Horror Industry News — Monday, April 20, 2026

Media Move has boarded international sales for The Unlucky, a Canadian sci-fi thriller starring and produced by Ludi Lin and directed/co-written by Quentin Lee; the project will be presented at the Cannes market with production under Margin Films and no start date announced.

Warner Bros. and Blumhouse marketed the film as Lee Cronin’s The Mummy to avoid brand confusion with other Mummy projects and to position the picture as an auteur-driven, distinct horror reinterpretation rather than a franchise tie-in.

Daisy Ridley’s zombie drama We Bury the Dead (dir. Zak Hilditch) will stream on Hulu May 8; the film premiered at SXSW, earned divisive reviews, and has reported roughly $3.8M global box office after a limited U.S. theatrical run via Vertical.

Focus Features’ Nosferatu — Robert Eggers’ $50M gothic take starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult and Lily‑Rose Depp — is now streaming on Peacock, providing wider audience access ahead of Eggers’ next Werewulf; the piece frames Nosferatu as a high‑craft, expressionist revival of classic vampire lore.

Netflix will premiere Korean YA horror series If Wishes Could Kill on April 24 — from Park Youn-seo (Moving co-creator/second unit Kingdom S2) and writer Park Joong-seop; logline centers on a wish-granting app that exacts deadly prices, following five teens, positioning it as Korea's first YA horror series.

Conjuring director Michael Chaves has written and launched Corpse Knight, a gothic dark‑fantasy comic miniseries from Skybound (issue #1 ships April 22), positioning the IP as a potential film property he hopes to adapt when market conditions allow.

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Luiza Schelling Tubaldini’s Brazilian vampire romantic thriller Love Kills, which premiered at Sitges and plays BIFFF; multiple international deals already struck (Germany/AT/CH, Italy, S Korea, India) with theatrical release planned in Germany later this year.

Oscar Isaac confirms Marvel remains active on a Midnight Sons project (a darker, supernatural MCU team) and casually endorsed Ryan Gosling as a fan-favorite pick to play Ghost Rider, signaling continued behind-the-scenes movement even with details still limited.

Polish developer Bloober Team has expanded leadership and moved to a multi-project structure, confirming seven horror titles in development alongside its Silent Hill remake and Layers of Fear 3, signaling an aggressive studio-scale push into concurrent horror projects.

Panic Fest’s virtual edition featured monster and folk‑horror entries — Creature of the Pines (a faux‑doc/found footage cryptid feature from Chris Ruppert & Tyler Transue) and Christian Carroll’s The Burning of Broken Beak (Maori‑inflected folk/body horror) — reinforcing mid‑scale festival support for monster and indigenous‑rooted horror.

Harold Perrineau (actor/EP) says From Season 4 opens with Boyd at an emotional breaking point and teases expanded mythology around the Man in Yellow, confirming the show’s continued narrative escalation and that Season 5 will be the finale.

Indie relationship drama Circles—about a couple trapped in a cabin time loop that resets when they lie—has added Ed Helms, Pamela Adlon and Christine Ko; Ariel Heller directs from a script co-written with Sam Baron and production was shot in Idaho and Los Angeles.

Bloody Disgusting reviews Hive, a Tubi original from writer-director Felipe Vargas, describing it as a Goosebumps-esque take that weaponizes a suburban playground and examines racialized violence within a white community setting.

Alex Garland and A24 are adapting the video game Elden Ring into a feature film (release March 2028) and have added Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno and Emma Laird to the cast, signaling a major A24/high‑profile auteur take on a premium game IP now in production.

Production has officially started on Adam Wingard’s R-rated feature adaptation of the Death Note manga; the project is now in active production according to trade notices (IMDb listing referenced).

Collider reports Noah Centineo and Sydney Sweeney are attached to a hard sci‑fi Netflix movie positioned as a major anime adaptation — the piece frames it as potentially the largest anime-to-live-action adaptation, signaling Netflix’s continued big-budget IP plays in genre tentpoles.

The BBC has acquired the eight-part French sci-fi/war drama The Sentinels (based on Xavier Dorison & Enrique Breccia’s graphic novels) for iPlayer and BBC Four later this year; the series originally launched on Canal+ across 30+ countries and is shopped internationally by Studiocanal.

James Wan confirms he's actively developing a screen adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and warns Lovecraftian features are costly and hard to get off the ground, but says he'll keep 'chipping away' to get the tone right.

ITV’s four‑part drama Believe Me, written/EP’d by Jeff Pope and starring Daniel Mays as John Worboys, centers victims’ experiences of the serial sexual offender and the failings of Scotland Yard; produced by Etta Pictures/ITV Studios and filmed in Cardiff, it will premiere on ITV/ITVX in May.

Justin McConnell acquired adaptation rights to the book They Came From Within, a history of Canadian horror, with plans announced at EFM 2021 to develop the material into a screen project documenting Canada’s genre legacy.

Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) will publish their 608-page horror/speculative novel Public Access Afterworld via Hogarth Books on October 27; marketed as a conspiracy-tinged, screen-centered horror debut from a noted indie filmmaker.

Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive teaser for The Remedy, a supernatural horror starring Timothy Granaderos that faces a flesh-eating entity and is set to world premiere at SXSW London, signaling festival momentum for the title.

Paramount released the trailer for André Øvredal’s Passenger — a demonic-stalker road thriller starring Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo, produced by Walter Hamada and Gary Dauberman — and confirms an exclusive theatrical release on May 22.

Skunx Games will launch mascot horror puzzle adventure Dark Pals: The 1st Floor on May 1 with no early access; a demo is currently available on Steam ahead of full release.

Collider debuts an exclusive red‑band trailer for RZA’s grindhouse‑style revenge thriller produced with Quentin Tarantino’s involvement; the piece emphasizes the film’s ultraviolent aesthetic and Tarantino/RZA creative cachet (trailer-first news signals marketing ramp).