There’s nothing quite like streamer schedule time to get us excited for what’s coming soon to a screen near you. We’ve seen what Prime Video has in store for us in April 2025 and now it’s the turn of our favourite horror streamer, Shudder, to tell us what they have planned.
April brings with it four huge premieres including Stephen Cognetti’s 825 Forest Road and Irish folk-horror from Fréwaka Aislinn Clarke. They’ll join a host of new library additions including Hostile Dimensions and 2013’s Home Sweet Home.
Here’s a closer look at some of April’s biggest releases:
825 Forest Road
Shudder Original Film, Premiere’s Exclusively on April 4, 2025
From the creator of the Hell House LLC franchise, Stephen Cognetti, the film centers on Chuck Wilson starting a new life after a family tragedy when he moves to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth. But he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret. The ghost of Helen Foster has terrorized residents for decades, since her own suicide back in the ‘40s. Finding Helen’s old home is key to ending the hauntings, but the address they have doesn’t match any of the town’s existing streets. When Chuck realizes his family might be in danger of Helen’s wrath, he takes it upon himself to locate 825 Forest Road before it’s too late.
Shadow of God
Shudder Original Film, Premiere’s Exclusively on April 11, 2025
When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home to spend time with childhood friend while he awaits orders from the Church. However, this small town holds dark secrets about Mason’s past and the religious organization once run by his father, Angus. Thought dead, Angus reappears, forcing a reunion between father and son. But Angus is different now, and before long, Mason suspects he’s possessed, not by the devil, but by something… holy. When Mason attempts to exorcise the presence from his father, he sets off a chain of events that may end in a cataclysm of biblical proportions testing everything he holds sacred.
Dead Mail
Shudder Original Film, Premiere’s Exclusively on April 18, 2025
On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the desk of Jasper, a seasoned ‘dead letter’ investigator at a 1980s midwestern post office. As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate.
Fréwaka
Shudder Original Film, Premiere’s Exclusively on April 25, 2025
Irish folk horror from Aislinn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway) follows home care worker Shoo, who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before. As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
1 April
Hostile Dimensions
Two documentary filmmakers travel through alternate dimensions to uncover the truth about a graffiti artist who has vanished.
Last Straw
A smalltown killing spree lands on the doorstep of a rural diner, where a young waitress must fight for her life over the course of one long night.
5 April
Mermaid Legend
A woman is avenging the death of her husband in this slightly supernatural drama.
Crazy Family
After moving into a new house, a family starts to act crazier and crazier.
7 April
Home Sweet Home (2013)
A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a methodical killer inside.
Good Boy (2022)
Sigrid hits it off with Christian, a millionaire heir she meets on a dating app, but learns that he lives with a man who acts like his pet dog. Trying to be open-minded, she continues the relationship but soon notices an insidious undertone to him.
14 April
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
A 13-year-old girl who lives with her absentee father befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
Doomwatch
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
21 April
Dr. Terrors House of Horrors
Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.
Suddenly In the Dark
A wife starts to suspect her husband’s infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper who carries a mysterious wooden doll with her.
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