David Dastmalchian’s 9-film Shudder watchlist runs from killer rats to Irish vampires, with Bob Clark’s 1974 slasher Black Christmas among his favorites. He calls it “one of the best serial killer slasher films ever made.”
Shudder shared his guest selections on October 29, 2026. Here’s the full lineup.
Bloody Tennis brings horror to the tennis court.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe follows a father-and-son coroner team as they examine an unidentified corpse. Dastmalchian calls the film “a sublime, marvelous piece of cinema.”
Ben, the 1972 sequel to Willard, follows Danny Garrison’s friendship with the leader of a violent rat colony. “Animal horror is such a joy,” Dastmalchian says.
Black Christmas, Bob Clark’s 1974 slasher, earns that glowing endorsement from Dastmalchian.
The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors is a holiday anthology with shorts from the Boulet Brothers, Akela Cooper, Kate Siegel and Dastmalchian himself. His contribution, “Yeti or Not,” was his directorial debut, and he also performed in the yeti suit.
Boys from County Hell is an Irish vampire comedy in which workers disturb Abhartach’s cairn. Dastmalchian says, “I laughed very hard and I also got some really good scares out of this film.”
Daddy’s Head centers on a creature that imitates a boy’s dead father. Dastmalchian says he likes “being weirded out and freaked out by movies.”
MadS is an outbreak nightmare he describes as “so scary and creepy.”
Infested follows a lethal spider that Kaleb brings home, where it reproduces and spreads an infestation through his neighborhood.
