It’s still August, which means summer blockbusters like Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey are still ruling the box offices and most kids haven’t started school yet.
But fall is just around the corner, and that usually means one thing – spooky season is upon us.
Shudder isn’t waiting to celebrate. The horror streamer just announced its Seasons of Screams, which is celebrating all the things that go bump in the night.
The programming initiative is full of genre classics like all four Psycho movies, contemporary hits like the Insidious movies with Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne and new original movies and shows, like a new installment in the popular V/H/S series and The Creep Tapes.
Watch With Us has highlighted some of the info you need to know about Shudder’s Season of Screams festivities below.
Parasomnia (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 4
Riley (Jasmine Mathews) is a young woman tormented by night terrors and a past of unresolved tragedy. When her best friend is the latest to go missing, she begins to suspect a demonic figure lurking in her sleep has crossed over into the real world.
With the breakout successes of Backrooms and Obsession earlier this year, horror is having a moment in 2026. That’s just one more reason why you should be subscribed to Shudder. The streamer is the premier platform for all things terrifying, and its August 2026 slate is packed with new originals and old classics. Watch With […]
Mārama (Shudder Exclusive Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 11
Rated 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, Mārama is centered on a young Māori woman who discovers her horrific colonial heritage after travelling to Victorian England in 1859. She soon becomes compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
The Creep Tapes Season 3 (Shudder Original Series)
Two-Episode Season Premiere Tuesday, September 15
From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, season three continues to expose a collection of videotapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Duplass). Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake. Guest stars include Kate Siegel, Nic Hamilton, Elliott Fullam and Duplass’ daughter, Ora Duplass, who will star in a throwback episode.
Goody Goody (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 18
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents (Samantha Robinson) and Colby Hollman and their midwife (Colleen Foy) begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications arise.
Bloody Tennis (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, September 25
Centered in the world of elite sports to disturbing new extremes. After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in Southern Europe, Sophie (Sandra Guldberg Kampp) must contend not only with the fierce brutality of her teammates, but with the school’s increasingly sinister undercurrents, where competitive sports are taken to their painful limits, and only the hungriest survive.
Infirmary (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, October 2
A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital in 2023. His bodycam footage shows unexplainable incidents that continue to baffle investigators. Starring Paul Syre, Mark Anthony Williams and Danielle Kennedy.
V/H/S/Mixtape (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, October 9
The ninth installment cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares.
Featuring all-new segments from legendary filmmaker Ernest Dickerson, hip-hop icon RZA, visionary director David Moreau and acclaimed filmmaker Renee Zhan, whose segment includes original puppets by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. V/H/S/MIXTAPE also features original music video interludes directed by acclaimed filmmaker and musician Flying Lotus, alongside a brand-new music video from debut filmmaker Tobias Forge, creating a genre-bending mixtape experience unlike anything the franchise has attempted before. Adding to the chaos, legendary shock-metal pioneers GWAR also make a featured appearance, further cementing the film’s celebration of horror, music and cult cinema.
Hallowarrior (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, October 16
Hallowarrior follows Pumpkin (Milly Shapiro), the last girl on Earth and sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, scavenging the wasteland for supplies on the eve of Halloween. Pumpkin’s lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by Thalia (Shannyn Sossamon). Outnumbered and armed with candy, wit and weapons, Pumpkin must ferociously fight back to survive the night.
The Cycle (Shudder Original Film)
New Film Premieres Friday, October 23
When police discover a corpse beside a horrific crime scene, their only lead is the man’s estranged daughter (Deborah Ann Woll), who must unravel the disturbing secret her father thought he took to the grave. Also starring Jeffrey Donovan.
Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party (Shudder Original Special)
New Halloween Special Premieres LIVE on Friday, October 23; Streaming On-Demand Beginning Sunday, October 25
Slap the finishing touches on your costume a week early, because you’re cordially invited to Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party! RSVP for a Samhain soiree to remember with Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl as they host a seasonal double-feature chock-full of tricks, treats, and violent dismemberment.
FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards (Shudder Original Special)
LIVE Horror Awards Special Premieres Sunday, October 25 at 9 pm EST
Annual awards ceremony honoring the best in horror films of the year. Hosted by Devon Sawa.
Big Baby (Shudder Exclusive Film)
New Film Premieres on Devil’s Night, Friday, October 30
Nightmares of a maniac killer in a baby mask inspire a horror writer’s new script. As his life begins to spiral out of control, he discovers Big Baby’s murderous rampage may be more than just fiction. Directed by Spider One and executive produced by iconic singer and actress Cher.
Hunting Matthew Nichols (Shudder Exclusive Film)
New Film Premieres on Halloween, Saturday, October 31
Two decades after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person’s case. When disturbing circumstances and evidence are revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive. Starring Miranda MacDougall and Markian Tarasiuk.
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season 7 (Shudder Original Series)
New Season Premieres Fall 2026 on Shudder and AMC+
Hosted by modern-day horror icons and drag superstars Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, season seven of the hit reality competition series The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula will bring together extreme drag artists from around the world to compete in jaw-dropping challenges including costume design and creation, makeup and special effects, live performance and craftsmanship.
Curse of the Ghoul Logs
The filmmakers behind Shudder’s buzzy new feature Hallowarrior resurrected everyone’s favorite jack-o-lantern – and, for the first time ever, multiple pumpkins – with Curse of the Ghoul Logs. The new hour-long video of the chilling pumpkins sets the scene for horror fans beginning October 1.
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Psycho (1960)
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a
repressed man and his overbearing mother.
Psycho II (1983)
After 22 years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes – and his mother – continue to haunt him.
Psycho III (1986)
Norman Bates (Perkins) falls in love with a fallen nun who stays at the Bates Motel alongside a drifter and curious reporter. Meanwhile, “Mother” is still watching.
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
Norman Bates (Henry Thomas) recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing that his unborn child will inherit his dissociative identity disorder.
1408 (2007)
Author Michael Enslin (John Cusack), who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room 1408 in Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror.
Scarecrows (1988)
Bank robbers parachute from a hijacked plane into a field full of killer scarecrows.
Dark Harvest (2023)
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Exorcismo (1975)
A young woman participates (unknowingly) in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.
The Horseman (2008)
When Christian finds out his runaway teenage daughter, Jesse, has been sexually attacked, the
suburban father loses it. Setting out to find Jesse’s attacker, Christian goes on a violent rampage.
Irrefutable Truth About Demons (2000)
An anthropologist’s life and reality are ripped apart by a satanic cult.
Strange Darling (2023)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
The Lamberts believe that they have defeated the spirits that have haunted their family, but they soon discover that evil is not beaten so easily.
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier
reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead to help a teenage girl who has been
targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Resident Evil: The Apocalypse (2004)
Alice (Mila Jovovich) wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
During her first semester at college, a co-ed finds housing at a seaside mansion where, following the death of a fellow student, she becomes entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the property and its secretive tenants.
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Live Watch Parties Every Friday at 9 pm EST on Shudder TV spotlighting new premieres and curated double features, including:
Friday, September 4: “Can You Survive Your Sleep?” Watch Party – Parasomnia and Somnium
Friday, September 11: “Indigenous Horror” Watch Party – Mārama and La Llorona
Friday, September 18: “Chamber Piece Terrors” Watch Party – Goody Goody and Glorious
Friday, September 25: “Whatever It Takes To Succeed” Watch Party – Bloody Tennis and The Ugly Stepsister
Friday, October 2: “Found Footage Frights” Watch Party – Infirmary and Host
Friday, October 9: “V/H/S/Marathon” Watch Party – V/H/S/Mixtape, V/H/S/Halloween, V/H/S/Beyond, V/H/S/85, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/94
Friday, October 16: “Surviving Halloween” Watch Party – Hallowarrior and Night of the Demons
Friday, October 23: “Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party” Watch Party (Titles TBA)
Sunday, October 25: “2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards” Watch Party; followed by “Full Moon Fever” Watch Party at 10:30 pm in celebration of the Hunter’s Moon – The Cycle, Dog Soldiers and Werewolves Within
Friday, October 30: “Maniacs in Masks” Watch Party – Big Baby and Night of the Reaper
Saturday, October 31: “Trick or Treat” Watch Party – Halloween (1978), Late Night with the Devil and Deadstream
Sunday, November 1: “DÍa de los Muertos” Watch Party – Huesera: The Bone Woman and La Llorona
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