Shudder Is Transforming the Scary Movie

These are good times for horror. He'd say that again. Shudder is a streaming service that focuses on the genre and has helped mold the future of scary movies

The shape of horror has had many eras. The horror of The Omen in the 1970s, as well as the cheap-and-cheerful slasher period of the 1980s, are included. The current horror epoch is not as defined as it could be, a period that includes everything from Mike Flanagan's creepy series for netflix to A 24's so-called elevated horror to Blumhouse's box-office hits.

A new generation of viewers have been attracted to the horror genre by the hit movie Get Out. He says that it was the seminal moment. People were able to rediscover horror as more than a movie.

Shudder is the reason for horror's broadening and deepen. The service was founded in 2015 by AMC Networks and has grown to include original feature films, TV shows, and other content. Shudder is close to the major streamers. In its niche-ness, it has accomplished something that many other companies have failed to do: build an identity beyond "Hey, we got stuff".

Clicking around a giant streaming site can leave one feeling both aimless and lost. It is home to a self-selecting group of horror buffs. Gore groupies have one service sure to have something they like, unlike superhero lovers who have to go to Disney+ for superhero movies and have few options beyond that.

If you are wondering if that is enough to keep a streaming service going. A different question was answered by Engler. The audience for Shudder is not known. How many people have read Stephen King? Shudder only says that AMC has a combined 10.8 million subscribers on its targeted platforms.

Engler used to work at NBCUniversal's horror channel Chiller. Shudder doubled down on what people wanted. The Friday the 13th documentary was a big hit. People were watching it all in one sitting. There was more programming such as Cursed Films and Horror Noire: A History of BlackHorror.

Shudder was able to find success by picking up international titles like Taiwan's The Sadness and Indonesia's Satan's Slaves, as well as spotting smart ideas that bigger studios might not take a chance on. The company grabbed 2020's Host, a perfectly lean flick about a weird seance, after the director posted a playful sample of the idea. Phil Tippett had been working on Mad God for 30 years. Most people don't want to see a stop- motion animated dream. Shudder believes that Mad God has a chance of being nominated for an Oscar.