Horror Industry News — Sunday, August 30, 2026

Capcom’s Resident Evil reboot is being sold as a love-letter-to-the-games approach, not a literal adaptation; tracking has the zombie pic at $40M-$50M for its opening weekend.

Fantastic Fest is set for Sept. 17-24 in Austin with 35 world premieres, 21 international/North American premieres, and 14 U.S. premieres; Lionsgate opens with Mike P. Nelson’s Beware Boiúna, while Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil gets a gala screening.

Nationwide theatrical rollout lands Oct. 16 for ONE EYE OPEN; BayView Entertainment is positioning the supernatural home-invasion thriller as a Halloween-season play.

Ketchup Entertainment spent $50 million to land Warner Bros.-shelved "Coyote vs. Acme," and the acquisition is heading for a $13-14 million opening weekend; the distributor is already logging its biggest launch to date.

Jane Schoenbrun’s next horror feature surfaces as the follow-up to I Saw the TV Glow; Camp Miasma is in the mix, but no casting or deal details are attached yet.

Tubi FrightFest 2026 slot for Lesions; the title lands in the festival pipeline with genre positioning intact.

Tubi FrightFest 2026 slot for Grind; the title enters the fest lineup as a genre-play entry.

Tubi FrightFest 2026 slot for Ithaqua; the project surfaces as a festival-side genre title.

Fifth Season is financing and producing Alma Har’el’s Wet with 193 handling international sales; Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Connor Storrie and Odessa A’zion are in early talks, with a Spain shoot eyed for early next year.

Sitges hands Robert Eggers its Time Machine Award and rolls a first clip from 'Werwulf,' a 14th-century folk-horror feature from Focus Features and Universal Pictures. The film is co-written with Sjón and already has a Jan. 8, 2027 Spanish theatrical date attached; the cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe.

Stewart Sparke’s sci-fi horror Dead Reset, screening at FrightFest 2026, stars Daniel Thrace as Cole, a surgeon trapped in a death-reset loop while extracting a tentacled creature; practical body horror and Alien/Cube influences anchor the film.

Jermias Segovia’s feature debut Sweet Violence received its UK premiere at FrightFest 2026, following grieving families who hire dark-web hitman Maldonado to kill Esteban, a convicted killer who denies the crime; the £6,000 fee later quintuples.

Zip Wire, screening at FrightFest 2026, stars MyAnna Buring as researcher Amy, whose stolen cure research and murdered partner force her onto a Dolomite Mountains zip wire while pursued by Joseph Millson’s villain Evan.

Microsoft is shopping a package of Xbox game IP, including Halo, The Elder Scrolls, Diablo and Warcraft, to studios and streamers as it looks to rebuild its Hollywood adaptation push.

HBO Max adds Talk to Me and select Final Destination films on September 1, followed by Jay-Z in 8 on September 18 and Kane Parsons’ box-office horror hit Backrooms on September 25; Lanterns continues Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.

The Whisper Man opened at No. 1 on Netflix’s Top 10; the serial-killer thriller gives the streamer another high-profile genre performer despite soft critic and audience scores.

Netflix locks Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story for Sept. 17 with all eight episodes up front; Ella Beatty, Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall lead Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s latest true-crime entry.

Gilford confirms he’s out of Carrie and The Exorcist: Martyrs; he praises Sam Sloyan and Matthew Lillard and says he’d reteam with Mike Flanagan again.

NEON and TheaterEars launch the Director’s Experience for Alexander Ullom’s It Ends Friday, Aug. 28, at participating U.S. theaters, synchronizing commentary from Ullom, Carrie Carusone and Evan Barber via the free app.