Shudder, Netflix & Apple TV

Apple TV greenlights Ascension, a psychological horror thriller series from Alfonso Cuarón with Caitríona Balfe starring and executive producing. Natalie Erika James and Christian White co-showrun; Apple Studios, Anonymous Content and Cuarón’s Esperanto Filmoj are aboard under his Apple first-look pact.

Shudder has set Hallowarrior for Oct. 16, giving Milly Shapiro’s post-apocalyptic survival horror a prime Halloween window. Ben Sottak wrote and directed the Tribeca title, which blends final-girl action, home-invasion tension, and genre nostalgia.

Australia’s Classification Board denies Halloween: The Game a rating, effectively blocking IllFonic’s horror title from a local release ahead of its PC and console launch.

Georgina Campbell, the BAFTA-winning star of Barbarian, has signed with Anonymous Content for representation. Her upcoming credits include Charlie Brooker’s untitled Netflix detective series and horror film The Shepherd; she remains with Independent Talent Group and Toczek Suddleson Law Group.

TIFF International Financing and Projects Market slots three Australian features, including sci-fi pic Mimesis with Olivia DeJonge attached; the team is shopping an international sales agent, early pre-sales and a 2027 shoot, with Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation backing. Do Not Wake and Canada-linked The Five Fathers also move into market with packaging, co-financing and sales conversations underway.

Shudder has taken U.S. rights to Bloody Tennis, Nikias Chryssos’ elite-academy horror film, ahead of its Locarno premiere. The title already has international buyers in Australia, the Baltics, Italy, Japan, and Scandinavia, signaling broad festival-market appeal.

IFC and Shudder are taking Breeder into theaters Oct. 16 after its Tribeca premiere, giving the poodle-horror debut a Halloween runway. Alex Goyette directs from his own script, with Daniel Doheny, Dot Marie Jones, Maddie Phillips, and Tanaya Beatty starring.

August 28 Netflix debut locked for Alex North’s psychological horror adaptation The Whisper Man; James Ashcroft directs with Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, Michael Keaton, Michelle Monaghan, Hamish Linklater and Owen Teague aboard, while AGBO produces.

BloodStream drops Terror in the Andes (El Ucumar) on Aug. 11; Octavio Revol Molina’s Argentine creature feature sends a scientific expedition into the jungle as the Ucumar myth turns real.

Breaking Glass Pictures sets an Aug. 16 AVOD rollout for SubHysteria 2026 on Tubi and other ad-supported platforms; Leonard Zelig’s expanded subway-survival thriller revisits the 2010 indie for a new audience.

The Last House hit No. 1 on Netflix worldwide and in the UK days after launch; the sci-fi horror has already logged a 27% Rotten Tomatoes score while becoming the streamer’s most-watched movie. The early chart surge gives Netflix another proof point for confinement-driven genre originals.

Award-winning BABYSITTER MURDERS is headed to Crypt TV, giving the short-form horror platform another genre title in its pipeline. No terms or rights details are disclosed.

Korean horror pic Son Eomneun Nal has wrapped principal photography and moved into post; Heo Jeong is steering the single-day shamanic thriller into delivery.

World premiere lands at Tubi FrightFest on Aug. 30; Chris Lightbody and Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.'s feature debut pairs Lexi Underwood, Case Walker and Kat Cunning with a bloodthirsty karaoke machine.

North American premiere hits Fantasia after Rotterdam and the Cannes Frontieres Buyers Showcase; Minos Papas' Cyprus-set folk-horror co-production shoots entirely on location in a 15th-century village and leans on Kalikantzari lore.

AI is being pitched as a cost lever for $40M to $90M mid-budget films, with Brad Pitt arguing the tech could help more projects get financed. The comments track with wider VFX experimentation across filmmakers like Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh, and Paul Schrader.

It’s officially the biggest summer at the box office since COVID, thanks to blockbusters like “The Odyssey” and “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” as well as breakouts like “Backrooms and “Obsession.”

Shudder locks an August exclusive premiere for Brock Bodell’s claustrophobic horror-thriller Hellcat; the streamer is using the road-set psychological feature to fill its summer genre slate.

Netflix is reworking the rollout for Charlie Hunnam’s returning horror series, signaling a shift in how the streamer plans to window the title.

Amazon has a Carpenter-tied TV series in the pipeline, with title, plot, and Carpenter’s role still under wraps; Sandy King says an announcement is coming. Carpenter says he’s come close to another feature, but financing and cost have kept him out of the chair.

Peacock’s Crystal Lake lands Oct. 15, with Brad Caleb Kane and Linda Cardellini selling a Pamela Voorhees origin arc that leans hard into the franchise’s body-horror kill work and legacy beats.

Freddy vs. Jason opened Aug. 15, 2003, earning $36.4M in three days and $116.6M worldwide on a $30M budget. A proposed sequel adding Ash stalled over New Line, Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell’s rights and creative-control demands.

Apple TV and Legendary keep building out their untitled Monsterverse series, adding Connie Nielsen and Stana Katic as JD Dillard readies the pilot and Joby Harold continues to steer the expansion of the Godzilla/Kong universe.

Bloodlines: Game of Death 3 wraps production, moving the horror-franchise entry into post as the larger Game of Death universe keeps expanding across films and media.

Five Nights at Freddy’s fans will soon be able to visit the most infamous pizza restaurant in horror history, because a real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza is coming to New Jersey

Universal Studios is adding Obsession’s Nikki and Terrifier’s Art the Clown as roaming Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood characters; the cross-promo lands after Obsession nearly hit $500M worldwide on a $750K budget and Terrifier 3 cleared $90M on $2M.

Netflix sets Nov. 11 for Quinn Shephard's eight-episode Catholic-horror teen psychodrama The Body; first-look images land with Sofia Wylie, Gabby Windey and a North Road/Felix Culpa producing stack behind the series.

Amazon MGM Studios rolls out the trailer and October 2, 2026 release date for Verity; Michael Showalter's Colleen Hoover adaptation wrapped principal photography in April after a February 2025 start, with Nick Antosca scripting.

Vault Comics and Red Hook Studios launch a canonical Darkest Dungeon graphic novel line; BackerKit sign-ups are live and the first books land in October, with Chris Bourassa overseeing lore continuity.