day, she has had enough and decides to hunt down her trolls.
Trespassers (2018)
Two couples renting a luxury home in the desert are thrust into chaos when a mysterious woman arrives, claiming car trouble and refusing to leave.
June 22
Baise-Moi
Two young women, marginalized by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence.
Criminal Lovers
Modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel. After committing murder, a young couple on the run find refuge in a remote cottage in the woods, where they become trapped by the perverse hermit who lives there.
In My Skin
A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.
Evolution (2016)
The only residents of a young Nichols’ seaside town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalized?
sink. your. teeth.
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