We're Halfway to Halloween, and the new Horror movies on Shudder are here to help us celebrate all month long. 2025 is also Shudder's 10th anniversary, and while there will be many events and screenings in real life to commemorate this occasion throughout the year, you can count on the premium horror streaming service to get the best in the genre for Shudder viewers. There is a great new selection of Shudder Original Films that will be released during April.
You can also count on a new double-feature episode of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs on the first Friday of every month. While the flicks that Joe Bob has personally selected have not yet been revealed, we're sure that the fans will love what Joe Bob and Darcy have planned for Friday, April 4.
Not only are there three new Shudder Watch Parties that spotlight up-and-coming genre directors, but one of the films is the debut feature Coralie Fargeat's Revenge. If by some chance you missed this bloody and violent rape-revenge film, you will have your opportunity to check it out later this month. For fans of legendary Italian gore and Giallo director Lucio Fulci or anyone who is curious about his films, Shudder has no less than six repertory titles from Fulci joining the stream on April 7.
The Fulci slate includes some of his more obscure films, some of his best-known sleazy Giallo films, and gruesome zombie flicks. There's also a lovely curio of a film from the 70s about bikers who kill themselves to live forever called Psychomania. It's a party all month on Shudder.
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The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs on April 4
Image Credit: Shudder 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.
April's Episode Premieres live on Friday, April 4, on Shudder TV Beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET and 6:00 p.m. PT. The two films that will be screened are still to be announced, but they are sure to be a great surprise. This scary new double-feature episode debuts on-demand Sunday, April 6, and each month will bring another edition of The Last Drive-In terrifying double-feature on the first Friday of each month. Mark those calendars, and don't miss a single one.
Shudder Watch Parties
Image Credit: IMDB Watch Parties Every Friday at 9:00 p.m. ET and 6:00 p.m. PT. They will feature film premieres and curated double features that highlight new horror filmmakers, and this month will bring a director's cut to the table:
- 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
825 Forest Road on April 4
Image Credit: IMDB 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.
This Shudder Original will be available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK.
Shadow of God on April 11
Image Credit: Shudder When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home to spend time with his 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. Despite the fact that everyone assumed he was 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 his father's presence, he sets off a chain of events that may end in a cataclysm of biblical proportions, testing everything he holds sacred.
Shadow of God is a Shudder Original Film directed by Michael Peterson. It will be available in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Dead Mail on April 18
Image Credit: IMDB 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. Dead Mail is a Shudder Original Film featuring Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, and Tomas Boykin. It was directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy. It will be available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Fréwaka on April 25
Image Credit: Shudder Irish folk horror from Aislinn Clarke, director of 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, the 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 of her own past. This Shudder Original Film is available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Shudder Resurrected - Repertory Titles for April 2025
Image Credit: IMDB April 1
April Fool's Day: Nine college 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.
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 breathes, bleeds – and remembers.
Fright Night (1985): A teenager believes a newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor turned late-night horror TV show host for help to deal with the undead.
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 her son's life 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 that is being broadcast from his old home.
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.
Night of the Living Dead (1990): When the unburied dead return to life and seek human victims, seven refugees shelter in a house in the Pennsylvanian countryside.
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.
Repulsion (1965): A withdrawn manicurist who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and experiences horrific visions of violence.
13 Ghosts (1960): A family inherits a house with 12 ghosts who want a 13th.
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.
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 buys a beautiful house on several acres of land, only to find out that the man they bought it from refuses to let them keep 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. 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 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 woods, but the lodge's weird inhabitants are not friendly.
April 21
Psychomania: An amiable yet 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.”
