The Toxic Avenger Asserts His Dominance Over the Shudder May Highlights
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Phil Roberts 
The Premium Horror Streamer Shudder gets a devilishly good box of treats this May.
With the summer months fast approaching, Shudder is delving into its bag of goodies to deliver some truly terrifying content for the cellar dwellers amongst us. As the warm months approach, horror fans turn to Shudder to satisfy their thirst for blood, and this May, the streaming platform is delivering. The platform will debut two new original movies and a chilling library of backdated films. And they are enough for us to sink our fangs into, especially if you have a thing for a Toxic Avenger or two!
NEW RELEASES
Surprisingly, the platform will be releasing only two new movies in May. However, these movies are pretty significant. The first movie, Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever, is a horror movie that will be released on the 17th. It promises to be a chilling experience as it takes us back into the Nightwatch universe and reunites us with the psychopathic police inspector Wörmer, whom we met in the previous installment. Rounding out the month’s new releases is Stopmotion. In the film, a young stop-motion animator struggles to maintain her sanity as her creations come to life and threaten to destroy her.
And all that before we get into the new additions to Shudder’s customary film library. If you were hoping to be dragged down the rabbit hole of the Toxic Avenger, you’re in for a real treat. But don’t just take my word for it. Grab the arm of your chair, move to the edge of your seat, and grab the cushions!
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
22-year-old medical student Emma (Fanny Leander Bornedal) has just taken a job as the night watch in the same forensic department where her parents were once almost killed by the famed psychopathic police inspector Wörmer. The events led to her mother’s suicide, and her father Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) has turned to tranquilizers to suppress the memories. Determined to investigate what exactly happened to them, Emma tracks down and confronts Wörmer, only to unintentionally reawaken his bloodthirst and ignite a violent revenge on everyone who sealed his destiny years ago. Streaming on Friday 17 May.
Stopmotion
Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her. Starring Aisling Franciosi, Tom York and Jaz Hutchins.. Streaming on Friday 31 May.
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
COMING ON MAY 1ST
The Toxic Avenger
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
The Toxic Avenger Part II
The Toxic Avenger is tricked into traveling to Tokyo to search for his estranged father, leaving Tromaville open to complete domination by an evil corporation.
And…The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.
TA4 – Citizen Toxic: The Toxic Avenger IV
The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender.
The Outwaters
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
COMING ON MAY 6TH
Calvaire
Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants.
Dobermann
Dobermann is the world’s most ruthless bank robber. Now in Paris, and along with his gang, he’s robbing bank after bank. What can the authorities do? Let the mad, morally bankrupt police commissioner loose on him.
COMING ON MAY 8TH
Mother’s Day (1980)
Three young women are tormented by an insane matriarch and her depraved sons.
*The Last Drive-In: Mother’s Day episode also available.
COMING ON MAY 13TH
Landlocked
Summoned to his soon-to-be demolished childhood home, Mason discovers a video camera that can see into the past, driving him to record as many memories as possible before the doomed house is destroyed.
Butt Boy
Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip’s butt.
The Beta Test
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.
COMING ON MAY 15TH
Combat Shock
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
COMING ON MAY 2OTH
Number 37
A recent paraplegic is given binoculars by his girlfriend. When he witnesses a mob killing, he tries to blackmail the killer.
COMING ON MAY 27TH
The Knocking
Three adult siblings go examine their late parents’ house in the middle of a forest.
Graduation Day (1981)
A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30-second 200-meter race.
ABOUT THE PLATFORM
AMC Networks’ Shudder is a premium streaming video service with super-serving members with the best selection in genre entertainment, covering horror, thrillers, and the supernatural. Shudder’s expanding library of film, TV series, and originals is available on most streaming devices in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Germany. Head to Shudder.com to sign up.
What an excellent list of titles to explore! The streaming platform has established itself as the go-to destination for premium horror entertainment, and we’re excited to dive into this collection of thrilling horror gems. So please keep checking back regularly because our reviews will arrive quickly and frequently!
Which of these horror treats will you be unwrapping this May? Drop a comment below. We won’t bite…hard!
Phil Roberts is the owner, daily content manager, and editor-in-chief of The Future of the Force. He is a huge fan of Star Wars, Batman, DC, Marvel, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters, King Kong, and the Ray Harryhausen movies.
If he’s not in the cinema he’s probably streaming something equally awesome!
