Sony Pictures, Mondo Macabro & Netflix

Disney+ straight-to-series order for Afterlife with Archie; Alfonso Gomez-Rejon boards to direct the pilot and episode 2, with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa showrunning the zombie-apocalypse Archie adaptation.

$522.8 million worldwide from a $750,000 budget puts Obsession in breakout territory; the horror hit hits Netflix on Nov. 17 after already cycling through Peacock and other digital outlets. Curry Barker's film now gets a second-life streaming boost off one of the year's most extreme ROI stories.

$58.5 million worldwide for The Bone Temple leaves Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s three-part plan hanging; Sony’s third installment is now on the back burner as the sequel’s box office fails to justify another greenlight.

Terror Films Releasing is rolling out Anthony Bushman’s psychological horror thriller The Devil You Become to streaming in November; Bushman wrote, directed, produced and stars alongside Ashton Solecki and Jessica Lynn Parsons. The release adds another low-budget genre title to the indie streamer pipeline.

Netflix has ordered two seasons of A24’s The Apology, with Gwyneth Paltrow starring and executive producing and Thomas Vinterberg directing; the cold-case revenge drama is now locked as a full series order.

Lawsuit clearance has put the Ghoulies reboot back on track; Jefery Levy is targeting a 2027 production start after the long-gestating horror property was tied up in litigation.

Sony lands live-action rights to Brett Bean’s bestselling comic D’Orc, bringing another fantasy IP into development. Bean’s Image Comics property now joins the studio’s adaptation pipeline.

20 new Forensic Files episodes are in production after Content Partners and Radial Entertainment joined ITV America to jointly finance the reboot; Radial takes worldwide distribution and Content Partners controls the 400-episode catalog acquired in 2024.

$361.1 million worldwide; Resident Evil is the franchise’s biggest hit and the highest-grossing video-game adaptation ever, outpacing Alien: Romulus, Backrooms and Obsession at the five-week mark. China has supplied $56 million so far, and Cregger says he already has ideas for a sequel.

$8 million U.S. opening for Whalefall; Daniel Kraus adaptation posts a solid genre debut and gives the whale-survival premise immediate box-office readout.

Sony scoops up Penthouse with Tom Holland attached to star and co-write alongside Drew Pearce. The package keeps Holland in Sony’s orbit ahead of any Spider-Man 5 development news.

Cineverse has snapped up North American rights to The Night Driver out of VMI after its Screamfest premiere. The horror-thriller stars Josh Lucas, Alyssa Milano, and David Arquette, with Sean S. Cunningham on board as executive producer.

Mondo Macabro sets a Dec. 8 Blu-ray world premiere for Francisco Macián’s 1976 Spanish sci-fi horror Memoria; the disc adds interviews and a Sitges Film Festival featurette.

Fantastic Fest premiere for Sophie Lowe starrer Posthumous; VFX director Josh Tanner details the VHS-tape supernatural effects and says the horror pic still has no wider release date. Goodman Brothers and Justin Ledgerett handled the creature work.

Species takes top honors at Sitges, adding another award marker for the genre-festival circuit but no sale or distribution news is attached to the headline.

Hot horror-comedy short is being shopped as a feature; Jake Lewis wrote and directed the original, with Pauly Shore, Nick Swardson and Doug Jones in the cast. Monster-that-senses-fear hook gives the package a clean commercial elevator pitch.

Test screenings forced a late redesign on Resident Evil’s “Puker” after audiences read the creature as too comic; Weta swapped in scarier face replacements in the final stretch to push the monster back toward horror.

U.S. theatrical rollout for The Last Temptation of Becky lands November 4, 2026 via Quiver Distribution; no digital or streaming date is set yet.

Restored George A. Romero short Expostulations gets a March 26, 2027 Pittsburgh world premiere with a new orchestral score; the George A. Romero Foundation preserved surviving 16mm footage.

Mondo Macabro lines up a Dec. 8 Blu-ray release for Jacques Baratier’s 1984 French horror The Satin Spider; the disc adds a crew-and-critics feature and a career survey.

Cardinal XD and Dreamality Entertainment have launched SJ Creazzo’s 79-minute psychological horror thriller Shattered Soul on Prime Video; Diana Cherkas stars in the feature. The release gives the indie title a broad streaming runway.

BFI National Archive has taken in a 35mm print of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for long-term preservation, with the print now being inspected, catalogued and stored for future restoration use.

Mondo Macabro packs a double-feature Blu-ray for Lust in the Swamps / Secrets of Sinful Athens on Dec. 8; the set includes tributes, archival interviews, poster art and trailer extras.

Mondo Macabro sets a Dec. 8 Blu-ray world premiere for Ali Khamraev’s 1998 Uzbek cult title Bo Ba Bu; the release ships with new interview material and commentary.

£12,000 micro-budget Harrogate horror pic lands an Everyman screening, a reminder that ultra-low-cost genre production can still reach theatrical exhibition.

$361.1 million worldwide and still climbing; Resident Evil is now the highest-grossing entry in the franchise and the top video-game adaptation ever, with $56 million from China and sequel chatter still unresolved. The film’s heat has already lifted Resident Evil 2 remake sales by 50%.

HITpoint Entertainment launches as a Griffin Gaming Partners / Entertainment 360 venture to source, package, and produce video game adaptations across film and TV. The company is tapping Griffin’s $100M indie fund and plans to mine both AAA franchises and breakout indies, with horror among the target genres.

March 12, 2027 release set for The Exorcist: Martyrs, with Scarlett Johansson as detective Julie Miller and a serial-killer mystery that runs through the franchise’s possession lore; Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Leguizamo and Diane Lane join the ensemble.

A24 sets Jeremy Saulnier's haunted-attraction horror thriller for theaters on Jan. 29, 2027; trailer confirms Cory Michael Smith fronts a cast that includes Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde and Imogen Poots.

Dutch horror feature Jimmy is heading to U.S. VOD this fall after premiering overseas, with Dread rolling out the trailer and poster now. The film adapts the filmmakers’ 2018 short Meet Jimmy and leans into true-crime podcast dread with supernatural overtones.