Horror Industry News — Monday, August 10, 2026

Red Owl Films launches in Wellington as a new international sales and distribution company focused on fantasy and genre cinema. The startup is rolling out an upcoming horror slate and trailers, creating another market channel for emerging genre filmmakers.

Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man adds Kiori Mirza Waldman, with the interview confirming her starring role in the new horror feature ahead of release.

Zombie Plane is still searching for a release date after a cast-and-crew screening on the Gold Coast; the zombie-on-a-plane ensemble puts Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice, Sophie Monk, Ice-T, Kyle Sandilands, Amy Shark, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Sir Bob Geldof, Brian Austin Green, Cody Simpson, and John Jarratt in the same frame. The project has also been dealing with receivership turbulence as it heads toward landing.

Principal photography is underway on Netflix France sequel Ad Vitam Eternam; Guillaume Canet returns as Franck Lazareff, with Ludovic Colbeau-Justin directing and Cabanes Productions producing. The original hit hit Netflix’s non-English top 10 and logged 54 million views in its first month.

Universal’s The Mummy 4 is gearing up for production with directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett; Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah are returning, with Michael Johnston among the reported new supporting-cast additions.

Mubi’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma opened to $251.5k on five screens for a $50.3k PSA; A24’s Tony led specialty with $349k at six locations.

Simon & Schuster’s 12:O1 Books launches with Marcus Kliewer’s The Caretaker; the profile also nods to Netflix’s earlier pickup of his serialized breakout horror.

Adam Wingard's Onslaught books an Indian theatrical release for Sept. 4 via PVR INOX Pictures; the action-sci-fi-horror crossover stars Adria Arjona, Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens.

Uruguayan films “Spring Story” and “The Surubí” shared Locarno 2026 First Look’s top five prizes on Aug. 9. “Spring Story” won color grading and €5,600 in ad work; “The Surubí” took sound, €45,000 in music/SFX and a €10,000 poster.

Open Doors split CHF 50,000 across three African projects, with Talemwa Pius’ A Vineyard for a Lobster and Mohammed Sheikh’s Accept My Plea for Burial taking the top cash prizes. The slate also surfaced CNC, ArteKino, Sørfond and EAVE support, underscoring Locarno’s role as an early development market for emerging voices.

$85M sci-fi thriller promo for Warner Bros.’ The End of Oak Street draws AI backlash after a DogPack collaboration animates dog-podcast hosts and dinosaur attacks; the campaign is testing how far studios can push generative AI marketing.

Universal Studios Hollywood’s 2026 Halloween Horror Nights runs select nights Sept. 3–Nov. 1, adding Killer Klowns From Outer Space, KILLceañera: Music by SLASH, Dead, Deader, Deadest, a Purge stunt show and Art the Clown’s Terror Tram.

House of the Dragon’s Season 3 finale stages Season 4 as the final season: Rhaenyra declares the prophecy, Tumbleton falls in dragonfire, Helaena dies by suicide, and Ryan Condal says Seasons 3–4 were mapped together.

Warner Bros. rolls out The End of Oak Street with Anne Hathaway leading a suburban sci-fi creature pic; Mitchell says the film grew from a single dinosaur-in-the-suburbs image and leans into his 1980s neighborhood unease.

At the sixth Critics Choice Super Awards, The Boys and Widow’s Bay led TV with three wins each, while Superman, Project Hail Mary, The Furious and Obsession took two film awards apiece; David Corenswet won for Superman.

Luke Cage and Iron Fist are back in the mix for Daredevil: Born Again Season 3, with filming underway for the 2027 Disney+ installment and Marvel steering toward a Heroes for Hire payoff. Set photos point to a broader Defenders reunion arc and a more villainous Heather Glenn.

Jamie Foxx will lead Deadlocked, a courthouse-hostage thriller acquired by Amazon MGM Studios for worldwide distribution on Prime Video; Nikhil Bhat (Kill) directs from a screenplay by Eric Scott Anderson and Matt Takejiro Bosack.

Vera Farmiga says 2004’s Down to the Bone was the “springboard” for The Departed and Up in the Air, calling it the “reference film” directors use when hiring her; she won a Sundance acting prize despite its box-office failure.

Jane Schoenbrun ties Camp Miasma’s reboot concept to trans horror and queer desire; Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson anchor the meta-slasher setup.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa frames The Samurai and the Prisoner as a period chamber piece with horror DNA; the only concrete timing is its July 30 theatrical release.

Wagner Moura frames The Last House as a COVID-isolation metaphor while Netflix backs the movie with a Sunset Boulevard billboard stunt.

UK regulators ban one The Mummy poster after 30 complaints, ruling the artwork created a realistic impression of a dead child; Warner Bros. defended the campaign while Lee Cronin turned the backlash into a Max plug.

Venice rolls out the first teaser for No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman, a Kurdish-Norwegian revenge thriller; True Colours has boarded sales ahead of the out-of-competition world premiere next month.