Mike Flanagan, Amazon MGM Studios & Prime Video

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

San Diego International Film Festival rolls out 90 films from 22 countries; genre titles in the 25th-anniversary lineup include Dead Deer High, Five Kinds of Fear, Mallory’s Ghost and Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream.

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.

Alamo Exclusives books Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson’s Littermates into 30-plus Alamo Drafthouse locations Nov. 6, with a Fantastic Fest presentation Sept. 20. The 15-day indie’s dystopian domestic refuge premise gives Alamo a scrappy genre-adjacent play beyond documentary bookings.

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.

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 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.

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+.

Beta Film launches Blindspot Berlin at TIFF Primetime; the six-part true-crime thriller bows Sept. 13, with ARD streaming set for Oct. 20 and linear rollout following on Nov. 1.

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.

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.

Aaron Harvey’s next sci-fi thriller, The Saviors, pairs Theo Rossi and Ron Perlman again; the film centers on a couple whose lives implode after they rent out a garage to mysterious tenants. Come With Me is now in select theaters, but the new project tease is the real intel here.

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.

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.