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.
