What’s Coming to Shudder (December 2025)

December 2025 Programming Highlights
Here’s what’s coming to Shudder next month!

FILMS

REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
Shudder Original Film
Directed by Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet
Streaming On Shudder December 5
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI

Synopsis: When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

INFLUENCERS (Pictured)
Shudder Original Film
Directed by Kurtis David Harder
Streaming On Shudder December 12
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI

Synopsis: In the sun-drenched countryside of southern France, CW (Cassandra Naud) lives a quiet idyllic life with her girlfriend Diane (Lisa Delamar), hiding a dark obsession with murder and stolen identities. During an anniversary getaway, they cross paths with Charlotte (Georgina Campbell), a bold, alluring influencer whose curiosity quickly turns intrusive. When CW acts on a violent impulse, the consequences spiral out of control, and as Diane begins to suspect the truth, CW’s carefully constructed life threatens to collapse around her.

QUEENS OF THE DEAD
Shudder Exclusive Film
Directed by Tina Romero
Streaming On Shudder December 19
Available in US, CA

Synopsis: A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead. Award-winning feature debut from director Tina Romero stars Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Jaquel Spivey (Mean Girls), Tomas Matos (Fire Island), Nina West (Rupaul’s Drag Race), Quincy Dunn-Baker (No Hard Feelings), Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story), Dominique Jackson (Pose), standup comic Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome (Knives Out), Eve Lindley (Dispatches From Elsewhere), Becca Blackwell (Survival of the Thickest) and Shaunette Renée Wilson (Black Panther). Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at Tribeca Festival.

THE JESTER 2
Shudder Exclusive Film
Directed by Colin Krawchuk
Streaming On Shudder December 26
Available in US, UKI

Synopsis: On Halloween night, teen magician Max finds herself locked in a brutal showdown with the Jester, a nightmarish and supernatural trickster with real dark magic and a killer act. As illusions turn lethal and every escape is a trap, Max must pull off the ultimate trick: staying alive. On this deadly night, the only escape is to beat the devil at its own game.

THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM
Shudder Exclusive Film
Directed by Kier-La Janisse
Streaming On Shudder December 1
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI

Synopsis: From renowned author and filmmaker Kier-La Janisse (Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror), The Haunted Season is a series of chilling horror tales following the classic tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. The festive new film in the horror anthology series, The Occupant of the Room is based on the classic chiller of the same name by Algernon Blackwood about a schoolteacher whose late-night arrival at a hotel in the Alps without a reservation leaves him with no
option but to accept the room of a missing hotel guest – leading to a sleepless night full of strange and uncanny occurrences.

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984)
Directed by Charlies E. Sellier Jr.
Streaming On Shudder December 1
Available in US

Synopsis: Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.

TV SERIES & SPECIALS

The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors
Shudder Original Special
New Holiday Special Premieres Tuesday, December 16
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI

Synopsis: From The Boulet Brothers (The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula) and David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad, Late Night with the Devil) comes The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors, a chilling holiday themed horror special produced by Boulet Brothers’ Productions and Good Fiend Productions. The film features four original shorts, each written and directed by a different genre powerhouse: The Boulet Brothers, Dastmalchian, Akeela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN), and Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House). Starring Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), Steve Agee (Peacemaker), and Tracie Thoms (Death Proof), the anthology blends atmospheric horror, practical gore, and haunting holiday imagery into a new seasonal classic.

The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Cold Cruel Christmas
Shudder Original Special
New Holiday Special Premieres LIVE Friday, December 12 on Shudder TV Beginning at 9pm
ET; Debuts on-demand Sunday, December 14; Available in US and CA

Synopsis: Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl are once again possessed by the Christmas spirit, hosting a double-feature of snowy slashers for Joe Bob’s Cold Cruel Christmas- an unholy night full of frozen fear, cold-blooded kills, and the return of their annual charity drive.

The Creep Tapes
Shudder Original Series
New Episodes Premieres Every Friday Until the Season Finale on December 19
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI

Synopsis: From writers and executive producers Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, The Creep Tapes season two will continue to expose a collection of video tapes from the secret vault of the world’s deadliest and most socially uncomfortable serial killer (Duplass). Unfortunately, as the tape rolls, the killer’s questionable intentions surface with his increasingly odd behavior and the victims will learn they may have made a deadly mistake.   Guest stars this season include David Dastmalchian (Late Night with
the Devil, Dexter: Resurrection) Katie Aselton (The Morning Show, The League), and Robert Longstreet (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Hill House).

The Creep Tapes– Christmas Episode Premieres Friday, December 12 on Shudder and AMC+
Nick is confronted by his therapist’s odd behavior during an emergency therapy session on Christmas Eve.

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans
Shudder Original Series
New Episodes Premiere Tuesdays Until Season Finale on December 9
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI

Synopsis: In The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans season two, fourteen of the fiercest drag artists from past  seasons (most of them top three finalists and fan favorites) will return to battle in design, performance, and makeup-based challenges inspired by horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the supernatural. The competitors will have to survive the show’s pillars of Filth, Horror and Glamour
in order to win the crown and a $100,000 grand prize, a headlining spot on a forthcoming world tour, and the title of “Queen of the Underworld”. Hosted by Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet, this season will feature a variety of guest judges & horror/genre royalty including David Dastmalchian, Jennifer Tilly, Todd McFarlane, Kate Siegel, Don Mancini, Bonnie Aarons, Akela Cooper,
Twin Temple, Peaches Christ, Steve Orlando, Ryan Turek, James A Janisse & Chelsea Rebecca and season one winner, Victoria Elizabeth Black.

SHUDDER TV HIGHLIGHTS

Watch Parties Every Friday at 9pm ET – featuring new premieres and curated double features including:
o December 5: “Sun-Drenched Dread” Watch Party – Reflections in a Dead Diamond and Let the Corpses Tan
o December 12: “The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Cold Cruel Christmas” Watch Party Special – Titles TBA
o December 19: “Of the Dead” Watch Party – Queens of the Dead and One Cut of the Dead
o December 26: “Boxing Day” Watch Party – The Advent Calendar and The Sacrifice Game

SHUDDER RESURRECTED

Repertory Titles New to Shudder

December 1

Santa’s Slay
A Christmas Tale (2005)
You Are Not Me
Creep Box
Spooktacular!
Wolf (TV Series)
*6 Episodes – Each Episodes Premieres Tuesdays

About Shudder
AMC Networks’ Shudder, a premium streaming video service, super-serving members with the best selection in genre entertainment, covering horror, thrillers and the supernatural. This year marks the streamer’ s 10-year anniversary, marking a decade of the best in horror. “Shudder10” will feature the service’s most terrifyingly ambitious slate to date, along with special fan events, a
nationwide screening series, customed merchandise and more. The milestone celebration follows a successful 2024 for Shudder as the streamer claimed six of the year’s top 10 titles on Rotten Tomatoes 2024 Horror list with LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL landing in the #1 spot. Shudder’s expanding library of film, TV series, and Original Content is available on most streaming devices
in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Over the last few years, Shudder has introduced audiences to groundbreaking and critically acclaimed films including Rob Savage’s HOST, Jayro Bustamante’s LA LLORONA, Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD, Coralie Fargeat’s REVENGE, Joko Anwar’s SATAN’S SLAVES, Josh Ruben’s SCARE ME, Kyle Edward Ball’s
SKINAMARINK, Christian Tafdrup’s SPEAK NO EVIL, Chloe Okuno’s WATCHER, Demián Rugna‘s WHEN EVIL LURKS, and the latest in the V/H/S film anthology franchise, as well as the fan favorite TV series THE BOULET BROTHERS’ DRAGULA, THE CREEP TAPES from Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice, and THE LAST DRIVE-IN WITH JOE BOB BRIGGS.

Source: AMC Networks

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.