Horror Industry News — Saturday, August 15, 2026

Netflix gives Sid & Zoey a straight-to-series order; Jon Kasdan and John Shiban co-create the supernatural mystery/romance, with Bad Robot and Blumhouse Atomic Monster producing.

Seven genre projects land in Frontières at TIFF: The Market, with psychological horror, folk horror, body horror and dark-comedy packages all shopping in Toronto. Ran Jing's Felt is actively seeking a lead production company and Canadian co-production partners, keeping the market focus on financing and packaging.

Shudder’s Overlook buy Goody Goody lands on the platform Sept. 18; Raymond Creamer’s home-birth horror thriller already played Calgary Underground, Panic Fest and Overlook before its streaming date.

Jenna Kanell boards Kevin Lewis' supernatural horror Mercy Good; Stephen Lang is already set, while Scatena & Rosner Films takes foreign sales and the package adds new producing EPs.

Carpenter says The Thing 2 is actively being worked; Universal and Blumhouse have explored another take on the John W. Campbell Jr. source material, but the sequel is still not greenlit.

The Horror Collective has snapped up Cameron Francis' contained supernatural thriller Blood Secret ahead of its Tubi FrightFest world premiere. The genre label is reuniting with Francis after Cover, which it also acquired and released via BloodStream.

Insidious: Out of the Further is tracking a $23M-$28M domestic launch and could finally have the firepower to unseat Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is pacing for another $30M-plus frame. Sony and Blumhouse keep the franchise's economics lean as the series leans on international upside.

Pixar moves 'Ghost Market' back to theatrical for March 10, 2028 after it originated as a Disney+ original series; Pete Docter says the supernatural feature follows a kid who stumbles into a hidden market of hungry ghosts.

Terror Films Releasing is taking Joshua Brucker and Hunter Nino's found-footage horror Night Terror worldwide on Sept. 4 across Tubi, Chilling, The Roku Channel, Fandango at Home and more. The sleep-paralysis feature marks a multi-platform AVOD/SVOD rollout for the indie title.

The Alien Report lands free on Tubi after a nine-festival run and a Night Mask Award win; the micro-budget sci-fi horror follows a hearing-aid camera that captures alien encounters in Chicago.

Lionsgate is lining up a fall 4K UHD of Sorority Row, giving Steward Hendler’s 2009 horror-thriller a fresh remaster for home video.

Mike P. Nelson's creature survival horror Boiúna is locked for a U.S. theatrical release on Oct. 2, 2026. Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe and Logan Marshall-Green star; Alan McElroy wrote from a Tony Giglio story for producers Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer.

Cynefilms has set Cyrus Neshvad's psychological horror Child for UK cinemas on Oct. 2 after its Raindance first-feature bow and Discovery Award nomination. Malik Zidi, Brigitte Urhausen, Lydia Indjova, Anne Klein and Dmytro Yaroshenko star.

Paramount Pictures is rolling André Øvredal's horror-thriller Passenger out on Blu-ray and DVD, with Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo aboard. The 93-minute R-rated feature follows a demonic presence that hits a remote highway van-life trip.

Trail 3 Films and Gecko Films launch Shadow Peak as an interactive horror series that hands season 2 choices to the audience. The project is framed as a cross-border collaboration built for audience participation.

UK digital launch lands Aug. 17 via Miracle Media; The Demon Detective stars Doug Jones, Adrienne Barbeau and Vivica A. Fox. The release gives the indie horror title an international platform play without disclosed deal terms.

Nightmare in the Ozarks returns to historic Eureka Springs, Arkansas, October 21–24.

World sales company M-Appeal boarded Jie Dong’s debut feature ahead of its Venice Critics’ Week premiere; the Shanghai-set mystery folds memory, reality and the digital world into a festival-launch package from Do Something Films. The move gives the title international sales heat before its first screening.

Mike Flanagan is set to direct a new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist.

Nine-episode FX adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards adds Igby Rigney, Hayes Warner, Kaia Garber, Graham Campbell, Homer Gere, Evan Rachel Wood, and Wes Bentley. The 1981 prep-school serial-killer setup pushes Ryan Murphy's latest squarely into psychological-thriller territory.

New Zealand clears Halloween: The Game after Australia’s rating denial blocked the title’s Australasian rollout; IllFonic can now ship the horror game into NZ.

Pacific Rim's $411 million worldwide gross still makes it Guillermo del Toro's top earner; Legendary is still developing a prequel series after Pacific Rim: Uprising stalled at $291 million worldwide on a $155 million production budget.

Halloween 2026 UK theatrical slot lands for gothic thriller City of Masks; BUFF Studios is handling the rollout as Starmist Films touts its debut feature and a second fully financed title already in casting.

Atmospheric supernatural Gothic horror The Nameless Ballad bows at FrightFest; Federico Zampaglione pivots from The Well’s gore into a musician-centered obsession story built from his own music-industry anxiety.

Warner Bros.’ $144 ’80s Horror 5-Film Steelbook Library Case Set arrives October 6, 2026, exclusively via Amazon pre-order. The VHS-inspired set includes 4K UHD, Blu-ray and digital copies of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, The Lost Boys, The Shining and Little Shop of Horrors.

Netflix lines up a library exit for Denzel Washington’s supernatural crime thriller, another catalog pruning move as the streamer trims older genre-adjacent titles.

Hammer Films' first in-house production of its new era, Ithaqua, gets first-look poster and images ahead of a FrightFest world premiere.

Gungnir Publishing has signed Jeff Spry to write Killride, a horror graphic novel about a hellish roller coaster; launch is slated for 2027.

John Carpenter’s Cathedral is now a full-length graphic novel with a companion metal score; Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies built the music from Carpenter’s dream, while Sandy King and Sean Sobczak fleshed out the book.