Shudder snaps up Moloch and Glorious
David Farnor | On 21, May 2022
Shudder has been busy shopping ahead of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, snapping up the rights to two titles from the festival’s line-up.
AMC’s streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural has acquired rights to Dutch director Nico van den Brink’s directorial debut Moloch. The film, an official selection of Fantasia, follows 38-year-old Betriek, who lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
Written by van den Brink and Daan Bakker, Moloch stars Sallie Harmsen (Blade Runner 2049, Catch) and Alexandre Willaume (The Wheel of Time, The Last Kingdom) and is produced by Sabine Brian and Ronald Versteeg.
“Moloch is a bold and thrilling new folk horror that is sure to chill Shudder members this summer,” says Shudder general manager Craig Engler.
The film will be available exclusively on Shudder in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on 21st July.
Shudder has also acquired the rights to Rebekah McKendry’s Glorious starring Ryan Kwanten (True Blood, Kindred) and JK Simmons (Whiplash, Being the Ricardos). The film sees Kwanten play a young man who is spiraling out of control after a bad breakup. His situation worsens after he finds himself locked inside a rest stop bathroom with a mysterious figure (Simmons) speaking to him from an adjacent stall. As he tries to escape, he realizes he is an unwilling player in a situation bigger and more terrible than he could have imagined.
This film is written by Todd Rigney, Joshua Hull and David Ian McKendry. AMP International’s Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh serve as producers along with Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown from Fallback Plan Productions, Jason Scott Goldberg and Christian Armogida.
Engler says: “With Glorious, Rebekah brings Lovecraftian horror to a place it’s never been seen before: a rest stop men’s room. She and her all-star cast have created an inventive and original cosmic horror that manages to be both darkly hilarious and profoundly personal.”
The film will be available exclusively on Shudder in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on 18th August.