Netflix, Mike Flanagan & Prime Video

Prime Video renews Carrie for a second season 15 days after debut; the Stephen King adaptation hit number one on the service in more than 105 countries and is now clearly being built as a longer-run series.

Charli xcx boards Martin Scorsese’s gothic horror What Happens at Night alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence; the Apple/StudioCanal adaptation of Peter Cameron’s novel keeps stacking prestige heat.

Shudder seals a three-year exclusive streaming deal for the full Hell House LLC franchise through November 2029; the pact also extends Origins: The Carmichael Manor and keeps the films on digital storefronts outside SVOD.

$3.5M+ Thursday previews put Clayface on pace for a $20M-$25M domestic opening off a $44M net production cost; James Watkins directs from Mike Flanagan's script, with Warner Bros. looking at a solid lower-budget genre launch. The DC standalone is already being benchmarked against horror comps like Smile and Other Mommy.

Logan Kim boards Netflix’s supernatural series Pagans as Steven Yeun’s son Nate; Marin Ireland, Intae Kim and Sabine Grace also join the Joshua Zetumer-led project, with Drew Goddard EPing.

Cory Michael Smith boards Ari Aster’s Scapegoat alongside Scarlett Johansson, Jacob Elordi and Jude Law; A24 is distributing and production is set to kick off November 9. Darius Khondji is back behind the camera as Aster assembles what looks like his biggest ensemble yet.

House of Night moves from page to screen with a film adaptation now in motion nearly 20 years after the YA vampire series launched. The property adds another supernatural IP play to the book-to-film lane.

Netflix rolls cameras on Feral in Queensland, the Shirley Conran adaptation starring Michelle Dockery, Jessica Gunning, Genevieve O’Reilly, Dolly de Leon and Philippa Northeast; the shoot is pegged for a $38.5 million local spend and more than 250 jobs.

Crave and Shudder pick up Hunting Matthew Nichols, extending the horror film’s reach across Canadian and U.S. streaming as the title lands with two genre platforms.

$350 million global cume for Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil; Sony eyes a Nov. 3 digital PVOD rollout, with Netflix queued as the film’s first U.S. subscription home. The franchise rebound gives Sony a fresh post-theatrical monetization lane after Halloween.

Antenna Releasing has locked North American rights to Donnie Hobbie's cannibal horror feature and is rolling out a November roadshow before digital in early December and streaming in early 2027.

Carrie opened as the No. 1 U.S. streaming title for Oct. 5-11 with 1.26 billion viewing minutes; Prime Video's Mike Flanagan/Stephen King series now has the ratings data to justify a second-season renewal.

BOOM! Studios lines up Breyden Boyd and Nathan Wells' debut horror comic for a February launch; The Carvers centers on a murderous family and marks Boyd's first comic series.

Fresh Meat pulled almost $300,000 in one-night theatrical play across 564 theaters, then flipped to $9.99 digital rental on Pijama with a creator-friendly revenue split. Dead Meat and Hades Films are using the anthology’s initial run to seed a direct-to-fan indie horror window.

Third Window Films and Lost In Cult line up a director-approved 4K UHD/Blu-ray/VHS release of Shozin Fukui's cyberpunk-horror cult title for Jan. 11, 2027.

Netflix India inks a two-year licensing and co-production pact with Hoichoi, adding the Bengali streamer’s scripted slate in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu; folklore horror The Cursed Temple of Kauriburi launches Nov. 6, with original Hoichoi-developed series to follow.

STUDIOCANAL is sending Pan’s Labyrinth back into UK cinemas on Oct. 30 with a new 4K restoration for the film’s 20th anniversary. The del Toro classic is back in repertory play rather than entering a new production cycle.

Dark Sky Films is rolling out Matt Stuertz’s supernatural horror Human in select theaters and on VOD/digital tomorrow after festival plays at Fright Fest and Obscura Film Fest; the indie stars Jackie Kelly and lands as a single-night descent into gore and dread.

Bunny Rabbit sold out its UK debut at FrightFest and is now opening wider across the U.S., U.K. and Australia via early website access and coming digital releases; James Branson’s climate-collapse survival horror centers on a lone woman pushed into cannibalism.

BriskPace Studios launches BriskPace Unlimited as a new-formats label, with AI-made true-crime comedy The Light and Hard Times of Lucky Briscoe set as its first original and a pilot already in the can. The outfit is pitching buyers and direct-to-audience routes while backing AI-native production and micro-drama bets across Europe.

Telephone wraps in Sudbury, Ontario, with Laysla De Oliveira and Riccardo Scamarcio starring in Anthony Scott Burns' sci-fi thriller and Gale Anne Hurd aboard as EP. The time-travel abduction pic comes out of Valhalla Entertainment, Beyond the Frame and 10.80 Films.

Jonathan Tison was cast under the fake role name Joey before being unveiled as Jason Voorhees in Peacock’s Crystal Lake; the actor also says the on-set skull-crush set piece was built for a possible season 2 turn.

Obsession is headed to Netflix on Nov. 7 after a theatrical breakout for Focus Features; 4K UHD and Blu-ray are already in market as Curry Barker lines up his next horror pic, Anything But Ghosts.

AMC+ is launching Yaga in the U.S. on Oct. 23, with the eight-episode supernatural thriller rolling out weekly after a two-episode premiere. The series adapts Kat Sandler’s stage play and centers on a contemporary Baba Yaga spin with Noah Reid, Carrie-Anne Moss and Clark Backo.

Netflix sets an eight-episode run for Quinn Shephard’s The Body on Nov. 11; Kristina Bogic and Sara Boustany lead the queer Catholic horror series, with Gabby Windey recurring as coach.

November theatrical rollout for Quiver’s action-horror sequel; Fantasia 2026 premiere is already locked, with Lulu Wilson back as Becky and the new trailer pushing the franchise into its third chapter.

$226.5M budget puts Star Wars: Starfighter above The Force Awakens; Disney lines up a May 28, 2027 launch, a fall 2025 production start, and Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, Matt Smith, Aaron Pierre, Amy Adams, and Shawn Levy attached.