Shudder Sets Halloween Premiere For The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula Season Five

The search for the next drag supermonster will kick off next month, as Shudder has announced the premiere date of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season five. The streaming service announced on Tuesday that the fifth season of the popular alternative drag reality competition series will premiere on Halloween on Shudder and AMC+, with new episodes airing on Tuesdays.

Thge series, which is created and hosted by the titular Boulet Brothers Swanthula and Dracmorda, moved to Shudder with the spinoff special The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Resurrection in 2020 following three seasons that aired on YouTube (season one) and Amazon Prime (seasons two and three). Since then the show has been a regular on Shudder and has broken records for the series. Season four ran from October to December of 2021, while the “all-stars” style spinoff The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans aired in 2022. Previous winners include Vander Von Odd, Biqtch Puddin, Landon Cider, Dahli, Saint (Resurrection), and Titans winner Victoria Black.

The announcement noted that among the guest judges will be director Mike Flanagan (Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass), David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer, Dune, Suicide Squad), author Tananarive Due, writer/director Kevin Smith, musician Jazmin Bean, and Matthew Lillard. Landon Cider will be the show’s first recurring judge, and appearances from past season winners and stars including Victoria Elizabeth Black, Dahli, and Koco Caine. The synopsis also promises “a brand-new state-of-the-art set, an army of new talented crew members, the most diverse cast in the show’s history,” with the Boulets taking over as the series’ directors.

“We have created four seasons of the main show at this point, and just wrapped our first all-stars season with The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans” spin-off, and we consider all of that part of “Chapter 1” of the Dragula story. With season 5, we are beginning a new and innovative new chapter of the show, and we’ve retooled and updated the format in an incredibly exciting way,” said Dracmorda.

“Nobody is going to sail the ship with more passion than us, so we’ve taken over as the show’s directors for season 5, and we’ve brought in some incredibly talented new team members who are really elevating what you will see on-screen,” added Swanthula. “We’re going back to basics with the format, and focusing on the competition element of the show, the incredible artists that we’ve cast and the out-of-this-world looks they create each week, and of course, drag artists doing insanely terrifying and shocking physical challenges on tv. This is the best-looking season of the show yet, and I can’t wait for fans to see these new competitors. They are truly the most impressive drag artists I have ever seen on-screen.”