PhantomStranger

A few Shudder "originals" are getting Blu-ray releases, like the British folk horror Gwen.

https://www.doblu.com/2019/10/07/gwen-blu-ray-review/

IDrinkMolson

I had the $29 yr deal that expired earlier this year. I asked them to give it to me again, but they declined so I cancelled.
But I'm going to wait until after Disney+ comes out. I think a lot of these niche platforms are going to be dropping their prices.

TheBigDave

My annual membership is expiring in Mid-November. I asked if I could renew using the Halloween discount. But they said I'd need to close my account and open a new one.

I think I'm going to cancel my annual membership and hope for a good deal on Black Friday or around Christmas. Or maybe just sign-up for a month here and there to binge.

PhantomStranger

The problem is that the services have a floor they can't drop below in price due to licensing costs. That is why many of them fold instead of lowering their price tiers.

SunMonkey

The Halloween sign-up discount ended up only being something like $5 cheaper than the renewal rate for those who were grandfathered in to the $45 a year rate. The $3.75 a month that breaks down to makes it really hard for me to cancel.

TheBigDave

In case anyone's interested, there two new Horror/Cult streaming services.

Midnight Movie Society from MVD & Rue Morgue. Available on Roku, Chromecast and Apple devices.
https://www.midnightmoviesociety.com/

Arrow Video Channel available on Apple TV and the Apple TV app. Titles from the Arrow Video catalog.
https://arrowfilms.com/news/join-the...on-apple-tv-1/

VHS?

I just cancelled Shudder after a year. I had a killer price ($5/mo) but I just didn't watch it enough.

TheBigDave

Coming to Shudder in December

December 1

The Lost Boys (Director: Joel Schumacher)
The People Under the Stairs (Director: Wes Craven)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (Director: Wes Craven)
Shocker (Director: Wes Craven)
Sleepwalkers (Director: Mick Garris)

December 2

Deadly Games (a.k.a. 3615 Code Père Noël, Dial Code Santa Claus) (Director: René Manzor)
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (Director: Lee Harry)

December 5

The Head Hunter (Director: Jordan Downey)

December 9

Trivisa (Directors: Jevons Au, Frank Hui, and Wai-Kit Wong)
Iskander: Shadow of the River (Four episode mini-series)

December 11

Perfect (Director: Eddie Alcazar)
Inner Demon (Director: Ursula Dabrowsky)

December 13

Joe Bob's Red Christmas

December 16

Class of 1984 (Director: Mark L. Lester)
From the Dark (Director: Conor McMahon)
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (Director: Jason Baker)

Mondo Kane

Bump for Joe Bob tonight!

T-bone22

I'm pumped!!

Trevor

Thanks for the reminder! 8pm eastern everyone! Starts a few minutes early if the countdown is correct.

TheBigDave

I think this is the first time I've seen Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2. I always ignored it because of the awful reviews. But it was actually pretty fun in an ultra-cheesy 80's kinda way.

Trevor

Teenage daughter walked into the room during Black Christmas as the crank caller was shouting “c*nt” and “p*ssy” left and right. I frantically and repeatedly pound the pause button on my roku remote before I realize it won’t let me pause a livestream. Awkward.

dex14

DJariya

I rarely have time to watch Shudder, but I happened to notice Chopping Mall was on it. For the record, it's also on Amazon Prime. It's really short at 77 minutes, so I decided to give it a watch.




Anyways, I have never seen the movie before and loved it. Loved how goofy and campy it was, especially for a horror movie. The robots looked so cheesy.

Can't believe the movie is 33 years old and all the actors on it are now pushing 60. One of the young actors actually died 2 years after this movie came out from heart disease.

Does anyone own the above Blu-Ray? Just curious if it's worth owning. I see there's a lot of bonus content on it. These Vestron releases are pretty good.

TheBigDave

SunMonkey

Any word on why the second movie in Joe Bob’s Red Christmas triple feature got pulled?

Trout

It could be a licensing issue. Some movies are only available for a limited time.

SunMonkey

You would think they would license longer than two months for one of their signature series.

DJLinus

And it might come back. When I signed up in October I was bummed that Joe Bob's regular season was incomplete, but over the last several weeks Shudder got the licenses back for some of the missing films (House of the Devil, Prom Night II, Society) and those episodes were put back up. I'm working my way through the regular season and patiently waiting for the other missing movies (CHUD, The Stuff) to get licensed again.

I watched My Bloody Valentine for the first time ever last night. Between that and seeing Madman the other night, I'm enjoying how relatively quaint early '80s slashers were. And Canadian. (One of the MBV characters saying "sorry" a couple of times clued me in.)

Alan Smithee

Just got the free month, first time having it in a while- unfortunately still no 5.1 sound.

TheBigDave

Joe Bob & Darcy are doing a marathon tonight. There's a live Tweet-a-thon starting at 7pm. They're watching Friday the 13th Part 4 at 9pm. Then at Midnight there's a Youtube show with a couple horror short films and Driller Killer (1979).

https://www.mutantfam.com/

https://www.mutantfam.com/joebob

https://www.mutantfam.com/marathon

DJLinus

That was a bit tough to watch, mostly because of the quality. Darcy was a lot more animated in the livestream than she is on the show, though. That was nice to see. I bailed fairly early on, but will check out the archive for the Q&A.

And to whoever is in charge of curating Shudder's collections of movies... bravo.

TheBigDave

Try Shudder free for 30 days with promo code: SHUTIN

IDrinkMolson

Thanks, just got off WIHM20 and it let me use this one too.