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If you are a horror fan, then there is a big chance that you might have heard about the horror streaming service Shudder, and if you have its subscription, you might be wondering what’s in store for you in August 2025. Don’t worry. There is a host of new and old horror movies coming to the service in the upcoming month, and we have listed the 7 best movies coming to Shudder in August 2025.

Urban Legend (August 1) Credit – TriStar Pictures

Urban Legend is a slasher thriller film directed by Jamie Blanks from a screenplay by Silvio Horta. The 1998 film is set on the premises of a private New England university, and it revolves around a group of students as they witness a series of murders that seem to be based on popular urban legends. Urban Legend stars Jared Leto,...

The film opens on a scene of domestic tranquility so perfectly composed it feels fragile, a prelude to rupture. We meet Nicholas and Charlie, a couple whose life with their cherubic son, Jacob, is rendered in warm, soft-focus tones that all but scream “before.”

The narrative architecture is classical, almost cruel, in its establishment of an idyll it has no intention of maintaining. The inevitable break comes not with a slow tear but a violent shatter: a household accident, swift and unceremonious, erases the child from the frame.

This sudden void sends Nicholas into a tailspin of guilt so profound that he follows it with a desperate, failed attempt to exit his own life. The film’s palette shifts instantly from warm to clinical, its tone to a low, persistent hum of dread.

As Nicholas returns from institutional care to the now-cavernous family home, the camera lingers on empty doorways and silent rooms,...

The AMC Networks August 2025 schedule serves up thrills and chills with programming across its suite of networks and streaming services.

The August lineup includes the season finale of AMC Original adventure series Nautilus; new Acorn TV crime drama Irish Blood; the crime drama Kidnapped on AMC+; and the season finales of Acorn TV’s popular The Madame Blanc Mysteries and Sundance TV’s gripping docuseries The Furry Detectives: Unmasking A Monster.

Irish Blood

The month also features new seasons of Sundance TV’s True Crime Story: Smugshot and We TV’s fan-favorite series Life After Lockup.

Film premieres include the streaming debut of Shudder’s record-breaking slasher Clown in a Cornfield; Sundance Now’s action-packed revenge thriller Tornado; a documentary exploring Black land ownership and environmental sustainability in Family Tree; and Shudder’s Irish folk horror The Twin.

Nautilus AMC Networks August 2025 Schedule

AMC & AMC+ (also includes Shudder and Sundance...

AMC Networks’ Shudder has announced the titles that will be available on the streaming service next month. The Shudder August 2025 slate includes horror, thriller, and supernatural titles.

The August schedule includes the films Clown in a Cornfield and The Twin, the series The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs, and more.

Shudder’s expanding library of films, TV series, and original content is available on most streaming devices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

Clown in a Cornfield Shudder August 2025 Highlights

Films

Urban Legend – Streaming on August 1 (Available in the US)

A college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends. Directed by Jamie Blanks, the film stars Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, and Rebecca Gayheart.

Urban Legends: Final Cut – Streaming on August 1 (Available in the US)

A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.

It’s the 4th of July and the Jurassic World franchise has stomped its way back into theaters, but that’s not the only new movie hoping to keep you company over the long weekend.

Here’s all the new horror that released from June 30 – July 4, 2025!

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The second movie from Talk to Me directing duo Danny and Michael Philippou, Bring Her Back is now available on Premium VOD for rent ($19.99) or purchase ($24.99) via A24.

Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) stars. In the film, “A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.”

Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, and Mischa Heywood also star in the film directed by Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “It’s impressively...

"The sight of your Fetch is an omen for coming death." Vertical has debuted the official trailer for an Irish folklore horror thriller film titled The Twin, which comes across more like a doppelganger psychological thriller than just horror. This first premiered at the 2024 Austin Film Festival and won the Audience Award from Dark Matters. "After such a long journey, I'm incredibly proud to finally share The Twin with horror audiences everywhere. It's a story about the things we try to bury that somehow find a way to dig themselves out." Following the death of his only son, a grieving father is haunted by a terrifying demon known in Irish folklore as the Fetch. He begins experiencing terrifying visions of a shadowy figure that looks like himself. Featuring a "haunted and physically impressive performance" from Logan Donovan as Nicholas (and also playing his shadowy figure). Also starring Robert Longstreet, Aleksa Palladino,...

Vertical has announced that they have acquired North American rights for Irish horror movie The Twin. The Irish folk horror film world premiered at the 2024 Austin Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Dark Matters Feature.

Logan Donovan (Colony) appears as Nicholas, who is immersed in grief after losing his son. Nicholas and his wife Charlie (Aleksa Palladino of The Irishman) are estranged, and he is under the care of a sympathetic psychiatrist named Dr. Beaumont.

When his wife leaves, Nicholas is alone in his home, and starts to hear voices and suffer from nightmares. Things come to a head when he encounters a figure that looks disturbingly like him. As his mental health declines, Nicholas has to fight back to stop the supernatural forces that are affecting him.

The story involves an entity known in Irish folklore as a Fetch, a demonic force “appearing as a supernatural...

Writer/Director J.C. Doler’s directorial debut, the Irish folklore horror film The Twin, has been picked up by Vertical for North American release next month.

The Twin releases on July 1, 2025.

The horror movie stars Logan Donovan, Robert Longstreet, and Aleksa Palladino.

The film’s synopsis: “After the tragic loss of his son, Nicholas (Donovan) struggles with his grief and a strained relationship with his wife Charlie (Palladino). Under the watch of psychiatrist Dr. Beaumont (Longstreet), Nicholas begins experiencing terrifying visions of a shadowy figure that looks like himself. As reality unravels, Nicholas must confront his past and the supernatural force haunting him before it consumes him completely.”

Doler co-wrote the screenplay along with Paul Petersen, based on a story by Doler, Taylor Bracewell, and Chris Alan Evans. The film, previously titled The Fetch, was the winner of Best Screenplay at the 2021 Screamfest. The film had world premiere at the...

"This is in your mind! It is not real! You are real!" An early festival teaser has debuted for an indie horror film premiering this month at the 2024 Austin Film Festival, playing in their Dark Matters Features section. The film is called The Fetch, marking the feature directorial debut of indie genre filmmaker J.C. Doler, telling an eerie tale of grief & demons. Following the death of his only son, a grieving father is haunted by a terrifying demon known in Irish folklore as the Fetch. A fetch is a supernatural double or an apparition of a living person. The sighting of a fetch is regarded as an omen, usually for impending death... The indie film stars Robert Longstreet, Aleksa Palladino, Logan Donovan, Shannon Cochran, & Tripp Toupal. Well damn this looks actually quite scary and especially creepy with all the weird gross hands popping out of everywhere. Plus evil doppelgangers appearing randomly.

In Irish folklore and literature dating back to the 1500s, writers from the island nation have written about mythical beings known as “Fetches” that haunt people whose days are numbered. According to legend, Fetches take on the physical form of the humans they visit — and if your own creepy doppelganger visits you in the evening, it means your death is imminent. But if they visit you in the morning, you can prepare yourself for a long life ahead of you.

That mythology is set to come to life in “The Fetch,” a new horror movie debuting at the Austin Film Festival that promises to fuse Irish folklore with modern day scares. According to an official synopsis, the film follows a grieving father who finds himself haunted by the Fetch as he mourns the death of his only son.

“The Fetch” marks the feature directorial debut of J.C. Doler, who has previously released six short films.

Burt Reynolds gives the axe to James Jurdi’s sleazy property broker in a new exclusive clip from the upcoming film “Pocket Listing.” In the film, Jurdi’s character, Jack Woodman, is enlisted to sell the home of the enigmatic power player Frank Hunter, played by Rob Lowe. In the clip, Woodman gets ousted from his top real estate broker firm by Reynolds and his son, played by Logan Fahey. “I gave you permission to screw everybody,” Reynolds says in the clip. “Everybody but me.” Also Read: Burt Reynolds Recalls Bra-Tossing Fans, Dumb Dogs and 'Smokey and the Bandit...

Calista Flockhart, T.R. Knight and Dakin Matthews head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works opens its 2012-13 season with Christopher Hamptons new version of Anton Chekhovs tragi-comic masterpiece, The Seagull. The cast also includesGordon Clapp, Stephen Collins, Logan Fahey, Cindy Katz and Josh Stamberg, with Rosalind Ayres directing. Five performances will take place Sept. 20-23 at UCLAs James Bridges Theater, where they will be recorded for broadcast on L.A. Theatre Works' nationally syndicated radio theater series.