Amazon MGM Studios, Mike Flanagan & Neon

Neon and Blumhouse Atomic Monster co-finance Spencer Lackey's debut feature Lust; Lackey writes and directs after building a 7 million-follower horror short-form audience. Steven Schneider, Jason Blum and James Wan are producing via Spooky Pictures and Blumhouse Atomic Monster.

20th Century Studios' giant-python survival horror Crush enters production in Australia this November; Julius Avery directs Sarah Catherine Hook from John Fischer's script, with Scott Glassgold and Temple Hill producing.

TriStar, Constantin Film and Davis Films’ Resident Evil is locked for Sept. 18, 2026; Cregger and Austin Abrams tease a zombie-heavy, first-person survival take after screening the opening 30 minutes.

TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market has added Frontières for its first Asia showcase, bringing horror and thriller projects into the 24-title financing slate. Ten of the selected projects pitch Oct. 28, with body horror, Asian co-productions and an open-pitch session aimed at closing the last budget gaps.

Sitges sets the world premiere of Montenegrin minority co-pro Mraz in main competition; the horror-fantasy feature is backed by MEDIA, Eurimages and regional film funds, with Parangal film and Plan 9 among the key producers.

Shudder adds a fully restored 4K Before the Fall this month, giving the Spanish suspense title a fresh streaming life and pairing it with F. Javier Gutiérrez’s The Wait. The film’s Wes Craven remake connection adds extra horror lineage value for the platform play.

Curry Barker’s sub-$1M indie horror Obsession sold to Focus Features for $16M after TIFF 2025 and grossed over $500M; ahead of TIFF 2026’s first official market, buyers are seeking original, Gen Z-focused films.

Bruce Campbell is dialing back his producer role on Evil Dead, taking another step away from the franchise while staying loosely involved after years alongside Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. The move softens his hands-on franchise presence without cutting him out of the Deadites orbit entirely.

Dark Sky Films sets WHO’S WATCHING for a Sept. 18 digital and select-theater release, then rolls out a 14-city screening tour with Tim Kasher and live acoustic sets; Zachary Ray Sherman won Best Actor at Brooklyn Horror.

Cineverse puts Portal to Hell on digital and VOD September 8, with select theatrical play at the front end; the festival-circulated horror-comedy from Woody Bess stars Keith David and Richard Kind.

FilmQuest has locked its 2026 lineup for Oct. 22-31 in Provo, with world premieres including The Avalanche, The Relic: Dragon, Whiskey Throttle and The Crawling plus regional/U.S. bows for Sender, Drag, Ithaqua, Grind and The VelociPastor 2. Jamie Lee Curtis, Rhea Seehorn, David Dastmalchian and other genre names anchor a slate spanning horror, sci-fi, fantasy and thriller.

The Horror Collective and BloodStream roll Carry the Darkness out of its exclusive streamer window onto digital and Blu-ray today; Douglas Forrester's supernatural horror pic widens after the BloodStream run.

Yellowjackets is compressing its endgame into four seasons; Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson say the original five-season roadmap got tightened to keep the story moving. The Showtime survival horror series now closes out this November on Paramount+.

Onimusha: Way of the Sword moved 1 million units on launch day, pushing the franchise past 10 million lifetime sales. Capcom is using the spike to reaffirm support for dormant IP.

Prime Video orders Free Spirits: The Backpacker Poisonings and Madness of Three plus season 4 of The Test; first major local commission since Australia’s streaming rules kicked in, with all three due globally in 2027.

Netflix has ordered a new Lonesome Dove series from Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart after Teton Ridge acquired the McMurtry rights and packaged the adaptation. The straight-to-series order extends Netflix’s East of Eden relationship with the duo.

Three Guns At Dawn has been reconfigured as Paul Schrader’s first AI-generated feature after Antoine Fuqua exited the project. The crime drama centers on three Black brothers in a violent three-way showdown, with Schrader leaning on AI-generated human prototypes to cast the film.

Onslaught is being framed as the capstone to Wingard and Barrett’s military-horror lane, linking the new film back to The Guest and You’re Next.

Digital rental/purchase lands next week on participating platforms, with the disc rollout following on Nov. 3; Warner Bros. is extending the theatrical title into home entertainment.

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser joins Halloween Horror Nights 2026 in Orlando and Hollywood, with a walkthrough spanning the first three films, Pinhead, the Cenobites and the Lament Configuration, plus explicit bondage, torture and sexual themes.

MVD lines up Bunker Heights for Oct. 13 on Blu-ray, DVD and digital worldwide; the 2-disc limited edition adds a director’s cut, 121-minute extended cut and 80-minute making-of doc, with a Sept. 29 Indianapolis screening.

Sony and Netflix’s new five-year global Pay-1 pact is valued at over $7 billion, extending Sony theatrical titles to Netflix worldwide starting with films released from 2027 through 2032. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the last MCU Spider-Man title under the original U.S.-only window, with PVOD and Netflix timing likely landing in late 2026.

Casper Kelly’s feature debut “Buddy,” starring Keegan-Michael Key as an orange unicorn who slaughters viewers, opened Aug. 28 to $5.3 million and has grossed nearly $16 million through Labor Day. Roadside Attractions and Saban Films acquired it after Sundance.

Prime Video sets Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Carrie for Oct. 7, 2026; the full trailer spotlights Summer H. Howell as Carrie White and frames the Stephen King adaptation as a modern expansion of the original story. Amazon MGM Studios backs the series, with Kate Siegel, Axelle Carolyn, Kyra Sedgwick and Hiromi Kamata directing the season.

World premiere set for New York Film Festival on Sept. 26; North American theatrical rollout lands Nov. 6. Toho’s trailer tees up a new kaiju threat after Minus One’s breakout run.

Elvira boards Tubi’s R.L. Stine sequel as Cassandra, a witch tied to ancient magic; Jem Garrard returns to write/direct and the film lands on Oct. 9 as part of Terror on Tubi.

Final season locked for 2027; AMC+ drops first-look teaser and images as Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride return to Spain for the spinoff’s conclusion.

Warner Bros. has the film in a Valentine’s Day 2027 theatrical slot after moving it off Halloween 2026; the first trailer sells Gyllenhaal and Dynevor as a creepy supernatural couple.

NEON has set a Christmas Day limited release for Artificial after locking distribution rights; the Luca Guadagnino title now heads to NYFF and BFI London before a January 2028 wide rollout.