Australia: We have your complete Shudder release schedule for July 2026, covering all the horror and genre drops hitting the service across the month, with the trailers available included for good measure.
July’s line-up includes the Shudder Exclusive premiere of The Toxic Avenger, led by Peter Dinklage as the newly mutated hero, along with sci-fi horror Touch Me and the Rupert Grint-starring Shudder Original Nightborn. Library highlights include Australian creature-feature favourite Razorback, alien-bender horror-comedy Jimmy & Stiggs, the unsettling Observance and the grim Aussie thriller Hounds of Love.
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1 JULY
- The Toxic Avenger (2023) (Shudder Exclusive Film)
A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) into a new evolution of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Also starring Kevin Bacon, Elijah Woodand Jacob Tremblay.
- The Scarecrow
A group of friends disturb an ancient spirit inhabiting a scarecrow.
3 JULY
- Touch Me (Shudder Exclusive Film)
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. Starring Olivia Taylor Dudley (The Magicians, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension), Lou Taylor Pucci(You) and Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black).
8 JULY
- Razorback
As vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by a hunter and a farmer in a search for the beast.
15 JULY
- Jimmy & Stiggs
A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy Lang spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help.
17 JULY
- Observance
After five years in a coma, Madison Neubauer wakes to find her home and family in the grip of ‘The Observance’ – a religious cult who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
- Hounds of Love
Vicky Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. She quicky realizes she must drive a wedge between them to survive.
31 JULY
- Nightborn (Shudder Original Film)
With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga (Seidi Haarla, Compartment No. 6) and her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint, Harry Potter franchise) move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.
