On a rainy Saturday in August last year, Ashley Dale was enjoying a quiet night in, watching TV in her pyjamas with her dog Darla beside her, when her front door was knocked down and she was shot dead with a Skorpion submachine gun.
31.10.2023 - 23:47 / deadline.com
Since launching in beta in the U.S. in 2015, the horror-focused streaming service Shudder has developed a unique reputation for quality in streaming, even as its parent company AMC Networks has grappled with the same financial ills affecting the landscape at large.
One of the most well-known and celebrated brands in AMC’s portfolio of niche streamers, Shudder was conceived as a destination for horror consumers of all kinds, from the most seasoned to the most nascent. Per VP Global Acquisitions and Co-Productions Emily Gotto, one of the platform’s principal architects, the hope has been to be very intentional in onboarding new titles, programming in such a way as to cultivate an appreciation of the “length and breadth” of the genre.
Like more deep-pocketed services, Shudder ramped up on exclusive acquisitions and originals after building its foundation on a slew of library titles. But given its relative lack of resources — in comparison to, say, Netflix — Shudder got creative in the kinds it pursued, generally identifying those that could be licensed for a reasonable price, while at the same time bringing maximum value to horror fans. An obscure title, for example, like the Vanessa Redgrave starrer The Devils (1971) or Andrzej Zulawski’s Cannes prize winner Possession (1981), that was heretofore impossible to track down elsewhere.
Many of the titles that can be found on Shudder mean far more to its diehard horror fanbase than to the average viewer of a larger streamer. That has enabled VP Programming Sam Zimmerman — another key steward of Shudder’s creative vision — to build out the service without fear of being outbid. In addition to library titles of yesteryear, Zimmerman routinely scours festivals in hopes of
On a rainy Saturday in August last year, Ashley Dale was enjoying a quiet night in, watching TV in her pyjamas with her dog Darla beside her, when her front door was knocked down and she was shot dead with a Skorpion submachine gun.
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