September on Shudder, AMC+ and Acorn TV – AMC+ highlights for the month of September include Lodge 49 and Thick Skin.
September on Shudder, AMC+ and Acorn TV – Acorn TV highlights for the month of September include Grantchester.
September on Shudder, AMC+ and Acorn TV – Shudder highlights for the month of September include Perpetrator, Elevator Game and The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
AMC+
Lodge 49
AMC Original Series
Streaming Exclusively on AMC+
Series 1 and 2 Binge, Tuesday 7 September
Lodge 49 is a critically acclaimed, light-hearted, endearing, modern fable set in Long Beach, California about a disarmingly optimistic local ex-surfer, Dud (Wyatt Russell), who’s drifting after the death of his father and collapse of the family business.
Dud serendipitously finds himself on the doorstep of a rundown fraternal lodge where middle-aged plumbing salesman and “Luminous Knight” of the order, Ernie (Brent Jennings), welcomes him into a world of cheap beer and easy camaraderie and the promise of Alchemical mysteries that may, or may not, put Dud on the path to recover the idyllic life he’s lost.
Thick Skin
Content Room Original Series
Streaming Exclusively on AMC+
New Documentary Premieres Wednesday 20 September
Four remarkable women in Philadelphia are forced to deal with social prejudice regarding larger bodies every day of their lives.
Each is on a journey to change the way the world views women of a certain weight.
ACORN TV
Grantchester
Series 7 Binge Premiere on Acorn TV and AMC+ on Monday 4 September
It’s the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester.
As the Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspective Geordie Keating (Robson Green) finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth).
With a new decade just around the corner, the question of what the future holds is on everyone’s minds. Former curate Leonard Finch (Al Weaver) embarks on a new venture, while housekeeper Mrs Chapman (Tessa Peake-Jones) receives news which tests her faith and her usual sense of certainty.
Will too faces some difficult decisions about the man he wants to be and what he wants from his life, and when one of his and Geordie’s investigations brings danger to the vicarage door, Will has a realisation that might well change life in Grantchester forever.
SHUDDER
Perpetrator
Shudder Original Film
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 1 September
Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie.
On the event of her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
Written and directed by Jennifer Reeder (Knives and Skin, Night’s End) and starring Kiah McKirnan (Mare of Easttown), Christopher Lowell (My Best Friend’s Exorcism), Melanie Liburd (The Idol), Ireon Roach (Candyman [2021]), and Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, Killing of a Sacred Deer).
Elevator Game
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 15 September
Follows socially awkward teenager Ryan who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ – a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online.
Ignoring warnings, he resolves to follow and find her. Directed by Rebekah McKendry (Glorious) and starring Gino Anania (Skymed), Alec Carlos (Orphan: First Kill), Megan Best (Séance), Nazariy Demkowicz (Dark Harvest), Verity Marks (Toys of Terror), Madison MacIsaac and Samantha Halas.
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Streaming Exclusively on Shudder and AMC+
Film Premieres Friday 22 September
Vicaria (Layla DeLeon Hayes, The Equalizer) is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured.
After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
Inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the dramatic thriller thematically challenges ideas of life and death following a family that, despite the terrors of systemic pressure, will survive and be reborn together again.
Also starring Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther) and Chad L. Coleman (The Walking Dead, The Orville).
NEW ADDITIONS TO SHUDDER’S FILM LIBRARY
September 1
Motherly
Kate (Lora Burke) and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods. When Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
September 4
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman who was apparently harbouring dark secrets.
Razorback
As a vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback, the husband of one of the victims is joined by
a hunter and a farmer in search for the beast.
September 11
Next of Kin (1982)
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother’s diary. Soon, events that are mentioned in the diary begin to happen to the daughter.
Re-Animator
After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments involving the re-animation of dead tissue.
September 13
The Ones You Didn’t Burn
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyse their relation to their ancestor’s land.
September 18
The Crescent
After an unexpected death in the family, a mother and son struggle to find spiritual healing at a beachfront summer home.
September 21
Project Wolf Hunting
Follows dangerous criminals on a cargo ship who are transported from the Philippines to South Korea, as they unleash a sinister force after an escape attempt leads to a riot.
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