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TVTHROct 20HuluDisney+
FX renews American Horror Story for season 14 before the season 13 finale; the current run posted the franchise’s biggest Hulu/Disney+ launch and first two weeks in Nielsen’s top 10, pushing the anthology past 150 episodes and keeping Ryan Murphy eyeing an international offshoot.
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FilmIPDread CentralOct 20Roy Lee
Joseph and Vanessa Winter board Future Me for Longevity Pictures, Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios; the viral NoSleep Reddit short is being folded into a new multi-picture horror slate alongside Home Safety Hotline.
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TVIPVarietyOct 21Disney+Hulu
Disney+ and Hulu lock January 2027 for Night Tales Club; Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Shimizu and five other directors steer the six-part supernatural horror anthology adapting Ichi Sawamura's short story collection.
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FilmBloody DisgustingOct 20
Production starts tomorrow, with Suvari playing physician Dr. Abby Morrison.
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Rome’s MIA Market turned into a horror strategy session as buyers and sellers praised the breakout runs of Obsession and Backrooms, with leaders now chasing the next Gen Z-facing horror voice and international breakout title.
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FilmDeadlineOct 20Amazon
United Artists and Amazon MGM greenlight an untitled Denzel Washington thriller for Oct. 1, 2027; McQuarrie directs from a Scott Barkan/Gregg Zehentner script with a producer package spanning Hungry Bull and Mainstay.
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Deals & Development

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FilmIPFangoriaOct 20James WanParamount
James Wan’s Korean thriller remake lands a new A-list star, tightening the package around Paramount’s reimagining of The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil.
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FilmIPC21MediaOct 20
Rink Rat has optioned TV and film rights to Scott Henderson’s gothic novella, a Kingston-set period mystery with horror-adjacent DNA. Mary Sexton’s Newfoundland banner is backing the adaptation of Henderson’s debut novel imprint release.
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TVIPJoBloOct 20Disney+
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon has joined Disney+’s Afterlife with Archie, while former Riverdale star KJ Apa says he would like to appear in a cameo.
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TVIPDeadlineOct 21
Icelandic co-production Vigilant is greenlit at ACT4, ZDF and Siminn; Kari Skogland boards to direct the six-part thriller, with production set to roll October 29 and ZDF Studios handling international sales.
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TVIPIF MagazineOct 21
Screen Australia, Screenwest and Screen NSW are backing Brouhaha’s Sarah Bailey adaptation for a 2027 Perth shoot; the series is projected to inject more than $8.5 million into Western Australia and create about 300 local jobs.
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Broadcast & Streaming

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FilmScreenHub AustraliaOct 21
Queensland and Indonesian filmmakers are joining forces on Crossroads, a horror feature project with cross-border packaging momentum. The collaboration adds an international coproduction signal to the genre slate.
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IndustryJoBloOct 20YouTube
Unsolved Mysteries is back as a weekly video podcast on YouTube and audio platforms; the brand is extending its true-crime franchise into a new distribution window with fresh cases.
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IndustryBloody FlicksOct 20
Grimmfest adds a December online edition with 15 features, two shorts programs and a fresh crop of UK and world premieres; the slate spans supernatural, psychological, sci-fi and slasher titles from Federico Zampaglione, Lisa Belcher and more.
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IndustryTrieste Science+FictionOct 21
Trieste's 26th edition packs 60-plus premieres, Paolo Strippoli's horror masterclass and a Werner Herzog closer; the slate spans sci-fi, horror and fantasy across six days.
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TVYahoo News CanadaOct 20Netflix
38 million views in two weeks for Netflix’s Canadian thriller; debuted at 17 million views and held No. 1 in 82 countries. The series is the streamer’s most-viewed Canadian title launch ever and has driven more than $90 million into Canada’s economy.
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IndustryBloody DisgustingOct 20
SYFY cancels Revival, leaving just one original series on the network; another supernatural slot opens up in the cable lineup.
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Noteworthy

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IndustryDeadlineOct 20Netflix
Netflix is splitting UCAN scripted into genre-specific pods; Cole Galvin gets bumped to VP, and the new Genre, Action & Crime lane pulls horror, sci-fi, Westerns, spy drama, and crime under Michael Azzolino.
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FilmHorrorFuelOct 21Apple TV
Henry’s Ebb is heading onto the festival circuit, giving Kingston Rumi Southwick a new horror-feature showcase as the title starts its tour. The piece also notes Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay season-two renewal, but the actionable signal is the film’s genre-festival rollout.
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IndustryIndieWireOct 20
WGA East is rolling out Cloak, a free script-registration tool meant to keep member work out of AI training sets; non-members pay $10. The move deepens the guild's fight over generative AI and writer control.
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FilmExclaim!Oct 20
DCU’s first horror entry leans body horror; James Watkins and Tom Rhys Harries frame Clayface through a Cronenberg-style transformation story, with Naomi Ackie as Dr. Caitlyn Corr.
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TVIPAV ClubOct 20PeacockA24
Peacock's eight-episode Crystal Lake keeps the Friday the 13th gore but strips out nudity; A24 backs the prequel with Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees and Brad Caleb Kane running the show.
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FilmFilm Music ReporterOct 20A24
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross board as composers and producers on A24’s Slayground; Jeremy Saulnier’s horror-thriller is locked for a Jan. 29, 2027 theatrical release.
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FilmHorrorFuelOct 21
Dead of Night is set for a November theatrical bow, giving the horror-thriller a clean release runway with Dermot Mulroney, Scott Grimes, Jake Busey, Kirrilee Berger and Chris Jericho in the ensemble. Jericho also boards as an executive producer, adding a genre-facing promotional hook to the rollout.
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FilmHorror Cult FilmsOct 21Shudder
UK Blu-ray and DVD rollout widens Nightborn’s footprint beyond streaming; the Finnish folk-horror title now moves into home-video distribution off its Shudder Original branding.
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FilmFar Out MagazineOct 21Zach Cregger
Jennifer Lawrence is attached to Zach Cregger’s The Flood, a sci-fi horror project now in pre-production for an Aug. 11, 2028 release after a Zoom pitch locked in her interest.
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TVC21MediaOct 20
Radial has renewed Hashtag Homicide for season 2, and the 10-episode true-crime series is already in production for a summer 2027 premiere. Big Media and Wildbear Entertainment are back as coproducers.
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FilmDaily DeadOct 20A24
A24 locks a January 29, 2027 theatrical release for Jeremy Saulnier’s haunted-attraction survival horror Slayground; the teaser confirms Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, Young Mazino, Imogen Poots, Matty Matheson, James Badge Dale and Stephen Root in the ensemble.
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FilmHorrorFuelOct 21
dATE drops a new trailer and lands an official Screamfest 2026 selection, giving the dating-horror title an early festival-marketing boost. The placement signals a genre-fest push rather than a pure promo beat.
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