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Sam Raimi’s R-rated horror-thriller Send Help (20th Century Studios) is topping VOD charts on Apple TV ahead of a future Hulu streaming window after a successful theatrical run that grossed $93M worldwide and strong critical/audience scores.

Mexican horror Torment (Tormento) secured a sale at the European Film Market (EFM), indicating international commercial interest and festival-market traction for the title.

New deep-dive video reveals multiplayer gameplay for Halloween: The Game (IllFonic & Gun Interactive), an official online asymmetric multiplayer title based on John Carpenter’s Halloween, launching September 8, 2026 — signaling a major seasonal tie-in for the franchise and expanded IP monetization through games.

Scream 7 has passed the franchise’s original 1996 total and now sits at $177,000,000 worldwide in its third weekend, becoming the highest-grossing Scream and the second-biggest slasher ever (behind 2018’s Halloween); forecasts suggest it could reach $200M and the franchise is likely to expand (an update on a potential Scream 8 is expected soon).

Tahar Rahim discusses his dual projects: Neon’s Cannes title Alpha (Julia Ducournau) where he plays a dying addict in a body-horror/sci‑fi-tinged story, and Sky’s Prisoner (created by Matt Charman, directed by Otto Bathurst) — launching end of April — for which Rahim took a co-executive producer credit and bulked up for an action-driven thriller role.

Malcolm D. Lee’s psychological thriller Strung (Peacock/Blumhouse), starring Chloe Bailey with Lynn Whitfield, Anna Diop and Coco Jones, will open the American Black Film Festival and begin streaming on Peacock June 26; the film is written by Alan McElroy and produced with Jason Blum and Tyler Perry among producers.

Jane Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma — starring Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder with a supporting cast that includes Jasmin Savoy Brown and Dylan Baker — opens theatrically via Mubi on August 7 and positions itself as a self-referential ‘slasher within a slasher’ revival of a fictional franchise.

Netflix set April 24 global premiere for its first Korean YA horror series If Wishes Could Kill, a teen occult thriller about a wish-granting app called Girigo that exacts deadly prices, directed by Park Youn-seo and scripted by Park Joong-seop.

Elevation Pictures and Postmedia Studios have launched a new film partnership, signaling a production/distribution collaboration in the Canadian market (reporting in Playback; no financial terms disclosed).

Gary Dauberman’s production company Coin Operated is developing He Never Dies, a new horror feature to be directed by David Yarovesky, marking another genre project from Dauberman’s producing slate.

Stephen Graham Jones discusses his novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — an Indigenous vampire epic set around the 1870 Bear Creek/Marias Massacre and the starvation winter of 1884 — which Publishers Weekly named a Top 10 book of 2025 and which Jones will discuss at Seattle Arts & Lectures on March 30.

Daniel Diemer’s In My Blood, a baseball‑set psychological horror that premiered at SXSW, positions the Percy Jackson alum in a sports‑horror hybrid drawing comparisons to 1990s teen psychodramas (the piece cites Natalie Portman’s early work as a touchstone) as the film blends athletic competition with escalating mental‑horror beats.

Johannes Roberts’ creature horror Primate, starring Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur, is now streaming on Paramount+ after a theatrical window, expanding the film’s reach on the platform.

Horror icon Tony Todd posthumously voices a role in Celephaïs, a 34-minute H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that completed an award-winning 2023 festival run and is now available to stream for free online.

A feature on Bodycam (now on Shudder) traces the evolution and cultural legacy of Slender Man, positioning the film within the broader lineage of internet-born and folkloric modern-legend horror.

Riz Ahmed created, wrote and stars in Bait, a six-episode Prime Video miniseries that mixes farce, satire and thriller beats to interrogate representation (including a meta-ask about a non-white James Bond) through a fictional struggling actor, Shah Latif.

Gillian Anderson praised Ryan Coogler’s upcoming X‑Files reboot as “f‑cking cool” at Awesome Con and said the return of David Duchovny and herself as Mulder and Scully would galvanize fan support for the project.

A Netflix reviewer and horror critic says Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen left them deeply spooked, highlighting the show’s sustained dread, supernatural/serial-killer blended themes, and Colin Stetson’s unsettling score; the reviewer received advance episodes and recommends minimal pre-knowledge.

CI Games released a new 'Lifting The Veil' dev video for Lords of the Fallen II focusing on Umbral, a dark alternate dimension and gameplay/worldbuilding for the upcoming action-RPG.

Screenwriter Diablo Cody said the originally envisioned R‑rated cut of Lisa Frankenstein was “superior,” echoing director Zelda Williams’ comments and adding momentum to calls for an unrated or director’s release of the PG‑13 horror‑comedy.

PopHorror’s Sundance roundup flags a handful of genre titles — noting Rock Springs (a ghost story with Kelly Marie Tran) and Night Nurse (a psychosexual thriller) among festival fiction highlights — while characterizing 2026 Sundance as thematically urgent.

Developer Bit Bot Media released a 13-minute behind-the-scenes video for Legacy of Kain: Ascendance ahead of the game's first new entry in decades, featuring dev team commentary and returning franchise creatives as the title nears release.

Locarno Film Festival is mounting a major retrospective titled ‘Red and Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist,’ assembling restored prints, a companion book and a podcast to examine HUAC-era suppression and artistic resistance; the 79th Locarno runs Aug. 5–15.

Supermassive Games and PlayStation showcased PS5 Pro-specific visuals for Directive 8020, highlighting advanced ray tracing, hyper‑real lighting and dynamic shadows that enhance the game's cinematic horror tension.

The New York Times published a critical review of Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, assessing the film’s body-horror approach and thematic treatment following its Cannes screening and upcoming release.

Rue Morgue released promotional assets for two indigenous horror titles — MÃRAMA and THE SHADOWS OF TRUST — highlighting new posters/trailers and positioning both as culturally specific entries in the indie horror slate.

Andy Muschietti remains committed to producing a six-plus hour supercut of both IT films with additional footage, confirming continued director-driven franchise curation though no distribution plan or timeline was announced.

iHorror covers the Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 — previews began with Luke Evans as Frank-N-Furter and a starry cast (Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Guillén); limited run opens March 23 through June 21 and includes content advisories for haze/strobe and sexual content.

Attila Veres’s new short-story collection continues his reputation for unpredictable, imaginative horror fiction, following up 2022's The Black Maybe with another lauded set of tales.

Rue Morgue reviews CTHULHU CYMRAEG: THE NIGHT COUNTRY and finds it delivers a distinctively Welsh take on Lovecraftian cosmic horror through a set of short stories that rework familiar mythos in a regional voice.

Element Pictures’ Storyhouse screenwriting festival returns to Dublin April 16-17 with speakers including Brady Corbet, Harry Lighton, Audrey Diwan and Abi Morgan, plus a Storyhouse Lab mentoring 15 emerging writers supported by Screen Ireland and industry partners.

UK indie Neal Street has created two new TV development roles and hired Ed Cripps (ex-Left Bank) as Development Producer and Will Mortimer as Theatre & TV Executive to expand its scripted television pipeline.

OpenAI abruptly shut down its Sora video-generation app, a move that removes a prominent GAI tool from creators and may slow publisher and indie producers' experimentation with generative video workflows while sharpening questions about platform stability and IP risk for media companies.

Heather Graham revealed she plays the mother of a school bully in Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Amazon MGM reimagining of Stephen King’s Carrie; the series is cast with Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Amber Midthunder and others, and Graham hinted Amazon may be eyeing a second season.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 45‑minute horror Chime — which originated as an NFT — is receiving a U.S. theatrical bow at New York’s IFC Center, a rare theatrical run for an NFT‑born, auteur horror short feature.

In an interview, Lee Cronin says he took the creative team to Ireland’s National Museum to study bog bodies to inform The Mummy’s aesthetic and gave the film an Irish-inflected, grounded horror approach while shooting locations doubled for Texas and Spain.

Universal Pictures has dated its Jamie Lee Curtis–led Murder, She Wrote feature for wide release on December 22, 2027, with Jason Moore directing, a script by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Amy Pascal attached.

Netflix/Legendary’s live-action Gundam movie (directed by Jim Mickle, co-produced with Bandai Namco Filmworks) cast Shioli Kutsuna alongside Sydney Sweeney, Noah Centineo and Michael Mando; production starts in Australia next month and the franchise reportedly generates over $600M annually.

Netflix will premiere the Spanish-language psychological thriller The Truthers globally on July 24; directed by Roger Gual, written by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona, it stars José Coronado and Stéphanie Magnin and was shot in Asturias, Madrid and Berlin.

Maika Monroe will star in Victorian Psycho, a gothic adaptation of Virginia Feito’s novel directed by Zachary Wigon and produced by Traffic/Anton in association with Anonymous Content; Bleeker Street set a Sept 25, 2026 theatrical release and Feito adapted her own novel.

Hong Kong’s Act3 and Manila’s BlackOps Studios Asia formalized a partnership after FilMart interest in Shadow Transit and will co‑produce historical action drama A Thread of Steel (to shoot at Hengdian) with Qymira starring and Pedring Lopez directing; the pair have a broader genre slate in development for theatrical and streaming buyers.

Bill Kenwright Ltd. has licensed rights to William Diehl’s Primal Fear for a first-ever stage adaptation aimed at a 2027 West End launch with Broadway ambitions; Paramount held first refusal on the IP and the stage version will reportedly follow the novel more closely than the 1996 film. Ken Atchity and the Diehl literary estate will exec produce while a writer and director are in talks.

BBC plans to cut roughly 10% of its cost base over three years (about $800M on an $8B operating cost run-rate) and will reduce commissioning opportunities while appointing former Google exec Matt Brittin as director general; Tim Davie’s earlier resignation and prior $130M cut program provide context.

An Ontario court has approved Corus Entertainment’s recapitalization plan, a structural finance move that clears a legal hurdle for the company’s restructuring (Playback report).

Seriencamp returns to Cologne June 9–11, convening major European broadcasters, streamers and producers (ZDF Studios is main partner) with commissioner panels and pitching sessions; new PLOT NXT strand will examine concrete uses of AI in TV development and production.

Collider debuted an exclusive trailer for a new shark-infested thriller that blends high-stakes aviation/survival beats with shark-horror elements (logline and talent details in the trailer reveal a 'Sully' meets 'Deep Blue Sea' hook).

Netflix will globally release Apex — a Charlize Theron-led Australian-shot survival thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur and produced by Chernin Entertainment, Secret Menu and RVK — on April 24; principal cast includes Taron Egerton and Eric Bana.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin VR – Brutal Edition, a VR port of the dark-fantasy horror FPS from KillPixel Games and Slipgate Ironworks (with Flat2VR), launches April 9 on PS VR2, SteamVR and Quest 2/3 — a platform expansion of a cult horror game into VR.

Rue Morgue premiered the trailer, poster and release information for ITCH!, an infection-themed indie horror that leans into body/infection scares — the piece focuses on marketing assets and release timing rather than production financing or talent deals.