Shudder has announced their lineup of upcoming Spring 2019 Shudder Original and Shudder Exclusive movies this morning, which includes Lizzie, crooks vs. killers thriller Monster Party, SXSW and London FrightFest favorite The Ranger, Fantasia International Film Festival special prize winner The Night Shifter, and Australian rampaging creature comedy Boar.
Here’s everything you need to know, along with dates and info…
LIZZIE (2018) — available Thursday, April 11 (US/Canada) – Shudder Exclusive
Director: Craig William Macneil, Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens
Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) is a social outcast, living a claustrophobic life that’s ready to boil over. In its dark, moody retelling of the notorious 1892 axe murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie is a psychological thriller that reveals many layers of the strange and fragile Lizzie Borden.
MONSTER PARTY (2018) — available Thursday, April 25 (US/Canada) – Shudder Exclusive
Director: Chris von Hoffman, Cast: Sam Strike, Erin Moriarty, Robin Tunney, Julian McMahon, Lance Reddick
Three small-time burglars pose as caterers for a fancy dinner party at an extravagant mansion. But their plan for the perfect heist goes horribly wrong when they discover that the family and their guests are actually a support group of recovering serial killers. Rowdy, bloody and surprising, Monster Party is a stylish, class clash.
THE RANGER (2018) — available Thursday, May 9 (US/Canada/UK) – Shudder Original
Director: Jenn Wexler, Cast: Chloë Levine, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden
A group of punk teens on the run from the police head to the woods, only to be terrorized by one park ranger’s brand of psychotic justice. Jenn Wexler’s bold debut is a colorful, howling slasher rejuvenation.
THE NIGHT SHIFTER (2018) — available Thursday, May 23 (US/Canada/UK) – Shudder Original
Director: Dennison Ramalho, Cast: Daniel de Oliveira, Fabiula Nascimento, Bianca Comparato, Marco Ricca
In Dennison Ramalho’s scary, starkly original horror, Stênio works the graveyard shift at the morgue of a vast, violent city. He toils all night, but he’s never alone, for Stênio can talk to the dead. And they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth danger and darkness.
BOAR (2017) — available Thursday, June 6 (US/Canada/UK) – Shudder Original
Director: Chris Sun, Cast: Nathan Jones, Bill Moseley, Hugh Sheridan
Out for blood, this lean mean creature feature finds a boar of monstrous size roaming the outskirts of an outback town, massacring several backpackers and locals. Bernie and his visiting relatives, the Monroe’s, swiftly come face to face with the feral beast—and uncover that some monsters are better left in stories.