16 New Horror Movies Streaming On Shudder This Month

Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl are once again possessed by the Christmas spirit, hosting a double-feature of snowy slashers for Joe Bob's Cold Cruel Christmas, an unholy night full of frozen fear, cold-blooded kills, and the return of their annual charity drive that will be available for viewing in the United States and Canada.

This super scary new Shudder Holiday Special  Premieres LIVE Friday, December 12, on Shudder TV, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT, and it debuts on demand Sunday, December 14, just in case you were kidnapped by the Krampus, had to escape from the bag, and were successful in running back home.

Available in the United States and Canada.

There's another wonderful streaming present under the tree for all Shudder fans, namely “Watch Parties Every Friday at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT – featuring new premieres and curated double features including:

• December 5: “Sun-Drenched Dread” Watch Party – Reflection in a Dead Diamond and Let the Corpses Tan
• December 12: “The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Cold Cruel Christmas” Watch Party Special – Titles TBA
• December 19: “Of the Dead” Watch Party – Queens of the Dead and One Cut of the Dead
• December 26: “Boxing Day” Watch Party – The Advent Calendar and The Sacrifice Game

From renowned author and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror), The Haunted Season is a series of chilling horror tales following the classic tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas.

The festive new film in the horror anthology series, The Occupant of the Room is based on the classic chiller of the same name by Algernon Blackwood about a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest, leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences.

This Shudder exclusive film is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now, Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.

Directed by Charles Edward Sellier Jr. and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, and Linnea Quigley, the film horrified the public at large based on its ad campaign that featured a killer dressed as Santa Claus and the fact that it was released at Christmas. Families protested the film at theaters that screened it, and the PTA succeeded in having the film removed from release after the film was advertised on TV during family-oriented programming. The irony is that the programming of those commercials was possibly related to the fact that the director Charles Edward Sellier Jr. was the creator of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, a family-oriented book and television series.

The imagery of Santa climbing into the chimney of a home on Christmas night was just too much for them.

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories, and madness collide. This is the fourth film from the directing team of Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet. They have received acclaim for their previous films, Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears, and Let the Corpses Tan, which are incredibly stylish and experimental with Giallo and Spaghetti Western elements.

Basically, there is no directing team quite like Cattet and Forzani working today. Fans of their work have been waiting patiently for their next film for seven years, and they have a style all their own that hardcore cinephiles and movie fans will enjoy. The film stars Fabio Testi (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros (Henry and June, Pulp Fiction), and Thi Mai Nguyen.

In the sun-drenched countryside of southern France, CW (Cassandra Naud) lives a quiet, idyllic life with her girlfriend Diane (Lisa Delamar), hiding a dark obsession with murder and stolen identities. During an anniversary getaway, they cross paths with Charlotte (Georgina Campbell), a bold, alluring influencer whose curiosity quickly turns intrusive. When CW acts on a violent impulse, the consequences spiral out of control, and as Diane begins to suspect the truth, CW’s carefully constructed life threatens to collapse around her.

Influencers is a Shudder Original Film, directed by Kurtis David Harder, and the sequel to 2022's Influencer.

A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.

The award-winning feature debut from director Tina Romero stars Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Jaquel Spivey(Mean Girls), Tomas Matos (Fire Island), Nina West (Rupaul’s Drag Race), Quincy Dunn-Baker (No Hard Feelings), Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story), Dominique Jackson (Pose), stand-up comic Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome (Knives Out), Eve Lindley (Dispatches From Elsewhere), Becca Blackwell (Survival of the Thickest) and Shaunette Renée Wilson (Black Panther). Queens of the Dead was the winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Festival.

This Shudder exclusive is available in the United States and Canada and is wonderful. It's scary, gory, funny, and filled with heart, and has the characteristic Romero interest in social commentary, but Romero has added something new to the zombie apocalypse subgenre.

On Halloween night, teen magician Max finds herself locked in a brutal showdown with the Jester, a nightmarish and supernatural trickster with real dark magic and a killer act. As illusions turn lethal and every escape is a trap, Max must pull off the ultimate trick: staying alive. On this deadly night, the only escape is to beat the devil at its own game.

The Jester 2, a Shudder exclusive film, is the sequel to 2023's The Jester; both movies are directed by Colin Krawchuk, and the sequel stars Michael Sheffield, Lelia Symington, and Delaney White. It is available in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

In The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans season two, fourteen of the fiercest drag artists from past seasons (most of them top three finalists and fan favorites) will return to battle in design, performance, and makeup-based challenges inspired by horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the supernatural. The competitors will have to survive the show’s pillars of Filth, Horror, and Glamour in order to win the crown and a $100,000 grand prize, a headlining spot on a forthcoming world tour, and the title of “Queen of the Underworld”.

Hosted by Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, this season will feature a variety of guest judges & horror/genre royalty including David Dastmalchian, Jennifer Tilly, Todd McFarlane, Kate Siegel, Don Mancini, Bonnie Aarons, Akela Cooper, Twin Temple, Peaches Christ, Steve Orlando, Ryan Turek, James A Janisse & Chelsea Rebecca and season one winner, Victoria Elizabeth Black.

From The Boulet Brothers (The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula) and David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad, Late Night with the Devil) comes The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors, a chilling holiday-themed horror special produced by Boulet Brothers’ Productions and Good Fiend Productions. The film features four original shorts, each written and directed by a different genre powerhouse: The Boulet Brothers, Dastmalchian, Akeela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN), and Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House). Starring Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), Steve Agee (Peacemaker), and Tracie Thoms (Death Proof), the anthology blends atmospheric horror, practical gore, and haunting holiday imagery into a new seasonal classic.

The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors is a Shudder Original Special that is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, The Creep Tapes season two will continue 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 this season include David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil, Dexter: Resurrection), Katie Aselton (The Morning Show, The League), and Robert Longstreet (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House).

Santa’s Slay: Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways.

A Christmas Tale (2005): After finding an injured thief, a group of children spending Christmas in a summer resort village decides to torture her into revealing the location of her stolen money. From V/H/S/HALLOWEEN and [REC] director, Paco Plaza.

You Are Not Me: Aitana returns home for Christmas, the first time after three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with an unknown woman who is being treated like their daughter. She soon discovers the disturbing and bloody truth.

Creep Box: After his wife’s death, a scientist tries to use ground-breaking technology to determine if there is life after death, but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back.

Spooktacular!: The story of Spooky World, and its founder, a PR-savvy mis of P.T. Barnum and Stephen King who parlayed his experience working in his father’s joke shop into creating the very first horror scream park of its kind, in 1991.

Wolf (TV Series): In an isolated house in the country, a family finds themselves the victims of a terrifying psychopath’s cruel games. *6 Episodes – each episode premieres on Tuesdays