Netflix & Toronto International Film Festival

$10M+ TIFF Midnight Madness sale lands Joshua Guiliano’s River at Universal and Blumhouse after IFC dropped the title in bidding. The horror pic follows siblings stranded on a country boat and stalked by a faceless killer.

Apple TV has already commissioned a second Widow’s Bay season; the horror-comedy’s Emmy sweep added five more comedy trophies and pushed the show to 14 wins overall.

Vernon Wells boards Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light as EP and cast; Eric Roberts, Lisa Wilcox and Sandy Johnson are also aboard, with North Carolina production set for October 2026 and a 2027 release planned.

Fantastic Fest sets an eight-day 2026 run with a Resident Evil premiere, opening-night world debut Beware Boiuna, and the Playhouse world premiere out of its Fantastic Pitches financing program.

Boutique Filmes, Globo Filmes, Ukbar Filmes and Sony Pictures International Productions Brazil are teaming on YA thriller The Mystery of the 5 Stars, with Vera Egito directing and Marina Ruy Barbosa, João Guilherme and José Condessa attached. Shoot is eyed for later this year, with São Paulo state funding helping unlock a bigger budget and Sony handling distribution.

MTV Finland has greenlit Gutsy Pictures’ six-part psycho-thriller ‘Dangerous Woman,’ with Zeitsprung and Götafilm aboard as co-producers and TV4 already pre-buying Sweden; production is due later this year on the Zaida Bergroth-helmed series.

Brad Anderson and Stephen Gevedon are actively developing a Session 9 prequel, surfacing the project on the cult title's 25th-anniversary run.

Access:Horror Film Festival returns Sept. 25 with an in-person opener at Alamo Drafthouse Winchester and a month-long virtual run through Nov. 1; Ariel Baska's 2026 lineup centers disability, medical racism, neurodivergence and queer persecution. FX also stages an AHS:13 immersive in Los Angeles on Sept. 18-19 that ends with a sneak peek at the next chapter.

YouTube is building an ad model around the 2029 Oscars broadcast, using creator-led storytelling and brand sponsorship packages to monetize live-event culture at scale.

Dead And SudBuried Horrorthon has set its 2026 run for Oct. 22-25 in Sudbury, Suffolk, keeping a dedicated U.K. horror-festival slot on the calendar. The lineup announcement gives genre buyers and filmmakers an early read on the fest’s 2026 programming mix.

Eight-episode YAGA premieres Oct. 23 on Crave after TIFF and NYCC playdates; Bell Media's Baba Yaga reimagining is already sold to AMC+ in the U.S., Sky, HBO Max Europe and Foxtel, with a companion podcast launching day-and-date.

Prequel series also restores Pamela Voorhees, Jason Voorhees and Crazy Ralph from the 1980 original.

Tubi is launching Terror on Tubi with Buzzkill, a brand-new slasher original from Jem Garrard that premieres later this month. The move adds another horror title to Tubi’s original-film pipeline and keeps the AVOD platform leaning into genre as a retention play.

11-day Netflix shoot in Shelter Island carries more than $100K in town fees and deposits and brings about 200 cast and crew; Women Like Us is set for a late-September production window with Whoopi Goldberg leading the cast.

STUDIOCANAL sets Ice Cream Man for home premiere Sept. 22, with Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 26; Eli Roth directs, writes and produces, with Snoop Dogg and Nas on music/EP duties.

Digital Sword hires ex-Tubi originals production exec Ashla Soter as EVP of Production and executive producer, giving her oversight of the post house's full slate across editorial, color, VFX and finishing. Soter exits Tubi after three years and 150-plus titles, including the Sidelined franchise.

Netflix and Sega ink a multi-title adaptation pact; Crazy Taxi is first up with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand scripting, while Sonic gets a new preschool-leaning animated series and Stranger Than Heaven goes live-action.

$140M Deadwood franchise expands with Deadwood Origins, a full-body zombie horror-action VR prequel launching Sept. 25 across the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong; bookings are open now.

Lionsgate sets Beware Boiúna for an Oct. 2 theatrical bow; Mike P. Nelson's Amazon-set creature feature pairs Brazilian folklore with a survival setup, with Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe and Logan Marshall-Green leading. The release keeps Lionsgate active in fall horror with a mythology-driven monster title.

Netflix and Skydance Animation unwind their 3-year film pact; Ray Gunn and the untitled Jack and the Beanstalk title stay on Netflix, while John Lasseter's Cosmic Motors shifts to a Paramount theatrical rollout. The split clears the decks for Paramount's post-merger theatrical push and ends an exclusivity deal that once bound Skydance to Netflix.

Warner Bros.’ DC Studios horror film Clayface opens in theaters October 23, starring Tom Rhys Harries as Basil Karlo alongside Naomi Ackie, Leo Woodall, Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay and Richard E. Grant; James Watkins directs Mike Flanagan’s screenplay.

Tubi’s Bite Size Terror, from executive producer Peter Rice and GJMD Studio, premieres exclusively Friday, October 2, with 10 short-form horror episodes spanning supernatural, body horror, monsters, dark comedy and the macabre.

Don’t Move is now in theaters; the arachnid creature feature adapts James Murray’s 2020 bestseller and pushes a survival-horror hook built around an ancient oversized spider. The theatrical rollout gives the IP-backed indie a first swing at genre audiences beyond the book base.

Cineverse moves festival-favorite Portal to Hell! to digital and VOD, expanding the horror-comedy beyond the festival circuit.

Universal’s Other Mommy opens exclusively October 9, starring Jessica Chastain as both a mother and her monstrous double. Rob Savage directs the Josh Malerman adaptation, following 8-year-old Bela as the entity threatens her fractured family.

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s The Last Kiss, starring Mckenna Grace, gets an official trailer ahead of its September 15, 2026 digital release from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment; Yoko Okumura directs the teen slasher romance.

Ryder Picture Company, founded by Aaron Ryder in 2021 with Andrew Swett, is rebranding as Embrace after 18 months of development. The six-person company produces Adam Wingard’s A24 film Onslaught, plus projects from Boots Riley, Michael Sarnoski and Ol Parker.

Pluto Film boards sales on Sick ahead of its Fantastic Fest world premiere; Agata Trzebuchowska's feature debut follows a teen and his sister in the Polish countryside as the teaser leans into body-horror unease.

Marion Le Corroller's body-horror feature Sanguine, retitled Mutation in Korea, lands in Korean theaters in November after stops at Cannes and Bucheon. The teaser centers an ER intern whose body starts mutating under extreme stress, with Noori steering the local rollout.

Stormlight Pictures and Aradia Pictures roll out the first trailer for cult/pagan horror Where the Hell is Anna? ahead of its Sept. 25 Nashville Film Festival premiere; the Tennessee-shot indie blends ritual, pregnancy and bloodletting.