Perhaps the biggest streaming news of the year so far is Shudder bringing “Tales from the Crypt” to streaming for the first time ever beginning in May.
But that’s not all that’s in store for the horror streamer next month; it will also host exclusives like Whistle and This Is Not a Test, the return of “The Terror,” documentaries Horror Noire and In Search of Darkness 1990-1994, the rarely streamed French horror film Livid, and more.
The following Shudder originals and exclusives are dropping in May:
“Tales From the Crypt” – May 1
Subsequent Seasons Premiere Fridays Through June 12
Inspired by the 1950s EC Comics, each episode of the popular ’90s horror anthology series is a self-contained story hosted by the Crypt Keeper, 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.
Heresy – May 1
A folk horror centered in a medieval Dutch village, follows a young woman who is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.
“The Terror: Devil in Silver” – May 7
New Episodes Premiere Thursday Through June 11
Working-class moving man Pepper, 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.
Whistle – May 8
A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down. As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.
Something Is About to Happen – May 15
A woman’s life takes a definitive turn the day that she loses her job as a computer programmer.
This Is Not a Test – May 22
Sloaneand a small group of her classmates take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands.
Smothered – May 29
Alif is a micro-painting artist who has an accident and loses part of his memory. After returning home, an old woman appears claiming to be his mother, but Alif doesn’t recognize her and is suspicious of her intentions.
Repertory titles being resurrected on Shudder include:
May 1:
- Gazer
- Vice Squad
- Baby Blood
- Re-Wind
- Murder Rock
- Teeth
- Martyrs
- Livid
- Goodnight Mommy (2014)
- Innocence
- The Ice Tower
- The Ghost of Yotsuya
- The Snow Woman
May 4
- Solvent
- Horror Noire: History of Black Horror
May 11
- 47 Meters Down
- 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
- Aberrance
- In Search of Darkness 1990-1994