SHUDDER Australia: APRIL 2022 Release Schedule (With Trailers)

Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Reddit
Email
Left to Right: ‘The Windmill Massacre’, ‘The Cellar’ and ‘How to Deter a Robber’

Here’s the complete APRIL 2022 Australian release schedule for AMC Networks’ Shudder, the streaming service serving up genre entertainment, including horror, thrillers, and the supernatural.

Take a look at the complete list of dates and content ““ with trailers! And as always, a heads up that some of these trailers below may be of the RED BAND, gory variety, so take heed.

After more Australian streaming schedules? Also check out the Apri line-ups for NETFLIX, DISNEY+, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO and BRITBOX

  • “HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN HOTLINE”

Every Friday in April from 3pm ““ 4pm ET / 8pm ““ 9pm BST, members are invited to call Samuel Zimmerman, Shudder’s VP of programming, for customized horror viewing recommendations from Shudder’s expansive film collection ““ from his favourite genre films of all time to highly anticipated releases this year. A new hotline phone number will be announced each Friday on Shudder’s social media platforms.

 

Please note: While recommendations are provided for free, please note that normal phone and long- distance charges may apply. Call volume is expected to be high, so please keep trying if a busy signal is received. There are no guarantees that every call will be answered, but Sam will get through as many as he can within the hour.

APRIL 5

  • How to Deter a Robber

In a desolate town in Northern Wisconsin, a stubborn young woman and her naïve boyfriend face off against a pair of amateur burglars.

  • You Might Be the Killer

As Sam (Fran Kranz) flees from a masked killer at camp, it slowly dawns on him that HE might be the killer. With the help of his film buff friend Chuck (Alyson Hannigan), Sam navigates through horror movie tropes to try and make it out of this plot alive.

APRIL 7

  • Cursed Films II ““ A Shudder Original Series – New Episodes Every Thursday

Shudder’s acclaimed documentary series is back to explore the facts and myths surrounding a new batch of famous films some consider cursed. The new season will feature The Wizard of Oz, Rosemary’s Baby, Stalker, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Cannibal Holocaust.

 

Featuring new interviews with FX expert and former Mythbusters host Adam Savage, Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins, actor Bill Pullman and director Ruggero Deodato, among many others.

APRIL 12

  • Julia

After being brutally traumatised by a group of men, Julia undergoes a radical and unorthodox form of therapy to find herself again. Her psychiatrist recommends structured, carefully monitored revenge, but for Julia, it’s gone way beyond that. Her thirst for vengeance is too strong and she becomes totally dominated by her own violent nature, willing to do anything and kill anyone to get even.

  • The 100 Candles Game

A group of friends must confront their fears in a terrifying game. They must sit by the other players in a circle made of a hundred candles, take one of them and tell a horror story. As stories are told and candles are extinguished, strange events will start to occur. They feel strange presences lurking in the shadows, but they must not leave the game or a terrible curse will fall upon them.

APRIL 13

  • Subspecies

Michelle and Lillian are two American students who have joined their friend Mara in Romania for their studies of the ancient myths and legends of Transylvania. But Myth turns into reality when the women become the object of desire of the powerful and grotesque Radu, an evil vampire obsessed with making them his consorts.

  •  The Pit and the Pendulum

In the quest to save souls, the Spanish Inquisition will stop at nothing and knows no boundaries for its evil. Maria must find the power to save her husband from the ultimate machine of torture: the razor-sharp pendulum poised over the pit of hell under the direction of Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of Spain.

  • Intruder

The overnight crew of a supermarket find themselves pursued by a mysterious maniac in this fun late-80s slasher from regular Sam Raimi mainstay Scott Spiegel, who co-wrote Evil Dead 2 and appeared in many of Raimi’s films.

APRIL 15

  • The Cellar ““ A Shudder Original

Filmed on location in Roscommon, Ireland, The Cellar tells the story of Keira Woods (Elisha Cuthbert), whose daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country. Keira soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family’s souls forever. Official Selection, SXSW 2022.

 

Written and directed by Brendan Muldowney.

APRIL 19

  • The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula – Seasons 1-3

After its biggest-ever hit fourth season and its first as a Shudder Original, past seasons of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula are coming to Shudder, making the streamer the exclusive home for all four seasons plus 2020’s Resurrection special. The beloved reality series is a competition created and hosted by The Boulet Brothers to find the world’s next Dragula Supermonster. Each season, a new group of drag artist vie for the title and crown through a series of challenges to demonstrate their mastery of the four pillars of Dragula: drag, horror, filth, and glamour.

  • Devil’s Tower

Sarah has just moved into a block of flats to start a new life away from her abusive mother. There, she strikes up an unconventional friendship with squatter Sid. When Sid’s friend Paul goes missing, he and Sarah unearth a series of strange deaths and disappearances within the tower block. Watched by a malevolent spirit controlling the building’s televisions and cameras, reality and fantasy merge as events are twisted into a sick movie on a TV set high in the block of flats. Sid and Sarah are thrown into a fight for survival when the vengeful ghost, controlling a horde of zombies, possesses Sarah’s mother. Evil suddenly has a familiar face.

  • Eat

Novella McClure is like most struggling actresses in Los Angeles: she’s in her early 30s, her fake name sounded cooler ten years ago and she hasn’t landed a role in three years. To top it all off, she’s developed a disturbing habit of eating her own flesh. Novella desperately tries to hide her strange condition from her motherly landlord, Eesha and somewhat psychopathic best friend Candice, but her body and mind continue to deteriorate in the depressing world of failed auditions and sketchy night clubs. Can a romantic relationship with her psychiatrist prevent her from self-destruction? Or will her fatal habit continue to eat away at her?

APRIL 21

  • Virus 32 ““ A Shudder Original New Film

A virus breaks out and a chilling massacre rages through the streets. The sick become hunters, and only calm their fever by unscrupulously killing all those not yet infected. Unaware of this, Iris (Paula Silva) and her daughter spend the day in the sports club where Iris works as a security guard. When night falls, their fight for survival begins. Their only hope of salvation arrives when they discover that after each attack, the infected seem to stop for 32 seconds of calm before attacking again.

 

Also stars Daniel Hendler and Sofía González. Written by Juma Fodde and Gustavo Hernández and directed by Gustavo Hernández.

 

APRIL 26

  • Etheria – Season 5

Eleven episodes featuring savage serial killers, desperate robot husbands, ghostly visitors, gory body horror, demented sibling rivalry, ruinous secrets from the past, witchcraft and witches of several kinds, mermaids, campfire legends and a hilarious cult indoctrination.

  • Evidence

Four friends embark on a camping trip to an isolated wilderness to shoot a documentary one of them is making. On the first night the group hear blood-curdling cries and see inexplicable shadows surrounding the camp, causing them to question whether they should leave. Suddenly the night takes a terrifying turn when one of the campers goes missing and the remaining three realise they are being brutally hunted… but by what?

  • The Windmill Massacre

Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, she joins a coach full of tourists embarking on a tour of Holland’s world-famous windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common – a shared secret that seems to mark them all fordoom.


Get SCREEN REALM’s weekly updates!