May on Shudder and Acorn TV – Shudder highlights for the month of May include Influencer, Huesera: The Bone Woman and Sissy.
May on Shudder and Acorn TV – Acorn TV highlights for the month of May include Balthazar, Keeping Faith and The Other Wife.
ACORN TV
Balthazar – Series 5
Streaming Exclusively on Acorn TV and AMC+
Series Binge Monday 1 May
Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphaël Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with no-nonsense chief inspector Hélène Bach (Hélène de Fougerolles) to solve the city’s most disturbing crimes. But there’s one case that continues to haunt him–the murder of his wife over a decade ago. (French-language).
Keeping Faith – Series 3
Series Binge Monday 1 May
In the final season of this “irresistibly wild” (Telegraph) Welsh drama starring Eve Myles, Faith and Evan’s divorce descends into a custody battle, while her new love, Steve, tries to stay out of trouble but is drawn back to crime. And as Faith contends with one of the most complicated legal cases of her career, her mother (Celia Imrie) suddenly arrives, threatening to expose long-buried secrets.
The Other Wife
Streaming Exclusively on Acorn TV and AMC+
Miniseries Binge Monday 15 May
Rebecca Kendall, a beautiful ex-ballerina, has it all — a stunning house, two wonderful daughters, and a handsome, loving husband, Richard. Richard’s time is divided between England and Canada. When Richard is killed in a plane crash, Rebecca slowly learns the full extent of her husband’s lies and deceit.
Battling with her grief, she discovers that not only has Richard left her family penniless, but he also has a second family on the other side of the Atlantic, a wife Natalie and five-year-old son Jared.
When the two women meet, they discover that they have more in common than they could have imagined. Based on the work of Rosamunde Pilcher, the miniseries stars Rupert Everett and John Hannah.
SHUDDER
Influencer
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 26 May
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. Starring Sarah Canning (The Vampire Diaries), Emily Tennant (Riverdale) and Cassandra Naud (See).
Huesera: The Bone Woman
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Film Premieres Friday 12 May
Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. Starring Sonia Couoh (Rosario Tijeras), Alfonso Dosal (Narcos: Mexico), Mayra Batalla (Here on Earth).
Sissy
Australian Horror Film Streaming on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Thursday 18 May
Cecilia and Emma had been tween-age BFFs who were never going to let anything come between them — until Alex (Emily De Margheriti) arrived on the scene. Twelve years later, Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream of an independent, modern millennial woman, until she runs into Emma for the first time in over a decade.
After reconnecting, Emmy invites Cecilia on her bachelorette weekend at a remote cabin in the mountains, where Alex proceeds to make Cecilia’s weekend a living hell. Starring Aisha Dee and Hannah Barlow.
Slasher: Ripper – A Shudder Original
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Episode 6 Thursday 4 May
Final Episodes 7 & 8 Thursday 11 May
Slasher: Ripper takes the Slasher franchise back in time to the late 19th century and stars Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) as Basil Garvey, a charismatic tycoon whose success is only rivaled by his ruthlessness, as he oversees a city on the cusp of a new century, and a social upheaval that will see its streets run red with blood.
There’s a killer stalking the mean streets, but instead of targeting the poor and downtrodden like Jack the Ripper, The Widow is meting out justice against the rich and powerful. The only person standing in the way of this killer is the newly promoted detective, Kenneth Rijkers, whose ironclad belief in justice may wind up being yet another victim of The Widow.
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2023
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Horror Awards Show Premieres Monday 22 May
The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards is an annual award ceremony recognizing outstanding achievements in horror film and television. For the third year in a row, the event will be hosted by actor and writer David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil, Dune), this time joined by co-host Peaches Christ (All About Evil, the Midnight Mass podcast) and will feature Jamie Clayton (Hellraiser), Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone), and Akela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN) among its presenters. This year’s nominees include X, Prey, The Black Phone, Pearl, Nope, Stranger Things, Blood Relatives, Queer for Fear, Barbarian and Terrifier 2.
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
1 May
The Wicker Man (1973)
A puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the Pagan locals claim never existed.
8 May
Don’t Look Now
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
15 May
The Masque of the Red Death
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.
22 May
Link
When a female zoology student is invited to a remote seaside mansion to assist a primatology professor with his experiments involving chimpanzees, dangerous events start to occur, all involving the intelligent 45-year-old chimp, Link.
Delicatessen
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.
29 May
The Strangers: Prey at Night
A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
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