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Shudder Renews “THE BOULET BROTHERS’ DRAGULA” For Season 6

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | News

By LINDY RYAN

The groundbreaking hit reality competition series THE BOULET BROTHERS’ DRAGULA is among horror network Shudder’s most-watched shows of 2023, and today, fans everywhere have cause to rejoice as the premium streaming service announces that the show will go on with Season 6. 

With the ongoing fifth season, the Boulets’ most extravagant production yet, horror’s most thrilling drag icons promise an even more horrifying Season 6. “With Season 5, we took the show in a new direction, and the response from the fans was overwhelmingly positive,” say Dracmorda and Swanthula. “With the sixth season, we plan on leaning into this bold, new direction even further and truly pushing the creative limits of the show to new heights!”

THE BOULET BROTHERS’ DRAGULA has become must-see television for horror, drag and reality fans, showcasing some of the world’s finest artists, specializing in the franchise’s four pillars of Drag, Filth, Horror, and Glamour. The show has cultivated a devoted and growing fanbase, thanks to its state-of-the-art set, army of talented crew members and diverse cast with an impressive roster of guest judges, which in Season 5, included director Mike Flanagan (Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, Doctor Sleep), actor David Dastmalchian (Oppenheimer, Dune, Suicide Squad), author Tananarive Due, writer-director Kevin Smith, musician Jazmin Bean, Scream star Matthew Lillard and more. 

The announcement of Season 6 continues a hugely successful year for the Boulets, with the release of the acclaimed The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans spinoff series, a whirlwind world tour of live performances, released The Boulet Brothers’ Halfway to Halloween TV just a few of the highlights of the duo’s most glamorously horrifying year yet. Casting for Season 6 is underway.  

The remaining four episodes of “THE BOULET BROTHERS’ DRAGULA” Season 5 are currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+, with the finale set for a Tuesday, January 16, 2024 debut.

Lindy Ryan
An award-winning author, editor, professor, and short-film director, Lindy Ryan was recently named one of horror’s six most masterful anthology curators, alongside Ellen Datlow and Christopher Golden, for her work in UNDER HER SKIN, a women-in-horror poetry showcase, and INTO THE FOREST: TALES OF THE BABA YAGA, a forthcoming women-in-horror anthology from Black Spot Books and Blackstone Audio. A 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree and previous board member for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Lindy is a long-time advocate for women-in-horror and an active member of the HWA and ITW. She is the current chair of the Horror Writers Association’s Women in Horror Month. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, Lindy’s work has been adapted for film. Her debut horror-thriller novel, BLESS YOUR HEART, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books.