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Sony’s Resident Evil reboot locks a 95-minute runtime and an $80M budget; Zach Cregger’s remake is built for a lean theatrical launch on Sept. 18, 2026.

Neon’s They Follow adds 10 names around returning lead Maika Monroe, with Naomi Ackie now officially aboard and David Robert Mitchell back to write-direct. Neon holds worldwide rights and is lining up a U.S. theatrical launch as the It Follows sequel expands its cast package.

Popcorn Frights adds The End of Oak Street to its second-wave slate, led by David Robert Mitchell’s Warner Bros. cosmic-survival feature. The South Florida fest keeps stacking premiere titles around the film’s special presentation rollout.

Tubi FrightFest scales to 82 features and 24 world premieres Aug. 27-31 in London, with Abner Pastoll’s Nervous opening and Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony, Marion Le Corroller’s Species and Hammer’s Ithaqua among the headliners.

Criterion bundles Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and The Silence of the Lambs into an October release slate; Frankenstein gets the extended cut treatment and a full deluxe extras package.

Record 4,300 submissions and 125 features/200 shorts underline Fantasia's pull as a genre sales engine; Mitch Davis says acquisitions out of Montreal remain strong, with A24 and Neon still eventizing theatrical releases instead of dumping titles onto streaming.

Dead Meat is launching Fresh Meat, a short-film anthology competition for horror filmmakers that will culminate in a theatrically released feature. James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca are turning their YouTube genre brand into a new development pipeline.

Well Go USA is set to release Joko Anwar’s Ghost in the Cell after the film’s festival run, with FrightFest serving as the latest stop on the rollout. The Indonesian correctional-facility horror-comedy pairs supernatural carnage with a social-angle genre hook.

Warner Bros. shifts The Revenge of La Llorona from April 2027 to February 2027; the horror sequel stays on the studio's theatrical calendar.

Alien: Earth season 2 is already filming at Pinewood after shifting production from Thailand to London; Noah Hawley says most of the season is written, the scope is bigger, and Peter Dinklage's role is part of a broader ensemble expansion.

IFC’s erotic thriller Night Nurse is drawing a strong opening in specialized box office. Sean Bean’s The Isolate Thief and Stillz’s Barrio Triste also bowed in the same frame.

London shoot has kicked off on Balaji Motion Pictures' Ragini 3; Tamannaah Bhatia fronts Shashanka Ghosh's date-night horror sequel, with theatrical release slated for 2027.

Frogman Returns lands at London FrightFest with new images and sequel details; Anthony Cousins is back in the director’s chair with John Karsko, while Peter Kuplowsky boards as EP. Rotting Press is already teeing up a broader Frogman/cryptid universe beyond this sequel.

Yellow Veil Pictures sets Boorman and the Devil for a New York theatrical bow on Aug. 28 before a Sept. 4 multi-city rollout; the Exorcist II doc leans on interviews with John Boorman, Linda Blair, Karyn Kusama, Joe Dante, and Mike Flanagan.

Na Hong-jin’s Hope posts a $2.5m South Korea opening day on 333,915 admissions and 81.3% of the box office; the monster survival pic reportedly carries a $46m budget, has pre-sold to 200-plus territories, and Neon opens the US on Sept. 9.

Paramount+’s Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 adds Gabriel Luna as serial killer Ray Ballard, with Krysten Ritter back and Brian Cox, Uma Thurman, and Dan Stevens already aboard. Clyde Phillips, Michael C. Hall, Paramount Television Studios, and Counterpart Studios are steering the franchise expansion.

Alien: Isolation 2 gets its first public playable demo at Gamescom; SEGA is staging a dedicated booth for the survival-horror sequel, but title, release date, and platforms remain under wraps.

Plaion Pictures sets a UK digital rollout for shark horror Chum on August 17; Jonathan Zuck directs and co-writes, with Alice Eve, Eric Michael Cole, Elle Haymond, Sarah Siadat, and Jim Klock in the cast.

Ronan Bennett’s Army of Shadows is a British-set, near-future authoritarian thriller series at Channel 4 and CANAL+ from StudioCanal and Two Cities Television. Paddy Considine, Kit Harington, America Ferrera and Alex Hassell are set to star.

Popcorn Frights stacks 14 premieres and 7 special presentations across an 11-day South Florida run; Yeon Sang-ho’s Colony opens the fest, Train to Busan gets a 10th-anniversary restoration, and Stephen Lang and Michael Ironside headline special events.

Film at Lincoln Center’s Scary Movies line-up adds restorations of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Wendigo, with Casper Kelly’s Sundance favorite Buddy opening the Aug. 12-20 run. The series keeps repertory horror in the theatrical mix.

Mario Van Belle’s vampire horror Feed lands on digital and on demand August 14, 2026; Grace Collender, Clinton Liberty, and Charlotte Bailey star in the Dearg-Due survival story.

Game Day Murders lands a July 27 premiere on ID and HBO Max; Shaquille O’Neal executive produces the six-episode true-crime series.

Promise AI boards Jamie Magnus Stone for the sci-fi bunker thriller Everything Is Within Tolerance and Micho Rutare for the animated supernatural feature Ninja Punk; Hardcore 94 is already in production, signaling a broader AI-driven genre slate.

Lionsgate sets Joshua Wagner's zombie siege pic for VOD and Digital on Aug. 25, 2026; the trailer tees up the release push.

Acorn Media International will release Shudder Original The Mortuary Assistant on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital on July 20.

Phantom Pain Films rolls out Dave Castiglione’s horror anthology The Blue Hole on Blu-ray and VHS through Future Video; the release bundles 3+ hours of extras and marks Castiglione’s return after a 17-year hiatus.

Universal Orlando and Netflix are building Stranger Things: Return to Hawkins, the first full lagoon show built around a single franchise; the HHN rollout adds a new haunted house, merch, and food tie-ins around the show's final-season push.

Weapons and Obsession headline the horror field as the Critics Choice Super Awards roll out their 2026 nominations; winners land Aug. 6. Superhero, sci-fi and fantasy contenders also stack the ballot, keeping genre awards season active.

Danny Trejo, Keith Arem and Chris Yates are launching Year of the Devil as a five-issue supernatural action-horror graphic novel, with a San Diego Comic-Con reveal and crowdfunding set for Sept. 29, 2026.