Netflix Picks Up Three Shudder Horror Films for Halloween 2025

Over the previous few years, for the primary time, we’ve seen studios, distributors, and rival streamers reopen — or open for the primary time — their licensing faucets. Becoming a member of that listing this week is Shudder, which has simply licensed three films to Netflix in america for a restricted interval and simply in time for Halloween.

Our understanding is that it is a one-off deal, however fingers crossed, meaning extra Shudder titles come to Netflix sooner or later. These three films are nonetheless on Shudder and can stay on Netflix for no less than a 12 months or two in most cases.

What new Shudder films simply hit Netflix? Let’s soar in:

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Host

Host arguably turned Shudder’s breakout phenomenon of the pandemic period, shot and edited fully throughout lockdown and launched simply 4 months after manufacturing started in July 2020. Critics hailed it because the definitive quarantine horror movie. Set through the peak of the lockdown, a bunch of pals maintain a Zoom séance that goes horrifically mistaken.

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Deadstream

Subsequent up is Deadstream, which was first launched on Shudder in October 2022 following its preliminary premiere at South by Southwest, which, in keeping with studies, went extremely effectively. The premise of the movie follows a disgraced YouTuber who makes an attempt a comeback by livestreaming an in a single day keep in a haunted home, however his stunt rapidly spirals right into a chaotic combat for survival.

Rotten Tomatoes holds a 90%+ rating, and horror shops praised Joseph Winter’s manic bodily efficiency. Unfortunetely, although, if you happen to’re on Netflix’s promoting tier, this film is at the moment locked to you, together with 100+ other titles.

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Christmas Bloody Christmas

A file retailer proprietor’s Christmas Eve turns right into a blood-splattered nightmare when a robotic Santa malfunctions and goes on a killing spree by way of her small city.

This premiered on Shudder on December ninth and acquired glorious evaluations from critics upon its preliminary launch, although it fared a bit of worse with viewers scores. Among the many refrain of robust reward for the film was Bloody Disgusting, which wrote that the movie is “an unabashed vacation deal with that is aware of precisely what it’s and what its viewers is hoping to get from a ‘killer robotic Santa’ horror movie.”

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This does mark the primary time Shudder Originals have come to Netflix, though we now have seen titles go between the companies earlier than. Slasher, the horror collection first launched in 2016, is a good example that released three seasons on Netflix earlier than heading completely to Shudder for the 2 most up-to-date seasons. In line with NewonNetflix.information, the one different movies that match the class are Await Further Instructions, produced by Shudder Movies and Goldfinch Studios, which appeared on Netflix for just a few years between 2019 and 2022, and God’s Personal Nation, which streamed between 2018 and 2022.

Different new Halloween films added to Netflix this week embrace the 2016 indie British horror Prevenge, starring and directed by Alice Lowe, in addition to My Pal Dahmer from director Marc Meyers. You possibly can find more of Netflix’s Halloween 2025 slate here.

Are you going to observe any of those three new horror films on Netflix? Tell us within the feedback.