Horror Industry News — Thursday, June 25, 2026

Hulu won a competitive book-adaptation package for Aggie Blum Thompson’s ‘You Deserve to Know,’ with Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley boarding as suburban neighbors caught in a murder mystery. Brian Tanen writes; Alex Cooper and Aaron Kaplan EP via Unwell and Kapital Entertainment.

Will serve as showrunner and executive producer; Starz has optioned all three novels, The Wolf King, The Night Prince and forthcoming The Wolf Queen; author Lauren Palphreyman will executive-produce; romantasy follows Aurora’s abduction by a werewolf alpha into a lethal love triangle and a war between humans and feral captors; Saracho returns to the network that housed Vida for three seasons.

HorrorHound TV launches July 1 as a new independent horror streaming platform; Orin Black’s The Babysitter Murders: Timing’s Off leads a slate built around completed festival titles and indie genre work.

Shudder picks up Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn for summer streaming after the Berlin competition run; the dark fable heads to Fantasia for its North American premiere before the July 31 launch.

The Horror Section lands Stiletto, a new slasher from Gigi Gustin and Samuel Gonzalez Jr.; select theaters are set for Oct. 30, with Charlotte McKinney, Colleen Camp and Stephen Blackehart among the cast.

Kino Lorber has landed U.S. rights to The Meltdown after its Cannes Un Certain Regard bow, with a theatrical rollout early next year followed by digital, educational and home-video windows. Manuela Martelli’s follow-up to Chile ’76 leans into mystery/thriller mode while extending the film’s international sales footprint across Europe and Latin America.

Netflix’s Ghostbusters: Night Shift unveiled a 1994 New York premise, terror-puppy concept art, and a Jack Quaid voice-cast add; Dan Aykroyd exec-produces as Sony Pictures Animation and Ghost Corps build the series.

John Herzfeld boards Specimen, a horror feature set in a facility that houses the world's worst serial killers; the project adds a genre veteran as director and moves deeper into development.

Nicholas Nicastro’s true-crime feature Hell’s Half-Acre is moving into production with Bill Moseley aboard; the adaptation expands from its earlier short-feature form into a full-length movie.

Warner Bros. Discovery has taken HBO Max rights to Stan’s six-part The Killings at Parrish Station across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The Ben Jenkins series blends cold-case crime with soft/cosmic horror; Helium Pictures produces with ITV Studios handling international distribution.

Warner Bros used CineEurope to unveil a packed slate centered on horror, sci-fi and franchise titles; first looks landed on Clayface, The End Of Oak Street, Remain and Panic Carefully, plus Practical Magic 2, Godzilla X Kong: Supernova and Dune: Part Three.

Mystery-horror Focus makes its debut in Bucheon Choice Korean: Feature; the camera-centered entity story gives I-O Content Group a second straight competition berth at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

July 8 exclusive on Paramount+ for the crime-thriller after its Cinequest premiere and limited theatrical run; Rebecca Thomas directs from Daniel Casey's script, with Dane DeHaan, Sasha Calle and Paramount+ leaning into a post-theatrical window play.

Streaming window locks for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come ahead of July 4; the sequel’s next release step is now set on the calendar.

Focus Features turned a $750K supernatural horror pic into a record-smashing theatrical run; the film has grossed $220.1M domestic after a $14M-$15M TIFF rights buy, and analysts are now modeling $250M-$270M U.S. final. The run is Focus's biggest release ever worldwide and the first film since E.T. to post gains in both its second and third weekends.

Evil Dead Wrath has wrapped production, with a 1972-set prequel rollout sketched for April 7, 2028; Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Lee Cronin remain on the franchise build-out alongside Charlotte Hope, Jessica McNamee and Zach Gilford.

Fathom and Dark Sky Films book Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre back into theaters for Texas Chain Saw Day in August; the slasher gets another event-style big-screen run.

Globally bows June 30 on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play and other digital outlets; Nacelle is handling distribution on Abyssmal Entertainment's adult animated sci-fi horror comedy while building Isla Monstro into a cross-platform franchise.

Dark Sky Films lines up a July 24 theatrical-and-digital launch for Al Kalyk’s survival thriller Cruel Hands, set against Australia’s Black Summer bushfires. Mavournee Hazel, Josh McConville and Diesel La Torraca lead a genre debut built around pursuit, trauma and wilderness peril.

Netflix has already renewed the new Stranger Things offshoot for season 2, signaling early franchise confidence before the first run is fully in the wild.

Avalon Fast expands Honeycomb’s girl-cult mythology with Camp, a sapphic witch horror from Dark Sky Films; the Canadian writer-director frames it as part of the current queer-indie horror wave alongside Jane Schoenbrun and Alice Maio Mackay.

Lizzy Caplan boards Noah Hawley’s FX/Hulu Far Cry adaptation opposite Rob Mac; Ubisoft’s franchise is being turned into an anthology series with new characters and settings each season. FX Productions is producing, with Hawley, Mac and Ubisoft Film & Television executive producing.

Focus Features drops the first look at Eggers’ medieval werewolf feature, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a cursed farmer and Willem Dafoe as a hunter; the 35mm shoot and Christmas Day theatrical slot signal a prestige play after Nosferatu.

Cineverse sets James Kondelik’s survival-horror feature PITFALL for VOD on June 30 after a Screamfest launch and a short theatrical rollout through AMC Theatres.

Fox Mask Killer is spinning out of Exquisite Corpses as Kelly and Lanzing line up a new IDW horror series, keeping fresh genre IP flowing through the comics-to-screen pipeline. Image Comics also factors into the roundup, underscoring continued appetite for creator-owned horror books.