Netflix, Curry Barker & Focus Features

Focus Features locks May 7, 2027 for Anything But Ghosts, the $5M follow-up from Obsession duo Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson. Aaron Paul, Bryce Dallas Howard, Violet McGraw and Chris Reinacher co-star; Jason Blum, Roy Lee and Steven Schneider produce, and Obsession has already passed $500M worldwide.

Sphere Abacus is taking Woodcut Media's 8x60' true-crime docuseries Horror at the Hotel to Mipcom with worldwide rights already in hand. Pre-buys are locked from 5 in the UK and Ireland, Crave in Canada and Radial Entertainment in the US; the series is in production.

Under-$1M horror breakout Obsession has reached $519 million worldwide; Netflix briefly bid to take it straight to streaming before Focus Features won the TIFF title. Barker says the theatrical path and Gen Z turnout turned the movie into a monster hit.

Alex Garland has completed a script; Boyle says the third installment will move forward, though timing and its final title remain unset.

Doula rolls into principal photography on Oct. 1 in Winnipeg; the Canadian-U.S. psychological horror pairs Madeleine Arthur and Dianne Doan in a cabin-bound, reality-bending delivery nightmare backed by Manitoba’s tax incentive.

Jennifer Lawrence boards Zach Cregger’s The Flood, with New Line and Warner Bros. set to release the sci-fi thriller theatrically on Aug. 11, 2028. The project came out of Netflix turnaround and is targeting a Europe shoot in early 2027, with Amblin, Roy Lee and Miri Yoon producing.

Resident Evil has crossed $200 million worldwide in two weeks on a reported $75 million budget, putting Zach Cregger's reboot on track to outgross every prior franchise entry. Constantin Films' horror-game reboot is outperforming the Paul W.S. Anderson series and Welcome to Raccoon City by a wide margin.

Neil Druckmann says two The Last of Us projects are in early development at Naughty Dog, keeping the post-apocalyptic horror franchise in expansion mode beyond the TV hit.

Fantastic Fest work-print premiere puts In a Violent Nature 2 on the clock; Chris Nash returns with Nate Wilson, Ry Barrett is back as Johnny, and Shudder plus Independent Film Company are steering the sequel to theaters and streaming.

Michael Schwarz directs from Martyn Pedler and Marek Polgar’s script, framing the indie as a stylized homage to early-2000s slasher cinema.

AMC+’s folk-horror YAGA is set for a two-episode Oct. 23, 2026 premiere; Sam Krochmal confirms the eight-episode, 30-minute series was block-shot in Western Canada with Crave and Blink 49 running an efficient production.

Hammer's survival horror Ithaqua lands its Northern UK premiere at Grimmfest on Oct. 9; Casey Walker's twelve-year passion project stars Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand and Michael Pitt.

Prime Video's October slate adds Mike Flanagan's Stephen King Carrie miniseries on Oct. 7 and leverages franchise inventory across the month; Amazon is also using the Bond library to support its wider streaming play.

HBO Max UK & Ireland locked first-run and later-window A24 rights, with Backrooms set for an Oct. 26 exclusive debut after its theatrical run. The pact also brings Born to Bowl plus catalogue titles including The Whale, Warfare and Moonlight onto the service.

Matthew Lillard says Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is targeting a 2027 shoot, signaling the game adaptation is moving deeper into production.

Drishyam 3: The Conclusion is positioned as a definitive end to the Hindi franchise, with Ajay Devgn saying the twist-heavy thriller tops the prior films; Panorama Studios is also developing Korean, Spanish and English versions of the IP.

Netflix has Wednesday Season 3 in production near Dublin with Jenna Ortega back and Eva Green joining as Aunt Ophelia; the gothic horror-fantasy series is now eyeing a 2027 launch and a Paris detour.

David Fincher is walking away from Netflix when his deal expires next year, ending a 13-year run that covered House of Cards, Mank, The Killer and Mindhunter; the split leaves his Cliff Booth, Chinatown prequel and Bitterroot projects in limbo.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come leads the 2026 DGC feature-film nominations with three cites, while Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein lands two. Black Zombie and Gigi Saul Guerrero’s Petra’s Lasso also break through on the Canadian awards slate.

Kristen Stewart and Wagner Moura are set for Olivier Assayas’ Spiritual World, with ARTE France Cinéma backing and cameras scheduled to roll in France and Germany from February through April 2027. The package reunites Stewart with Assayas after Personal Shopper and keeps her on a hot streak of prestige genre projects.

Skyrocket Studios has a pilot in production on Manhattan Transfer, a sci-fi series built with generative AI and authorized digital recreation of Lee Majors. The team says more than one-third of the pilot is already shot and will shop it to networks, streamers, and distributors once complete.

HBO has set a three-part Lightbox docuseries for October 11; The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story blends true-crime investigation with supernatural framing for Halloween.

PG-13 rating and cast update lock in 47 Meters Down: The Wreck as the third shark-horror entry; Patrick Lussier directs, Johannes Roberts produces and co-writes, and a fourth film is already being discussed.

R-rated clearance locks Crawlers for an Oct. 16 theatrical rollout; the spider-invasion horror stars Matilda Lutz as an apartment manager trapped in a quarantined building overrun by venomous arachnids.

Post-production Colombian-Argentine horror Sucumbir heads to Sitges Coming Soon for an industry first look, with 2027 distribution alliances now in play.

Shudder sets an Oct. 16 exclusive streaming launch for Ben Sottak’s post-apocalyptic Halloween home-invasion thriller, starring Milly Shapiro, Ajani Russell, AJ Bowen and Shannyn Sossamon. The feature debut played the festival circuit before landing on AMC Networks’ horror service.

Demand the Screen has booked Silt for event screenings in New York, Chicago, L.A., San Francisco, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin and Dallas; the Tommy Wiseau cosmic-horror pic was retitled from Lake Vernon and still has no wide-release or streaming plan.

Below lands on Netflix Oct. 8 as a six-episode creature-horror limited series from creator Jesse McKeown; Josh Hartnett also executive produces. Mackenzie Davis, Charlie Heaton, Ruby Stokes, Rohan Campbell and Willow Kean round out the cast.