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Don't miss Shudder's Horror's Greatest five-part docu-series

The series premiered in August and features experts in horror films as they talk about all areas of the genre.

By Renee Hansen

Horror's Greatest - Courtesy Shudder
Horror's Greatest - Courtesy Shudder /
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AMC Network's Shudder, the premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, has an incredible list of fantastic titles ranging from AMC originals to classic horror. This spooky season, Shudder is bringing a new series, Horror's Greatest, featuring interviews with an enormous list of talent who work in the horror genre.

The series premiered on August 27, 2024, with new episodes released weekly on Tuesdays through September 24. It comes from Marwar Junction Productions, which also produced the streamer's hit series The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time, available on AMC+.

Horror's Greatest takes an extensive look into all the elements horror fans love about the genre. The series features fresh looks at classics and unearths hidden gems. Interviews with horror greats, including actors, directors, writers, composers, and special effect artists, ask the big questions: What are the must-see films in horror’s many sub-genres? What’s the appeal of horror tropes, and how do today’s filmmakers subvert our expectations? What shape does horror take in countries outside of the United States?

Horror's Greatest featured interviews

This is just a sampling of the list of horror greats featured in Horror's Greatest interviews.

  • David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil)
  • Joe Hill (Locke & Key, NOS4A2)
  • Tom Holland (Fright Night, Child’s Play)
  • Jenn Wexler (The Sacrifice Game, The Ranger)
  • Dewayne Perkins (The Blackening)
  • Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Destroy All Neighbors)
  • Gigi Saul Guerrero (Satanic Hispanics, El Gigante)
  • Alex Winter (Destroy All Neighbors)
  • Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island)
  • Tananarive Due (Horror Noire)
  • Swanthula and Dracmorda Boulet (The Boulet Brothers Dragula)

Shudder series Horror's Greatest episodes

  • Tropes & Cliches - August 26 - Creepy houses, murderous rednecks, final girls: horror films often rely on these tried-and-true storytelling devices, and audiences have come to expect them. What are the most common genre tropes and clichés? How do modern filmmakers subvert them?
  • Giant Monsters - September 3 - Nearly a century after King Kong first ran amok, images of giant marauding monsters continue to enthrall us. Godzilla is hotter than ever, and filmmakers like Bong Joon-ho, J.J. Abrams, and Jordan Peele have all added their unique spins to the genre.
  • Japanese Horror - September 10 - Veering between slow dread and shocking violence, the wild world of Japanese horror has something for everyone. From Ugetsu to Ring, Onibaba to Audition, Tetsuo to Battle Royale: the greatest J-Horror films are essential viewing.
  • Horror Comedies - September 17 - Horror comedies make us laugh at things we might recoil from in real life. They come in many flavors: splatstick (Evil Dead II), high camp (M3GAN), subversive "family entertainment" (Gremlins), and stone-cold classics (Shaun of the Dead).
  • Stephen King Adaptations - September 24 - Stephen King's stories have been the basis of over a dozen horror classics - and at least as many failures. What elements need to come together to successfully adapt King on the page to King on the screen?

Don't miss Horror's Greatest now streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

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