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JoBlo is running an exclusive extended scene from Send Help — Sam Raimi’s island-set survival horror thriller starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien — noting the film is R-rated, filmed Feb 2025 for a Jan 30, 2026 theatrical release and has already grossed nearly $94 million worldwide ahead of its digital release.

Weekend specialty box office: Dhurandhar: The Revenge posted one of the biggest North American openings for a Bollywood film, specialty debuts included Dead Lover — a horror-comedy with odorous 'Stink-O-Vision' — which opened at NYC's IFC Center to $13.5K and is expanding to LA and a nationwide rollout on April 3.

Johannes Roberts’ creature horror Primate — starring Johnny Sequoyah and Troy Kotsur — streams on Paramount+ March 25 after a Jan 9 theatrical run; Paramount cites a 78% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and positions it as a critics’ hit for creature/ survival horror fans.

Radial Entertainment (Shout! Studios/Radial) has acquired North American distribution rights for sci‑fi film Signal One, giving Radial theatrical and home-entertainment/ancillary rights; the Jonathan Sobol-directed title stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Josh Hutcherson, David Thewlis and Dennis Quaid.

Series Mania’s hot list highlights 10 standout international TV projects — including Australia’s noir-tinged thriller Dustfall (starring Anna Torv) and the supernatural-tinged Small Prophets from Mackenzie Crook — positioning several festival-bound genre titles for global sales and streamer bids.

Paget Brewster praises director Addison Heimann’s indie psychosexual sci‑fi horror comedy Touch Me after reuniting with him; film channels Japanese exploitation influences, plays select theaters March 27 and will roll out digitally soon via Yellow Veil Pictures.

Dane DeHaan discusses producing and preparing for his techno-thriller Wardriver — he stars as a 'wardriver' who maps unsecured Wi‑Fi and is coerced into a million-dollar cyber‑heist opposite Mamoudou Athie; theatrical release set for March 20, 2026 (VOD March 27).

Carrie Anne Fleming, a Canadian actress with recurring roles on genre series including Supernatural and iZombie and a memorable turn in Masters of Horror’s “Jenifer,” died at 51 from complications of breast cancer.

HorrorBuzz reports Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny (starring Mads Mikkelsen and Sigourney Weaver) will get a 4K Ultra HD + Digital release on April 28 with Dolby Vision/Atmos and bonus features, positioning the dark-fantasy thriller for a premium home‑video push.

Secret Cinema is building a permanent immersive venue on London’s Greenwich Peninsula set to open in late 2026 (planning-permission-dependent), designed for large-scale, sustained programming; the company — acquired by TodayTix Group in 2022 — cites past events that delivered multi-million-pound grosses for premium runs.

Front Street Pictures is prepping a new Pumpkinhead sequel for Tubi, reviving the horror IP for the streamer with development now underway (production stage and budget not disclosed).

Diablo Cody is actively writing a Jennifer's Body sequel and said both Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried are interested in returning, signaling a potential studio-backed revival of the cult horror-comedy IP.

Rob Savage’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman arrives on Hulu April 5; the film (screenplay by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods and Mark Heyman) starred Sophie Thatcher and Vivien Lyra Blair and finished its theatrical run with about $67.3M worldwide.

South Korea’s No Other Choice (an R‑rated 2025 adaptation of Donald Westlake’s The Ax) streams on Hulu April 24 after a $39.9M global box office on a reported ~$12M budget — the release is now positioned as a profitable international thriller acquiring U.S. SVOD placement.

Quebec producers are pitching seven series at Series Mania aimed at international buyers, including a 6×60 TV adaptation of Bon Cop, Bad Cop, crime-thrillers like Take Care and Getting Under Your Skin, and Prescott (10×42) which is already greenlit for a second season — signaling strong francophone export ambitions and cross-border casting (e.g., Joshua Odjick from It: Welcome To Derry).

JoBlo’s SXSW festival roundup names Monitor (a slasher about streaming moderators produced by the team behind Smile) and Neon’s Hokum among highlights and flags Monitor as an unacquired franchise‑ready horror title.

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole is being redeveloped as a TV series to give the character a truer adaptation after the flawed The Snowman film, with rights and series plans moving forward to correct past missteps.

Trailer for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy dropped, positioning the director of Evil Dead Rise to deliver a darker reimagining of the franchise ahead of its April 17, 2026 release and ramping marketing activity.

Tubi releases a trailer for Rockabye, a Tubi Original psychological thriller starring Annie Ilonzeh about a grieving woman suspecting her father of dangerous secrets; the film streams March 27 exclusively on Tubi.