Shudder, 20th Century Studios & Henry Chaisson

Aaron Guzikowski is scripting a new Alien movie for 20th Century Studios and Scott Free; the project is in very early development, with Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss producing. It adds another write-side move to the Alien franchise after Alien: Romulus crossed $350M worldwide.

Vertical has taken North American rights to Tribeca horror Recluse and is targeting a first-half 2027 theatrical rollout; Henry Chaisson's feature debut stars Sasha Frolova, Xander Berkeley, Toby Poser and comes from producer Steven Schneider.

Shudder rolls out five originals, two exclusives and a Joe Bob Briggs holiday special across November and December, with New Group, The Holy Boy, Red Snow and Split Rock anchoring the horror slate. The streamer is also padding the calendar with library titles and holiday programming that extends past Halloween.

Richard Brake boards Alexandre Aja’s Crawl sequel alongside Sarah Niles, Ray Panthaki, Charley Palmer Rothwell and Flula Borg; Paramount has the summer 2027 release date locked for the alligator horror follow-up. Mason Gooding and Emily Rudd lead, with Craig Flores, Sam Raimi and Aja producing.

Shudder locks a three-year exclusive streaming home for the Hell House LLC franchise, adding the first four films plus Origins and setting a 400-theater anniversary event for the original in 2026.

Regal is bringing Terrifier, Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3 back to theaters for Halloween weekend, with Dead by Daylight and Behaviour Interactive layering in a game promo; Terrifier 3 has topped $90 million worldwide.

Clayface posts $3.5 million in Thursday previews as Warner Bros. projects a $25 million to $30 million domestic opening on the $44 million-budgeted DC Studios body-horror title. The weekend also brings Wicker's $620,000 preview start and Klara and the Sun's soft rollout at 850 theaters.

Dead by Daylight pulls its Child's Play content from sale Nov. 24 as the Chucky license expires; the chapter and related DLC go offline across stores.

Season 7 goes back to Dragula’s gritty roots with a Season 6 budget, VHS horror aesthetics and guest judges Rose McGowan, Doug Jones, David Dastmalchian and Harvey Guillén.

Writer-director Henry Chaisson's feature debut RECLUSE is headed to theaters next year, giving the curse-driven family horror an early release window.

Breeder is headed to US theaters Oct. 28 via IFC and Shudder; Alex Goyette's darkly comic horror pairs Dot-Marie Jones, Daniel Doheny and Maddie Phillips in a Halloween-window rollout.

Blumhouse Atomic Monster CFO Josh Small says the merged company is keeping creative KPIs loose while leaning on Universal’s first-look and a split-finance model with Sony and Lionsgate; the combo slate is running 10 films and five TV series in 2026.

Saber Interactive says Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival is outperforming on PC and console; Matthew Karch is using the launch to sell the case for controlled-cost AA horror IP, citing a 94% Steam user score.

Cinépolis has taken Latin American rights to time-warping thriller 5 More Minutes and set the Javier Cámara-led title for a Jan. 28 release. The exhibitor is widening its Mexican slate to 12 titles a year and says it is backing more projects at the development stage, including genre plays like El diablo sabe tu nombre and Return to Me.

Gremlins is ranked No. 3 on HBO Max’s top-movies chart, giving Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy a fresh streaming lift heading into Halloween. FlixPatrol’s charting turns a legacy title into market data for Max and Warner Bros. Pictures.

Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot has wrapped its pilot; Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler are set as the new FBI agents, with Chris Carter choosing not to read the script and stay hands-off.

$81 million U.S. opening and $400 million worldwide for Backrooms; the horror thriller's blow-up frames Renate Reinsve's Cannes victory lap and cements the film as one of the year's biggest genre hits.

FilmQuest is leaning into Sundance's exit with 300-plus genre titles, 11 days of programming and an Oscar-qualifying push; the Utah fest says it generated $1M locally last year and wants to fill a void tied to Sundance's $100M economic footprint.

IATSE has hired Jillian Arnold as its first labor and technology intelligence officer to steer AI negotiations, training and policy ahead of next year's contract talks. The union wants members involved in building worker-centric AI tools instead of being displaced by them.

Catherine Ashmore Bradley and Cameron Crovetti are set to star in Dollkeeper, a psychological horror feature heading into production soon in Fort Lauderdale. Stephen Henric is producing through Voodoo Pictures.

James Watkins says his Clayface pitch leaned hard into body horror and won over James Gunn; DC Studios is steering the pre-Halloween feature toward gnarlier, more graphic territory.

Harry Melling is in talks for Zach Cregger’s Warner Bros. horror-thriller The Flood opposite Jennifer Lawrence; early 2027 production is being eyed and the film is shaping up as Cregger’s priciest yet, though the studio greenlight is still pending.

A 2003 horror crossover has jumped onto HBO Max’s most-watched movie chart ahead of Halloween, turning a once-maligned title into fresh streaming-market intel. FlixPatrol’s ranking gives the film a visibility boost without any new distribution move behind it.

Shudder drops The Cycle today; Jordan Downey's supernatural horror feature pairs a body-farm mystery with practical-effects gore, with Stephen King and Mick Garris already boosting it.

Arkane’s Marvel’s Blade is nearing the finish line after earlier cancellation chatter tied to Microsoft’s studio divestment. The project is back in active production, easing fears it would follow the abandoned film reboot.

Ted Raimi's SCREAMBOX series Your Dearest Darkest Friend turns the late-night interview format into a dark, whimsical genre talk show; the sitdown tees up his latest horror-adjacent project.

Cinephobia Releasing snags Marcel Walz's Brute 1986 ahead of its world premiere at Tubi FrightFest Halloween; the sequel shifts from Brute 1976's seventies grindhouse to eighties slasher excess.

Netflix is rolling out the Korean supernatural survival series later this month; Dead-End Job pairs debt-crisis thriller beats with ghost-story stakes from writer Han Jun-hee.

Netflix floated a $500 million, seven-year bid for exclusive Xbox film and TV rights before the talks collapsed; Microsoft countered at $800 million and is now steering toward smaller partner deals.