Horror Industry News — Saturday, July 25, 2026

Netflix has greenlit Jacques Audiard’s French-language horror feature La Nuit ravagée, adapting Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s horror novel for the streamer’s original genre slate.

Burger Night: Luli, Magda & Lore locks Agostina Palazzolo, Agustina “Papry” Suásquita and Maia Tarcic as leads in the Argentine Jimmy and Stiggs reimagining. Sebastián De Caro directs from a Matías Orta co-write; Eli Roth and Joe Begos exec produce.

Todd McFarlane keeps bouncing Spawn remake scripts as he pushes Blumhouse for a much darker live-action reboot; the project is still hunting writers who will buy into his horror-leaning vision.

Kino Lorber sets Black Zombie for a Sept. 11 limited theatrical bow, with digital and physical rollout to follow. Maya Annik Bedward’s doc traces zombie mythology from Haitian spiritual traditions to Romero-era horror, with Slash and Tom Savini among the interview subjects.

Adult Swim has renewed President Curtis for a second season before the series even premieres; production on the new episodes is already underway, with Keith David back alongside Stephanie Beatriz and Jim Rash.

Post-Cannes re-edits, sound overhaul, and CGI work reshaped Na Hong-jin’s Hope; the South Korean genre film spent months in post after polarized reactions at Cannes.

Adria Arjona, Alex Pereira, Rebecca Hall, Drew Starkey, Michael Biehn, Eric Wareheim and Reginald VelJohnson top the Onslaught cast; 2014’s The Guest starred Dan Stevens as an escaped super‑soldier who murders townspeople.

Brian Yuzna and Dave Sehring have Tales of Blood Island in a third Kickstarter push while the Blood Island reboot sits in pre-production; the campaign funds issues #3 and #4 plus merch and Blu-rays tied to the cult jungle-horror IP.

Austin Abrams nearly got crushed by a blood-filled body-bag stunt as Zach Cregger pushes Sony’s Resident Evil reboot through its SDCC promo run; Cregger is still framing the movie as horror-first.

Paramount has secured U.S. rights to Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street screenplay and is developing a new film under its Paramount Primal label with Weapons and Barbarian producers J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. The Craven estate, Marc Toberoff, and the producers are attached; it would be the franchise’s 10th installment.

Paul Feig boards Detention for Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Platinum Dunes, with Daniel Gold’s spec steering into horror-thriller territory; Universal is expected to get first crack at the package once it moves to market.

Sony grabbed worldwide rights to Skeletons at EFM; Keith Carradine boards JT Mollner's creature-horror feature with Brie Larson, Kyle Gallner, Willa Fitzgerald and John Goodman already attached, while FilmNation's Infrared finances with Bad Robot and Assemble Media.

Marvel sets Predator Vs. Punisher as a four-issue crossover launching in November; the Predator brand stays active inside Marvel's comics pipeline.

DC's Next Level line opens with James Harren writing and drawing The Demon in October; the supernatural DC character gets a fresh publishing push.

Telefilm Canada-backed Canadian Creative Accelerator opens applications for a horror-focused 2026 LA cohort; five Canadian production companies will get a month of workshops, 1:1 mentorship, and meetings with producers, financiers, distributors, and managers.

Specialty release week spans Bleecker Street’s Hadestown: The Musical, IFC’s Motor City, Neon’s Her Private Hell and Mubi’s Rosebush Pruning, with genre titles drawing on festival momentum and preview traffic. Neon’s Refn title and Variance’s Haunted Heist give indie genre buyers multiple theatrical bets at once.

Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay is already in season 2 writing; Katie Dippold says the writers room opened this week and filming is targeted for next year after the haunted-island series landed 19 Emmy nominations.

NEON sends Adrian Chiarella’s horror romance Leviticus to digital July 28, with Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD set for Sept. 8, 2026 after last month’s theatrical run.

Alice Maio Mackay’s Our Effed Up World, her seventh film at 21, premiered at Fantasia; the sci-fi horror stars Sara Thompson, Annapurna Sriram and Jess McLeod as a ragtag crew fighting an alien invasion, with Jane Schoenbrun producing.

FX’s The Shards premieres with two episodes Aug. 5 on FX and Hulu in the U.S., then Aug. 6 on Disney+ in the UK, with weekly releases after; Ryan Murphy’s Bret Easton Ellis adaptation stars Igby Rigney, Homer Gere, Kaia Gerber, and Wes Bentley as serial killer The Trawler stalks 1981 L.A.

2026’s horror theatrical playbook is getting stress-tested by Backrooms and Obsession, with the analysis using their rollout patterns to judge whether genre titles can still justify a meaningful cinema run. The focus is less on one title than on the booking and audience math shaping theatrical horror this year.

AMC has ordered a fourth Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles season, Queen of the Damned, with Hannah Moscovitch showrunning and Mark Johnson plus Rolin Jones EPing. The new season follows the franchise’s Akasha tease and keeps the vampiric IP pipeline moving at AMC.

Syed Shadan’s claustrophobic short chiller is headed to its North American premiere at Fantasia, with Anurag Kashyap and Ranjan Singh recently boarding the project. The festival slot puts a small but clearly genre-forward title into play on the shorts circuit.

Cineverse and Fathom set a 4K 3D/HDR theatrical re-release for Pan’s Labyrinth on Oct. 9, with Guillermo del Toro doubling down on a no-AI restoration workflow. The anniversary rollout leans on premium-format event cinema rather than a standard repertory booking.