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Offseason AShudder Exclusive

Upon receiving a mysterious letter that hermothers grave site has been vandalised, inOffseason, Marie (Jocelin Donahue,Doctor Sleep) quickly returns to the isolatedoffshore island where her late mother is buried. When shearrives, she discovers that the island is closing for theoffseason with the bridges raised until Spring, leaving herstranded. One strange interaction with the local townspeopleafter another, Marie soon realises that something is notquite right in this small town. She must unveil the mysterybehind her mothers troubled past in order to make it outalive. Starring Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, RichardBrake, Melora Walters and Jeremy Gardner. Writtenand directed by Mickey Keating (CarnagePark).

Mad God A ShudderExclusive

Mad God marks thefeature directorial debut for visionary and Oscar and EmmyAward-winning stop-motion animator and special effectssupervisor Phil Tippett, the creativepowerhouse involved in such classics as RoboCop, StarshipTroopers, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars: A NewHope and The Empire Strikes Back. MadGod is an experimental animated film set in aworld of monsters, mad scientists and war pigs. A corrodeddiving bell descends amidst a ruined city, settling downupon an ominous fortress guarded by zombie-like sentries.The Assassin emerges to explore a labyrinth of bizarre,desolate landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens. Throughunexpected twists and turns, he experiences an evolutionbeyond his wildest comprehension. A labour of love that hastaken 30 years to complete, Mad Godcombines live-action and stop-motion, miniature sets andother innovative techniques to bring Tippett's wholly uniqueand grotesquely beautiful vision to life. Winner - MostGroundbreaking Film, Fantasia International Film Festival.Winner - Jos Luis Guarner Critic's Award - Best Film &Best Visual Effects, Sitges Film Festival. Winner Nocturno Nuove Visioni Award - Best Film, TriesteScience+Fiction Festival. Written and directedby PhilTippett.

Revealer A ShudderOriginal

Tensions rise when a stripper and religiousprotester are trapped together in a peep show booth and mustcome together to survive the apocalypse in 1980s Chicago.Starring Caito Aase (Black Mold) and Shaina Schrooten(Scare Package II: Rad Chads Revenge).Written by popular comic authors Tim Seeley(Hack/Slash, Revival) and MichaelMoreci (Barbaric, The Plot) anddirected by Luke Boyce.

What Keeps YouAlive

On the eve of their one-yearwedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in amerciless fight for their lives when they find themselvespitted against the most unexpected of adversaries: eachother.

V/H/S

In thisfound-footage anthology, a gang of thieves find a stash ofscary home videos, each different in genre and tone.Highlights include David Bruckner's (The Signal)"Amateur Night" about three bros who bring the wrong girlhome for sex; Ti West's (The Innkeepers) "SecondHoneymoon" about a stalker menacing a couple on a road trip;and Joe Swanberg's utterly chilling "The Sick Thing ThatHappened to Emily When She Was Younger" which may freak youout for days.

From the innovativeminds that brought you V/H/S comes V/H/S/2, anall-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. Searching fora missing student, two private investigators break into hisabandoned house and find a collection of mysterious VHStapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette,they realize there may be terrifying motives behind thestudents disappearance.

Available for the first time on SVOD,cult favorite creature featuresAlligator (1980)and Alligator II: TheMutation (1991) come to Shudder instunning new prints scanned from the original cameranegatives.

Alligator

Fromdirector Lewis Teague (Cujo) and screenwriter JohnSayles (The Howling) comes an unstoppable thrillerwith bite. A family returning from Florida decides their petbaby alligator is too much to handle and flushes him downthe toilet. Meanwhile, Slade Laboratories is conductingsecret experiments with animals and disposing of them in thesewer. The alligator, fending for itself, begins to feed onthe dead animals, and grows. Now, twelve years later, afterseveral mysterious murders, David Madison (Robert Forster,Jackie Brown) is on the case to find out who ... orwhat ... is killing people.

Alligator II:The Mutation

Deep in the sewers beneaththe city of Regent Park, a baby alligator feeds on theexperimental animals discarded by Future ChemicalsCorporation. Nourished by the toxic growth hormones andother mutating chemicals, the gator grows immense in size... and voracious in appetite. Now, it must kill to survive!It's a classic confrontation between man and beast. Thissequel stars Joseph Bologna (Transylvania 6-5000),Steve Railsback (Lifeforce), Dee Wallace (TheHowling), Richard Lynch (Bad Dreams) and KaneHodder (Jason X).

Under the Skin

Analien of unknown origin arrives on Earth in search of humanprey. Taking the form of the perfect female specimen (playedby Scarlett Johansson), she prowls the streets looking formen to lure into her otherworldly lair. Her victims areseduced, stripped of their skin, and never heard from again.But as time passes, she grows too comfortable in herborrowed skin, placing her very survival atrisk.

P2

It's ChristmasEve. The last employee to leave her office, ambitiouscorporate climber Angela (Rachel Nichols) arrives in thedeserted parking garage only to discover her car won'tstart. She's relieved when Thomas (Wes Bentley), a seeminglyfriendly security guard, comes along and offers to help.Unable to get the engine to start, he invites Angela toshare a small Christmas meal with him. She laughs off theinvitation, but it quickly becomes clear her situation is nolaughing matter. Angered by her refusal, the psychopathicThomas knocks her out and ties her up in his office. Comingto, Angela realizes that the only way she will live to seeChristmas morning is to find a way to escape fromP2.

Wake Wood

A grievingcouple are given the chance to resurrect their daughter inthis Irish horror film starring Aidan Gillen of Game ofThrones fame. After Alices accidental death, herparents move to a quaint village to make a fresh start. Butwhen a local offers to perform a ceremony that willtemporarily bring their daughter back, they cant resist.But when Alice returns, she isnt quite herself, ofcourse.

The Woman inBlack

Based on the classic ghost story,The Woman in Black tells the tale of ArthurKipps(Daniel Radcliffe), a lawyer who is forced to leave hisyoung son and travel to a remote village to attend to theaffairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House.Working alone in the old mansion, Kipps begins to uncoverthe towns tragic and tortured secrets and his fearsescalate when he discovers that local children have beendisappearing under mysterious circumstances. When thoseclosest to him become threatened by the vengeful woman inblack, Kipps must find a way to break the cycle ofterror.

The Void

Ablood-soaked man limping down a deserted road is rushed byofficer Carter to a nearby hospital with a skeleton crew.Trapped inside by hooded figures, Carter discovers that thepatients and staff are transforming into somethinginhuman.

TheFreakmakerProfessor Nolter, a collegescience professor who believes it is man's destiny tosurvive an uncertain future by evolving into a hybridplant/human mutation. To test his theories, Noltersupervises the abduction of young co-eds and fuses them withmutant plants he has developed in his laboratory, placinghis rejects in a neighboring freak show (which stars suchreal-life oddities as the Alligator Lady, the Frog Boy, theHuman Pretzel, the Monkey Woman, the Human Pincushion andthe unforgettable"Popeye".

Oculus

Itsbeen ten years since the lives of siblings Tim and KaylieRussell were shattered and Tim was convicted of murderingtheir parents. Now released from a mental institution, Timwants to move on, but his sister has other plans. Kaylieblames their childhood nightmare on the Lasser Glassanantique mirror with a grisly history which she intends todestroy by any means possible, even as the mysterious entitycontinues to cast sinister spells on anyone who gazes intoit.

Wolf Creek 2

Inthis follow up to outback horror, Wolf Creek 2,deranged serial killer, Mick Taylor (John Jarratt),continues his search for fresh victims in the Australianwilderness. When unsuspecting British tourist, Paul,inadvertently rescues Taylors next victim, the two becomeembroiled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Will Mick beable to survive another day? Wolf Creek 2 focusesmore heavily on the exploits of Mick Taylor than in itspredecessor, creating a darkly funny tale that explores theinnate prejudices found in the Australian outback. Containsstrong language, violence and gore.

TheBye Bye Man

When three college studentsmove into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleashea supernatural entity known as the Bye By Man, who comes toprey upon htem once they discover his name. The friends msuttry to saveeach other allthe while keeping the Bye ByeMans existence a secret to save others from the deadlyfate.

House ofWax (2005)

A group of friends falls preyto a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town.The friends discover that the psychotic siblings haveexpanded the area's main attraction--the House of Wax--andcreated an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses ofunlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out beforeits members also become permanent exhibits in the House ofWax.

Ghost Ship

In aremote region of the Bering Sea, a boat salvage crewdiscovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger linerthought lost for more than 40 years. But once onboard theeerie, cavernous ship, the crew of the Arctic Warriordiscovers that the decaying vessel is anything but deserted.It's home to something more deadly and horrific thananything they've encountered in all their years atsea.

Queen of theDamned

After a decades-long slumber, thevampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music awakens thequeen of all vampires, Akasha, who embarks on a mission tomake Lestat her king. But a young London woman with a giftfor the occult falls in love with Lestat and wields a fargreater power than the vampiresexpect.

Cooties

Clint(Elijah Wood) has just started a new substitute teacher joband hopes to inspire his kids with the beauty of the writtenword. But he doesnt get far before tainted chickennuggets turn his students into savages who gleefully pullthe principals guts out. Now Clint must lead his oldcrush and her colleagues to safety and find a way to reversethe effects of those nasty nuggets before its too late.Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Jorge Garcia (Lost),Rainn Wilson (The Office) and Alison Pill (TheNewsroom) round out the cast of this gruesome horrorcomedy.

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