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Spyglass and Paramount retooled Scream 7 after cast departures, spending roughly $500K on a rewrite, boosting the $45M production to a projected $45–50M domestic debut; Neve Campbell returned on a reported $7M salary while Courteney Cox got about $2M, and an eighth film is reportedly already being planned.

Shudder veteran Sam Zimmerman has been hired as SVP, Development & Acquisitions at the merged Blumhouse-Atomic Monster to shepherd a focused slate of emerging filmmakers and oversee films in the roughly $2–8M range (including titles under $5M), acting as a liaison across the combined company from development through production.

Jason Blum says Blumhouse (now merged with James Wan’s Atomic Monster) will double down on name IP while preserving a pipeline for ultra-low-budget filmmaking — including plans to continue sub‑$1M titles alongside bigger IP-driven releases.

Peacock will begin exclusively streaming Blumhouse/Universal's Five Nights at Freddy's 2 on April 3, with the film produced by Jason Blum, written by Scott Cawthon, directed by Emma Tammi and starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio and Matthew Lillard; Peacock will also host extras and other Blumhouse titles.

Leone posted an official update saying Terrifier 4’s script is almost complete, with pre-production targeted this spring; he calls it his most precious and challenging script and promises to announce progress only on his official channels. No new casting or financing details disclosed, but outlets stress the series’ indie profitability.

Season 3 of HBO’s sci‑fi horror series The Last of Us begins production in Metro Vancouver in early March and will shoot through November 27, 2026; co‑creator Neil Druckmann has departed, leaving Craig Mazin as sole showrunner, with Kaytlin Dever and Bella Ramsey returning and Clea DuVall and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. joining — season 3 is expected to be the series’ final chapter.

Send Help (directed by Sam Raimi) has collected approximately $87.4M worldwide against a reported $40M budget and is holding in top-10 North American theaters, moving toward profitability while competing against Scream 7 and other recent releases.

Atomic Monster and Blumhouse's M3GAN spinoff Soulm8te — written by Scott Cawthon (story credit) and Rafael Jordan with Kate Dolan directing — has earned an R rating from the MPA for strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity and language, marking a tonal shift from the PG‑13 M3GAN films and potentially improving its prospects for finding a distributor after being pulled from Universal's release calendar.

Screen Daily’s production list shows multiple UK/Ireland shoots for 2026, notably Robert Eggers’ gothic horror Werwulf (Focus/Universal) filming at Sky Studios Elstree and Devon with Lily‑Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor‑Johnson and Willem Dafoe, and Ti West’s Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol in London starring Johnny Depp.

Jt Mollner’s creature feature Skeletons — starring Brie Larson and produced by J.J. Abrams — is pre-selling to Sony in a reported $25M+ worldwide pact at EFM, signaling major studio theatrical backing for the horror-leaning project.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s revisionist Frankenstein, The Bride!, is an $80 million Warner Bros. production starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale; Gyllenhaal says studio notes and test screenings shaped the final cut as the film aims to balance singular vision with broader audience reach.

Netflix has re-emerged André Øvredal’s Dracula-set horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter into multiple European Top 10 charts, boosting streaming visibility for the 2023 shipbound vampire film that grossed just over $21M theatrically and holds a solid Rotten Tomatoes score.

NEON has set a domestic theatrical release date for Leviticus — an Australian supernatural/queer horror that premiered at Sundance — for June 19, 2026, positioning the festival breakout for a wide midnight-circuit roll-out.

Focus Features and Blumhouse set the theatrical release for Obsession on May 15; new stills spotlight Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette in the film’s central bed-teaser imagery ahead of release.

All 10 films in the Saw/Jigsaw universe arrive on Netflix March 19, 2026; the franchise has grossed about $1.1 billion worldwide and the original 2004 film was made on roughly a $1.2M budget, with an 11th film currently in development.

Shudder (under AMC Networks) is rolling out a major web/app redesign called the “Shudderverse” in March 2026 that temporarily suspended key account-management functions; core streaming stayed live while the platform migrates account features, pausing billing cycles during the blackout and promising improved discovery and UX tailored to horror fans.

Collider notes Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower (adapted from Stephen King) is now free on Tubi, making the 2017 fantasy/sci‑fi/horror film more accessible; the article cites a $113M worldwide box office against an estimated $66M budget and frames the movie as aging better for streaming audiences.

Indonesia-born director Joko Anwar’s supernatural horror-comedy Ghost in the Cell sold to Well Go USA following its Berlin Forum premiere; the Indonesia–South Korea co-production (set in a prison and thematically linked to deforestation) is slated for Indonesian theatrical release in Q2 2026 with Well Go handling U.S./international rights.

A24's Undertone — Ian Tuason's feature debut starring Nina Kiri — holds an 88% Rotten Tomatoes score ahead of its March 13 theatrical release after screenings at Fantasia and Sundance, positioning it as another strong A24 horror candidate among the studio's recent genre slate.

Blumhouse Games will publish Grave Seasons, a multi-platform 'narrative farming sim with a terrifying twist' set in Ashenridge, launching summer 2026 across Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC; the title hit 400,000 wishlists and blends cozy mechanics with supernatural serial-killer investigation.

HBO/DC released official images for Lanterns highlighting Kyle Chandler's Hal Jordan, Aaron Pierre's John Stewart and Kelly Macdonald’s sheriff — creatives (Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, Tom King) and director James Hawes emphasize a grounded, noir buddy‑cop tone for the series.

Warner Bros. has begun production on Tim Miller’s sea-set time-loop sci‑fi thriller starring Keanu Reeves as a smuggler and Callie Cooke as the female scientist lead; the film (formerly titled Shiver) is shooting in the Dominican Republic with large water tanks and is set for an Aug. 13, 2027 release.

Star Sydney Chandler says production on Alien: Earth Season 2 is expected to start in May as the show moves filming from Thailand to Pinewood Studios in London; Chandler hasn’t seen scripts yet and EP/director Dana Gonzales recently teased world-building in the Alien universe.

James Wan and Leigh Whannell participated in a 22nd‑anniversary Park City Legacy screening/Q&A of Saw at Sundance, where the pair reflected on the film’s low‑budget origins and Whannell announced a return to the franchise alongside Wan.

Neon released a new image of Adam Scott in Hokum, Damian McCarthy’s Irish horror (produced by Roy Lee and Steven Schneider) which will premiere at SXSW before a later theatrical rollout; the film follows novelist Ohm Bauman confronting a witch-haunted honeymoon suite after a disappearance.

A feature adaptation of BBC’s Ghosts—Ghosts: The Possession of Button House—was greenlit for production with BBC Film, Lionsgate UK and BBC Studios attached; series creators/star-writers returned to pen the screenplay and Simon Hynd will direct, with filming set at West Horsley Place in Surrey.

Ryan Murphy's FX series The Beauty — an 11-episode dark-comedy laced with body horror about a sexually transmissible beauty drug — streams on Hulu and stars Ashton Kutcher, Evan Peters (also EP), Rebecca Hall, Bella Hadid and Jeremy Pope among a high-profile ensemble.

The PGAs honored Jason Blum and Amy Pascal in a contrast that IndieWire frames as emblematic of the shrinking middle ground in Hollywood; the piece spotlights Jason Blum as a representative producer for the future—significant for the horror-industrial ecosystem given Blumhouse’s influence.

Cinema Epoch’s supernatural-tinged psychological thriller Kat Crime: Tales of the Occult — written and directed by Jerry Artukovich and starring Christina Colgan and Kyla Nova — premieres on Tubi on March 8 with Tubi expansion to additional digital platforms planned.

Blumhouse Television hired Abbey Morris as SVP Development & Programming to oversee scripted development under Melissa Aouate and report to Chris Dickie; Morris joins from Irish Cowboy where she executive produced on The Umbrella Academy and worked on Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation development.

Julia Ducournau’s Alpha is a body/illness allegory centered on a 13-year-old in an alternate 1990s Paris whose community faces a virus that turns victims to stone, with notable performances from Tahar Rahim and Mélissa Boros and strong physical/visual design.

Gravitas Ventures (Red Arrow/ProSiebenSat.1 subsidiary) launched an indie-focused streaming service (Gravitas Movies) with a low-cost subscription and a ~1,000-title catalogue — a distribution play for indie films that can affect where low-budget genre titles land.

Flanagan says Netflix nearly forced substantial reshoots on Midnight Mass to ‘add more vampires’ after a regime change, but destroyed sets and creative resistance prevented it — a souring moment that contributed to Flanagan’s later move to Amazon/Prime.

Sam Raimi’s three-part horror series has quietly reappeared on streaming, delivering renewed viewership and easier access for audiences eight years after its cancellation—signalling continued marketplace appetite for Raimi-brand horror IP.

Warner Bros/New Line released a new clip for horror‑action‑comedy They Will Kill You (in theaters March 27), showcasing stylized violence and confirming the film’s demonic‑cult premise and its cast including Zazie Beetz, Tom Felton and Patricia Arquette; produced by Andy and Barbara Muschietti.

David Robert Mitchell’s Flowervale Street has been retitled The End of Oak Street, set for August 14, 2026 release; the Ewan McGregor–Anne Hathaway film is an ‘80s-set sci-fi/thriller featuring dinosaurs and carries an approximate $85M budget.

Trade and fan outlets confirm Paul Giamatti’s casting in Boutique for XYZ Films, highlighting the project as a genre turn for the actor with production planning this summer and XYZ handling financing and world sales.

A Screen Rant feature argues Midnight Mass—Flanagan’s seven‑part Netflix series—now reads like a rare, patient horror classic and that the creative/corporate conditions enabling the show’s long monologues and meditative pacing may not exist today.

Prime Video's Fallout passed 1 billion viewing minutes in the week of Feb. 2 (1.01B) after its Season 2 finale drop, marking back-to-back weeks above 1B and positioning the post-apocalyptic series among the top-streamed shows that week.

Weekly Blu‑ray/4K roundup: Severin, Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Synapse and others announced genre and cult releases (Voices From Beyond 4K, Nightbreed, Frankenhooker); A24’s If I Had Legs I'd Kick You is getting a Blu‑ray; reviewer also covers the new Silent Night, Deadly Night 4K disc.

Stephen Cognetti returns to the Hell House LLC franchise with a Shudder-original fourth entry that shifts setting to the Carmichael Manor and expands franchise backstory, but the review finds it rehashes franchise beats, undercuts the original’s mystery, and struggles to sustain scares or character stakes.

Accepting the PGA Milestone Award, Jason Blum praised producers’ role against algorithmic decision‑making, thanked allies (Barry Diller, Donna Langley, James Wan) and reaffirmed Blumhouse’s creative approach after merging with Atomic Monster.

A24 announced a heavy 2026 slate — 21 films slated for theatrical release this year with nine dated and 12 more undated, including genre titles like Backrooms and The Invite — signaling continued high output from the indie studio.

Josie Andrews is directing her narrative feature debut Bach Sh*t Crazy, a comedic slasher now filming in Lake Tahoe starring Gillian Bolt, Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Thomas Lennon and others; the project is fiscally sponsored by the Alliance of Women Directors and produced by Bolt Productions and Dumm Blonde.

Final Oscar voting has closed and anonymous ballots show a tight race between Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another — voters are split between a 'purity' choice and an expected consensus winner, keeping Coogler’s horror-leaning directorial chances very much alive.

UCLA professor Tananarive Due frames Ryan Coogler’s Sinners as Black horror and Afrofuturism: a 1930s-set, vampire-centered siege story that fuses blues culture, racial history and immersive horror, elevating Coogler’s film as a culturally resonant genre piece.

Rotten Tomatoes/aggregated outlets note Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone is currently available to stream for free, increasing accessibility to a key early‑2000s Gothic horror title and potentially driving renewed interest in del Toro’s catalog.

Sam Raimi’s return to R-rated horror opened to a strong Rotten Tomatoes score, reinforcing critical enthusiasm that’s likely helping the title’s box-office longevity and cultural visibility.

Bloody Disgusting critique argues the rebooted Strangers trilogy mishandles Bryan Bertino’s original premise, reflecting franchise fatigue and creative missteps in horror remakes/reboots.

Daedalic Entertainment and developer DALOAR set an April 8 release for The Occultist, offering Standard and Deluxe editions (which include a 200-page digital art book and a Pepe Herrero soundtrack) — the title is a narrative-driven psychological horror game previously delayed from 2025.

Stephen Graham Jones revealed the cover for his new horror novel Off the Reservation (Saga Press) due this fall; the book continues the world of The Only Good Indians and follows survivor Nate Yellow Tail into a new supernatural threat.

Screen Daily released its updated 2026 global festival and market calendar, listing genre events including FrightFest Glasgow (March 5–7) alongside a broad slate of documentary and genre festivals.

Author Grady Hendrix discusses his horror influences and upcoming reading at Piccolo Fiction in Charleston, framing his work as human-centered stories that often get labeled horror.

Canal+ Distribution sold two CJ ENM thrillers — Happiness and Strangers From Hell — to Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT's free VOD Epika (Happiness available now; Strangers From Hell rolled out April 1), reinforcing demand for Korean genre content in Baltic markets.

Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games confirmed Hellraiser: Revival received an ESRB rating with no mandated cuts, apparently securing a Mature rating that preserves the game's content for release.

Natalia Dyer signed with CAA after Stranger Things concluded; she’s attached to Amazon MGM romantic comedy Goodbye Girl and has recent genre credits including Things Heard & Seen and Velvet Buzzsaw.

Charlize Theron has tapped Scott Derrickson to direct Zwart Water with Theron attached as the star/producer, marking a notable director-actor pairing with a filmmaker known for genre work.

Bloody Disgusting's review praises DOLLY as a gritty folk-horror that revels in bad taste — trade endorsement may fuel festival and specialty-audience interest for the title (Drafthouse Films association noted in source).

Leigh Whannell reflected on directing Insidious 3 (his directorial debut on the franchise), citing influences (The Exorcist, Seven) and signaling he wants to pursue original directing projects beyond sequels.

Bloody Disgusting compiled a month‑ahead streamer roundup listing horror titles arriving on Hulu, Netflix, Tubi and other platforms across March 2026 — a programming signal for where catalog and indie genre titles are being distributed this window.

Creators Gabriel Bernini and Alexandra Jade published a video listing 20 retro horror films that inspired their throwback slasher Blood Barn, framing the project as a deliberate homage to classic genre beats.

Cold Storage — a gooey horror-comedy starring Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell — expands from a quiet theatrical run to digital platforms (available for preorder) with a Digital release on March 6.

Lionsgate’s thriller The Housemaid is continuing to lead the U.K. weekly home-entertainment sales chart through the week ending March 4, sustaining post-theatrical consumer demand for the title.

BFI Player’s March lineup includes four David Cronenberg titles (Cosmopolis, Maps to the Stars, Spider, Shivers) and other curated international films available to subscribers throughout March.

Dazed and MUBI are previewing Cannes Jury Prize winner Sound of Falling with a special Cinema Club screening on March 3 ahead of its March 6 UK theatrical release; the film is a multi-era rural drama that leans on sound design and slow-burn dread.

Rue Morgue publishes a second‑look piece titled 'Analog Abattoir' revisiting The First Omen, offering renewed critical analysis of the film's themes and craft.

Apple TV+'s adaptation Dark Matter (based on Blake Crouch) has surged into Apple TV’s Top 10 in multiple territories ahead of Season 2; Season 2 is greenlit, in production, Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly are returning, and Blake Crouch remains involved as creator.

A retrospective argues that the Scream TV series experimented successfully with small-screen Ghostface terror and offers a reassessment of the show's place within the franchise’s transmedia history.

Clair Titley—director of The Contestant—frames Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese as a coming-of-age true-crime series; the program premieres on Hulu and Disney+ on March 6.

Protector, directed by Adrian Grunberg and starring Milla Jovovich with Isabel Myers, is a 'Taken'-style kidnap thriller about a former war hero mother fighting to rescue her daughter; the film opens in theaters this Friday.

Collider compiles underseen anthology TV series across horror, fantasy and sci‑fi — highlights include Rod Serling's Night Gallery (leaning into horror/dark fantasy) and Showtime's Western‑horror hybrid Dead Man's Gun with guest turns by Laurie Holden and Kris Kristofferson.

Fangoria posted an exclusive clip spotlighting Goya winner Carmen Maura in the Spanish horror film Crazy Old Lady (Vieja loca), positioning Maura as a stand‑out lead in the uncomfortable, festival‑acclaimed thriller.

Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson was removed as CEO after Embracer’s 2022 acquisition; Embracer has installed gaming executive Jay Komas as interim CEO, creating uncertainty about Dark Horse’s future publishing priorities and its level of commitment to film/TV adaptations of its IP.

Running With Scissors and developer Hyperstrange announced the 'These Sunny Daze' DLC for POSTAL: Brain Damaged will launch on PS4/PS5 and Switch on March 16, following its earlier PC release.

Mike Flanagan has taken over The Exorcist sequel trilogy (Universal/Peacock distribution; Blumhouse–Atomic Monster–Morgan Creek producing) and is filming in NYC for a March 12, 2027 release, with a large ensemble including Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane, Chiwetel Ejiofor and many of Flanagan’s frequent collaborators; the piece cites the earlier $400M distribution rights figure and Believer’s $137M box office.

Paramount and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster are co-financing a new Paranormal Activity directed by Ian Tuason, produced by James Wan, Jason Blum and original creator Oren Peli, with a scheduled theatrical release of May 21, 2027; EPs include Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Steven Schneider.

Tubi expanded its partnership with The Black List to launch a horror-focused screenplay initiative (Mar 1–Jun 30 submissions) that intends for Tubi to acquire, produce and distribute one selected horror screenplay—Black List will EP and Tubi will offer fee waivers to 100 writers.

Ari Aster and producer Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg signed a two‑year first‑look TV deal with Media Res to develop and produce series projects — marking Square Peg’s formal expansion into television.

Producer Roy Lee characterizes Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot as an $80M, action‑heavy roller‑coaster — confirming studio commitment to a high‑budget, theatrical horror tentpole.

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have tapped David Leslie Johnson‑McGoldrick and Alexandre Aja to write a big‑screen adaptation of the horror game Dead by Daylight, with Blumhouse leading production; reports also indicate an animated Dead by Daylight series is in development, signaling franchise expansion across live‑action and animation.

Mike Flanagan's eight-episode Prime Video Carrie miniseries has finished a six-month Vancouver shoot; the adaptation expands beyond the prom sequence to explore parents, faculty and modern social-media bullying — cast includes Summer H. Howell (Carrie), Samantha Sloyan, Matthew Lillard, Amber Midthunder; Prime aims for an October 2026 premiere.

Dread Central’s explainer ties A24’s Backrooms feature (directed by Kane Parsons, written by Will Soodik) to the viral internet myth and traces the property from a 4chan image and Parsons’ YouTube short to A24’s theatrical release scheduled for May 29, 2026.

Crave has cast Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams in YAGA, a Kat Sandler-created half-hour drama reimagining Baba Yaga as a dark, contemporary mystery-thriller; production is underway with co-directors David Frazee and Rachel Talalay and Blink49/Bell Media backing.

Hidden Pictures’ adaptation of Freida McFadden’s thriller The Housemaid became a global smash—$385.9M worldwide on a $35–60M budget—and a sequel has been greenlit and is going into production; Todd Lieberman credits in-house development, Rebecca Sonnenshine’s screenplay and late-stage director attachment (Paul Feig) for the outcome.

Smile 2, written/directed by Parker Finn and starring Naomi Scott (with Lukas Gage, Rosemarie DeWitt and Kyle Gallner returning as the only original cast link), expands the franchise and will stream on Paramount+ from March 16, 2026 after a theatrical run; the franchise previously grossed about $217M worldwide on a ~ $17M budget.

Mike Flanagan says his Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist will not be a retread of Frank Darabont’s 2007 film and that he’s “going in a different direction” from page one; Flanagan is writing and directing the project and is pushing back on fan concerns via social posts.

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are developing a feature adaptation of Hannah Rose May’s IDW comic The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, with Jason Blum producing, Ryan Turek exec producing, May attached as a producer/creator and IDW CEO Davidi Jonas producing; the project is in active development as the companies seek a director to scale the political-possession story for theatrical release.

Searchlight Pictures has acquired rights and tapped Jonathan Levine to direct an adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s horror‑comedy novel Horrorstör, with Levine writing the latest draft and producers including Brian Oliver, Gillian Bohrer, Adam Goldworm and Brad Fischer; Hendrix will exec produce.

Coverage frames Cronin’s The Mummy as a ‘home invasion/possession’ horror that may be expanding into a larger missing-children pattern in its plot; confirmed cast and production partners are New Line, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse with an April 17 theatrical launch.

United Agents signed Karla Marie Sweet for representation in theatre, film and TV writing; Sweet’s novel False Idols is a psychological thriller about a cult-like wellness movement and she’s developing a feature with director Jake Nava.

Neil Cross has been tapped to write a new adaptation of The Day of the Triffids for screen — a high-profile writer attachment to a classic sci‑fi/horror IP with Ghost House Pictures circulating as a producing entity.

Ghost House Pictures and Mandate are developing another U.S. remake of Ju‑On/The Grudge, reactivating the long‑running J‑horror IP with U.S. remake intent under those producers.

MUBI will stream Park Chan-wook’s dark comedy-thriller No Other Choice starting March 13 after festival acclaim; the film (an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s The Ax) stars Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin and has collected major awards and award nominations, boosting MUBI’s slate of high-profile international genre-adjacent titles.

Netflix fast‑tracked Next Door, a suburban dark‑comedy thriller from Sam Boyd with Tessa Thompson attached to star and co‑EP through her Viva Maude banner; A24 is listed as a producing partner and the writers’ room is being staffed.

Multiple outlets report Netflix and Take-Two want the BioShock film release to line up with upcoming game releases; Roy Lee reiterates production could start next year but remains contingent on director Francis Lawrence’s schedule and Netflix timing.

Prime Video’s Scarpetta, adapted from Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling novels, stars Nicole Kidman and Rosy McEwen sharing the title role, features heavy autopsy training for authenticity and introduces an AI-avatar storyline about speaking with the dead, which the cast and showrunner frame as ethically fraught.

Dark creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar are reuniting with Lisa Vicari on a 10-episode HBO Max series adapting Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter into a modern, adult-focused 'cruel' reality thriller.

Bruce Miller’s TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments — set four years after The Handmaid’s Tale finale — is a 10‑episode Hulu series shifting focus to a coming‑of‑age story inside Aunt Lydia’s academy, with Ann Dowd reprising Lydia and new lead Chase Infiniti as Agnes; the series premieres April 8.

Morven Christie will make her feature directorial debut adapting Susan Fletcher’s novel Witch Light for UK producer Unified (Lauren Dark, Amy Jackson) with backing from Screen Scotland; the historical drama set in 1692 Glencoe centers on a woman imprisoned as a witch and is being positioned alongside Unified’s upcoming slate.

Banijay Entertainment and All3Media will merge into a combined Banijay entity to create the world’s largest production group outside the US, with projected pro forma 2024 revenues of €4.4bn (and consolidated group revenues north of €7.4bn), Marco Bassetti as CEO, RedBird IMI rolling over its All3 stake and expected €50m of cost synergies within 12 months.

A24 released the Backrooms teaser: Chiwetel Ejiofor narrates a liminal‑space nightmare adapted from Kane Parsons’ popular YouTube series, with screenwriters Robert Patino and Will Soodik credited and producers including Shawn Levy and James Wan attached; the film opens May 29.

Shudder released the trailer for Bodycam, a found‑footage supernatural thriller described as 'Cops meets Paranormal Activity' that blends police procedural themes with cosmic horror; the Shudder Original stars Jaime Callica, Sean Rogerson and Keegan Connor Tracy and streams March 13.

Shudder released the official trailer and announced a March streaming release for 1000 Women in Horror, a feature documentary adapted from Alexandra Heller‑Nicholas’ book that spotlights women pioneers in the genre and includes interviews with numerous contemporary creators.

Dead Eyes, a first-person horror shot with a custom head‑mounted Sony Rialto rig to create an immersive POV experience, will world premiere in SXSW’s Visions section on March 12.

NEON has released the trailer for Exit 8, a liminal/J-horror adaptation set in a Japanese metro station that played the festival circuit and is billed as a creeping, surreal nightmare — the trailer emphasizes atmosphere and a live-action videogame-esque premise.

First trailer for Fantastic Fest breakout BONE LAKE (dir. Mercedes Bryce Morgan) positions the film as a darkly funny, erotic vacation-turned-bloodbath and marks it as a festival horror breakout likely to attract specialty buyers and genre press.

IFC/Shudder released a red-band trailer for Faces of Death that reframes the title as a meta, cursed-cult-classic riff—trailer rollout signals genre positioning and an adult-skewing marketing play for the title.

Trailer released for Didn’t Die, a character-driven horror-comedy directed by Meera Menon that premiered at Sundance 2025 and follows a podcaster navigating audience collapse during a zombie apocalypse.

Utopia will release Mermaid, a quirky horror-comedy about a Floridian who bonds with a rescued mermaid creature, in select theaters April 8, 2026; new trailer emphasizes fish-out-of-water comedic horror tone.

Capture, an indie cursed‑object horror about a haunted camcorder that kills anyone it records, will be released digitally on March 17 via Uncork'd Entertainment.

New trailer for creature feature THE YETI spotlights Jim Cummings being hunted by the title monster; Fangoria coverage signals genre trade interest and Well Go USA is handling distribution/visibility.