Season of Screams 2026 Schedule Announced by Shudder

Shudder has announced the Season of Screams 2026 programming event, which features a supersized lineup of new film releases, series, specials, screening events, and live watch parties on Shudder TV. The four-month celebration takes horror fans from spooky season through the holiday season and spotlights popular franchise films and series.

Season of Screams 2026 will spotlight titles from Insidious 1–3 to Twilight Zone: The Movie to all four films from Hitchcock’s beloved thriller franchise Psycho – and brings back an all-new Ghoul Log special, the annual twist on the traditional holiday yule log, featuring haunting visuals centered on a creepy candlelit jack-o-lantern in Curse of the Ghoul Logs beginning October 1.

Shudder’s Season of Screams 2026 features premieres every Friday through the end of the year, including the acclaimed Parasomnia, a new installment in the popular V/H/S franchise, the V/H/S/Mixtape, the found-footage breakout hit Infirmary, the body-horror thriller Bloody Tennis, the supernatural nightmare The Cycle, and the Milly Shapiro-led Hallowarrior.

There’s also a new season of The Creep Tapes, the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, and a new Halloween special, Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party. These titles and more join Shudder’s extensive library, including Tales from the Crypt, Shudder Original Series Creepshow, the Hell House LLC franchise, and more.

SEASON OF SCREAMS 2026 HIGHLIGHTS

The filmmakers behind Shudder’s buzzy new feature Hallowarrior resurrected everyone’s favorite jack-o-lantern – and, for the first time ever, multiple pumpkins – with Curse of the Ghoul Logs. The new hour-long video of the chilling pumpkins sets the scene for horror fans beginning October 1.

LIVE Watch Parties at 9 pm ET on Shudder TV spotlighting new premieres and curated double features, including:

Friday, September 4: “Can You Survive Your Sleep?” Watch Party – Parasomnia and Somnium

Friday, September 11: “Indigenous Horror” Watch Party – Mārama and La Llorona

Friday, September 18: “Chamber Piece Terrors” Watch Party – Goody Goody and Glorious

Friday, September 25: “Whatever It Takes To Succeed” Watch Party – Bloody Tennis and The Ugly Stepsister

Friday, October 2: “Found Footage Frights” Watch Party – Infirmary and Host

Friday, October 9: “V/H/S/Marathon” Watch Party – V/H/S/Mixtape, V/H/S/Halloween, V/H/S/Beyond, V/H/S/85, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/94

Friday, October 16: “Surviving Halloween” Watch Party – Hallowarrior and Night of the Demons

Friday, October 23: “Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party” Watch Party (Titles TBA)

Sunday, October 25: “2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards” Watch Party; followed by “Full Moon Fever” Watch Party at 10:30 pm in celebration of the Hunter’s Moon – The Cycle, Dog Soldiers and Werewolves Within

Friday, October 30: “Maniacs in Masks” Watch Party – Big Baby and Night of the Reaper

Saturday, October 31: “Trick or Treat” Watch Party– Halloween (1978), Late Night with the Devil and Deadstream

Sunday, November 1: “DÍa de los Muertos” Watch Party – Huesera: The Bone Woman and La Llorona

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Programming highlights below in chronological order (also available on AMC+).

Parasomnia (Shudder Original Film)  – New Film Premieres Friday, September 4
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 is 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) – New Film Premieres Friday, September 11
Rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, Mārama is centered 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) – Two-Episode Season Premiere Tuesday, September 15
From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass (Backrooms, The Morning Show) and Patrick Brice (Creep), 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. Guest stars include Kate Siegel (Carrie), Nic Hamilton (IT), Elliott Fullam (Terrifier 2, Terrifier 3), and Duplass’ daughter, Ora Duplass (Coven Academy), who will star in a throwback episode.

Goody Goody (Shudder Original Film) – New Film Premieres Friday, September 18
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents (Samantha Robinson, Colby Hollman) 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) – New Film Premieres Friday, September 25
Centered in the world of elite sports to disturbing new 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.

Infirmary (Shudder Original Film) – New Film Premieres Friday, October 2
A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital in 2023. His bodycam footage shows unexplainable incidents that continue to baffle investigators. Starring Paul Syre, Mark Anthony Williams and Danielle Kennedy.

V/H/S/Mixtape (Shudder Original Film) – New Film Premieres Friday, October 9
The ninth installment cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess, and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter, and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares.

Featuring all-new segments from legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, hip-hop icon RZA, visionary director David Moreau and acclaimed filmmaker Renee Zhan, whose segment includes original puppets by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

V/H/S/MIXTAPE also features original music video interludes directed by acclaimed filmmaker and musician Flying Lotus, alongside a brand-new music video from debut filmmaker Tobias Forge, creating a genre-bending mixtape experience unlike anything the franchise has attempted before. Adding to the chaos, legendary shock-metal pioneers GWAR also make a featured appearance, further cementing the film’s celebration of horror, music and cult cinema.

Hallowarrior (Shudder Original Film) – New Film Premieres Friday, October 16
Hallowarrior follows Pumpkin (Milly Shapiro, Hereditary), the last girl on earth and sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, scavenging the wasteland for supplies on the eve of Halloween. Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by Thalia (Shannyn Sossamon, Wayward Pines). Outnumbered and armed with candy, wit, and weapons, Pumpkin must ferociously fight back to survive the night.

The Cycle (Shudder Original Film) – New Film Premieres Friday, October 23
When police discover a corpse beside a horrific crime scene, their only lead is the man’s estranged daughter (Deborah Ann Woll, Daredevil: Born Again, Escape Room, True Blood), who must unravel the disturbing secret her father thought he took to the grave. Also starring Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice).

Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party (Shudder Original Special) – New Halloween Special Premieres LIVE on Friday, October 23; Streaming On-Demand Beginning Sunday, October 25
Slap the finishing touches on your costume a week early, because you’re cordially invited to Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party! RSVP for a Samhain soiree to remember with Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl as they host a seasonal double-feature chock-full of tricks, treats, and violent dismemberment.

FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards (Shudder Original Special) – LIVE Horror Awards Special Premieres Sunday, October 25 at 9 pm ET
Annual awards ceremony honoring the best in horror films of the year. Hosted by Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Chucky).

Big Baby (Shudder Exclusive Film) – New Film Premieres on Devil’s Night, Friday, October 30
Nightmares of a maniac killer in a baby mask inspire a horror writer’s new script. As his life begins to spiral out of control, he discovers Big Baby’s murderous rampage may be more than just fiction. Directed by Spider One (Shudder films Little Bites, Allegoria) and executive produced by iconic singer and actress Cher.

Hunting Matthew Nichols (Shudder Exclusive Film) – New Film Premieres on Halloween, Saturday, October 31
Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person’s case. When disturbing circumstances and evidence are revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive. Starring Miranda MacDougall and Markian Tarasiuk.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 7 (Shudder Original Series) – New Season Premieres Fall 2026 on Shudder and AMC+
Hosted by modern-day horror icons and drag superstars Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, season seven of the hit reality competition series The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula will bring together extreme drag artists from around the world to compete in jaw-dropping challenges including costume design and creation, makeup and special effects, live performance and craftsmanship.

LIBRARY ADDITIONS

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 1

Psycho
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
After 22 years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes – and his mother – continue to haunt him.

Psycho III
Norman Bates falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and curious reporter. Meanwhile, “Mother” is still watching.

Psycho IV: The Beginning
Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing that his unborn child will inherit his dissociative identity disorder.

1408
Author Michael Enslin, who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room 1408 in Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror.

Scarecrows (1988)
Bank robbers parachute from a hijacked plane into a field full of killer scarecrows.

Dark Harvest (2023)
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
A young woman participates (unknowingly) in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.

The Horseman (2008)
When Christian finds out his runaway teenage daughter, Jesse, has been sexually attacked, the suburban father loses it. Setting out to find Jesse’s attacker, Christian goes on a violent rampage.

Irrefutable Truth About Demons
An anthropologist’s life and reality are ripped apart by a satanic cult.

Strange Darling
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

Insidious: Chapter 2
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
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family reveals 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
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
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.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 7

The Serpent’s Skin
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
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer.

Its Name Was Mormo
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
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.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 14

Before the Fall (2008)
The world learns that an earth-shattering meteorite will arrive in 72 hours.

Dead By Dawn (2025)
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
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
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.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 21

The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan
NYC filmmaker Andy Milligan made low-budget shock films in the 60s and 70s before dying of AIDS. The documentary reveals his complex life and fierce directing style.

Blood Thirsty Butchers
A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop. Directed by Andy Milligan.

The Man with Two Heads
Serum obtained from a brain after a mass murder transforms the good Dr. Jekyll of London into the evil Mr. Blood. Directed by Andy Milligan.

The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
The daughter in a family of werewolves decides to end the family curse. Directed by Andy Milligan.

Hallucination Generation
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 and tunes in and drops out. He also gets involved in murder.

The Corpse Collector
An ambulance corpse-van driver falls for the mistress of a brutal mafia boss.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 28

Picture Mommy Dead
After her mother’s fiery death, Susan leaves an asylum to live with her father and god-digging stepmother, who schemes with her lover to find the dead woman’s missing diamonds through the traumatized girl.

Terrornauts
A group of scientists is kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a saucer.

Nightcomers
Prequel to Henry James’ “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.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1

Crystal Lake Memories
Documentary chronicling the history of the Friday the 13th franchise.

Twilight Zone: The Movie
Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of the classic story from Rod Serling’s landmark television series.

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

New Normal
In 2024 Seoul, six strangers engage in solo dining rituals that unexpectedly thrust them into a nightmarish realm where isolation fosters unspeakable terrors, forever altering their lives.

The Endless
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces, bringing them back to where they began.

The Haunting (1963)
Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is indeed haunted.

Alice, Sweet Alice (1978)
In 1961, divorced Catholic couple Dom and Catherine Spages’ life is upended when their teenage daughter Alice is suspected of her younger sister Karen’s brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of stabbings follow.

Alone in the Dark (1982)
A few dangerous and delusional mental patients break out of a mental asylum during a power blackout and lay siege to their new doctor’s house, who, they believe, killed their previous doctor.

The Descent
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong when six explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.

Haunt (2019)
On Halloween, a group of friends encounters an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.

Lake Mungo
Strange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.

Lake Mungo Revisited
Features interviews with the cast and crew, along with the expert opinions and unearthed behind-the-scenes footage, to explore the enduring legacy and creepy realism of the horror mockumentary.

Lords of Salem
Radio DJ Heidi is sent a box containing a record – a “gift from the Lords.” The sounds within the grooves trigger flashbacks of her town’s violent past. Is Heidi going mad, or are the Lords back to take revenge on Salem, Massachusetts?

Insidious
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

The Car
A small desert town is terrorized by a powerful, seemingly possessed car, and the local sheriff may be the only one who can stop it.

Session 9
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

The Ghost (2024)
Amid the barren landscape of post-famine Ireland, a father and daughter struggle to survive the brutal winter as caretakers of a remote mansion, only to be driven to the edge of insanity by the horrors lurking within.

Bury Me Twice
Los Angeles, 1954. When a washed-up detective takes a case searching for a reporter’s missing sister, he discovers solving the mystery of her disappearance is the key to uncovering the source of the zombie outbreak – and saving the city.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 5

Harbinger
Julia, sole survivor of late serial killer Decker, is lured back to the house she shared with him for a ghost hunting TV show. The crew discovers the ‘Harbinger’ – a fairground fortune-telling machine that reveals their fates one by one.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 7

God of Frogs
Deep in the heart of the jungle exists an elemental creature with eternal hunger. Once every quarter century it emerges to feed, and every time its fate is entwined with the same human family.

The Monster Within
In a quiet town, reclusive Garret inherits his family’s 100-acre farm. Beneath the land lies something ancient and hungry. As the evil stirs, he must decide how far he’ll go to keep it buried – before it consumes him entirely.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 12

Jitters
Detective Collymore, a single divorced father, stumbles upon a mysterious case involving the death of Tiffany, initially deemed natural. Digging deeper, he discovers the horrors of Jitters.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 14

The Mill Killers
Four girls return to their ghost town home, haunted by a stalker who may know their secret – or could it just be their guilty conscience catching up?

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15

Etheria Film Night 2026
Etheria is the world’s most respected competition showcase of new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action and thriller films made by emerging women directors.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 19

Crazy Lips
Satomis is a young woman who hires an eccentric psychic to prove her missing brother’s innocence after he becomes the prime suspect in the gruesome decapitation of four schoolgirls.

Gore From Outer Space
A woman on death row recounting a bizarre kidnapping case involving quirky FBI agents, a psychic and potential alien invasion.

Play Dead
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 21

Dead of Night (1945)
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his
recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

Fear No Evil
A high school student turns out to be a personification of Lucifer. Two archangels in human form (as women) take him on.

The Horror of Frankenstein
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.

The North Witch
Five women embark on a search for a cabin that mysteriously went missing 60 years ago. They soon realize that watching them is a sinister, demented being. Can they survive the horrors of The North Witch, or is death the better way out?

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 26

Deviant
Jake, a young sex addict, finds his deviant mind turning on him as he continues his self-destruction through entertaining all of his darkest sexual fantasies and desires.

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 28

The R.I.P. Man
A serial killer with a rare oral condition begins to target young adults and removes a single tooth from each victim. Can a family’s kept secret unfold the truth and help prevent the murders from continuing?