New Season of ‘Slasher: Flesh & Blood’ to Premiere on Shudder

Written by John Edward Betancourt

There was a time when television shows fell into two simple categories: hits and misses. Obviously, the hits would get all kinds of attention and enjoy longevity and the misses, well they were quickly cancelled and quickly forgotten… for the most part. Because from time to time, some of the ‘misses’ were actually top notch shows that were marketed incorrectly or stuck in the wrong time slot, allowing for them to slip through the cracks and live in infamy as stories that never got a fair shake. But thankfully, this era of peak television has mostly managed to eliminate that particular problem.

Because now, a cancelled series that didn’t jell on a particular network can find new life on another one, or a streamer, and that’s allowed for some wonderful shows to continue to thrive and please their dedicated fan base and oddly enough, this rise in network swapping has also led to shows reaching out to streamers and networks that specialize in their genre, so they can take their storytelling to new heights. Which is why Shudder is starting to see certain horror shows reach out to them. Because this streaming network knows exactly how to handle the scares just right and that’s allowed for magnificent specials such as The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Resurrection to pop up on the network, since Shudder was eager to give the Boulet Brothers everything, they needed to take their competition to the next level.

In fact, Shudder did such a wonderful job with that special, that another horror series has opted to join forces with them in order to bring about the best possible experience for its fans. For a brand-new season of Slasher: Flesh & Blood is in production now and is slated to premiere on Shudder in 2021 and well, Shudder and the show are going all-out when it comes to this new season of the series since a huge name from the industry is going to star in it. But who exactly is that name? Well, without further ado, here are all the details on this titular new season, courtesy of Shudder.

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. As with the past installments of the series, Slasher: Flesh & Blood will combine elements of traditional murder mystery with the intense horror and bold kills that audiences have come to expect.

Canadian horror legend David Cronenberg has joined the cast for the new season, which will also continue Slasher’s trend of bringing back cast members in new roles. Returning from previous seasons are Paula Brancati, Jefferson Brown, Patrice Goodman, Sabrina Grdevich, and Christopher Jacot. New faces this year include Rachael Crawford (Heartland), Jeananne Goosen (The Walking Dead), Sydney Meyer (Departure), and Alex Ozerov (The Americans).

“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,” said Shaftesbury Chairman & 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.”

“The Slasher series overdelivers on good old-fashioned gore, horror and fun with fast pacing and exceptional casting,” said David Kines, President Hollywood Suite. “We are very excited to throw our support behind the series and resurrect it for another bone-chilling season.”

So, it is definitely safe to say that the casting of David Cronenberg makes this new season an exciting prospect. Simply because he has brought forth some incredible horror films over the years and his involvement in this project will only add gravity and depth to it and truly, this is shaping up to be one exciting ride. Because this will likely be an unrestrained and visceral horror story since it is now on the right network, and it will be interesting to see how far this new season is willing to go to scare the tar out of us, and thankfully... we won't have to wait too long, to find out. 

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