Horror Industry News — Monday, June 15, 2026

Obsession is now Focus Features’ biggest title ever on a $750,000 budget, with the horror breakout nearing $300 million worldwide after a $15 million acquisition. Curry Barker has already shot Anything But Ghosts and is signed to write-direct A24’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot.

Unveiled at the game's 10th‑anniversary sold‑out fan event in Montreal; Icelandic director attached, credits include Netflix's The Valhalla Murders and The Damned; Jason Blum and James Wan personally backing a theatrical adaptation; IP averages roughly 1 million daily players and will draw from franchise locales such as Greenville and the MacMillan Estate.

Ghostforce Evolution lands at Netflix, TF1 and Super RTL and is already in production; the 26-episode supernatural kids series expands Zag’s Ghostforce universe and keeps the Miraculous franchise engine moving.

FX renews Alien: Earth for Season 2 and starts filming later this year; Peter Dinklage boards the cast as Hulu keeps leaning into TV for the franchise while the next film stays uncommitted.

Neon locked worldwide rights excluding Australia and New Zealand to Adrian Chiarella’s queer supernatural horror Leviticus for about $5 million after Sundance; the Causeway Films title is headed for theatrical play with Joe Bird and Mia Wasikowska starring.

Netflix is ending The Lincoln Lawyer after the upcoming 10-episode fifth season; the final run is still in production and adapts Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Cobie Smulders aboard.

Following the wrap on Anything But Ghosts, Curry Barker is lining up a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre installment for one of horror’s most valuable IPs. The pitch leans on the rawness of the original, signaling another franchise reboot play.

BBC sends Doctor Who out to competitive tender after Russell T. Davies and Bad Wolf exit; the series stays alive, with the next independent producer expected to lock in a multi-year run.

Greta Lee and Wagner Moura front Netflix’s supernatural trapped-home thriller The Last House; Louis Leterrier directs, with an Aug. 7 launch set on the streamer. The setup leans contained-horror, with a family fighting an ominous presence that keeps them sealed inside.

Mark Hamill boards Peacock’s Twisted Metal for Season 3; the video game adaptation keeps expanding around Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz as the streamer leans harder into the franchise.

Echo On lines up novelizations for Trick or Treat and Black Roses, extending two cult horror properties into print.

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur won the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize at the State Theatre; the first film in nearly a decade stars Dmitriy Mazurov and Iris Lebedeva in a Russia-Ukraine war-era adaptation of Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife.

Bucheon locks in its jury lineup for the 30th edition, a standard but necessary step as the genre festival rolls toward programming and market announcements.

Native Cinemas is mounting Ghunghat as a multilingual Hindi/Kannada/Telugu horror-comedy; Rajiv S Ruia directs the folklore-driven village story with Esha Deol in the lead.

Sci-fi thriller Transfer Complete adds Jaime P. Gomez to star and direct; the indie feature centers on AI, time travel, and the consequences of knowing the future before it arrives.

Patrick Dempsey was in the mix to reprise Mark Kincaid in Scream 7 before Joel McHale’s Mark Evans landed the role, confirming a behind-the-scenes recast on the slasher sequel.

A24 and Kojima Productions are keeping Death Stranding in development under Michael Sarnoski, who says the film is chasing a darker, non-literal take on the game. The project keeps A24 in premium dark sci-fi territory after Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One.

Ama Lea rounds up Felissa Rose, Diana Prince and other horror regulars for SLASHERCISE, giving the indie slasher a recognizable genre-cast hook.

Tribeca names its 2026 winners; Cotton Fever takes Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Crocodile wins Viewpoints, and Labrador - Autopsy of Silence tops international narrative. Genndy Tartakovsky also lands a Cheval Noir career honor for FIXED.

Paramount’s Passenger trailer was found in breach on 9Now but cleared on YouTube, highlighting how platform targeting and household assumptions drive ad-ethics rulings for horror marketing. The case spotlights inconsistent enforcement around violent promos served to broad and youth-skewing audiences.