Horror Industry News — Friday, August 28, 2026

Paramount Primal is developing a feature adaptation of Nick Cutter’s The Troop, with Chris Basler scripting and Lyrical Media producing for Paramount’s new genre label.

Sony locks Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil for Sept. 18, 2026; Prague doubled for Raccoon City, PlayStation Productions is aboard, and Constantin / Vertigo co-finance the reboot as an original courier-led take.

Netflix gives Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery the series green light; Jeff Rake, Margaret Easley and Laura Putney will co-create and showrun the spinoff, with Warner Bros. Television producing and a new cast fronting the next puzzle-box mystery.

Season 2 pickup lands before the Aug. 31 finale; Hulu says the serial-killer thriller is building week over week and already broke into Nielsen's Top 10 on launch week. 20th Television and Searchlight Television keep Emmy Rossum, Elizabeth Meriwether and Brian Kirk in play after the breakout start.

HBO Max’s Latin American push now includes six-episode psychological thriller Mataviejitas: The Serial Killer, currently shooting in Mexico City; Exile Content produces with Humberto Hinojosa showrunning and co-directing alongside J.M. Cravioto.

Prime Video orders Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone as a series from Fifth Season, Made Up Stories and showrunner David Hemingson; Penn Badgley toplines the adaptation of Benjamin Stevenson’s bestseller. The whodunit follows a family reunion in Vermont that turns lethal after a snowstorm traps everyone inside.

Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man heads to digital and streaming in September after its initial run; BayView Entertainment is widening the reach on the splatter title.

BayView Entertainment rolls out Pay to Die on Amazon and Fandango at Home, giving Shawn C. Phillips and Lauren Francesca’s horror-comedy a wider digital berth.

Agata Trzebuchowska’s horror feature Sick is heading to Fantastic Fest 2026 with Konrad Kąkol, Katarzyna Łubik, Monika Niemczyk, Julian Świeżewski and Eliza Rycembel aboard; the setup plays as isolation horror in the Polish countryside.

Fangoria Studios’ Goodbye, Monster lands at Fantastic Fest 2026, keeping the title on the genre-festival circuit and giving the studio another horror showcase ahead of broader distribution.

Andrew Bachelor makes his feature directorial debut on supernatural horror Tap Twice while starring in the lead; the setup puts a grieving couple at an isolated estate with walls that record their secrets.

GUNGNIR Publishing teams with Jeff Spry on Killride, a sci-fi horror graphic novel rolling out in 2027; the original IP extends a publisher-led genre lane outside film and TV.

World premiere slot at FrightFest London for Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis’ motel-set thriller; Corin Clay, Kevin Ignatius and Laura lm star, with a teaser rolled out ahead of the Aug. 31 ODEON Luxe Leicester Square screening.

50+ shorts and features across Sept. 25-27; three UK feature premieres, two world premieres and a Dead by Daylight immersive activation anchor Dead Northern's York lineup, with Dead Ink Books and INDICATOR joining the lobby vendors.

Netflix’s finished adaptation of Alex North’s The Whisper Man premieres globally after AGBO’s 2018 option set the project in motion. Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton and James Ashcroft anchor the crime-thriller, with Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer on script.

Investigation Discovery brings Toxic back for a new season this fall; Elizabeth Chambers returns to steer the true-crime series’ toxic-relationship focus.

UK premiere slot locked for 'Bunny Rabbit' at FrightFest London; another genre-title added to the 2026 festival lineup.

TIFF slots Ron Murphy’s Back in Black as a Centerpiece world premiere; the funeral-home dark comedy gets a festival launch but no sale or financing news.

Amsterdam-set gangland thriller Nozem rolls cameras next week with Buddy Boerkoel, Daniel Fathers, Francesca van Neuren and Ibrahim Naji in the cast; writer-director Scott Vickers is steering the feature after his horror outing Matriarch.

Vertical Entertainment will release Mark Heyman’s PENDULUM nationwide in theaters Jan. 1, 2027, marking the BLACK SWAN screenwriter’s feature directorial debut; Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor star, with Darren Aronofsky producing.

Level 33 Entertainment will release Laszlo Illes’ EVER AFTER in U.S. and Canadian theaters on September 4, 2026. The fairy-tale survival horror stars Mark Sheppard, Bonnie Aarons, Michael Berryman, Kane Hodder and Malcolm McDowell.

Chris Hansen is weighing legal action over A24’s Primetime, calling the Robert Pattinson-led thriller exploitative and objecting to the use of his name and family members.

Matt and Ross Duffer named Josh Stern president of Upside Down Pictures, operating under their four-year Paramount overall deal spanning film, TV and direct-to-consumer. Stern joins from North Road, where he was EVP Television.

Shudder has released the first trailer for German sports horror Bloody Tennis, acquired just weeks ago; the film is set to premiere on the streamer at the end of next month.

John Carpenter’s 1994 horror film In the Mouth of Madness had a troubled production and relied on practical effects; its unusual behind-the-scenes history is examined in a retrospective on the cult title.

Focus Features has launched a new merchandise line for Robert Eggers’ WERWULF, written with Sjón and starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp; shop at FocusFeatures.com/shop.

Lionsgate releases the 2009 slasher Sorority Row in a limited 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/Digital Steelbook on Sept. 15, 2026, with Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, new featurettes, legacy extras and Vance Kelly artwork.

Black Mandala’s Australian supernatural horror Effigy has wrapped and is heading into festival play; Myles McEwen and Ripley Stevens direct the 1989-set haunting with Chris Gun and Lauren Koopowitz starring.

Skybound/Image Comics’ Creepshow Vol. 5 #1 launches September 16, 2026, in comic shops and digitally for $3.99, with two new horror stories, art by Tyler Boss, Lorenzo De Felici and Francesca Ciregia, plus three variant covers.