Horror Industry News — Sunday, June 28, 2026

24 million first-four-day views made I Will Find You Netflix’s biggest series debut of 2026; Sam Worthington says he pushed the adaptation toward Rachel as the hero and kept the finale from tipping into telenovela territory. The Harlan Coben thriller is now a clear platform win, with season-two chatter already in the air.

A24 is sending Backrooms back to theaters July 3 with 15 minutes of bonus footage after the liminal-horror breakout crossed more than $307 million worldwide on under a $10 million budget. The re-release extends the film’s record-setting run as A24’s biggest title ever and keeps the creator-led horror surge in theaters.

Prime Video’s German-language original Superior is in production in Bavaria and Switzerland; the six-part hotel-school murder mystery has locked its young cast and is backed by GMPF and FFF support. Zodiac Pictures and MMC Zodiac are producing the series, which mixes elite-campus intrigue with deadly consequences.

Filming paused in Dublin after Eva Green suffered a leg injury on Wednesday season 3; Netflix’s Addams Family spinoff is running at roughly £15 million a episode, with production pushed back until later this month.

24 million views put I Will Find You at No. 1 on Netflix’s English TV chart and make it the streamer’s biggest original series debut of 2026; Coben’s Netflix run now spans 13 hits and a forthcoming Myron Bolitar series.

Season 2 moves The Agency from Showtime add-on to a Paramount+ Original on the base tier, putting both seasons in front of the full subscriber base and widening reach after a record-debut renewal. The shift also signals Paramount’s push to consolidate premium scripted viewing inside the core service.

Netflix drops Night School Studio’s interactive horror title Unhinged on June 30; Zoë Kravitz, Sadie Sink, and Troy Baker voice the storm-bound survival scenario, extending the streamer’s playable genre push.

Hulu's serial-killer remake of Black Widow launches this summer; Emmy Rossum boards as FBI agent Alice Black opposite Lola Petticrew, with Liz Meriwether EPing.

Christmas Day 2026 theatrical slot set for The Pools, a liminal-space creature horror feature debut from veteran producers Galen Christy and Sasha Yelaun; Rebel Raider Media and Grytt Picture Shows produce.

Backrooms opened to $38M domestic Friday and is headed for an $85M-$90M weekend, shattering A24’s previous opening record. The viral-IP horror from Kane Parsons is co-financed by Chernin Entertainment and produced by James Wan, Shawn Levy and Osgood Perkins.

Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory creator revealed he has chased the project since 2008, saying "the world was not ready"; unveiled the effort in a video during Warner Bros.' presentation.

639 UK and Ireland sites for Warner Bros’ Supergirl leads the weekend rollout, while Paramount’s Jackass: Best And Last bows in 545 venues and Trinity CineAsia’s Dear You arrives on the back of a $272.3m global run. The preview also flags event releases and holdovers shaping the local theatrical frame, including Ghost in the Shell and Disney’s Toy Story 5.

Netflix and Universal Global Television locked rights to Alix E. Harrow's The Everlasting, a high-fantasy time-loop romance that could give the streamer a new book-to-screen lane. The acquisition lands as Netflix keeps building out genre-adjacent fantasy after cancellations across the category.

A24’s Backrooms leans on 30,000 square feet of practical sets plus heavy VFX work to translate Kane Parsons’ liminal-web horror; Edward J. Douglas says the film’s biggest lift was preserving Parsons’ Blender-built visual language on a feature scale.

Prime Video renews Skybound’s Invincible for a sixth season ahead of season 5, locking in the adult-animated superhero series as the streamer’s longest-running original animated title; season 4 was its most-watched yet and the franchise now spans comics and games across 240 territories.

Emraan Hashmi boards the musical-horror feature Rooh for a 2027 theatrical bow in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu; Mayank Sharma directs and co-writes with Vishal Kapoor for Vicked Films Productions. The project blends contemporary horror, music and supernatural elements, keeping Hashmi anchored to the genre lane that built his screen identity.

Raymond Wallace’s found-footage horror comedy lands July 24 on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Fandango at Home; Jamie Bernadette leads a paranormal crew whose haunted shoot turns into a body-count mystery.

Christopher Nolan says he nudged Ryan Coogler toward IMAX for Sinners, underscoring how premium-format shooting has become a prestige play for horror and spectacle titles; Nolan’s The Odyssey is the first film shot entirely with IMAX cameras.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Rudy Pankow will star in Thud as a Grim Reaper and the Devil who fall into a meet-cute at a three-day destination wedding; Mali Elfman directs from Noga Pnueli’s script, with Radio Silence’s Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin exec producing.

Kristian McKay’s Kill Trip lands on digital and on-demand July 17; the horror pic stars Stelio Savante, Corin Nemec and Samaire Armstrong, with festivalgoers’ ride from hell turning into a survival body count.

VOD and digital rollout lands July 10, 2026 for William Woods' sci-fi thriller The Outer Threat; Constance Wu, Mark O'Brien and William Fichtner star.

Miracle Media lines up Mockbuster for digital on July 27; Anthony Frith’s doc goes inside The Asylum’s low-budget genre factory and features Eric Roberts, Danny Philippou, Michael Paré, Paul Bales, David Latt, and David Rimawi.

Netflix has set Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 to arrive later this year, extending the cyberpunk anime franchise on its slate. The update keeps the videogame-to-series pipeline active after the first installment's breakout.

Juliette Lewis makes a surprise appearance in Apple TV’s 10-episode Cape Fear miniseries, revealed in Episode 3; she previously played Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 film. The new version stars Javier Bardem, Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson.

Fantasia bows Los Vampires next month; the mystery horror reframes the making of the Spanish Dracula and leans into Universal Monsters lore.