Shudder streaming service unveils its programming for September, highlighting original creations and thematic additions.
Original Films and Series
Parasomnia (Shudder Original Film) | Available starting September 4
Directed by: James Ross II
Riley (Jasmine Mathews, The Tomorrow War, Sweetbitter) is a young woman tormented by night terrors and a past of unresolved tragedy. When her best friend becomes the latest to go missing, she begins to suspect a demonic figure lurking in her sleep has crossed over into the real world.
Mārama (Shudder Exclusive Film) | Available starting September 11
Directed by: Taratoa Stappard
Boasting a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Mārama centers on a young Māori woman who discovers her horrific colonial heritage after traveling to Victorian England in 1859. She soon becomes compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
The Creep Tapes – Season 3 (Shudder Original Series) | Available starting September 15
Directed by: Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice (associated creators/directors)
From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, season three continues to expose a collection of videotapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Duplass). 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. Featuring guest stars such as Kate Siegel (Carrie), Nic Hamilton (IT), Elliott Fulham (Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3), and Duplass’ daughter, Ora Duplass (Coven Academy), who stars in a throwback episode.
Goody Goody (Shudder Original Film) | Available starting September 18
Directed by: Raymond Creamer
Lulled into a false sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents (Samantha Robinson, The Love Witch and Colby Hollman, Fear the Walking Dead) and their midwife (Colleen Foy, Station 19) begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications arise.
Bloody Tennis (Shudder Original Film) | Available starting September 25
Directed by: Nikias Chryssos
A terrifying plunge into the world of elite sports pushed to disturbing extremes. After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in Southern Europe, Sophie (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) must contend not only with the fierce brutality of her teammates, but with the school’s increasingly sinister undercurrents, where competitive sports are taken to their painful limits and only the hungriest survive.
Catalog Additions
September 1
Psycho
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
Psycho II
Directed by: Richard Franklin
After 22 years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes—and of his mother—continue to haunt him.
Psycho III
Directed by: Anthony Perkins
Norman Bates falls in love with a former nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and a curious reporter. Meanwhile, “Mother” is still watching.
Psycho IV: The Beginning
Directed by: Mick Garris
Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing that his unborn child will inherit his dissociative identity disorder.
1408
Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Author Michael Enslin, who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror.
Scarecrows (1988)
Directed by: William Wesley
Bank robbers parachute from a hijacked plane into a field full of killer scarecrows.
Dark Harvest (2023)
Directed by: David Slade
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Exorcismo
Directed by: Juan López Moctezuma
A young woman unknowingly participates in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.
The Horseman (2008)
Directed by: Steven Kastrissios
When Christian finds out his runaway teenage daughter, Jesse, has been sexually assaulted, the suburban father loses his mind. Setting out to find Jesse’s attacker, Christian goes on a violent rampage.
Irrefutable Truth About Demons
Directed by: Gerard Hunter and Centennial Richardson
An anthropologist’s life and reality are torn apart by a satanic cult.
Strange Darling
Directed by: JT Mollner
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Insidious: Chapter 2
Directed by: James Wan
The Lamberts believe that they have defeated the spirits that have haunted their family, but they soon discover that evil is not beaten so easily.
Insidious: Chapter 3
Directed by: Leigh Whannell
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family, revealing how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Resident Evil: The Apocalypse
Directed by: Alexander Witt
Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
The Silent Scream
Directed by: Denny Harris
During her first semester at college, a co-ed finds housing at a seaside mansion where, following the death of a fellow student, she becomes entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the property and its secretive tenants.
September 7
The Serpent’s Skin
Directed by: Alice Maio Mackay
After escaping her transphobic hometown, Anna meets goth tattoo artist Gen. They bond over shared supernatural abilities, but Gen’s tattoo work accidentally conjures a demon before their romance can bloom.
Chainsaws Were Singing
Directed by: Sander Maran
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer.
Its Name Was Mormo
Directed by: Mark Andrew Bowers
A young family’s life unravels into chaos as a sinister presence targets each member in its own malicious manner. Through the lens of police evidence, Mark, Diana, and Mia endure the torment of a demon deeply rooted in Greek mythology.
Sayara
Directed by: Can Evrenol
When her sister is murdered by a group of politically connected rich kids, Sayara, a quiet gym cleaner from Turkmenistan, begins to follow in her father’s footsteps seeking a path of revenge.
September 14
Before the Fall (2008)
Directed by: F. Javier Gutiérrez
The world learns that an earth-shattering meteorite will arrive in 72 hours.
Dead By Dawn (2025)
Directed by: Dawid Torrone
Actors rehearsing at the mysterious Heissenhoff theater face a deadly threat when a masked killer appears. The theater, play, and murders are revealed to be part of an occult ritual.
Dinner to Die For
Directed by: Diana Mills Smith
Hanna, a culinary photographer, and her friend Evan share a passion for true crime content. When Evan suggests role-playing their own true crime scenario involving a killer meal and the girl next door, things take a twisted turn.
The House Was Not Hungry Then
Directed by: Harry Aspinwall
While searching for her estranged father, a young woman breaks into an empty house in the countryside where every visitor disappears. Now she must avoid the man posing as a real estate agent who lures victims inside.
September 21
The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan
Directed by: (Biographical documentary)
New York City filmmaker Andy Milligan made low-budget shock films in the 1960s and 1970s before dying of AIDS. The documentary reveals his complex life and fierce directing style.
Blood Thirsty Butchers
Directed by: Andy Milligan
A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan to commit murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.
The Man with Two Heads
Directed by: Andy Milligan
Serum obtained from a brain after a mass murder transforms the good Dr. Jekyll of London into the evil Mr. Blood.
The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
Directed by: Andy Milligan
The daughter in a family of werewolves decides to put an end to the family curse.
Hallucination Generation
Directed by: Edward Mann
A juvenile is mad at his mom, so he leaves his home in San Francisco to join a charismatic LSD guru’s cult in Spain, tuning in and dropping out. He also gets involved in murder.
The Corpse Collector
Directed by: Mel Welles
An ambulance corpse-van driver falls for the mistress of a brutal mafia boss.
September 28
Picture Mommy Dead
Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
After her mother’s fiery death, Susan leaves an asylum to live with her father and gold-digging stepmother, who schemes with her lover to find the dead woman’s missing diamonds through the traumatized girl.
Terrornauts
Directed by: Montgomery Tully
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a saucer.
Nightcomers
Directed by: Michael Winner
Prequel to Henry James’s novel The Turn of the Screw, focusing on groundskeeper Peter Quint’s slow corruption of the virtuous governess Miss Jessel and the children she looks after.
