Shudder November Highlights, The Strings, Dead & Beautiful and more

New movie premieres, new original series, plus new additions to Shudder’s growing library, including genre classics and recent fan favourites.See what’s streaming in Australia this November.

NEW SHUDDER ORIGINAL & EXCLUSIVE FILMS

Dead & Beautiful

Five rich spoiled Asian twenty-somethings (Gijs Blom, Aviis Zhong, Yen Tsao, Philip Juan, Anechka Marchenko) are suffering from upper class ennui, unsure how to spend their days when so little is expected from them. In search of excitement, the five friends form the “Circle,” a group where they take turns designing a unique, extravagant experience for the others. But things go wrong when the privileged urbanites awaken after a night out, to find they have developed vampire fangs and an unquenchable thirst for flesh, blood and adventure at any price.

Written & directed by David Verbeek

Dead and Beautiful – 4th November

The Strings

In the dead of winter, Catherine (Teagan Johnston), a talented musician who, having recently broken up her successful band, travels to her aunt’s remote coastal cottage to work on new material in solitude. Once there, she and local photographer Grace (Jenna Schaefer) spark up a budding romance while visiting an abandoned farmhouse with a disturbing past. Soon after, strange and seemingly supernatural occurrences begin to manifest at the cottage, escalating each night and dangerously eroding Catherine’s sense of reality.

Directed by Ryan Glover; written by Ryan Glover & Krista Dzialoszynski

The Strings – 23rd November

CONTINUING SHUDDER SERIES 

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula

The ground-breaking Shudder Original series follows ten drag artists from around the world competing for a $100,000 grand prize – the largest in show history. Season four guest judges include Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical film series), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Kristian Nairn (Game of Thrones), Misha Osherovich (Freaky), Queer country music icon Orville Peck, pop metal star Poppy, Ray Santiago (Ash vs. The Evil Dead), Bob the Drag Queen (We’re Here) and more.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula – New episodes to premiere every Tuesday

Behind the Monsters

Behind the Monsters takes an in-depth exploration of the creation of favourite horror icons including Candyman, Chucky, Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger. No horror icon came out of a filmmaker’s first draft fully formed, there were early drafts, wrong turns, experimentation. Once made flesh (or latex), there’s presentation, impact, audience response and legacy. Each episode examines a horror icon who has broken free of the confines of the film from which it was born and become the stuff of legend.

Episode 101: Michael Myers – premieres October 27
Episode 102: Candyman – premieres November 3
Episode 103: Chucky – premieres November 10
Episode 104: Freddy – premieres November 17
Episode 105: Jason – premieres November 24
Episode 106: Pinhead – premieres December 1

Behind the Monsters – New episodes to premiere every Wednesday

NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S LIBRARY

November 2

• The Velvet Vampire

A married couple are invited to the desert home of bisexual female vampire Diane LeFanu, not realizing she’s a centuries-old bloodsucker keen on adding them both to her stable of lovers. Female vampires who swing both ways have been a staple of the genre since Sheridan LeFanu’s “Carmilla” and 1936’s Dracula’s Daughter. But The Velvet Vampire stands out for being one of the few such tales directed by a woman, in this instance cult director Stephanie Rothman (Terminal Island) who mixes gauzy erotic dream sequences, comedy and nightmarish neck-biting in very fun fashion.

November 16

• The Vigil

After agreeing to be an overnight shomer (a Jewish practice in which a person watches over the body of a recently deceased community member), a young man who’s lost his faith discovers the house in which he’s sitting the vigil hides a dark and terrifying secret.

• Awoken

A young medical student attempts to cure her brother from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.

• Gravy

It’s All Hallow’s Eve. A trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements seizes a Mexican cantina and force the staff to engage in a late night of gaming, food and libations. The only caveat is what’s on the menu.

November 17

• Etheria (Season 1)

From post-apocalyptic westerns to demented comedies to terrifying horror and gore, Etheria serves up the perfect blend of mind-bending and panic-inducing excitement from the best emerging women genre directors in the world. Each episode showcases a vision of the fantastic in this anthology series created to introduce amazing directors to devoted genre fans.

November 23

• Sputnik

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving only one survivor. After a renowned psychologist is brought in to evaluate the cosmonaut’s mental state, it becomes clear that something alien has come back to Earth with him.

• Black Water

A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.

• Holidays

Holidays is an anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.

November 30

• Southbound

On a desolate stretch of desert highway, two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales of terror and remorse on the open road.

• Shakespeare and Hathaway: If Music Be the Food of Love (ABC TV Saturday 23 September 2023)

• The Cook Up with Adam Liaw: Pizza (SBS Food Friday 22 September 23)

• Ancient Egypt: Chronicles Of An Empire: Cult of the Dead (SBS Friday 22 September 23)

• Unseen: An imaginary friend (SBS Friday 22 September 2023)

• Midsomer Murders: The Ballad Of Midsomer County (ABC TV Friday 22 September 23)

• Going Places with Ernie Dingo: Rottnest Island, Tamar Valley, Mildura (NITV Saturday 23 September 2023)

• Gardening Australia: Series 34 Episode 26 (ABC TV Friday 22 September 2023)

• ITV Releases Official Portrait of Coronation Street Legend Barbara Knox

• Soldier: Documentary Series Going Inside the British Army – Premieres on BBC One, 5 October

• THE FIRM: Sneak Peek of BBC’s Gripping Legal Docuseries – This October on BBC Scotland

• UKTV Orders CLASSIC CAR HUNTERS for Yesterday

• Freely: Revolutionising Free UK TV for the Digital Streaming Era

• BBC One Comedy HERE WE GO Series 2 Now Filming

• September of Sorbo: Crackle Embrace the World of Kevin