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Shudder’s Horror Fantasy Series “The Dead Lands” Premieres This January

Shudder’s new supernatural fantasy adventure series “The Dead Lands” is ready to premiere later this month. Set in a mythical Aotearoa—New Zealand in a time before time. A dishonored warrior, Waka Nuku Rau dies, but his Ancestors in the Afterlife send him back to the world to find redemption and honor. There, in the world of the living, he is aided by Mehe, a determined young woman, and together they discover the world has been disrupted by forces, not of the living. Someone, or something, is preventing the dead from entering the Afterlife and now the dead are thrown back into their decaying bodies to hunt the living.“The Dead Lands” is the first genre TV showcase of Māori mythic storytelling and martial traditions, created by a mainly Māori cast with significant Māori involvement at all levels of the production. Directed by Peter Meteherangi, Tikao Burger and Michael Hurst, “The Dead Lands” stars Te Kohe Tuhaka (Monster Problems) as “Waka Nuku

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2020
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Sci-Fi Horror ‘Sequence Break’ Premieres On Shudder

From writer-director Graham Skipper comes Sequence Break, on Shudder this January. Chase Williamson, Fabianne Therese, Lyle Kanouse, Audrey Wasilewski, and Johnny Dinan star in the film, a mix of sci-fi and horror, centers on a reclusive video arcade repair technician who has his reality fractured when a mysterious new arcade machine appears in his shop and a beautiful young woman enters his life, causing strange metaphysical forces, bizarre biochemical mutations, and a shocking self-realization. The Cronenbergesque film, a Shudder exclusive, premieres on Shudder January 7, 2020, from RLJE.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2020
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Brutal New Clip From ‘The Nightshifter’

Brazilian director Dennison Ramalho‘s (Ninjas, ABCs of Death) supernatural thriller The Nightshifter is headed to DVD next week. The film centers on Stênio (Daniel de Oliveira) who works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. Each night he prepares the lifeless corpses for examination, but he’s never alone. For Stênio can talk to the dead…and they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth unimaginable danger and darkness. Bloody-Disgusting snagged an exclusive clip that reveals Stênio pushing his way through a web only to see two children murdered, but is just an illusion? Daniel de Oliveira (Jean Charles), Fabiola Nascimento (S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 1 & 2), Bianca Comparato (“3%”), and Marco Ricca (Delicate Crime) star. Ramalho co-wrote the script with Cláudia Jouvin (Alone Man) and Marco de Castro (Ninjas). The Nightshifter lands on DVD on January 7, 2020, from Shudder

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2020
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Mon Mon Mon Monsters! Will Be Unleashed Next Month

RLJE Films has snagged select rights to Shudder’s horror-comedy Mon Mon Mon Monsters! and will unleash it on Blu-ray and DVD next month. In the film written and directed by Giddens Ko (You Are the Apple of My Eye), a group of classmates doing community service discover two flesh-eating creatures hiding in an old building. One of the creatures is able to escape, but they capture the other one, torturing her while trying to learn what she really is. It soon becomes clear that the first creature’s escape has dire consequences, as she hunts them down and stops at nothing to free her sister. This fun flick stars Eugenie Liu (“Behind Your Smile”), Pei-Hsin Lin, Carolyn Chen (Attention, Love!), Yu-Kai Deng (Tree in the River), and Kent Tsai (All Because of Love). Mon Mon Mon Monsters! claws its way onto Blu-ray and DVD on February 4, 2020.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 3, 2020
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Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Films And Series Of 2019

2019 saw many horror films and series released, some good, some bad. We’re here to talk about the best of the best, the top 10 must-see films and series of the year! Top 10 Films 10.The Head Hunter (review) In a cold, medieval forest, a warrior (Christopher Rygh) stalks the land eternally hunting for one more monster head to add to his collection… but this decapitation would offer our hero sweet revenge! While at it’s heart an absolute exercise in minimalism, this film is everything I crave from genre cinema; unique, inventive, and packed with sweet, sweet creatures! Grim, grizzly, nihilistic, and often breathtaking; The Head Hunter is easily one of the best horror pics that has come down the putrid pike in a damn sight! -Dan XIII 9. The Lighthouse (review) Robert Eggers (The Witch) is back with his new venture into the dramatic, psychological horror with The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe. Set on an isolated island in New

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 31, 2019
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Multiple Movies From Shudder Make Rotten Tomatoes’ Top 20 Of 2019 List

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, is dedicated to super-serving fans of horror, thrillers and the supernatural with its unbeatable curated collection of new genre movies and shows. In 2019 the critics have taken notice by lauding two Shudder films as the best of the year, according to popular review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes®. At 100% Certified Fresh™, Shinichiro Ueda’s zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead topped Rotten Tomatoes’® list of the best movies of 2019. While shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew in this inventive spin on the zombie genre find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. At 97% Certified Fresh™, Issa López’s chilling and heartbreaking Tigers Are Not Afraid stands at the top of the list. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, the film follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 17, 2019
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The Dead Speak In The Nightshifter – Coming To DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to The Nightshifter from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. The film was directed by Dennison Ramalho (ABCs of Death 2), who co-wrote the script with Cláudia Jouvin (Alone Man) and Marco de Castro (Ninjas). In the film, Stênio (Oliveira) works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. Each night he prepares the lifeless corpses for examination, but he’s never alone, Stênio can talk to the dead…and they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth unimaginable danger and darkness. Daniel de Oliveira (Jean Charles), Fabiula Nascimento (S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 1 & 2), Bianca Comparato (“3%”), and Marco Ricca (Delicate Crime) star. The Nightshifter will be released on January 7, 2020, on DVD, from RLJE Films. RLJE Films’ recent features include the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 7, 2019
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Shudder Announces Premiere Of New Original Series “The Dead Lands”

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that its new original series “The Dead Lands”, a co-production with New Zealand’s TVNZ, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, January 23rd, across all of Shudder’s territories (US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland). It will also air on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand immediately after its international debut. Subsequent episodes will premiere on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand weekly. “The Dead Lands” tells of a supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The series features a murdered Māori warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 6, 2019
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A Guide For New Films, Specials And More On Shudder This December

With December comes a whole new batch of films, specials and more on Shudder. And, we’ve got a guide to help you enjoy the most of Shudder this month which includes the new epic medieval-horror sensation The Head Hunter (100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), two internationally-acclaimed thrillers Trivisha (a Hong Kong Film Awards’ Best Film winner) and Iskander: Shadow of the River (a binge-worthy crime miniseries set in French Guiana), Joe Bob’s Red Christmas, an all-new The Last Drive-In special, our Unhappy Holidays collection of Christmas terrors (including the U.S. streaming premiere of a cult French favorite), a trio of beloved Wes Craven movies, a Tom Savini documentary and so much more. SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE TITLES THE HEAD HUNTER (premieres Thursday, 12/5) On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one — the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 30, 2019
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Celebrate The Holidays With “Joe Bob’s Red Christmas” Special!

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, announced today that genre icon Joe Bob Briggs, host of The Last Drive-In, will return on December 13th with an all-new special, Joe Bob’s Red Christmas. The triple feature of holiday horrors will stream live at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Shudder in the U.S. and Canada. It will also be made available On Demand later in December. The special will be Briggs’ second of the year, following Joe Bob’s Halloween Hootenanny. Every Christmas we try to get that perfect mix of movies the whole family can watch, plus movies that will cause every family member except dedicated horror fiends to run screaming from the room. That’s because we realize that Christmas celebrations can go either way. We think we’ve achieved that balance with Joe Bob’s Red Christmas, combining the cult, the classic and the bizarre in a holiday stew designed to keep you reaching for the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 26, 2019

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Shudder’s Horror Fantasy Series “The Dead Lands” Premieres This January

Shudder’s new supernatural fantasy adventure series “The Dead Lands” is ready to premiere later this month. Set in a mythical Aotearoa—New Zealand in a time before time. A dishonored warrior, Waka Nuku Rau dies, but his Ancestors in the Afterlife send him back to the world to find redemption and honor. There, in the world of the living, he is aided by Mehe, a determined young woman, and together they discover the world has been disrupted by forces, not of the living. Someone, or something, is preventing the dead from entering the Afterlife and now the dead are thrown back into their decaying bodies to hunt the living.“The Dead Lands” is the first genre TV showcase of Māori mythic storytelling and martial traditions, created by a mainly Māori cast with significant Māori involvement at all levels of the production. Directed by Peter Meteherangi, Tikao Burger and Michael Hurst, “The Dead Lands” stars Te Kohe Tuhaka (Monster Problems) as “Waka Nuku

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 12, 2020
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Sci-Fi Horror ‘Sequence Break’ Premieres On Shudder

From writer-director Graham Skipper comes Sequence Break, on Shudder this January. Chase Williamson, Fabianne Therese, Lyle Kanouse, Audrey Wasilewski, and Johnny Dinan star in the film, a mix of sci-fi and horror, centers on a reclusive video arcade repair technician who has his reality fractured when a mysterious new arcade machine appears in his shop and a beautiful young woman enters his life, causing strange metaphysical forces, bizarre biochemical mutations, and a shocking self-realization. The Cronenbergesque film, a Shudder exclusive, premieres on Shudder January 7, 2020, from RLJE.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 6, 2020
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Brutal New Clip From ‘The Nightshifter’

Brazilian director Dennison Ramalho‘s (Ninjas, ABCs of Death) supernatural thriller The Nightshifter is headed to DVD next week. The film centers on Stênio (Daniel de Oliveira) who works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. Each night he prepares the lifeless corpses for examination, but he’s never alone. For Stênio can talk to the dead…and they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth unimaginable danger and darkness. Bloody-Disgusting snagged an exclusive clip that reveals Stênio pushing his way through a web only to see two children murdered, but is just an illusion? Daniel de Oliveira (Jean Charles), Fabiola Nascimento (S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 1 & 2), Bianca Comparato (“3%”), and Marco Ricca (Delicate Crime) star. Ramalho co-wrote the script with Cláudia Jouvin (Alone Man) and Marco de Castro (Ninjas). The Nightshifter lands on DVD on January 7, 2020, from Shudder

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 5, 2020
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Mon Mon Mon Monsters! Will Be Unleashed Next Month

RLJE Films has snagged select rights to Shudder’s horror-comedy Mon Mon Mon Monsters! and will unleash it on Blu-ray and DVD next month. In the film written and directed by Giddens Ko (You Are the Apple of My Eye), a group of classmates doing community service discover two flesh-eating creatures hiding in an old building. One of the creatures is able to escape, but they capture the other one, torturing her while trying to learn what she really is. It soon becomes clear that the first creature’s escape has dire consequences, as she hunts them down and stops at nothing to free her sister. This fun flick stars Eugenie Liu (“Behind Your Smile”), Pei-Hsin Lin, Carolyn Chen (Attention, Love!), Yu-Kai Deng (Tree in the River), and Kent Tsai (All Because of Love). Mon Mon Mon Monsters! claws its way onto Blu-ray and DVD on February 4, 2020.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jan 3, 2020
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Horror Fuel’s Top 10 Films And Series Of 2019

2019 saw many horror films and series released, some good, some bad. We’re here to talk about the best of the best, the top 10 must-see films and series of the year! Top 10 Films 10.The Head Hunter (review) In a cold, medieval forest, a warrior (Christopher Rygh) stalks the land eternally hunting for one more monster head to add to his collection… but this decapitation would offer our hero sweet revenge! While at it’s heart an absolute exercise in minimalism, this film is everything I crave from genre cinema; unique, inventive, and packed with sweet, sweet creatures! Grim, grizzly, nihilistic, and often breathtaking; The Head Hunter is easily one of the best horror pics that has come down the putrid pike in a damn sight! -Dan XIII 9. The Lighthouse (review) Robert Eggers (The Witch) is back with his new venture into the dramatic, psychological horror with The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe. Set on an isolated island in New

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 31, 2019
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Multiple Movies From Shudder Make Rotten Tomatoes’ Top 20 Of 2019 List

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, is dedicated to super-serving fans of horror, thrillers and the supernatural with its unbeatable curated collection of new genre movies and shows. In 2019 the critics have taken notice by lauding two Shudder films as the best of the year, according to popular review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes®. At 100% Certified Fresh™, Shinichiro Ueda’s zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead topped Rotten Tomatoes’® list of the best movies of 2019. While shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew in this inventive spin on the zombie genre find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. At 97% Certified Fresh™, Issa López’s chilling and heartbreaking Tigers Are Not Afraid stands at the top of the list. A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, the film follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 17, 2019
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The Dead Speak In The Nightshifter – Coming To DVD

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to The Nightshifter from Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. The film was directed by Dennison Ramalho (ABCs of Death 2), who co-wrote the script with Cláudia Jouvin (Alone Man) and Marco de Castro (Ninjas). In the film, Stênio (Oliveira) works the graveyard shift in the morgue of a vast, violent city. Each night he prepares the lifeless corpses for examination, but he’s never alone, Stênio can talk to the dead…and they talk back. But when the whispers of the dead reveal secrets of his own life, Stênio unleashes a curse that brings forth unimaginable danger and darkness. Daniel de Oliveira (Jean Charles), Fabiula Nascimento (S.O.S.: Women to the Sea 1 & 2), Bianca Comparato (“3%”), and Marco Ricca (Delicate Crime) star. The Nightshifter will be released on January 7, 2020, on DVD, from RLJE Films. RLJE Films’ recent features include the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 7, 2019
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Shudder Announces Premiere Of New Original Series “The Dead Lands”

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today that its new original series “The Dead Lands”, a co-production with New Zealand’s TVNZ, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, January 23rd, across all of Shudder’s territories (US, Canada, the UK, and Ireland). It will also air on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand immediately after its international debut. Subsequent episodes will premiere on both Shudder and TVNZ OnDemand weekly. “The Dead Lands” tells of a supernatural adventure set in a mythic Māori past, with an aesthetic that’s part Ash vs Evil Dead and part Xena: Warrior Princess. The series features a murdered Māori warrior, Waka Nuku Rau (Te Kohe Tuhaka), who’s sent back to the world of the living to redeem his sins. But the world Waka returns to is ravaged by a breach between Life and the Afterlife as the spirits of the newly dead now stalk the land and hunt the living. Waka

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Dec 6, 2019
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A Guide For New Films, Specials And More On Shudder This December

With December comes a whole new batch of films, specials and more on Shudder. And, we’ve got a guide to help you enjoy the most of Shudder this month which includes the new epic medieval-horror sensation The Head Hunter (100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), two internationally-acclaimed thrillers Trivisha (a Hong Kong Film Awards’ Best Film winner) and Iskander: Shadow of the River (a binge-worthy crime miniseries set in French Guiana), Joe Bob’s Red Christmas, an all-new The Last Drive-In special, our Unhappy Holidays collection of Christmas terrors (including the U.S. streaming premiere of a cult French favorite), a trio of beloved Wes Craven movies, a Tom Savini documentary and so much more. SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE TITLES THE HEAD HUNTER (premieres Thursday, 12/5) On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one — the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 30, 2019
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Celebrate The Holidays With “Joe Bob’s Red Christmas” Special!

Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, announced today that genre icon Joe Bob Briggs, host of The Last Drive-In, will return on December 13th with an all-new special, Joe Bob’s Red Christmas. The triple feature of holiday horrors will stream live at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Shudder in the U.S. and Canada. It will also be made available On Demand later in December. The special will be Briggs’ second of the year, following Joe Bob’s Halloween Hootenanny. Every Christmas we try to get that perfect mix of movies the whole family can watch, plus movies that will cause every family member except dedicated horror fiends to run screaming from the room. That’s because we realize that Christmas celebrations can go either way. We think we’ve achieved that balance with Joe Bob’s Red Christmas, combining the cult, the classic and the bizarre in a holiday stew designed to keep you reaching for the

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 26, 2019
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