Shudder is bringing new and classic horror to fans on the streaming platform in May 2023. Some intense cult classics like Martyrs (2015) and new titles like Consecration are adding to the diverse list of content becoming available next month. AMC Networks’ Shudder is a premium streaming video service, super-serving members with the best selection in genre entertainment, covering horror, thrillers, and the supernatural. Shudder’s expanding library of film, TV series, and originals is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.
New Films Arriving in May on Shudder:
Huesera: The Bone Woman (streaming May 12th)
Synopsis
Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child, becomes cursed by a sinister entity. Plunged into a terrifying and dangerous world, a group of witches emerge as her only hope for safety and salvation, but not without grave risk.
Director: Michelle Garza Cervera
Writers: Michelle Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo
Cast: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández, Aída López,
Martha Claudia Moreno
Language: Spanish
Consecration (streaming on May 19th)
Synopsis
After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened with the help of Father Romero (Huston). But she soon comes to distrust the account of the Church as she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.
Director: Christopher Smith
Writer: Christopher Smith, Laurie Cook
Cast: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Janet Suzman
Language: English
Influencer (streaming on May 26th)
Synopsis
While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, social media influencer Madison meets CW, who travels with ease and shows her a more uninhibited way of living. But CW’s interest in her takes a darker turn.
Director: Kurtis David Harder (SPIRAL)
Writer: Kurtis David Harder, Tesh Guttikonda
Cast: Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Rory J Saper, Sara Canning
Language: English
Older & Cult Classic Titles Added in May on Shudder:
High Tension (2003) -Streaming on May 1st
Synopsis
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia’s parents’ secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls’ idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Director: Alexandre Aja
Inside (2007) -Streaming on May 1st
Synopsis
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
Livid (2011) -Streaming on May 1st
Synopsis
The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel’s once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
Martyrs (2015) -Streaming on May 1st
Synopsis
A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.
Directors: Kevin & Michael Goetz
Poison for the Fairies (1986) -Streaming on May 8th
Synopsis
A 10-year-old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
Darker Than the Night (1975) -Streaming on May 8th
Synopsis
Four beautiful women move to an old house, inherited by the aunt of one of them, and witness strange things.
Director: Carlos Enrique Taboada
The Babadook (2014) -Streaming on May 15th
Synopsis
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children’s book titled “Mister Babadook” manifests in their home.
Director: Jennifer Kent
The Devil’s Doorway (2018) -Streaming on May 15th
Synopsis
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for ‘fallen women’, only to uncover something much more horrific.
Director: Aislinn Clarke
In Their Skin (2012) -Streaming on May 22nd
Synopsis
The Hughes’ cottage vacation is violently interrupted by a family on a murderous and identity-stealing journey, in search of the “perfect” life.
Director: Jeremy Power Regimbal
