Shudder Rings in the Holidays with Two Binge-Worthy Marathons featuring Legendary Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs. You’re Welcome!

Shudder Rings in the Holidays with Two Binge-Worthy Marathons featuring Legendary Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs. You’re Welcome!

(November 06, 2018, New York, N.Y.) Thanksgiving and the December holidays are approaching at a horrifying pace and people are already thinking of ways to cope with the stress of family “quality time”, endless food guilt and the high expectations that come with “the most wonderful time of the year.” Shudder has it covered! After the unprecedented 24-hour event The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs “broke the Internet” in July, Shudder is bringing back the iconic horror host for two holiday specials: Thanksgiving with “The Dinners of Death” and Christmas with “A Very Joe Bob Christmas”. Shudder, AMC’s premium streaming service for thriller, suspense and horror, will also launch a regular series featuring Joe Bob in 2019.

“The response to our first marathon was overwhelming, and we can’t think of a better gift for our members than to bring Joe Bob back for the holidays,” said Shudder GM Craig Engler. “Our collaboration with Joe Bob and his team will make these new marathons unforgettable events, and we have even bigger plans for 2019.”

Joe Bob Briggs adds, “In November we’re turning Black Friday into Red Thursday with the best deadly-dinner movies in history. In December, we have a very special way to fill the void felt by many American households after ABC stopped airing the ‘Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey’ Claymation special.”

This holiday season, set an extra place at the table for Joe Bob: “The Dinners of Death” is scheduled to air on Thursday, November 22, followed by “A Very Joe Bob Christmas” on Friday, December 21. Both marathons will be streamed live and feature films hand-picked by Joe Bob himself, with special guest stars and Joe Bob’s signature brand of Drive-In deep-dives and commentary.

Details for the new, original Joe Bob series will be announced in early 2019. The two marathons and the original series will be produced by Matt Manjourides and Justin Martell and directed by Austin Jennings. 

The Last Drive-In originally streamed live on Shudder on Friday, July 13, and trended nationally on Twitter during its entire 24-run, with tweets from celebrities like Stephen King and Jonah Ray. The demand temporarily took down Shudder servers, leading fans of Joe Bob to proudly proclaim that their hero “broke the Internet.”

Joe Bob Briggs has long showcased the best and worst of shock and schlock cinema as the host of The Movie Channel’s Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theatre and TNT’s MonsterVision. The Last Drive-In is a celebration of exploitation and genre cinema and a return to Joe Bob’s legendary irreverence and wit.