Here’s What’s Coming to Shudder in April 2025
Shudder celebrates their annual ‘Halfway to Halloween’ month in April 2025, and they’ve announced the titles arriving on their streaming platform. Included are the Shudder original films 825 FOREST ROAD, FRÉWAKA, DEAD MAIL, and SHADOW OF GOD.
Shudder also has new episodes of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, and appropriately enough, the 1986 classic APRIL FOOLS DAY.
Here’s the full breakdown.
FILMS
Shudder Original Film
Directed by Stephen Cognetti
Streaming On Shudder April 4
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UK&I
Synopsis
From the creator of the Hell House LLC franchise, Stephen Cognetti, the film centers on Chuck Wilson starting a new life after a family tragedy when he moves to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth. But he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret. The ghost of Helen Foster has terrorized residents for decades, since her own suicide back in the 40s. Finding Helen’s old home is key to ending the hauntings, but the address they have doesn’t match any of the town’s existing streets. When Chuck realizes his family might be in danger of Helen’s wrath, he takes it upon himself to locate 825 Forest Road before it’s too late.
SHADOW OF GOD
Shudder Original Film
Directed by Michael Peterson
Streaming On Shudder April 11
Available in US, AU, NZ, UK&I
Synopsis
When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper
returns to his childhood home to spend time with childhood friend while he awaits orders from the Church. However, this small town holds dark secrets about Mason's past and the religious organization once run by his father, Angus. Thought dead, Angus reappears, forcing a reunion between father and son. But Angus is different now, and before long, Mason suspects he’s possessed, not by the devil, but by something… holy. When Mason attempts to exorcise the presence from his father, he sets off a chain of events that may end in a cataclysm of biblical proportions testing everything he holds sacred.
DEAD MAIL
Shudder Original Film
Directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy
Streaming On Shudder April 18
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UK&I
Synopsis
On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the desk of Jasper, a seasoned ‘dead letter’ investigator at a 1980s midwestern post office. As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate.
Directed by Aislinn Clarke
Streaming On Shudder April 25
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UK
Synopsis
Irish folk horror from Aislinn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway) follows home care worker Shoo, who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.
TV SERIES
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs
Shudder Original Series
New Episode Premieres LIVE Friday, April 4 on Shudder TV Beginning at 9pm ET;
Debuts on-demand Sunday, April 6; Double Features Premiere the First Friday Every Month
Available in US and CA
Synopsis
Lock your doors and crank the volume for a brand-new season of The Last Drive-In. Join Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl the first Friday of every month for all-new, bone-tingling double-features sure to delight horror buffs and video hounds alike, proving once again that the drive-in will never die.
SHUDDER TV HIGHLIGHTS
Watch Parties Every Friday at 9pm ET – featuring new premieres and curated double features including:
Friday, April 4: The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs Season 7 New Episode - Premiere Watch Party – Films TBA
Friday, April 11: Spotlight on Stephen Cognetti Watch Party – 825 FOREST ROAD and HELL HOUSE LLC Director’s Cut
Friday, April 18: Trapped Watch Party – DEAD MAIL and GLORIOUS
Friday, April 25: The Movies That Made Shudder Watch Party– REVENGE and ONE CUT OF THE DEAD
SHUDDER RESURRECTED
**Repertory Titles New to Shudder**
April 1
April Fool’s Day
Nine colleges students staying at a friend’s remote island mansion begin to fall victim to an unseen murderer over the April Fool’s Day weekend, but nothing is as it seems.
Rawhead Rex
An ancient creature called Rawhead is awakened from its slumber near an Irish village and goes on a rampage killing anyone in sight.
Halloween H20
Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.
Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers
Six years after Michael Myers last terrorized Haddonfield, he returns there in pursuit of his niece, Jamie Lloyd, who has escaped with her newborn child, for which Michael and a mysterious cult have sinister plans.
Halloween: Resurrection
Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which is being broadcast from his old home.
13 Ghosts (1960)
A family inherits a house with 12 ghosts who want a 13th.
Fright Night (1985)
A teenager believes that a newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.
Repulsion (1965)
A withdrawn manicurist who disapproves of her sister’s boyfriend sinks into depression and experiences horrific visions of violence.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Crimson Peak
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathe, bleeds – and remembers.
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
When the unburied dead return to life and seek human victim, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside.
Land of the Dead
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
Unfriended
A group of online chatroom friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend.
April 5
Intruder (2019)
A young married couple buy a beautiful house on several acres of land, only to find out that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.
April 7
A Cat in the Brain
A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director’s gory death scenes from his movies.
City of the Living Dead
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Manhattan Baby
An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidentally releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
The Beyond
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents,” she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to hell.
The Black Cat
A professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies.
The New York Ripper
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
April 14
Chain Reaction (2006)
A group of convicts and a doctor seek refuge from the authorities in a lodge deep in the wood, but their weird inhabitants are not friendly.
April 21
Psychomania
An amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshipping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an “undead.”
