Shudder Orders New Installment Of Horror Anthology ‘Slasher’, David Cronenberg Joins Cast
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Scannersand Videodrome directorDavid Cronenberg is to star in a new season of horror anthologySlasher for AMC streaming serviceShudder.
The streamer has ordered a new eight-episode installment of the series, which has run for three seasons on platforms including Chiller and Netflix.
Slasher: Flesh & Blood, produced by Canadian production company Shaftesbury, will air exclusively on Shudder in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand in 2021 with second window runs in the UK and Ireland and Canada, where it will first air on Hollywood Suite. Production is underway now in Ontario, Canada.
Slasher: Flesh & Blood follows a wealthy but dysfunctional family gathering for a reunion on a secluded island. Their old wounds and competitive rivalries flare up when the family realizes a masked killer is on the island, intent on cruelly picking them off one by one.
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Cronenberg, who has acted in other projects includingJason X, will star alongside Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot, who have starred in other seasons of the show as well as newcomers including Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Jeananne Goosen (The Walking Dead), Sydney Meyer (Departure), and Alex Ozerov (The Americans).
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Slasher was created by Aaron Martin, who exec produces alongside Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, David Ozer, Thomas P. Vitale, and Ian Carpenter, who also serves as showrunner. Adam MacDonald is director.
“Slasher is clever, bloody, scary and fun, and adding David Cronenberg to the mix will take this new installment of the series to the next level,” said Craig Engler, Shudder’s general manager. “We couldn’t be more excited to work with Aaron Martin and the team over at Shaftesbury to bring Slasher: Flesh and Blood to Shudder members.”
“We are so thrilled that Slasher will be brought back to life on Shudder,” added Shaftesbury Chairman and CEO Christina Jennings. “We know the fans of the show weren’t ready to say goodbye, so we are eager to bring them the goriest, scariest chapter of this anthology yet.”
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9 Comments
- d
looking forward to season 4. hope they leave out the rape. last season had none. please keep it that way. what is the purpose of it?
- Jake
So it won’t continue on Netflix as well?
- Lisa Yashinski
Will this be on Netflix? Season 2 was definitely the best.
- Michelle Sineath
Just shudder? No Netflix?
- Jerry
Well, I for one am glad. I certainly wasn’t ready to say goodbye and kept wondering why there was no new season this Halloween.
Season 1 was pretty bad. Season 2 was really good, best so far. Season 3 was passable. Let’s see what they cook up for Season 4.
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