What's on Shudder in April

Here’s everything that’s streaming on Shudder in April.

825 Forest Road – Shudder Original Film New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and  AMC+ Friday 4 April 

From the creator of the Hell House LLC franchise,  Stephen Cognetti, the film centers on Chuck Wilson starting a new life after a family tragedy when he moves  to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth. But he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret. The ghost of Helen Foster has  terrorised residents for decades, since her own suicide back in the ‘40s. Finding Helen’s old home is key  to ending the hauntings, but the address they have doesn’t match any of the town’s existing streets. When  Chuck realises his family might be in danger of Helen’s wrath, he takes it upon himself to locate 825 Forest  Road before it’s too late. 

Shadow of God – Shudder Original Film New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and  AMC+ Friday 11 April  

When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are  simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home to spend time with childhood friend while he awaits orders from the Church.  However, this small town holds dark secrets about Mason's past and the religious organisation once run by  his father, Angus. Thought dead, Angus reappears, forcing a reunion between father and son. But Angus  is different now, and before long, Mason suspects he’s possessed, not by the devil, but by something…  holy. When Mason attempts to exorcise the presence from his father, he sets off a chain of events that  may end in a cataclysm of biblical proportions testing everything he holds sacred. 

Dead Mail – Shudder Original Film

New Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+ Friday 18 April 

On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the desk of Jasper, a seasoned ‘dead letter’ investigator at a 1980s midwestern post  office. As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate. 

Fréwaka – Shudder Original Film

Film Premieres Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+  Friday 25 April 

Irish folk horror from Aislinn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway) follows home care worker Shoo, who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe  — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals and superstitions, eventually  confronting the horrors from her own past. 

NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY 1 April 

Hostile Dimensions 

Two documentary filmmakers travel through alternate dimensions to uncover the truth about a graffiti  artist who has vanished.  

Last Straw  

A smalltown killing spree lands on the doorstep of a rural diner, where a young waitress must fight for  her life over the course of one long night.  

Eaten Alive (1976) 

Psychotic redneck Judd owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders people who  upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his large pet crocodile in the swamp beside  his hotel.  

The Wind 

A plains-woman faces the harshness and isolation of the untamed land in the Western frontier of the  late 1800s.  

House of the Devil 

In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that  coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realises her clients harbour a terrifying secret, putting  her life in mortal danger.  

2 April

Repulsion (1965) 

A withdrawn manicurist who disapproves of her sister’s boyfriend sinks into depression and  experiences horrific visions of violence.  

7 April 

Long Weekend (2013) 

A teenager disappears after spending the night locked inside a haunted sanctuary. 

Road Games 

A laid-back American truck driver in south Australia begins to suspect that a man driving a green van  is killing young women along his route, which evolves into a game of cat-and-mouse to catch him. 

14 April 

In Flames 

After the death of a family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart.  They must find the strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to  engulf them.  

Chain Reaction (2006) 

A group of convicts and a doctor seek refuge from the authorities in a lodge deep in the wood, but  their weird inhabitants are not friendly.  

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane 

A 13-year-old girl who lives with her absentee father befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician  and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbour.  

Doomwatch 

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat  fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.  

16 April 

Knife in the Water 

A couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come  over along for their day’s sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men  grows. A violent confrontation is inevitable.  

21 April 

Timecrimes 

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself  will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.  

Dr. Terrors House of Horrors 

Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five  fellow passengers.