Fantastic Fest, Zach Cregger & Resident Evil

Shudder has acquired Red Snow out of Fantastic Fest; Ilja Rautsi’s Finnish vampire-Santa horror-comedy will hit the service later, with Charades handling the sale.

Brad Pitt boards Paramount's zombie sequel with Edward Berger directing from Dennis Kelly's script; the franchise's last outing grossed more than $540M worldwide and the sequel is back in active development after years of false starts.

Neon’s Hokum hit $25 million on a $5 million budget; Spooky Pictures says its edge is early script access, fast offers and fair terms, while Anything But Ghosts is in post and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for A24 is a bigger-budget swing.

Sony's Resident Evil is tracking its usual post-theatrical path: a short PVOD window, then a Netflix pay-1 debut roughly 2.5 to 3 months after release. The horror reboot's projected $50M opening reinforces Sony's windowing playbook.

Netflix Philippines has greenlit Balaraw: Blood Island; Janine Gutierrez leads the horror series, with a teaser setting up a mysterious island and an Oct. 29 Halloween bow.

Live-action Lollipop Chainsaw feature is being packaged under license from Dragami Games; Joe Teng, Robert Franke, Takafumi Yuki, Kirk Shaw and Patricio Rabuffetti board the R-rated action-horror comedy as the franchise expands with a new game and animated series.

Paramount sets Heart Eyes 2 for Feb. 4, 2028; Josh Ruben returns to direct and co-write with Darcy Fowler, while Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding are in talks to reprise and Paramount/Spyglass co-finance and distribute globally.

Zack Snyder says his Escape from New York remake stays close to John Carpenter’s original, set in 1997 from the perspective of 1981; no casting or release date has been set.

Netflix is giving Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew an IMAX/theatrical launch on Feb. 12, 2027 before a Apr. 2 streaming bow; Daniel Craig’s first look and Greta Gerwig’s rock-glam aesthetic signal a franchise-scale rollout.

Development on I Am Legend 2 remains stuck; the sequel is still working through a series of obstacles rather than moving toward a start date.

Elevation Pictures boards Canadian theatrical on Jason Lapeyre's hybrid doc-drama The Auschwitz Volunteer as the project enters late development, packaging and financing ahead of VIFF's new Business Hub Co-Production Forum.

Fantastic Fest opens with Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil premiere and the first two episodes of Mike Flanagan’s Carrie; Play House also bows after winning Fantastic Pitches, reinforcing the fest as a genre launchpad.

Micro-budget road horror It Ends was rebuilt through strategic reshoots, LED-volume work and aggressive test-screening fixes after the first cut failed; Neon ultimately took it out theatrically after SXSW buzz and a detour from Fantasia.

Óscar Martín's gothic vampire horror Upiro world-premieres at Fantastic Fest before rolling to Beyond Fest and Sitges; Victoria Cerrada, Pauline Brisy, Diego Anido and Javier Botet lead the cast.

Beyond Fest rolls out its 2026 shorts lineup in Los Angeles, keeping the genre-festival pipeline active for emerging horror and weird-cinema shorts.

Access:Horror opens with a Sept. 25 in-person showcase at Alamo Drafthouse Winchester, then streams 19 international shorts Oct. 4-Nov. 1; the hybrid fest keeps disability representation and intersectional genre storytelling front and center.

Crave's supernatural mystery series Yaga lands an Oct. 23 premiere; Hudson Williams fronted the TIFF preview for the Kat Sandler play adaptation.

Under $10K, A Possession in Lincoln County becomes FOUND TV’s first in-house original feature; it bows at Hamilton Film Festival on Oct. 22, streams on FOUND TV Oct. 23, and gets early access on FOUND TV+ plus a 500-copy Blu-ray with an alternate ending.

Alexandre Aja is lining up Crawl 2 for a 2027 premiere while balancing Netflix's Under Paris 2; the aquatic horror sequel keeps the franchise active after Crawl's breakout run.

Crave Original eight-episode supernatural series Yaga makes its world premiere at TIFF; Kat Sandler adapts her play and leads the series as writer-showrunner, with Carrie-Anne Moss, Hudson Williams, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Megan Follows headlining a British Columbia shoot marketed as 100% Canadian content.

Sub-$1 micro-budget horror stunt from Lucas and Curtis Nicotra is chasing Blumhouse-style ROI with Jason Blum in the mix; the play is aimed at turning a viral challenge into a new genre benchmark.

A24 is co-producing the SCP Foundation feature with Roy Lee and Steven Schneider under Spooky Pictures; the internet-horror adaptation is targeting theaters in 2027.

Shudder’s V/H/S Mixtape lands Oct. 9 with four new segments from Renee Zhan, David Moreau, Ernest Dickerson and RZA; GWAR hosts the wraparound, with music videos directed by Tobias Forge and Flying Lotus.

BayView Entertainment rolls out JT Kris’ 1970s folk-horror feature Grace of God on Tubi, with free-streaming releases also set for Xumo Play and Fawesome; the 86-minute TV-MA film follows a child inside an isolated religious commune.

Warner Bros. has Zach Cregger shooting The Flood next, a time-bending sci-fi thriller with horror scenes; Steven Spielberg produces and the studio has it dated for Aug. 11, 2028.

MVD lines up Drew Fortier’s practical-effects creature feature Bunker Heights for Blu-ray, DVD and digital on Oct. 13; the film is being sold as C.H.U.D. meets Lethal Weapon.

Fantastic Fest 2026 gets a first look at Cody Calahan’s VHS ghost horror Death of a Yellow Bird; Black Fawn has the festival trailer out ahead of the Austin premiere.