‘Shudderbugs’ Exclusive Trailer Teases A Chilling Lo-fi Mystery
Johanna Putnam is pretty familiar with the filmmaking scene. She’s been appearing in films and TV series since 2006, most notably Feast II and III. Now, she’s making her directorial debut with the upcoming mumblegore psychological drama, Shudderbugs.
In the film:
Sam returns to her childhood home when her mother suddenly passes. In place of familiar spaces and memories, she finds only uneasiness and confusion. Things are missing, the environment seems unnatural and the neighbor is suspiciously obtuse. Isolated with these mysteries, Sam wrestles with her instincts to untangle the truth.
Watch the trailer below:
Putnam also wrote, produced, and starred in the film, taking on as many hats as possible to bring this story to life. Plus, she kept her cast to the bare minimum, with Brennan Brooks and Jamie Unruh also starring in Shudderbugs. They also served as the film’s producers with Putnam.
On the film’s website, Putnam, Brooks, and Unruh explained what they wanted to accomplish with Shudderbugs:
“Shudderbugs is our attempt to capture the psychological experience of a woman unraveling and to portray our minds’ abilities to inform and adapt our realities, beyond logic and reason, often by necessity. In equal measure, we were drawn to telling a story of grief: the weird ways we wrestle and wrangle it, and the very different ways we learn to live with it. In the spaces between childhood and adulthood, memory and present, imagination and reality, live all the versions of who we are and how we may behave in the scariest and most difficult of moments.“
Shudderbugs comes to VOD on March 25, 2025.
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