Shudder Unveils Massive ‘Season of Screams’ 2026 Lineup From September Through December

Shudder’s 2026 “Season of Screams” brings four months of new horror premieres, returning series, specials and live watch parties.

Shudder Unveils Massive ‘Season of Screams’ 2026 Lineup and First Look at New Ghoul Log

Shudder is stretching spooky season well beyond Halloween this year. The horror streaming service has announced its 2026 “Season of Screams,” a four-month programming event running September 1 through December 31 with weekly film premieres, returning series, live watch parties, specials and an all-new edition of the Ghoul Log.

The 2026 slate includes Parasomnia, Mārama, Goody Goody, Bloody Tennis, Infirmary, V/H/S/Mixtape, Hallowarrior and The Cycle, alongside the return of The Creep Tapes and The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula. Shudder will also host the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards and a new installment of Joe Bob Briggs’ annual Halloween programming.

Beginning October 1, Shudder will also bring back its annual alternative to the traditional holiday yule log with Curse of the Ghoul Logs. The new hour-long special centers on a candlelit jack-o’-lantern display created by the filmmakers behind Hallowarrior, with multiple pumpkins incorporated into the Ghoul Log for the first time.

The seasonal programming begins September 4 with the Shudder Original Parasomnia. Jasmine Mathews stars as Riley, a woman dealing with night terrors and unresolved tragedy who begins questioning whether the figure haunting her dreams has entered the waking world after her best friend disappears.

Mārama follows September 11. The period horror film centers on a young Māori woman who travels to Victorian England in 1859 and discovers a connection between her family history and the English aristocracy.

Mark Duplass returns September 15 with the two-episode premiere of The Creep Tapes Season 3. Created by writers and executive producers Duplass and Patrick Brice, the new six-episode season continues the found-footage format of the Creep franchise. Kate Siegel, Nic Hamilton, Elliott Fullam and Ora Duplass are among this season’s guest stars.

Raymond Creamer’s Goody Goody arrives September 18, starring Samantha Robinson, Colby Hollman and Colleen Foy. The film takes place during a home birth as a blizzard isolates the expecting parents and their midwife while complications begin developing inside the house.

Shudder moves into sports horror September 25 with Bloody Tennis. Sandra Guldberg Kampp stars as Sophie, a young player admitted to an elite European tennis academy where the competitive environment begins revealing increasingly troubling elements beneath the institution.

October opens with Infirmary on October 2. The found-footage film revolves around body-camera footage recovered after a security guard disappears during his first night working at an abandoned psychiatric hospital.

The V/H/S franchise returns October 9 with its ninth installment, V/H/S/Mixtape. The latest anthology connects its collection of found-footage stories through music and sound, with segments from Ernest Dickerson, RZA, David Moreau and Renee Zhan. Flying Lotus directs original music-video interludes, Tobias Forge contributes a new music video and GWAR also appears in the film. Zhan’s segment incorporates original puppets created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

Milly Shapiro leads Hallowarrior, arriving October 16. The Hereditary actor plays Pumpkin, the last surviving girl following a humanity-ending plague, whose Halloween routine is interrupted by the arrival of raiders led by Shannyn Sossamon.

Deborah Ann Woll and Jeffrey Donovan headline The Cycle, premiering October 23. The supernatural horror film follows an estranged daughter attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding her father after his body is discovered decades after his disappearance.

Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl also return October 23 for Joe Bob’s Halloween House Party. The live Shudder special will feature a Halloween double feature, with the selected films still to be announced. The special becomes available on demand October 25.

The 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards follow October 25 at 9 p.m. ET, with Devon Sawa hosting the annual celebration of horror releases.

Shudder will then head into Halloween weekend with two more premieres. Spider One’s Big Baby, executive produced by Cher, arrives October 30 and follows a horror writer whose nightmares about a killer wearing a baby mask begin influencing his work and life.

On Halloween, Shudder premieres Hunting Matthew Nichols. The film follows a documentary filmmaker investigating the disappearance of her brother on Vancouver Island two decades earlier after new evidence emerges surrounding the case.

Shudder TV will complement the premieres with Friday night watch parties beginning at 9 p.m. ET. September pairings include Parasomnia with Somnium, Mārama with La Llorona, Goody Goody with Glorious and Bloody Tennis with The Ugly Stepsister.

October expands the schedule with Infirmary and Host on October 2, followed by a six-film V/H/S marathon on October 9 featuring V/H/S/Mixtape, V/H/S/Halloween, V/H/S/Beyond, V/H/S/85, V/H/S/99 and V/H/S/94. Hallowarrior will be paired with Night of the Demons on October 16.

Following the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards on October 25, Shudder will celebrate the Hunter’s Moon with The Cycle, Dog Soldiers and Werewolves Within. Big Baby and Night of the Reaper make up the October 30 “Maniacs in Masks” pairing, while Halloween night brings Halloween (1978), Late Night with the Devil and Deadstream. The schedule continues November 1 with a Día de los Muertos presentation of Huesera: The Bone Woman and La Llorona.

The library will also expand during the event with franchise and catalog programming including Insidious 1-3, Twilight Zone: The Movie and all four films in the original Psycho series starring Anthony Perkins. Those titles join existing Shudder selections including Tales from the Crypt, Creepshow and the Hell House LLC franchise.

Later in the fall, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula returns for Season 7 on Shudder and AMC+, with Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet once again bringing together drag performers for a new series of design, makeup, special-effects, performance and craftsmanship challenges.

Shudder’s “Season of Screams” begins September 1 and continues through December 31. The streamer has currently detailed its September and October programming, with additional November and December premieres and events still to be announced.