Jumpstart the Halfway To Halloween Celebration 2024 With These Shudder & AMC+ Horror Films and Shows

We're approaching that famous unofficial holiday known as 'Halfway To Halloween', eagerly anticipated by enthusiasts counting down the days to All Hallows' Eve. The halfway point to Halloween typically falls on April 30th or May 1st, marking six months until October 31st.

Halfway To Halloween has become a staple and continues to grow as a holiday among cosplayers, Horror-movie, Spooky-TV shows, and the core fans of the Holloween holiday itself. And if you're seeking a way to celebrate this milestone, look no further. Step into a world where darkness reigns, and thrills abound with Shudder's spine-chilling Halfway to Halloween month-long event.

(L-R)-Joe Bob Briggs in The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs Season 3, Episode 4-Photo Credit: Aimee Kuge/Shudder-George Takei as Nobuhiro Yamato, Miki Ishikawa as Amy Yoshida in The Terror Season 2, Episode 9 - Photo Credit: Ed Araquel/AMC

Join the macabre festivities with Shudder's Halfway to Halloween Horror-thon, showcasing spine-chilling delights such as fresh Shudder releases like Baghead, Late Night with the Devil, and Infested.

Dig into new episodes of the beloved Shudder Original Series, The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, along with exciting library additions like AMC's The Terror Season 2, and much more to keep your frightful cravings satisfied.

Take a look below at what's coming up this Halfway To Halloween season.

Baghead

After her dad's death, Iris learns that she has inherited a run-down pub in Berlin. She soon discovers a dark secret within its basement: Baghead, a shape-shifting creature that will allow you to speak to lost loved ones, but not without consequence. Now, Iris faces a daunting responsibility: she must prevent this entity from achieving its deepest desire—to break free.

Directed by Alberto Corredor, Baghead stars Freya Allan (The Witcher) as Iris Lark, Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) as Neil, Ruby Barker (Bridgerton) as Katie, Ned Dennehy (Good Omens, Peaky Blinders) as the Solicitor, Saffron Burrows (The Bank Job) as Catherine, Peter Mullan (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) as Owen Lark, and Anne Müller (Dogs of Berlin) as Baghead.

-Streaming On Shudder April 5-

Ghost Adventures House Calls: Returns With New Haunting Cases For Zak Bagans and The Team

(L-R)-Ingrid Torelli, David Dastmalchian, and Laura Gordon in Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes’ Late Night With The Devil: Courtesy of IFC Films and Shudder

Late Night With The Devil

On October 31, 1977, Johnny Carson's rival, Jack Delroy, hosts a syndicated late-night talk show called Night Owls, which has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country. A year after the tragic death of Jack’s wife, ratings have plummeted. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other, unaware that he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.

Directed by Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes, Late Night With The Devil stars David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer) as Jack Delroy, Laura Gordon (Reckoning) as June Ross-Mitchell, Ian Bliss (The Matrix Reloaded) as Carmichael Haig, Ingrid Torelli (Five Bedrooms) as Lilly D'Abo and Michael Ironside (Top Gun, Total Recall) as Narrator.

-Streaming On Shudder April 19-

Théo Christine, Jérôme Niel, Lisa Nyarko, Finnegan Oldfield and Sofia Lesaffre in Sébastien Vanícek’s Infested- Image Courtesy of Shudder

Infested

Director Sébastien Vanicek debuts his feature film Infested. Kaleb is nearing his 30th birthday and feeling lonelier than ever. Engaged in a bitter dispute with his sister over inheritance, he's also distanced himself from his best friend.

Fascinated by exotic animals, he finds a venomous spider in a bazaar and brings it back to his flat. In a blink, the spider escapes and multiplies, transforming the entire building into a terrifying web-filled hunting ground. Now, the tenants inhabiting this run-down apartment building find themselves in a struggle against a relentless army of deadly spiders multiplying at an alarming rate.

Infested stars Théo Christine (Suprêmes) as Kaleb, Finnegan Oldfield (Final Cut) as Jordy, Jérôme Niel (Smoking Causes Coughing) as Mathys, Sofia Lesaffre (Les Misérables) as Lila, Marie-Philomène Nga (He Even Has Your Eyes) as Claudia, Emmanuel Bonami (Candice Renoir) as Gilles and Lisa Nyarko as Manon

-Streaming On Shudder April 26-

Danai Gurira as Michonne, Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes - The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Season 1, Episode 3 - Photo Credit: AMC

The Halfway to Halloween celebration kicks off on Monday, April 1st, featuring a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the making of the latest hit series in The Walking Dead Universe, "The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live," starring Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln. 

The excitement continues with live watch parties of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob’s Season 6 every other Friday on Shudder TV and AMC+ TV.

BBC America joins the fray with a thrilling new original series, "Predator vs Prey." Follow the world’s most formidable apex predators, including lions, wolves, and crocodiles, as they face off against formidable opponents like bison, wildebeest, and elephants in a battle for survival.

-See Titles Joining Shudder's Collection below-

April 1st

Mute Witness: A mute makeup artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder and must escape capture. 

The Gates: A serial killer has been sentenced to death by an electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it.

Drag Me to Hell: A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.

Ghost Stories (2017): After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.

The Rental: Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend getaway.

At the Devil’s Door: A real estate agent finds herself caught up in something sinister when she has to sell a house with a dark past and meets the troubled teen who used to live there.

The Wind: A plainswoman faces the harshness and isolation of the untamed land in the Western frontier of the late 1800s

Summoning Sylvia: A gay bachelor party turns spooky when sinister spirits are suddenly summoned.

Madman: A legendary psychopathic murderer stalks a summer camp.

Spookies: A wicked sorcerer tries to sacrifice a group of people inside his house with the intention of using their vitality to keep his wife alive. 

*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: Spookies episode

Creepshow: Five grisly tales from a kid’s comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate’s occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.

April 4th

Gateway: In an abandoned house on a typical street, much like the street you live on, a group of criminals encounter something or someone. 

Wake Wood: The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter. 

Emelie A couple’s replacement babysitter turns out to be more than they bargained for when she subjects their kids to a series of twisted activities.

April 8th

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things: Two estranged siblings go to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon discover an evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and begun wreaking havoc. 

The Third Saturday in October: When a psycho goes on a murderous rampage after surviving a botched execution, only two survivors of his initial attack can stop him. 

The Third Saturday in October Part V: Follow a killer as he stalks and butchers the occupants of houses across the stretch of one lone country road while the residents prepare to watch a yearly college football game.

April 15 

The Tunnel: An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story, it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.

The Tunnel: The Other Side of Darkness: On the 10th anniversary of the Australian found footage film The Tunnel, this documentary delves into the filmmaker's endeavors to challenge how films are financed and distributed, and the lasting impact The Tunnel had internationally.

April 22 

The House of the Devil (2009): In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.

*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: The House of the Devil episode, also available 

The Innkeepers: During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel’s haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

The Changeling (1980): After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying in a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion’s attic. 

*The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Dinners of Death: The Changeling episode, also available 

Final Cut (aka Death Games): A reporter and his girlfriend follow around a famous actor/entrepreneur and discover some dirt on him to be made public. 

13th Floor: As a child, a girl witnessed her father electrocute a young boy. When she grows into an adult, the ghost of the murdered boy appears to her, and together they set out to expose the crimes of her father

Have a Happy, Spooktastic Halfway To Halloween holiday!

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