Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

Best Movies and Shows on Shudder;-Where else can one get some of the top genre film titles in the streaming realm if they’ve already seen every horror movie on Netflix and Hulu? Dear reader, shudder.

Shudder, which is run by AMC Networks, has tens of thousands of horror films, television programs, and platform exclusives to keep you frightened all year long. We’ve compiled a list of the top movies and TV shows on Shudder right now if you want a preview of what’s to come or just want to know which titles you shouldn’t miss.

Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

1.Resurrection (2022)

One of those films, Resurrection, has a peculiar way of getting into your bones and staying there for weeks or months at a time. It’s the kind of movie that you just can’t forget, which is almost a near-fact that fits the story well. Margaret, a savvy entrepreneur and single mother, is portrayed by Rebecca Hall. Margaret’s life was going just as she had planned until her abusive ex-boyfriend David (Tim Roth) made a surprise appearance. David begins to manipulate and control Margaret almost right away, but he has no idea that she is hatching a plan for retaliation.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

2.The Last Broadcast (1998)

With the exception of one-offs like The Last Broadcast, the world of found-footage horror movies was relatively barren until Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project, but the latter is unquestionably worth seeing even though it didn’t receive the franchise treatment.

The video, which was directed by Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler, puts viewers in the role of a documentary filmmaker who travels to the famed Pine Barrens of New Jersey to record a story about the Jersey Devil and four of its victims. The Last Broadcast, a pioneering found-footage film, is a worthy addition to the genre despite its familiar premise and lack of particularly innovative third acts.

3.Extraordinary Tales (2013)

Extraordinary Tales is an animated ode to Edgar Allan Poe’s works. Director Ral Garcia has given five of the prolific author’s tales the movie treatment, and Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Lee, Julian Sands, and even Bela Lugosi narrate various segments. This experimental take on the anthology format is memorable, intellectually stimulating, and true to the master of the macabre who would probably be a huge fan of genre slam-dunks like Hereditary and The Witch, even though the art style may not appeal to all viewers.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

4.V/H/S/99 (2022)

With the release of the fifth installment in the well-known V/H/S series, another anthological gem has taken center stage. The most recent collection of spooky stories, V/H/S/99, skips over the overarching plot of the previous four movies and jumps right to the action, moving from one gory vignette to the next while using stop-motion animation to create synaptic connections between the stories. This fifth foray into familiar territory will undoubtedly please franchise fans, but it also makes a fantastic introduction for anyone unfamiliar with the more than ten-year-old V/H/S format.

5.The Gate (1987)

There are a ton of cliché-ridden movies from the 1980s in the horror genre, which makes movies like The Gate all the more welcome. The story follows the young protagonist, 12-year-old Glen, his family, and friends as they must make their way through a world overrun by bite-sized demons released from an antiquated geode in Glen’s own backyard. Glen is portrayed in the film by Stephen Dorff. The credit for this one goes to the genuinely novel idea that forms the flexible framework for this self-aware journey through the campiest of hellish lands.

6.The Babadook (2014)

The Babadook, written and directed by Jennifer Kent, is one of those gritty and brutal contributions to the horror genre that entirely plays by its own rules. It delivers frights straight out of a children’s book but through the framing of a broken home that is still falling apart. Essie Davis plays Amelia, a widowed mother who is still dealing with the death of her husband years ago while having to deal with her little son Samuel’s numerous distracting and unsettling characteristics and habits (Noah Wiseman).

The boy’s obsession with a creature from his nightmares is one of his peculiarities, and when a mysterious pop-up book called “Mister Babadook” shows up at their door, Amelia is abruptly brought face-to-face with her son’s fears when the star of the book appears.

7.The Long Walk (2022)

The Long Walk, directed by Mattie Do, is a fantastic ghost story that you can watch on Shudder if you’re in the mood (not to be confused with the Stephen King novella of the same name). The story revolves around the nomadic travels of a Laotian hermit known only as “The Old Man” (Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy), a nameless main character who strolls the bleak edges of his remote town with the still spirit of a youngster whose death he witnessed years earlier.

The Old Man uses his metaphysical powers to travel back in time after learning that the silent wraith can travel through time. He does this in an effort to desperately save his mother from a future illness. It sounds complicated, yes, but The Long Walk.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

8.Grizzly (1976)

What do you get when you cross Jaws, a forest, and a cash-grab independent movie that more than paid off for its creators? Grizzly from 1976, of course! A year after the aforementioned Spielberg movie office hit, filmmaker William Girdler’s creature feature, which swapped sharks for bears, was released.

It starred a group of park rangers in opposition against a giant grizzly bear that was out to devour anything that stood in its path. Grizzly, which is blatantly campy, doesn’t have the same impact as Jaws over the years. But can a movie match the gravity of Spielberg’s cult hit from the 1970s? Let’s just say that Grizzly is sure to be enjoyable for you and your family if you enjoy a good man versus nature story.

9.Mad God (2022)

Mad God is a stop-motion kaleidoscope that follows The Assassin, a constructed anti-hero, through a post-apocalyptic world full with terrifying animals and settings that will leave you constantly second-guessing your decisions. But there’s no doubt about it; this is not CGI. Everything you see in Mad God was painstakingly constructed, put together, and stop-motion-filmed by filmmaker Alex Cox. This is a unique absurdist epic where the art form itself is just as important (if not more important) than the story. We’ll state for the record that Tim Burton and we both adore this movie to the hilt.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

10.The Crazies (1973)

The Crazies, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead prequel horror film, revolves on Judy and David, a married couple attempting to flee their once-peaceful town after a nuclear disaster. The only thing responsible for turning law-abiding citizens into violent monsters was the accidental emission of an airborne toxin. As the hordes close in and the government struggles to deal with the sudden catastrophe, it’s only a matter of time before the locals spread the murder to neighboring cities.

It doesn’t quite have the same raw vitality as Night of the Living Dead, but The Crazies, a covert critique of the military in the 1970s, is still a respectable addition to the master’s canon of closely related zombie frights.

11.The House of the Devil (2009)

Ti West, the mastermind behind the independent horror movement, has an incredible ability to deliver his genre blows with either uncontrolled fists of rage or a painstakingly timed series of hits. The latter tactic is the fighting method in a movie like The House of the Devil. After answering to an advertisement for a remote babysitting job, Samantha Hughes, played by Jocelin Donahue, arrives at the movie’s titular home and is greeted by the scene-stealing Tom Noonan as Mr. Ulman.

Mr. Ulman, the owner of the estate and the reason Samantha will be able to pay her rent this month, assigns Sam to look for the sick matriarch of the Ulman family while he is gone for a short time. What starts out as a calm, though unsettling,

12.Night of the Demons (1988)

The 1980s were either a crucial decade for the horror genre or a campy decade of epic proportions, depending on who you ask. Both schools of thought are arguably centered on a movie like 1988’s Night of the Demons. Our narrative centers on a bunch of clueless teenagers who forego a school dance in favor of Angela’s edgy Halloween party (Mimi Kinkade). When a séance goes wrong, an army of bloodthirsty demons are let loose on the gullible high school kids. Night of the Demons, a showcase for makeup effects and creative corpse-piling, operates by its own obscene rules, and we’re not disputing it (mostly because we don’t want to die, either).

13.Halloween (1978)

A little boy named Michael Myers murdered his sister on Halloween night after grabbing a butcher knife and going upstairs. Then, on Halloween Eve, some 15 years later, an adult Michael Myers escapes from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium and makes his way back to Haddonfield, where he used to live, to commit a second, more horrific rampage of murder.

John Carpenter’s Halloween is a titanic contribution to the horror genre and an iconic slasher, making a powerful acting debut for Jamie Lee Curtis as the lead. It is remembered for its score, scares, and simplicity. The 1978 classic is the work of art that most fans would call their favorite of the bunch despite the fact that the original movie would go on to inspire numerous sequels and re-imaginings.

14.Black Christmas (1974)

There existed Bob Clark’s 1974 movie Black Christmas before John Carpenter’s Halloween, which is also included on this list. Our plot, which is widely regarded as the first legitimate “slasher” movie, follows the youthful residents of a sorority house as winter break gets underway. It turns out that a mysterious individual has been calling the house in horrifying ways. The women ignore his taunting, but soon discover they are in unimaginable danger as the lunatic invades their living space.

Black Christmas introduced a number of genre tropes, including the disorienting killer POV that movies like Halloween would come to be most known for. It also included early performances from Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder. And what’s this? That cozy, holiday-standard One of our favorite and well-known Christmas tales? Yes, the film’s director

15.Carnival of Souls (1962)

Mary (Candace Hilligos), the sole survivor of a tragic drag race on a cliff, escapes relatively unscathed, save for the nightmares she starts having about dead ghouls. Mary makes every effort to get her life back to normal, taking a job as an organist and boarding at a boardinghouse. We start to question why these eerie specters are drawn to our heroine as her hallucinations intensify. Herk Harvey, an industrialist-turned-narrative filmmaker who created Carnival of Souls, was a major influence on horror filmmaking before David Lynch and George Romero.

16.Mandy (2018)

Up until that one night, Red Miller and Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough and Nicolas Cage) couldn’t have been happier together. Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache), the cruel head of the Children of the New Dawn sect, brutally uproots the couple’s peaceful lives in their off-the-grid, glassed-in home in the Pacific Northwest. When the other members commit the unimaginable, Red embarks on a brutal vengeance quest.

Red is coming for you all, motorcycle-riding BDSM demon people. Mandy, the nightmare film from director Panos Cosmatos, is a brilliant bloodbath and a glorious homage to the gore-filled camp cinema of the 1980s that served as its source for the surrealistic imagery and chaotic story.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

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17.Deadhouse Dark (2021)

The ambitious anthology film Deadhouse Dark gathers six real-life horror stories under one eerie theme: a general aversion to the more sinister aspects of the Internet. Each of the stories introduces us to characters who all share a fundamental connection to the Internet, whether it be through social media sites, live-streamed dashcam video, dating apps, or other electronic platforms.

As each story develops, evil emerges, confronting the heroes of the six tales and delivering a series of life-or-death situations to the players. Deadhouse Dark is a largely cohesive and surprisingly satisfying addition to the horror anthology subgenre, despite having a few bumps in the road.

18.NOS4A2 (2019)

Based on the same-titled Joe Hill book, NOS42 follows Victoria McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), a visual artist who discovers she possesses supernatural abilities. Victoria must use her new ability to follow the evil deeds of Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto), an evil foe who lives off the souls of defenseless children. NOS4A2 is a challenging book to screen adaptation with a lot of world-building to do, a task that the series creators successfully complete in a number of ways. Sadly, the program was cancelled after the second season, but Shudder still has the entire run available.

19.A Discovery of Witches (2018)

Deborah Harkness’s All Souls Trilogy book series is being adapted into the television series A Discovery of Witches. The three seasons take a deep dive into the fantastical world of occult practices as they follow the terrifying exploits of witch Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer) and vampire Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode).

The dynamic duo faces a variety of terrifying enemies while combining their supernatural DNA and historical cunning. Palmer and Goode make a nearly flawless team, serving as realistic on-screen guides through a strange world of characters, settings, and villainous creatures.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

20.Creepshow (2019)

Stephen King and George Romero’s dream collaboration in the horror genre, Creepshow, was released in 1982. The movie featured five stand-alone genre stories that were each modeled after an EC Comics horror publication from the 1940s or 1950s, particularly Tales from the Crypt. Each of these stories featured stylized comic book visuals, notable performances (from actors like Ted Danson, Ed Harris, and Leslie Nielson), and a lot of gore.

Similar to the influential original, Greg Nicotero’s Creepshow adaptation for Shudder takes the anthology format a step further by limiting each episode to a single terrifying story. Actors Tobin Bell (the Saw franchise), Giancarlo Esposito (The Mandalorian, Breaking Bad), and David Arquette (the Scream) are among those with talent.Top 27 Best Movies and Shows on Shudder

21.The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time (2022)NEW

Shudder’s phenomenal when you want to take a deep dive down the horror movie rabbit hole. You must not miss the episodic deconstruction of the genre, The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time. A diverse menagerie of directors, producers, actors, journalists, scholars, and other notable experts, all of whom have an affinity for the onscreen things that rattle us to the bone, deliver facts and opinions in talking-head analyses of some of the most iconic and lesser-known horror films in the world. Even though there are many critics who adore films like It Follows,

The Witch, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, there is something endearing and sincere about the way the participants in Shudder’s 101 Scariest interviewees discuss their experiences with the films.