Shudder is a fantastic streaming service that already has a wealth of new and old horror content. Come January, they’re going to get even more new content. Their beginning of 2021 is highlighted by two new Shudder Originals in Hunted and The Queen of Black Magic. Let’s dive into these two before we get into the rest of the January schedule.

Hunted

Hunted comes from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Vincent Paronnaud. It’s about one girl’s fight for survival after a flirtatious encounter at a bar goes wrong. Lucie Debay stars as Eve, in a modern take on the Little Red Riding Hood story. Hunted drops on January 14th.

The Queen of Black Magic

The Queen of Black Magic comes from Indonesian masters of horror, Kimo Stamboel and Joko Anwar. In the film, a family travels to a distant orphanage where the father was raised. It quickly turns into a supernatural ordeal involving dark magic that threatens everyone involved. It’s a reimagining of the 1981 film of the same name. It drops January 28th.

The Series Highlights For January On Shudder

A Discovery of Witches

The series based on the All Souls novels by Deborah Harkness returns to Shudder on January 9th and has new episodes airing each Saturday after. The second season sees Matthew and Diana traveling through time and hiding from their enemies in the present day. It’s an Elizabethan adventure where they have to find a powerful witch and the Book of Life. You can watch the season two trailer, here.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

The Walking Dead: World Beyond focuses on a new generation raised in the world of the show. Two sisters and two friends have to leave their place of safety on an important quest. It’s set in the same world as the original show and the spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead, so you know the most terrifying enemy isn’t the walkers, it’s other people. All the episodes of season one drop on January 21st.

Peter Cushing Collection Highlights

To celebrate the legacy and illustrious career of Peter Cushing, Shudder is adding four of his classic films to their library. They’re all hailing from the 60’s and 70’s period of film: And Now The Screaming Starts, Asylum, The Beast Must Die, and The Flesh and the Fiends. So get out there and celebrate Peter Cushing’s greatness on January 18th.

The Rest Of The Calendar On Shudder For January

January 4

SUPER DARK TIMES (Director: Kevin Phillips)

Zach and Josh are best friends growing up in the ‘90s in the suburbs—where teenage life revolves around hanging out, looking for kicks, navigating first love and vying for popularity. When a traumatic incident drives a wedge between the previously inseparable pair, their youthful innocence abruptly vanishes. Each processes the tragedy in his own way, until circumstances grow increasingly complex and spiral into violence. Starring Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino. (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

FINGERS (Director: Juan Ortiz)

When an employee shows up to work with a missing pinky, it awakens demons in his boss that she never knew she harbored. Starring Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Jeremy Gardner, Michael St. Michaels. (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

January 9

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES episode 201

January 11

BEFORE THE FIRE (Director: Charlie Buhler)

As a global pandemic engulfs Los Angeles, rising TV star Ava Boone is forced to flee the mounting chaos and return to her rural hometown. As she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her homecoming attracts a dangerous figure from her past—threatening both her and the family that serves as her only sanctuary. Starring Jenna Lyng Adams, Jackson Davis, Ryan Vigilant, Charles Hubbell. (Also available on Shudder Canada, Shudder UK and Shudder ANZ)

CUB (Director: Jonas Govaerts)

A boy scout on a camping trip realizes something evil is in the woods, but the other scouts, who love to pick on Sam, don’t buy his story. What nobody knows is that a deranged poacher and his feral son have booby-trapped the entire area and are eager to test out their toys on the clueless children. Starring Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt.

THE PIT (Director: Lew Lehman)

Twelve-year old Jamie is an outcast in his small town—he is bullied, he shows signs of being a sexual deviant, and he has no friends aside from his demonic teddy bear, Teddy. Influenced by commands he hears from Teddy, Jamie lures his unsuspecting tormentors one by one to a forest pit that he has discovered on the outskirts of town, so that they can be devoured by the man-eating troglodytes that dwell at the bottom of THE PIT.  Starring Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits.

CELIA (Director: Ann Turner)

An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia. Starring Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley. (Also available on Shudder Canada and Shudder UK)

January 14

HUNTED 

January 16

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES episode 202

January 18

STARRING PETER CUSHING 

AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS (Director: Roy Ward Baker)

At the end of the 1700’s, Catherine and Charles’ honeymoon is thrown into chaos when she is raped and impregnated by a ghost. Before long, they’ve got to contend with a murderous severed hand, a skeptical psychiatrist, and other creepy circumstances. One of Amicus Studios’ few non-anthology films, ANTS remains a superb slice of 70’s British brutality. Starring Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy.

ASYLUM (Director: Roy Ward Baker)

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum and hear their terrifying stories. Starring Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing.

THE BEAST MUST DIE (Director: Paul Annett)

A group of guests at a country house learn that one of them is secretly a werewolf in this supernatural mystery which famously included a “Werewolf Break” where audience members could guess who the guilty party is. Among the many suspects are an archaeologist, a piano player and diplomat, all of whom must submit to a series of strange werewolf tests. Starring Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark.

THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (Director: John Gilling)

Horror audiences have long been fascinated by the tale of Robert Knox, a Scottish doctor who in 1828 became notorious for his complicity in a series of murders committed by grave robbers Burke and Hare, who received cash in exchange for fresh cadavers. John Gilling’s exceptionally eerie 1960 retelling, unlike John Landis’ 2010 slapstick BURKE & HARE, is historically accurate right down to Knox’s lazy left eye. Starring Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

January 19

THE WOLF HOUSE (Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León)

Winner — Best Animated Film, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2020. Maria, a young woman, finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to Maria’s feelings. The animals transform slowly into humans and the house becomes a nightmarish world. Inspired by the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, “The Wolf House” masquerades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers. Starring Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

January 21

THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND Season 2

January 23

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES episode 203

January 25

NIGHTBREED (Director: Clive Barker)

Aaron is tormented by visions of monstrous, graveyard-dwelling creatures. But his creepy therapist offers little solace. When he’s framed for serial slayings in the area, he heads for Midian, a place where undead monsters known as the “Nightbreed” live. Barker’s follow-up to HELLRAISER developed a cult following on video, and its recent restoration proves its important place in horror cinema. Starring Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Anne Bobby. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

RAWHEAD REX (Director: George Pavlou)

He’s pure evil… pure power… pure terror! RawHead Rex is a demon, alive for millennia, trapped in the depths of hell and waiting for release. He is held by an ancient seal, imprisoned for centuries in a barren field near the hamlet of Rathmore, Ireland. In time, this gruesome legacy has been forgotten, dismissed as an odd pre-Christian myth until Tom Garron decides to plow the field his ancestors knew better than to disturb. The seal is broken, and an unspeakable evil is unleashed. Screenplay by Clive Barker. Starring David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Niall Toibin, Ronan Wilmot, Niall O’Brien, Donal McCann. (Also available on Shudder Canada)

January 26

THE UNTOLD STORY (Directors: Danny Lee, Herman Yau)

After a severed hand washes up on a Macao beach, Police suspect Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of The Eight Immortals restaurant, famous for their delicious pork buns. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant’s former owner who has disappeared along with the rest of his family. Staff at the restaurant continue to go missing but the police can’t find any hard evidence. Can they make him talk? And what was in those famous pork buns? (Also available on Shudder Canada)

THE WOMAN (Director: Lucky McKee)

A man imprisons a violent, feral woman and enlists his family to help civilize her. Terrified of his domineering ways, his wife and daughters reluctantly go along with his plan. But his horny son needs no encouragement to start his own abusive treatment of the woman. Lucky McKee and Jack Ketchum’s shocking tale of American sadism is one of the most provocative horror films of the decade, unflinching in its depiction of extreme violence inflicted on women and the horror of unchecked male privilege. Starring Pollyanna McIntosh, Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Angela Bettis (Also available on Shudder Canada and Shudder UK)

January 28

THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC 

January 30

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES episode 204

Shudder is really bringing the heat this January, so be ready to watch all this horror goodness.

So, what’s your favorite new show or movie coming to Shudder in January?

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