AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the highlights for next month. The Shudder April 2024 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.
The highlights for April include the sixth season of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and the films Baghead, Late Night with the Devil, and Infested.
The repertory titles include such movies as Drag Me to Hell, Madman, Spookies, Creepshow, The Tunnel, The House of the Devil, The Changeling, Final Cut, and more.
Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. To watch the Shudder April 2024 titles, you can do a seven-day, risk-free trial at Shudder.com.
SHUDDER APRIL 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
THE LAST DRIVE-IN WITH JOE BOB BRIGGS SEASON 6 (Shudder Original Series Available in the US and CA)
The supersized sixth season continues with all-new episodes available on Shudder and AMC+ biweekly. The new live episode, debuting on Friday, April 12, will be available on-demand on Sunday, April 14. The episode premiering on Friday, April 26, will be available on-demand on Sunday, April 28.
BAGHEAD (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, April 5 (Available in the US and CA)
Following the death of her estranged father (Peter Mullan), Iris (Freya Allan) learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor (Ned Dennehy) to discuss the estate.
Little does she know that when the deed is signed, she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the pub’s basement–Baghead, a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead. Two thousand in cash for two minutes with the creature is all it takes for desperate loved ones to ease their grief.
Neil (Jeremy Irvine), who has lost his wife, is Iris’ first customer. Like her father, Iris is tempted to exploit the creature’s powers and help desperate people for a price. But she soon discovers breaking the two-minute rule can have terrifying consequences. Together with her best friend Katie (Ruby Barker), Iris must battle to keep control of Baghead and figure out how to destroy her before she destroys them.
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, April 19 (Available in the US, CA, and UKI)
October 31, 1977. Jack Delroy’s syndicated talk show, Night Owls, has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country, but a year on from the tragic death of Jack’s wife, ratings have plummeted.
Desperate to turn his fortunes around, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other, unaware he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America. Directed by Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes, the film stars David Dastmalchian (“Oppenheimer”) and Laura Gordon (“Reckoning”).
INFESTED (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, April 26 (Available in the US, CA, UKI, and AU
Director Sébastien Vanicek makes his feature film debut with a story that follows Kaleb, who is about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He’s fighting with his sister over a matter of inheritance and has cut ties with his best friend.
Fascinated by exotic animals, he finds a venomous spider in a bazaar and brings it back to his flat. It only takes a moment for it to escape and reproduce, turning the whole place into a dreadful web trap. The movie stars Théo Christine, Finnegan Oldfield, Jérôme Niel, Sofia Lesaffre, and Lisa Nyarko.
HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN HORROR-THON CONTINUES
The Terror Season 2 – Series Binge Starts Monday, April 1
Set during World War II, the second season of “The Terror” centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
Mute Witness – Streaming Film Premiere on April 1
From director Anthony Waller (“An American Werewolf in Paris”), a mute makeup artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder and must escape capture.
The Gates – Streaming Film Premiere on April 1
A serial killer has been sentenced to death by an electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he’s in and all of those in it.
SHUDDER RESURRECTED
Repertory titles that are new to Shudder in April.
AVAILABLE APRIL 1
Mute Witness
A mute makeup artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder and must escape capture.
The Gates
A serial killer has been sentenced to death by an electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in and all of those in it.
Drag Me to Hell
A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
Ghost Stories (2017)
After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
The Rental
Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend getaway.
At the Devil’s Door
A real estate agent finds herself caught up in something sinister when she has to sell a house with a dark past and meets the troubled teen who used to live there.
The Wind
A plainswoman faces the harshness and isolation of the untamed lad in the Western frontier of the late 1800s.
Summoning Sylvia
A gay bachelor party turns spooky when sinister spirits are suddenly summoned.
Madman
A legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp.
*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: Madman episode is also available.
Spookies
A wicked sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to keep his wife alive.
*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: Spookies episode is also available.
Creepshow
Five grisly tales from a kid’s comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate’s occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
AVAILABLE APRIL 4
Wake Wood
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Emelie
A couple’s replacement babysitter turns out to be more than they bargained for when she subjects their kids to a series of twisted activities.
AVAILABLE APRIL 8
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
Two estranged siblings go to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon discover an evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and begun wreaking havoc.
The Third Saturday in October
When a psycho goes on a murderous rampage after surviving a botched execution, only two survivors of his initial attack can stop him.
The Third Saturday in October Part V
Follow an implacable killer as he stalks and butchers the occupants of houses across the stretch of one lone country road while the residents prepare to watch a yearly college football bout.
AVAILABLE APRIL 15
The Tunnel
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story, it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
The Tunnel: The Other Side of Darkness
This documentary, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Australian found-footage film “The Tunnel,” delves into the filmmaker’s endeavors to challenge how films are financed and distributed and the lasting impact “The Tunnel” had internationally.
AVAILABLE APRIL 22
The House of the Devil (2009)
In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: The House of the Devil episode is also available.
The Innkeepers
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel’s haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
The Changeling (1980)
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying in a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion’s attic.
*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: The Changeling episode is also available.
Final Cut (aka Death Games)
A reporter and his girlfriend follow around a famous actor/entrepreneur and discover some dirt on him to be made public.
13th Floor
As a child, a girl witnessed her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together, they set out to expose the crimes of her father.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.