Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Sony has dated JT Mollner and Bad Robot’s creature-horror Skeletons for June 4, 2027; Brie Larson, Kyle Gallner, John Goodman, Willa Fitzgerald, Ione Skye and Keith Carradine star. Brian Duffield wrote the first draft from Philip Fracassi’s short story, with revisions by Mollner.

Disney+ has greenlit a zombie-apocalypse take on Archie Comics’ Afterlife With Archie, with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti re-teaming on the streaming series for a Halloween 2027 launch. Warner Bros. Television produces; the project folds Riverdale-era IP back into a new horror franchise play.

Shudder snaps up all rights to Mia-Kate Russell's Australian slasher Penny Lane Is Dead across the US, Canada, Caribbean Basin, UK and Ireland; Fantasia bows the film on July 20 ahead of an Aug. 28 launch.

Curry Barker’s Obsession has now outgrossed The Exorcist, a breakout box-office marker that pushes the film into elite horror-company territory.

Echoverse is turning Mike Mignola and Thomas E. Sniegoski’s Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal into a TV series, extending the property’s path from novel to podcast to screen via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting.

Paramount+ has a straight-to-series order on Discretion, an eight-episode legal thriller from A24; Josh Lucas boards opposite Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, with production set for later this year and launch next year.

Federico Zampaglione’s The Nameless Ballad bows at FrightFest on Aug. 29; Minerva Pictures is handling worldwide distribution on the Barbara Baraldi co-write starring Jamie Ward and Alana Boden.

Paramount has acquired Freaks Part II ahead of its Fantasia Cheval Noir premiere, preempting the sequel to Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s cult sci-fi breakout after their Final Destination: Bloodlines momentum.

Shudder lines up four August originals, led by The Yeti, Hellcat, Buffet Infinity and Penny Lane Is Dead, plus a 12-title catalog drop on August 1; Hellcat is the only premiere available across every major territory.

Matthias Schweighöfer boards The Conjuring: First Communion, adding another name to the supernatural prequel's cast. The franchise keeps filling out its package as the next Conjuring-era chapter takes shape.

Sitges is centering its 59th edition on Carrie and other horror touchstones, with restored classics and new titles from Adrian Chiarella, Hanna Bergholm, Léa Mysius, Yeon Sang-ho and Takashi Shimizu.

Grupo Mórbido’s Blood Bank launches as a Latin American genre finance pipeline at Costa Rica Media Market; Pablo Guisa boards 'Greetings from Maryland' and 'What Lives in the Storm' as producer with 10% to 20% co-production stakes, linking talent, IP and money from development through global release.

AWA and Vertigo Entertainment are expanding The Future of Fear with The Rising, a Gregory Widen/Laci one-shot that’s explicitly built as cross-platform horror IP for comics, film and TV. The line keeps Roy Lee’s Vertigo in the genre-franchise business with a new original mythos centered on a buried missile silo nightmare.

Self-financed sequel Demon Hunter: Time 2 Kill wrapped in Kentucky after outside financing, tax incentives and pre-sales never materialized; Zoe Kavanagh and producer Leeona Duff bankrolled production and post, with the film now festival-tested and shopping for a distributor for both Demon Hunter titles.

North American premiere at Fantasia lands Syed Shadan’s psychological horror short Chaar Diwaari; Anurag Kashyap boards as presenter alongside producer Ranjan Singh.

Neill Blomkamp uses 13-minute sci-fi horror short NIGHTBORNE as a proof-of-concept for a feature built entirely with AI-generated imagery via Seedance 2.0. Every frame was AI-rendered with human likenesses licensed in; the move signals a push to rewire low-cost VFX-heavy genre production.

85 million views in a single week put I Will Find You atop Netflix’s global charts; the Harlan Coben limited series is the streamer’s first US-set adaptation of his work, and a second season looks unlikely.

Lewis Pullman boards opposite Julia Garner on Apple TV+'s Guilty Creatures; the true-crime adaptation of Mikita Brottman's book has Craig Gillespie directing, with Sarah DeLappe writing and Tomorrow Studios steering.

Mike Mignola and Bruce Zick expand the HELLBOY universe with CAPTAIN HENRY AND THE GRAVEYARD OF TIME, a time-travel graphic novel collecting the four-issue run and bonus material.

World premiere set for Dan Schaffer’s psychosexual thriller Electric Meat at Tubi FrightFest on Aug. 28; VVomb Studio is rolling out the 96-minute feature with Caspian Faye, Emily Booth and Nina Courson.

Haunted House FearFest launches a three-day virtual advance screening on Eventive and teases its October return with official horror films plus a new indie horror-game showcase, The Basement. The festival’s 2026 run adds filmmaker interviews, livestreams and an awards stream in November.

Backrooms pushed Obsession off No. 1 on VOD while Netflix’s Mexican original Desire led the streamer chart, a clean signal that adult-skewing genre titles are still breaking through across transactional and SVOD windows.

AMC Global Media's August slate loads up on genre programming, including The Walking Dead: Dead City season 3, The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only, and a Shudder-heavy film run. The schedule also gives Sundance Now a streaming debut for Claire Denis's The Fence after its TIFF premiere.

Neon pre-bought U.S. rights before Cannes; Pathé has now closed a broad global sales sweep on Bong Joon Ho’s first animated feature, with worldwide theatrical release set for 2027. CJ ENM, Penture Invest and Pathé are financing the pic, which is already in production with an A-list voice cast.

Action Xtreme is turning distribution into a core business, launching its U.K. and Ireland theatrical play on 'Bad Day at the Office' after an Edinburgh Midnight Madness premiere. The company is also building an acquisition pipeline for commercially driven action and genre titles while it readies sci-fi thriller 'The Experiment' and other co-productions.

US digital rollout lands Aug. 11 for Miracle Media and Shogun Films' occult horror HARBINGER; the body-count feature centers on a possessed fortune-telling machine and opens in the U.K. on Aug. 10.

Mongrel Media has boarded Canadian distribution on Tim Riedel’s Métis creature feature ahead of its Fantasia premiere; major U.S. buyers are now circling the title after its Frontières-to-feature run. The trailer drop doubles as a market signal for a rare Indigenous horror launch.

Universal sets Rob Savage’s adaptation of Josh Malerman’s Incidents Around the House, Other Mommy, for a theatrical bow on Oct. 9, 2026; Jessica Chastain stars and James Wan produces.

UK and Ireland digital bow lands Aug. 14 for Hellcat after genre-fest runs at Fantasia, FrightFest and Beyond Fest; Brock Brodell directs Dakota Gorman in an infection-horror survival play.

Netflix Games has launched Unhinged, a smartphone-controlled interactive horror title that lets live-stream viewers vote on choices; the rollout extends Netflix's in-app games push into participatory genre content.