Horror Industry News — Sunday, August 9, 2026

Prime Video’s eight-episode Carrie remake is expanding Stephen King’s prom sequence beyond the gym and into a bigger world, with Mike Flanagan saying the series is building a modern social-media-age version of the story rather than a beat-for-beat retread. Summer Howell stars as Carrie alongside Samantha Sloyan, with the adaptation reframing the classic bullying-and-telekinesis setup for streaming.

Terror Films Releasing and Dean Jacobs reteam on Water Rites, a slow-burn folk horror feature headed to worldwide streaming on Aug. 28. Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, Lynn Lowry and Katy Bentz anchor the cast as Tubi and other platforms line up the rollout.

Lionsgate’s reboot stays in development as Luca Guadagnino keeps rewriting Scott Z. Burns’ American Psycho script; casting stalls may push the studio to replace him.

Los Angeles producers Brooke Becker and Delaney Sharpe have launched Black Ribbon Productions, a genre-focused company developing horror, sci-fi and alternative projects, and unveiled the first episode of a new anthology ahead of Halloween 2026.

BAFTA-winning Nick Arthurs lands his horror-heist short It Always Comes Back at Tubi FrightFest London as a feature proof-of-concept; the team is now shopping the full-length version for packaging and financing.

IndiePix Unlimited picks up Fantasia award winner Burning for rollout this September; the genre title adds another festival-to-distribution sale to the indie horror pipeline.

Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken North American rights to Ann Oren’s body-obsessed follow-up Objet a out of Locarno; Grandfilm has Germany set for Q1 2027 and Bendita Film Sales is steering international sales.

Split Screen boarded Georgian protest drama Tear Gas ahead of its Locarno premiere; the film was shot inside real demonstrations in Tbilisi and had already picked up Rotterdam work-in-progress prizes.

Nightborn takes Fantasia’s Cheval Noir Trophy for Best Film, while No Rest for the Wicked lands Best Director and Ferine grabs cinematography; Sleep No More also scores screenplay for its folklore-and-body-horror blend. The juried awards further cement Fantasia’s role as a launchpad for psychological thrillers and elevated genre titles.

Fantasia closes its 30th edition with record attendance, sold-out screenings, and 500,000+ cross-platform social mentions; the fest locks its 2027 dates for July 15-Aug. 1. I Love Paris tops the audience awards, with Unholy Night leading Canadian feature winners.

Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Manu Ríos are set to star in Jordan Tannahill’s medieval queer body horror debut Rapture, filming in October. Set in 1348 Yorkshire, it follows monks battling plague-born revenants; IFC/Shudder and True Brit acquired rights in multi-million-dollar deals.

Ryan Murphy says American Horror Story: Season 13 won’t end FX’s anthology, with Season 14 already in development; the all-star 13th season premieres in September with Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and other franchise veterans returning.

Amazon’s 104-minute horror title tied to an Avengers: Doomsday star is breaking out globally on Prime Video, another streaming lift for the platform’s genre slate. The title’s runtime and momentum suggest a tight, high-velocity horror play rather than a prestige-window release.

Merlin Camozzi’s The Snare lands in select theaters Aug. 21 before a VOD bow Aug. 25. The indie thriller stars Cassady McClincy Zhang, Dempsey Bryk and Lucy Walters, with a teen-drug-arrest setup driving the release.

Marta Svetek stars in the British/Scottish survival horror feature Savage Prey, following voice roles in Five Nights at Freddy’s, VALORANT and Battlefield; it world-premieres August 9 at Popcorn Frights and streams on demand for 48 hours.

TIFFCOM is expanding its Tokyo IP Market and gap-financing program with anime, adaptation rights, AI and international co-production at the center. Frontières is linked into the financing push, putting genre projects in front of buyers and partners in Tokyo.

Prison-set action-thriller Supermax adds Jason Clarke to a cast led by Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb; David Gordon Green directs from a screenplay by David Weil and David J. Rosen. Jaafar Jackson is also aboard as the ensemble keeps filling out.

Matt Damon thriller The Rip has become Netflix’s biggest movie of 2026, giving the streamer a fresh performance marker for star-driven adult genre titles. The 113-minute film’s chart-topping run signals continuing demand for mid-budget, non-franchise thrillers on SVOD.

Guadagnino boards Giovanni Tortorici’s Ketticè as producer; the Palermo-set coming-of-age drama is in Locarno with PiperPlay handling international sales.

Tribeca hands top prizes to Cotton Fever, Labrador - Autopsy of Silence, and Jail Time Records, with competition awards also going to Summer of Three and Insufficient Fare. Audience Award results are still pending as the festival closes out its June 12-14 run in New York.

Natalka Vorozhbyt’s Demons world-premieres at Locarno with witches, the dead talking back, and a Russia-Ukraine allegory built into the drama; Celluloid Dreams is handling international sales.

Amazon MGM Studios/Thunder Road’s shark survival horror The Devil’s Mouth leans hard into practical underwater stunts, Thailand cave locations, and animatronic effects. Kathryn Newton says Jeff Wadlow ran a rehearsal-heavy shoot built to keep the cast ready for the film’s water-heavy set pieces.

Warner Bros. Discovery is still backing DC Studios’ pipeline despite Supergirl’s soft summer showing; James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow, Matt Reeves’ Batman, Clayface and Lanterns remain in the mix.