Horror Industry News — Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Screen Gems and Spyglass tap Dave Boyle to direct a modern reimagining of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse; Luke Piotrowski scripts, with Parker Finn and Jonathan Fass producing for Bad Feeling.

Tubi is rolling out Bite Size Terror, a 10-episode short-form horror anthology landing in the Terror on Tubi Hub this fall; Peter Rice and GJMD Studio are producing as the streamer leans harder into bite-sized originals and social-feed-style programming.

Panorama Studios has kicked off principal photography on its first Tamil-language film, a London-shot psychological horror led by Trisha Krishnan and directed by Raja Krishna Menon; Locomotive Global co-produces as the banner expands its elevated-horror pipeline.

Amazon MGM Studios' Seasons keeps building its cast, with Wes Studi and Dane DiLiegro joining Jack Reynor, Lily James, Ron Perlman and Elizabeth McGovern. Drew Hancock's horror feature is still in casting-package mode.

Resident Evil lands in IMAX Sept. 17 for early access before a Sept. 18 wide release; Cregger’s reboot is the franchise’s first Filmed For IMAX entry, with 33 minutes in expanded aspect ratio and a custom sound mix. Zach Cregger co-wrote the standalone story with Shay Hatten, while Sony and IMAX lean into premium-format positioning.

Roadside Attractions and Saban Films set Oct. 16 for Crawlers, Ángel Gómez Hernández’s spider-infested apartment-block creature feature starring Matilda Lutz. The film marks the first feature from Badlands, the new Thunder Road/Scott Strauss collaboration.

JioHotstar sets Sept. 17 OTT debut for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, with Hindi, Telugu and Tamil dubs rolling out on the streamer. The monster pic has already cleared more than $65 million worldwide on a $22 million budget after its April theatrical run in India.

$70 million worldwide rights sale lands Amazon MGM's action-thriller Supermax; David Gordon Green is shooting in New South Wales with Melissa Leo joining a cast led by Will Smith. The Miramax package is headed to Prime Video after Amazon MGM picked up the film from Miramax in May.

Anthony Cousins extends cult horror pic Frogman into The Kentucky Goblins, a new found-footage follow-up set in the same universe.

Sony Pictures Classics holds North American, Southeast Asian and worldwide airline rights excluding France; FilmNation handles international sales, with CAA Media Finance and WME repping.

Gal Gadot says Bitcoin used AI for sets and lighting while keeping performances hands-on, and SAG already called her lawyers for pointers on contract language. The production underscores how fast AI is pushing labor protections and on-set economics into renegotiation.

Prime Video, AMC+ and Stan lock an October launch for Kill Jackie, with Fremantle selling the eight-part Nick Harkaway adaptation across the UK, U.S., Canada and multiple foreign territories.

Grimmfest is stacking its 2026 guest list with filmmakers and cast for Q&As on UK and world premieres across haunted house, folk-horror, body horror, spider horror and supernatural thrillers. Highlights include Adrienne Barbeau on The Fog and new titles from Jacob Santana, Minos Papas, Damien Fannon, Ángel Gómez Hernández and QUARXX.

Festival’s 39th edition begins Oct. 26.

Na Hong-jin’s creature-survival thriller lands a Sept. 25 India theatrical rollout through Star Entertainment Pvt Ltd in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Korean after its Cannes Competition premiere. The 160-minute Plus M/Forged Films title is being positioned as a wide-access event play for the director’s first feature since The Wailing.

Grimmfest has tapped an industry-led jury to hand out its Reaper Awards across feature, screenplay, SFX, scare and other craft categories. The panel includes Xavier Aldana Reyes, Tim Scaping, Tom Atkinson and Jennifer Trudrung, with winners due after the festival in mid-October.

Reunites the Clean and Sober co-stars 40 years after their first collaboration.

The Whisper Man turned a 45-day New Jersey shoot into a local production showcase, employing 140 cast and crew, 1,400 extras and daily hires across 22 towns and 650 vendors. The Netflix thriller also opened with 23.2M global views, giving the streamer a fresh performance data point for its serial-killer fare.

Neon has set Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI drama Artificial for NYFF and the London Film Festival after Amazon MGM dropped the film post-greenlight; the package still centers on Sam Altman, Andrew Garfield, and AI boardroom chaos.

CBC’s fall 2026 audio slate includes Adrienne Arsenault’s When It All Went Wrong, premiering Oct. 22 with a four-part The Missing Boys arc. New series include The Most Wanted Olympian (Oct. 15) and Agent Layla (Sept. 21); West of Centre and Two Blocks from the White House move to radio.

SENDER lands its international debut at Sitges on Oct. 11-12 after award wins at SXSW, Sidewalk, Chattanooga and Portland. Jamie Lee Curtis produces and stars with David Dastmalchian, Britt Lower and Rhea Seehorn; theatrical rollout is set for 2027.

STX Entertainment and Aggregate Films are mounting PRƎPPY, with Janicza Bravo set to direct and Kit Connor and Diana Silvers on board to star. The true-crime feature centers on the Preppy Killer case and is being built from an original screenplay by David Levine and Rose Lichter-Marck.

Victor Miller, who scripted Friday the 13th and helped codify the summer-camp slasher template, dies at 86; the film launched one of horror’s most durable franchises and remains a genre cornerstone.

Hammer Films’ 4K restoration of Terence Fisher’s 1958 Horror of Dracula, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, arrives in October with roughly three minutes of footage cut from U.S. and U.K. releases; the limited edition ships September 4.

$10,000 microbudget found-footage meta slasher lands at FOUND TV as a FOUND Original for early 2027; Dillon Brown directs, with Horror Dadz Production and Echo Cell Productions attached.

Chroma books the gothic horror comedy for a nationwide theatrical run this October; On Demand follows Dec. 1. Chris Colfer and Alice Krige star.

Global Constellation has locked a stack of pre-sales on Jan Holoubek’s WWII noir thriller ahead of Toronto Platform; Benelux, the Western Balkans and Brazil join France and Spain, with Warner Bros. set for a Polish theatrical bow.