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Summer 2023 Film Highlights
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Here’s what’s coming to Shudder this Summer!
Please let us know if you have any interest in covering the below films.
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INFLUENCER
Directed by Kurtis David Harder
Streaming on Shudder May 26th
(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)
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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.
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BROOKLYN 45
Directed by Ted Geoghegan
Streaming on Shudder June 9th
(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)
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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.
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QUICKSAND
Directed by Andres Beltran
Streaming on Shudder June 23rd
(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)
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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.
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ELEVATOR GAME
Directed by Rebekah McKendry
Streaming on Shudder August 11th
(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)
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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.
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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)
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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.
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BAD THINGS
Directed by Stewart Thorndike
Streaming on Shudder August 25th
(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)
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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.
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PERPETRATOR
Directed by Jennifer Reeder
Streaming on Shudder September 1st
(Available in US, CA, UKI, ANZ)
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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.
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