Behind the Monsters 2021

A docu-series exploring how Chucky, Michael Myers, Pinhead and more came to be icons of the horror genre.

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    Season 1

    2021

    6 episodes

    Season 1 of Behind the Monsters premiered on October 27, 2021.

    No horror icon came out of a filmmaker’s first draft fully formed. There were early drafts, wrong turns, experimentation. Once made flesh (or latex), there’s presentation, impact, audience response and legacy. Each of these steps that nudge a horror creation toward the annals of legend will be explored in Shudder’s BEHIND THE MONSTERS. Each episode examines a horror icon who has broken free of the confines of the film from which it was born and become the stuff of legend.