5 Reasons We Love Shudder’s April 2019 Programming Highlights!

Because we’re halfway to Halloween, Shudder teases its upcoming April 2019 slate of  must-see programming highlights. Shudder’s ever expanding library, and I definitely mean expanding, includes exclusive movies, new episodes, and a featured collection.

Starting on April Fools, the premium streaming video service  has its Shudder Exclusives, new weekly episodes of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and a special “Halfway to Halloween” collection of the first five Halloween movies.

Here are 5 Reasons why you should check out Shudder in April:

Proving once again that “the drive-in will never die,” iconic horror host and exploitation movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs is back with an all-new Shudder Original series, hosting weekly Friday night double features streaming live exclusively on Shudder. Every week, The Last Drive-In series offers an eclectic pairing of films, with selections ranging across five decades and running the gamut from horror classics to obscurities and foreign cult favorites. From time to time, special surprise guests will drop in on Joe Bob and Darcy the Mail Girl.

After a nightclub owner is killed, the detective (Michael Douglas) assigned to the case becomes erotically involved with the prime suspect (Sharon Stone), despite ominous signs of her guilt.

Five young New Yorkers ( Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel) throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city.

A grieving widower begins to uncover the truth behind his late wife’s mysterious death.

A scientist (Jeff Goldblum) on the verge of an important discovery finds himself transforming into a fly when his experiment goes awry.

A millionaire hires a team of paranormal investigators to determine whether his newly acquired mansion is haunted.

After two vacationing couples accidentally witness a satanic cult’s human sacrifice, they find themselves being pursued by the devil worshippers.

Three very different women come together at a spa for the elderly and in-firmed. One becomes wrapped up in the life of another, and surprises the others with how far she will go to keep their relationship intact.

When a small town is terrorized by an indestructible, demonically possessed car, it’s up to the sheriff to stop it.

Malicious poltergeists haunt a Pennsylvania family, who call upon paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (later featured in The Conjuring franchise) for help.

Three tales of terror based on stories originally published in the famous Tales from the Crypt comic books of the 1950s.

In director Craig William Macneil’s psychological thriller, Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) is a social outcast, living a claustrophobic life that’s ready to boil over. In its dark, moody retelling of the notorious 1892 axe murder of the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts.

15-year-old Mia’s teenage rebellion takes an unexpected turn when her body begins to transform into something not quite human. 

The paths of multiple serial killers cross over one single, blood soaked night.

A group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

An undocumented woman struggling in NYC is offered an opportunity she can’t refuse, but soon discovers she’s involved in a dangerous game.

Three small-time burglars pose as caterers for a fancy dinner party at an extravagant mansion. But their plan for the perfect heist goes horribly wrong when they discover that the family and their guests are actually a support group of recovering serial killers. 

Frank’s life as a drug dealer is perfect until the police catch him en route to deliver heroin. Before he can be arrested, he dumps the smack but his troubles are not over, for the buyer demands his money back.

Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison—again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Over the course of a single day, Milo struggles to maintain his place of dominance atop the Copenhagen underworld and survive one of the most harrowing episodes of his long, illustrious career.