Friday, July 24, 2026

Parker Finn’s Possession remake is rolling in New York on 35mm; Margaret Qualley boards as Anna with Callum Turner, Diego Calva, and Paul Dano. Paramount won the bidding war and is targeting a 2027 release.

Completed screenplay is in hand for Blumhouse’s live-action Something Is Killing the Children movie; the animated series bible is still being finished so both adaptations can be shopped together, with the film able to split off if needed.

New Line has Gladys in script phase, with Zach Cregger and Zach Shields writing the Weapons prequel; Cregger’s horror hit has already banked $270 million worldwide and kicked off follow-on IP.

Netflix sets a 2027 live-action Parasyte: TAMIYA; Yeon Sang-ho reunites with the streamer after Train to Busan and Parasyte: The Grey, with Ryu Yong-jae co-writing the Hitsoshi Iwaaki manga adaptation.

Nico Scheepers’ Hen takes the HR Giger Narcisse Award for best feature at Neuchâtel, becoming the first African film to win the festival’s top prize; Nagvlug Films has already pushed out a new international trailer off the win.

Filming on Sony's Resident Evil reboot started in October 2025 in Litoměřice, Czech Republic; Zach Cregger says the hardest stretch was a freezing farm sequence built around a dog attack setup. The Capcom adaptation stays locked to a Sept. 18, 2026 theatrical date.

Hanna Bergholm’s monster-baby horror follow-up Nightborn lands a North American premiere at Fantasia; Shudder has a July 31 release queued after the festival run on the UK-France-Finland-Lithuania co-production.

TRUE CRIME orders two new UK originals, renews Britain’s Countryside Killers for season 3, and adds the TV debut of This Much Is True Crime from the podcast slate this fall.

TIFF’s Primetime slate leans hard into slashers, sea creatures and dark magic with Carrie, Below, Crystal Lake and YAGA; the section is giving world premieres to four genre series and a heavy dose of legacy IP.

TIFF Primetime loads up on horror IP with Mike Flanagan’s Carrie, Netflix’s creature series Below and Peacock’s Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake; all three land world premieres in the 2026 TV lineup.

Spider One’s meta-slasher Big Baby books a UK premiere at Tubi FrightFest London on Aug. 27; Lightbulb Film Distribution follows with a Sept. 7 digital/DVD/Blu-ray release, with Cher EPing and David Howard Thornton in the cast.

Crave’s YAGA gets a TIFF Primetime world premiere as a modern Baba Yaga spin from Kat Sandler’s play; Hudson Williams, Carrie-Anne Moss and Noah Reid headline the Canadian series.

Cinephobia Releasing has taken North American rights to Jose Maria Cicala’s The Dollmaker and set the surreal horror thriller for August on VOD and digital; the title is now on a straight indie genre release track.

Robbie Banfitch's found-footage follow-up to The Outwaters lands on digital Aug. 3 after a festival run that hit Unnamed Footage, Calgary Underground, Brooklyn Horror and Stockholm; the film bowed theatrically in the U.S. in fall 2025.

Shudder lines up Hanna Bergholm's maternal horror feature for streaming next Friday, extending the Hatching director's run with the genre service.

Justin Brooks boards anthology horror The Hours That Keep Us, adding another genre filmmaker attachment as the project moves forward. The Chainsaw Award winner is the latest name to join the package.

Peacock’s Dungeon Crawler Carl adds audiobook narrator Jeff Hays as Princess Donut, keeping the voice performance in the live-action adaptation. The Universal/Fuzzy Door series was ordered in June and adapts Matt Dinniman’s alien-apocalypse survival saga.

Robert Englund and Richard Brake front Pinocchio Unstrung as the indie horror take heads to theaters; the release gives the twisted fairy-tale another theatrical lane.

October 2027 target locks Terrifier 4 as the franchise's final chapter; Damien Leone says the sequel will push the gore past Terrifier 3, which grossed $90 million worldwide on a $2 million budget.

Natasha Henstridge boards Netflix’s Below as Jan, reuniting the Species star with monster territory on Jesse McKeown’s six-episode Newfoundland-set creature thriller. The limited series is set for an October 8, 2026 Netflix premiere and a TIFF preview screening ahead of launch.

Antenna Releasing picked up the pair of cult-horror documentaries on The Keep and Wolfen; A World War II Fairy Tale opens in limited theaters in October before TVOD on Apple and Amazon.

Marcus Slabine’s found-footage Sundown lands a trailer and set photos; the paranormal horror pic will world-premiere at Houston Horror Film Fest and play Mad Monster Party North Carolina.

Mad Cave expands the Underworld Universe with Victoria Jaguar, a five-issue supernatural horror series from Mark London and Marco Rudy.