Fresh nightmares are coming to Shudder next month, and the all-horror streaming service has announced its full lineup of originals, exclusives and beyond for December 2025. Shudder Originals Reflection in a Dead Diamond and Kurtis David Harder’s sequel Influencers are headed our way next month, along with exclusive streaming premieres of sequel The Jester 2 […]
Fresh nightmares are coming to Shudder next month, and the all-horror streaming service has announced its full lineup of originals, exclusives and beyond for December 2025.
Shudder Originals Reflection in a Dead Diamondand Kurtis David Harder’s sequel Influencers are headed our way next month, along with exclusive streaming premieres of sequel The Jester 2as well as Tina Romero’s debut horror movie, Queens of the Dead.
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
Shudder Original Film
Directed by Kurtis David Harder
Streaming On Shudder December 12
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI
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
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), stand-up 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
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
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
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.
The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors
Shudder Original Special
New Holiday Special Premieres Tuesday, December 16
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI
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, Akela 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
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
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 Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans
Shudder Original Series
New Episodes Premiere Tuesdays Until Season Finale on December 9
Available in US, CA, AU, NZ, UKI
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.
New to Shudder, December’s repertory lineup includes…
December 1
Santa’s Slay
Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways.
A Christmas Tale (2005)
After finding an injured thief, a group of children spending Christmas in a summer resort village decides to torture her into revealing the location of her stolen money. From V/H/S/HALLOWEEN and [REC] director, Paco Plaza.
You Are Not Me
Aitana returns home for Christmas, the first time after three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with an unknown woman who is being treated like their daughter. She soon discovers the disturbing and bloody truth.
Creep Box
After his wife’s death, a scientist tries to use ground-breaking technology to determine if there is life after death but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back.
Spooktacular!
The story of Spooky World, and its founder, a PR-savvy mis of P.T. Barnum and Stephen King who parlayed his experience working in his father’s joke shop into creating the very first horror scream park of its kind, in 1991.
Wolf (TV Series)
In an isolated house in the country, a family find themselves the victims of a terrifying psychopath’s cruel games.
