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Shudder’s “Season of Screams” – Here’s the Full Lineup for Shudder’s Biggest Ever Halloween Event
This year marks the landmark 10th anniversary of Shudder, and if you were expecting the all-horror streaming service to go all-out for Halloween this year, you were right on the money.
Shudder is launching their “Season of Screams” programming event on September 1, and they’re calling it the biggest programming event in the 10-year history of the platform.
Straight from Shudder, here’s everything you need to know…
“The four-month celebration of fear rounds out the streamer’s 10th anniversary with the best in horror and will spotlight popular franchise films from REC to 28 Weeks Later to The Blair Witch Project, as well as bring back an all-new Ghoul Log and Shudder’s popular Halloween Hotline with movie recommendations from Shudder’s Head of Programming Samuel Zimmerman.
“Shudder’s Season of Screams features highly anticipated films such as the acclaimed Dangerous Animals, a new installment in the popular V/H/S franchise – V/H/S/Halloween – and the found footage breakout hits House on Eden and Hell House LLC: Lineage, as well as new seasons of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans and The Creep Tapes, and a new Halloween special, Joe Bob’s Splatterween, featuring legendary rock band GWAR.
“These new films and series join Shudder’s extensive library, including the original 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein (celebrating its 90th anniversary), beloved Hitchcock collection of films The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho(celebrating its 65th anniversary), as well as popular TV series Bitten and Hemlock Grove.”
“Season of Screams” 2025 highlights include…
- The Andujar Twins, the production design team behind Shudder’s Birth/Rebirth and the recent I Know What You Did Last Summer, resurrected everyone’s favorite jack-o-lantern with Revenge of the Ghoul Log. The new hour-long video of the chilling, candlelit pumpkin sets the scene for horror fans beginning October 1.
- LIVE Watch Parties at 9pm ET on Shudder TV spotlighting new premieres and curated double features, including:
- September 5: “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” Season 7 New Episode Premiere Watch Party (Titles TBA)
- September 12: “Recreational Psychopaths” Watch Party– Dangerous Animals and The Furies
- September 19: “The Babysitters Club” Watch Party – Night of the Reaper and Spoonful of Sugar
- September 26: “Movies that Made Shudder” Watch Party – V/H/S/94 and Late Night with the Devil
- October 3: “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” Season 7 New Episode Premiere Watch Party (Titles TBA)
- October 10: “Found Frights Watch Party” – V/H/S/Halloween and Noroi: The Curse
- October 17: “Spotlight on Director Moreau Triple Feature Watch Party” – OTHER, Mads and Them
- October 19: “FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards Watch Party”
- October 24: “Joe Bob’s Splatterween Watch Party” (Titles TBA)
- October 30: “Hell House LLC Watch Party” – All five films including Hell House LLC: Lineage
- October 31: “Trick or Treat Watch Party” – Halloween (1978) and Deadstream
- November 1: “Day of the Dead Watch Party” – Day of the Dead
- Shudder’s popular Halloween Hotline (Dates TBA) — whether viewers are looking for a slasher film, ghost story, or monster flick, Samuel Zimmerman, head of programming for Shudder, will be on hand to offer personalized picks for a perfectly scary weekend based on each caller’s mood and preference.
Dangerous Animals (Shudder Film Premiere)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 5
When Zephyr (Hassie Harrison, Yellowstone), a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Jai Courtney, American Primeval) and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs (Shudder Original Series)
New Double-Feature Premieres LIVE Friday, September 5 at 9pm ET on Shudder TV; Available On Demand Beginning Sunday, September 7; New Episodes Premiere LIVE the First Friday of Every Month
Lock your doors and crank the volume for a brand-new trip to The Last Drive-In. Join Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl every month for all-new, bone-tingling double-features sure to delight horror buffs and video hounds alike, proving once again that the drive-in will never die.
Night of the Reaper (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 19
In the heart of a quiet, 1980s suburb, college student Deena returns home and reluctantly takes on a last-minute babysitting job. That same night, the local sheriff receives a cryptic package that pulls him into a sinister scavenger hunt that sets off a game of cat and mouse with a dangerous killer. As the clues unravel, Deena finds herself ensnared in a nightmarish mystery that she may not survive.
House on Eden (Shudder Film Premiere)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 26
Paranormal investigators Kris, Celina, and their videographer Jay expect the usual scares when they set out on their latest case. But after being mysteriously rerouted to an abandoned house deep in the woods, they find themselves facing a force unlike anything they’ve encountered before. As the night spirals into chaos, missing crew members and eerie phenomena hint at an ancient, malevolent presence watching their every move. Starring social media sensations Kris Collins, Celina Myers and Jason-Christopher Myers (Nobody Gets Out Alive).
V/H/S/Halloween (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, October 3
A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.
The six segments are as follows:
o DIET PHANTASMA directed by Bryan M. Ferguson (Pumpkin Guts)
o FUN SIZE directed by Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks)
o HOME HAUNT directed by Micheline Pitt-Norman and R.H. Norman (Cosmetic)
o KIDPRINT directed by Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell)
o UT SUPRA SIC INFRA directed by Paco Plaza (REC)
o COOCHIE COOCHIE COO directed by Anna Zlokovic (Appendage)
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans Season 2 (Shudder Original Series)
New Season Premieres Tuesday, October 7
In The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans season two, fourteen of the fiercest drag artists from past seasons (most of them top three finalists and fan favorites) will return to battle in design, performance, and makeup-based challenges inspired by horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the supernatural. The competitors will have to survive the show’s pillars of Filth, Horror and Glamour in order to win the crown and a $100,000 grand prize, a headlining spot on a forthcoming world tour, and the title of “Queen of the Underworld”. Hosted by Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, this season will feature a variety of guest judges & horror/genre royalty including David Dastmalchian, Jennifer Tilly, Todd McFarlane, Kate Siegel, Don Mancini, Bonnie Aarons, Akela Cooper, Twin Temple, Peaches Christ, Steve Orlando, Ryan Turek, James A Janisse & Chelsea Rebecca and season one winner, Victoria Elizabeth Black.
OTHER (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, October 17
Alice (Olga Kurylenko, Thunderbolts*, Oblivion) returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death, only to find the house is rigged with surveillance tracking her every move, as a sinister presence lurks, driving her towards a terrifying revelation.
Joe Bob’s Splatterween (Shudder Original Special)
New Halloween Special and Milestone 200th Episode Premieres Friday, October 24
Halloween is gonna be messy this year! Joe Bob and Darcy are joined by the interdimensional rock legends of GWAR for SPLATTERWEEN- a night filled with spew, goo, live music, and of course: two nasty flicks busting at the seams with Splatter Fu!
Hell House LLC: Lineage (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Thursday, October 30
Haunted by visions and recurring nightmares years after a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepard (Elizabeth Vermilyea) finds herself living in the town of Abaddon, unable to break free from its unexplainable hold on her. When people around her suddenly and inexplicably begin to die, she soon uncovers her terrifying connection to the Abaddon Hotel, the Carmichael Manor and the mysterious murders that have been occurring for decades, long before Hell House LLC. From director/writer Stephen Cognetti.
Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story (Shudder Film Premiere)
New Film Premieres Friday, November 7
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.
The Creep Tapes Season 2 (Shudder Original Series)
New Season Premieres This Fall
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 behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.
A host of library additions will also be coming to Shudder on the road to Halloween, including 28 Weeks Later, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, The Craft, American Psycho, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, [REC], Wolf Creek, High Tension, and When a Stranger Calls (1979).
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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