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SHUDDER May 2024 Programming Highlights

Here’s what’s coming to Shudder next month!

NIGHTWATCH: DEMONS ARE FOREVER
Directed by Ole Bornedal
Streaming On Shudder May 17
Available in US, CA, UKI, AU,NZ

Synopsis
In the sequel to the Danish horror classic, Martin’s daughter, Emma takes up a night watch job to find
out what happened to her parents almost 30 years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cell pulls the
serial killer out of his coma and sets in motion a chain of fateful events. Starring Nikolaj Coster-
Waldau and Kim Bodnia.


*Streaming film premiere of Nightwatch (1994), the Danish original film from director Ole
Bornedal, also debuts on Friday, May 17

STOPMOTION
Directed by Robert Morgan
Streaming On Shudder May 31
Available in US, CA, UKI, AU,NZ

Synopsis
Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her
overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new
puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the
characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her
imagination threatens to destroy her. Starring Aisling Franciosi, Tom York and Jaz Hutchins.
**Winner for Best Director at Fantastic Fest.

The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
Shudder Original Series
Season 6 Episodes Continue Biweekly LIVE Premieres on Shudder TV

Friday, May 10; Debuts on-demand Sunday, May 12
Friday, May 24; Debuts on-demand Sunday, May 26
Available in US and CA

Synopsis
The supersized sixth season continues with all-new episodes debuting biweekly.

SHUDDER RESURRECTED
*Repertory Titles New to Shudder*

May 1
The Jester
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween
night, including two estranged sister who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.

Blood and Black Lace
A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

YellowBrickRoad
1940: the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a winding mountain trail, leaving
everything behind. 2008: the first official expedition into the wilderness attempts to solve the
mystery of the lost citizens of Friar.

Mean Spirited
A failed YouTuber’s weekend in the Poconos turns into a nightmare when a demon joins the party.

The Toxic Avenger
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin
falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.

The Toxic Avenger Part II
The Toxic Avenger is tricked into traveling to Tokyo to search for his estranged father, leaving
Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to
go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.
TA4 – Citizen Toxic: The Toxi Avenger IV
The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger,
The Noxious Offender.

May 6
Mother, May I?
When Anya starts behaving like her fiancée’s recently deceased mother, Emmet must confront
his deepest traumas to free his fiancée from this bewildering possession.


Herd
When a woman trying to outrun her past ends up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring
militia groups, she must fight to find her way back home.

Gorgo
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting
the wrath of the creature’s mother.

The Giant Gila Monster
A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community, and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the
creature.

The Stone Tape
A research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to
start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley
witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyze the apparition,
which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a “stone
tape”), but also to exorcise it–with terrifying results.


May 8
Mother’s Day (1980)
Three young women are tormented by an insane matriarch and her depraved sons.
*The Last Drive-In: Mother’s Day episode also available.

May 13
Landlocked
Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers a video camera that
can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed
house is destroyed.

Fatal Games
A mad javelin thrower kills teenagers in the school. All promising athletes are executed in the
most brutal way.

May 15
Combat Shock

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and
slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.

May 20
Down

When the elevators in New York’s 102-story Millennium Building start to malfunction, mechanic
Mark Newman is sent to find the cause. After a series of gruesome and deadly “accidents” occur,
Mark joins forces with spunky reporter Jennifer.

The Lift
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the
perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.

May 22
The Strangler

An overweight lab technician with low self-esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes
a serial killer of nurses.

May 24
Deathdream

A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night
of his death.

May 27
Graduation Day (1981)
A masked killer begins murdering students on

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in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Over the last few years, Shudder
has introduced audiences to groundbreaking and critically acclaimed films including Rob
Savage’s HOST, Jayro Bustamante’s LA LLORONA, Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD, Coralie Fargeat’s
REVENGE, Joko Anwar’s SATAN’S SLAVES, Josh Ruben’s SCARE ME, Kyle Edward Ball’s
SKINAMARINK, Christian Tafdrup’s SPEAK NO EVIL, Chloe Okuno’s WATCHER, Demián
Rugna‘s WHEN EVIL LURKS, and the latest in the V/H/S film anthology franchise, as well
as the fan favorite TV series THE BOULET BROTHERS’ DRAGULA, Greg Nicotero’s
CREEPSHOW, and THE LAST DRIVE-IN WITH JOE BOB BRIGGS.

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