Shudder Announces May Highlights Including ‘Heresy’ and ‘Smothered’
Shudder has released the full list of their May highlights, and it’s packed with exclusive features and classics alike.
Whistle and This is Not a Test had previously been announced, along with “The Terror: The Devil in Silver” series and the “Tales from the Crypt” series (available to stream for the first time!). They’ll join horror faves such as Teeth, Martyrs, and the 47 Meters Down franchise.
Take a look at the full list below, and get ready to scream this May!
May 1
Heresy (Shudder Exclusive)
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. Starring Anneke Sluiters, Len Leo Vincent and Reinout Bussemaker.
“Tales from the Crypt” (Shudder Exclusive Series)
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 Rober Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper and William Friedkin, as well as acclaimed actors such as Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzeneggerand Michael J. Fox.
Gazer
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
Vice Squad
A single mother prostitute, who goes by the name Princess, finds herself forced to work undercover for the police in order to apprehend a homicidal, misogynistic pimp named Ramrod, who will do anything not to get arrested.
Baby Blood
When a strange creature crawls into a woman’s uterus she becomes a killer in order to feed the tiny terror growing within her.
Re-Wind
A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured killed and dismembered by an unknown sadist. The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself.
Murderrock
The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murder of a few of the students.
Teeth
Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.
Martyrs
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Livid
The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs. Jessel’s once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lire to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has a face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don’t recognize.
Innocence
A young woman discovers that her elite Manhattan preparatory school harbors a dark secret.
The Ice Tower
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.
The Bride From Hades
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she’s a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
The Ghost of Yotsuya
The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.
The Snow Woman
The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snowstorm.
May 4
Solvent
While hunting Nazi papers in Austria, researchers find a dark secret beneath a farmhouse. As expat Gunner Holbrook pursues the mystery, his grip on reality slips. He battles an evil force racing to save himself.
Horror Noire: History of Black Horror
Documentary, based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman, takes a critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both Black filmmakers and Black audiences.
May 7
“The Terror: Devil in Silver” (AMC Studios Original Series)
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).
May 8
Whistle (Shudder Exclusive)
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. Starring Dafne Keen (Logan), Sophie Nélisse (Yellowjackets), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Percy Hynes White (My Old Ass) and Nick Frost (How to Train Your Dragon).
May 11
47 Meters Down
Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Two sisters diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they’ve entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerged caves.
Aberrance
An estranged couple takes a retreat in the woods. Foreboding neighbors, frivolous friends, and dark unseen forces lead to a shocking conclusion.
In Search of Darkness 1990-1994
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct and re-contextualize the “lost” decade of horror: the ‘90s. Fans will hear first-hand stories from a long list of genre favorites including Heather Langenkamp (Wes Craven’s New Nightmare), John Carpenter (In The Mouth of Madness), Frank Henenlotter(Frankenhooker), Tim Balme (Dead Alive), Michael Gross (Tremors), and many more.
May 15
Something is About to Happen (Shudder Exvlusive)
A woman’s life takes a definitive turn the day that she loses her job as a computer programmer.
May 22
This is Not a Test (Shudder Exclusive)
Sloane (Olivia Holt, Heart Eyes) and 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. Adapted from the popular YA novel of the same name by New York Times best-selling author Courtney Summers. Also starring Froy Gutierrez (The Strangers), Luke MacFarlane(Bros), Corteon Moore (Overcompensating), Chloe Avakian (John Wayne Gacy), and Carson MacCormac (Clown in a Cornfield).
May 29
Smothered (Shudder Original)
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. Starring Rio Dewanto, Faradina Mufti and Vonny Anggraini.
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