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IFC and Shudder locked In a Violent Nature: Part 2 for a Feb. 12, 2027 theatrical launch; the Chris Nash sequel expands Johnny’s lore after the Sundance Midnight breakout and premiered at Fantastic Fest.

Blumhouse and Atomic Monster used NYCC’s Blumfest to unveil a 2027 horror slate, teeing up Craig Zobel’s Something Is Killing the Children, Rob Savage’s Molepeople and fresh revivals of Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch; MatPat is also joining the studio on Amanda the Adventurer.

Newton Brothers boards Mike Flanagan’s supernatural horror/crime thriller for Blumhouse and Universal; the Exorcist sequel is locked for a nationwide theatrical release on March 12, 2027, with Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Diane Lane in the cast.

Blumhouse/Atomic Monster rolled out The Exorcist: Martyrs trailer at BlumFest and confirmed Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Diane Lane, Scoot McNairy, Gil Bellows, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo and Jacobi Jupe in the cast; Universal opens it March 12.

Mike Flanagan is tapped to script and direct Prime Video's Warhammer 40,000 adaptation after Amazon assigned United Artists to the project; Henry Cavill remains attached, with the series still deep in development and multiple adaptations apparently in play.

Deathstalker Productions adds Chris McKennell to Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light, a supernatural horror feature leaning into the Warren paranormal legacy.

Amazon MGM Studios’ eight-episode Carrie miniseries reframes Stephen King’s story around social-media cruelty and school violence; Mike Flanagan says the new take pushes Carrie White into a modern high-school environment and retools Margaret White as a mother who genuinely loves her daughter.

Jennifer Lawrence boards Zach Cregger’s sci-fi thriller The Flood for Warner Bros.; Vertigo and Amblin are also in the mix as Cregger frames the project as a disturbing Kubrick-tinged follow-up to Weapons and Resident Evil.

$40M budget; pre-sales are tracking Clayface toward a $30M+ domestic opening for Warner Bros., with James Watkins directing Mike Flanagan and Hossein Amini’s body-horror take on DC’s Clayface.

Horror’s low-budget economics keep punching above weight: Barbarian, Smile and Obsession show why the genre still outperforms, even as execs fret about AI creeping into practical-effects workflows.

Syzygy Publishing and Image Comics are reviving Dread the Halls 2026 as a third annual 48-page one-shot, with four new holiday-horror stories and a supernatural, pitch-black humor bent.

$241.7 million worldwide against an $80 million budget turned Wuthering Heights into a box-office hit; Prime Video now adds the Emily Brontë adaptation after its theatrical run.

Below hit No. 1 on Netflix after six days, knocking East of Eden to second; Josh Hartnett leads the Newfoundland-set sea-creature thriller that has become the streamer’s latest breakout chart title.

Micro-budget horror breakout Obsession, made for under $1 million, is now being positioned on Hulu after a record-setting theatrical run that made it the highest-grossing original horror movie of the century.

Other Mommy opens No. 1 with $27.5 million despite a D+ CinemaScore, giving the horror title a strong launch out of the gate. The opening is the kind of market signal that can extend theatrical play and reset expectations on the film’s run.

BBC Studios is taking Shy & Lola to MIPCOM buyers ahead of its BBC launch; Amanda Coe’s Grimsby-set thriller is a French-series adaptation with a Coen-esque, darkly comic murder-crime tone.

Animals hit No. 1 on Netflix’s domestic and global viewership charts on launch day; FlixPatrol has it atop the platform worldwide, giving Ben Affleck a streaming win even as the thriller faces mixed reviews.

Cappu Films has boarded sci-fi thriller Overstake as worldwide sales agent and is pitching the AI-rebuilt package to buyers at Busan. Writer-director Stas Mareev is keeping performances and story intact while generative AI reworks the cityscape, action and visual language.

Nicolas Cage says he likely will do a season of True Detective and is done with Amazon’s AI-friendly Spider-Noir unless the setup changes; he says he skipped the AI waiver and wants to work with hand-made Gen Z filmmakers.

Kling AI’s Busan panel framed AI filmmaking as a craft problem, not a replacement for crews; Kim Sung-soo is using it on Worm Train while MBC C&I and Barunson E&A previewed hybrid live-action/AI series Rendering Love.

Kim Jung-hoon's Shaving pairs Roh Jeong-eui and Show Kasamatsu in a psychological thriller about a shave gone horribly wrong; the BIFF competition title is set for Korean release later this year.

Roy Lee boards the next Silent Hill film as producer, adding a proven genre package builder to the game-to-screen horror franchise.

Anything But Ghosts sets a May 7, 2027 theatrical date as Curry Barker follows Obsession with a horror-comedy feature.

Jordan Downey's The Cycle lands on Shudder October 23, 2026, with Deborah Ann Woll, Jeffrey Donovan, and Gretchen Corbett starring.

Matt Stuertz's Human opens in select theaters and hits digital/VOD October 23, 2026, with Jackie Kelly, Brock Russell, and Jeffrey Decker starring.

More than 1,300 artists hand-built Pan’s Labyrinth’s new 3D conversion with zero AI; Cineverse and Fathom are pushing the 20th-anniversary 4K/HDR special engagement into theaters Oct. 8-9.

Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics have launched Skybound Visions, a new line of standalone limited series built around licensed IP; the slate includes G.I. Joe: The Island of Dr. Mindbender, a horror-leaning reimagining of the Hasbro property.

Adult Swim sets Common Side Effects Season 2 for Jan. 24, 2027; the NYCC premiere tease pushes deeper into the Portal mythology as Marshall and Frances stay on the run.

Taiwanese horror feature The Damp has unveiled its cast and first look, with Fu Tien-yu making her first horror feature for producer Steve Wang’s Activator. Local release is targeted for Q2 2027; Mokster Films is handling international sales out of Busan.