SHUDDER Summer 2023 Film Highlights

Summer 2023 Film Highlights

Here’s what’s coming to Shudder this Summer!

Please let us know if you have any interest in covering the below films.

INFLUENCER

Directed by Kurtis David Harder

Streaming on Shudder May 26th

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Director: Kurtis David Harder

Writer: Kurtis David Harder, Tesh Guttikonda

Cast: Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, Rory J Saper, Sara Canning

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.

BROOKLYN 45

Directed by Ted Geoghegan

Streaming on Shudder June 9th

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Writer & Director: Ted Geoghegan

Cast: Anne Ramsey, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Kristina Klebe

Synopsis: Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.

QUICKSAND

Directed by Andres Beltran

Streaming on Shudder June 23rd

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Director: Andres Beltran

Writer: Matt Pitts

Cast: Carolina Gaitan, Allan Hawco

Synopsis: An American couple, on the brink of divorce, travel to Colombia for a work conference. While on a hike through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake, in order to escape.

ELEVATOR GAME

Directed by Rebekah McKendry

Streaming on Shudder August 11th

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Director: Rebekah McKendry

Cast: Gino Anania, Alec Carlos, Megan Best, Nazariy Demkowicz, Verity Marks, and Liam Stewart-Kanigan

Synopsis: Elevator Game follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ — a ritual conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online. Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her.

birth/rebirth

Directed by Laura Moss

In Theaters August 18th via IFC Films

With a Shudder Streaming Release To Follow

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Director: Laura Moss

Cast: Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister, Breeda Wool

Synopsis: A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.

BAD THINGS

Directed by Stewart Thorndike

Streaming on Shudder August 25th

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Director: Stewart Thorndike

Cast: Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, and Rad Pereira, Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: GLOW’s Gayle Rankin stars as a woman on the edge, staying in a closed hotel, haunted by the past. Hari Nef co-stars in this psychological terror from LYLE director, Stewart Thorndike.

PERPETRATOR

Directed by Jennifer Reeder

Streaming on Shudder September 1st

(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)

Director and Writer: Jennifer Reeder

Cast: Kiah McKirnan, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Lowell, Melanie Liburd, Ireon Roach

Synopsis: PERPETRATOR follows Jonny (McKirnan), a wild and impulsive teenage girl living precariously in a town where young women continue to go missing, and the power she’s forced to unlock to survive. At its core, a horror film inspired by the shared experience of generations of women, PERPETRATOR is equal parts modern mythmaking, thrilling story of revenge, and extraordinary exploration of youthful chaos.