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6FX 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.
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.
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.
FilmBloody DisgustingOct 20
Production starts tomorrow, with Suvari playing physician Dr. Abby Morrison.
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.
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.
Deals & Development
5James 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Broadcast & Streaming
6FilmScreenHub 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IndustryBloody DisgustingOct 20
SYFY cancels Revival, leaving just one original series on the network; another supernatural slot opens up in the cable lineup.
Noteworthy
12Netflix 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.