Netflix, Prime Video & Sony Pictures

Indie horror’s economics are getting harsher even as production gets easier; the roundtable lays out shrinking crews, sliding rates and a writing process shaped by budget, access and survival. Filmmakers describe no-budget horror as a labor-heavy machine that depends on flexibility, multi-hyphenates and underpaid work to get made.

Cineverse sets Portal to Hell for Digital and VOD on Sept. 8, with Keith David and Richard Kind headlining the indie horror comedy from Trey Holland.

Prime Video’s eight-episode RoboCop series has Dan Stevens aboard as Alex Murphy, with Peter Ocko showrunning and James Wan, Michael Clear and original co-writer Ed Neumeier producing. Stevens says the reboot has to keep Verhoeven-era violence, satire and grime intact.

Artists First signs Alexander Henderson for management; the self-taught writer-director-producer broke out with horror short Mama Agnes and built 60M+ views across his YouTube-driven catalog, and is now pushing grounded horror/supernatural work into film and TV.

Friday the 13th co-creator Victor Miller dies at 86; the screenwriter helped launch one of horror's most durable slasher IPs.

Paramount+ revives Peak Screaming for 2026, with Scary Movie (2026) set to debut on September 3 and the service leaning harder into seasonal horror curation.

Ryu Jun-yeol is eyeing an acquisition/production lane built around indie-scale projects, saying he wants to back films he personally wants to see; his Netflix psychological thriller ‘Mousetrap’ marks a deeper move into creative development.

Issue 1518 logs 114 active film and TV listings; the genre-heavy stack includes Afterlife with Archie, Crouch End, The Crying Man, A Body in the Woods, and Blasphemous.

Tubi takes Tommy Wiseau’s long-gestating shark pic this Friday, giving Big Shark its first real streaming window after years in limbo.

Netflix has set Ink for a U.S. theatrical launch on Dec. 11, 2026, followed by a Jan. 8, 2027 debut on Netflix and in UK cinemas. Studiocanal fully financed the Danny Boyle thriller and will handle theatrical distribution across multiple territories after its Venice world premiere.

TV Asahi’s largest original goes global on Netflix with 190-country rollout, multi-language subs and English/Spanish dubs; the Kyoto-shot series is a flagship for the network’s international push.

Venice title centers on a mother-daughter Faustian pact with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as demonic figure The Stranger; Paolo Strippoli frames it as a psychological thriller rather than horror. Propaganda and Kazak Productions co-produce, with Jasmine Trinca, Romana Maggiora Vergano and Adriano Giannini in the cast.

Pilot debut for Thiago Kling’s psychological thriller series packed Regal Winter Park Village; the Orlando indie now shops for a full-series continuation after years in development.

Venice buzz builds around Martin McDonagh's 'Wild Horse Nine' and Werner Herzog's 'Bucking Fastard'; the festival slate is drawing attention without any sale or acquisition attached.

South London Film Festival runs Sept. 12-27 in Brixton with UK premiere horror short Spilled Milk, executive produced by Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw; the slate also includes awards showcase shorts, networking, and a new Icon Award.

Netflix orders Mettlemouse’s undercover-couples format as Playing with Matches, extending its reality push with another relationship competition for the UK and global stream.

Great Island options Clíodhna O’Sullivan’s Her Hidden Fire and its sequels for an eight-part YA series, with the full trilogy mapped as a three-season franchise; no streamer or network is attached yet.

Sony sets a Nov. 6 global rollout for Ramayana, the two-part Indian fantasy epic from Prime Focus Studios and Nitesh Tiwari. The release will span multiple international languages, including an English version, with music by Hans Zimmer and A.R. Rahman.

Prime Video’s Danger Money is before cameras in Malta, confirming the project is in production; no cast or budget details are attached.

35mm film, matte paintings, and Vancouver Island locations shape Jane Schoenbrun’s queer meta slasher; Eric Yue says the analog workflow was central to the movie’s dirtier, more tactile look. The film won Cannes’ Queer Palm and is now playing in U.S. and U.K. cinemas.

Sony is touting practical-effects footage from Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil set while locking in an R rating and a Sept. 18, 2026 theatrical/IMAX rollout.

Netflix and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia are financing a 4K restoration of Tinto Brass’ 1967 Col cuore in gola, with Venice set as the pre-opening gala and an Italy Netflix debut locked for Sept. 15.

No project is attached, but Gillian Anderson says Robert Eggers is the horror director she most wants to work with and recalls past development conversations with Jason Blum. She says many of the offers she received were haunted-house plays, even as she keeps circling a return to genre.

Sony Pictures and Story Kitchen lock film rights to The Drifter, the 2025 pulp thriller video game; multiple writers and directors are now pitching takes. Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg are on producing duties as the adaptation moves into development.