Horror Industry News — Thursday, August 6, 2026

Anton is fully financing and selling worldwide rights on the contemporary Caligari reimagining at TIFF’s inaugural market; Talia Ryder boards Michael Shannon in the wrapped Germany shoot from John Erick Dowdle.

MUBI came aboard as financier on Jane Schoenbrun’s Camp Miasma at a reported $10M budget after A24 passed, forcing the project onto a smaller-scale path. Schoenbrun also says Netflix is in early development on a Black Hole series adaptation, with the filmmaker now pushing other projects like Public Access Afterworld.

Fantasia audience awards crowned Nicky Murphy’s vampire mockumentary I Love Paris as best international feature; Canadian genre titles like Unholy Night also picked up gold, underscoring the fest’s audience appetite for offbeat horror and hybrid fare.

Screamify green-lit Crack, its first ASMR and medical-horror feature, directed by Calvin Morie McCarthy and starring Peyton Grace Bell, Alexander Molina and Tuesday Knight; filming starts this fall in Portland ahead of a late-2026 exclusive premiere.

TIFF’s 2026 Midnight Madness unveils 10 films across 10 late-night days, opening with Joshua Giuliano’s slasher River starring Jane Levy and Jessica Rothe and closing with Duncan Jones’ animated sci-fi war film Rogue Trooper.

Tubi FrightFest’s Short Film Showcase runs Aug. 28-30 at London’s Leicester Square, featuring international titles including Fangoria Presents’ Goodbye Monster, TLSM, Pretend With Pibble starring Julia Davis, and Hush Little One with Mandip Gill.

WBD's second-quarter net income fell to $149 million as studio revenue dropped 39% and TV ad sales sank 22%; streaming revenue topped $3 billion for the first time on HBO Max growth, with the Paramount Skydance sale still hanging over the business.

Bokshi is set for an October theatrical release in India following its international festival run.

PiperPlay has boarded sales on The City of the Living ahead of its Venice Orizzonti world premiere and TIFF Centrepiece debut; the feature is freely inspired by Nicola Lagioia’s true-crime work about a 2016 Rome murder. Eagle Pictures will handle the Italian theatrical release, with HBO Max participation on the production side.

A24’s Jeremy Saulnier thriller, currently post and still without a release date, is a Halloween-set fugitive chase built around Cory Michael Smith as a mass-murder suspect on the run. The project has been screened internally, with A24 still holding the line on final launch timing.

Locarno honoree Sigurjón Sighvatsson argues AI will hit television harder than film and calls Netflix a closed system built for its own box; the Palomar chief also says smaller festivals are better positioned than Cannes-style megafests.

Straight-to-series at Netflix; Jane Schoenbrun is writing and directing the full first season of Charles Burns’ Black Hole, with the first two episodes already done. Plan B and New Regency are producing as the body-horror adaptation keeps moving after years of stalled attempts.

Bleecker Street pushes Victorian Psycho to Nov. 13, 2026, putting Maika Monroe’s gothic horror thriller into awards-season territory. The MPA has already rated the Virginia Feito adaptation R for strong bloody violence and brief sexual material.

Shudder has locked Bloody Tennis before its Locarno premiere, giving the German sports horror pic an early streaming home. The acquisition adds another festival-side genre title to the streamer’s slate.

Image reissues Wytches as a remastered Pledged Edition ahead of Amazon MGM Studios’ animated TV adaptation; the new recolor is being aligned to the show’s look and lands Oct. 21 in shops, Nov. 17 in bookstores.

Steam release for Grimtaste Studios and DreadXP's gothic horror visual novel slips; no revised date set.

Miracle Media and Shogun Films set occult British horror Harbinger for digital release Aug. 11; James Ross II's feature pairs a PTSD-haunted survivor with a fortune-telling machine possessed by a serial killer.

OJ Unseen: Exploitation of Evil is set to launch on ID next month as a four-part deep dive into the collapse of Juiced; Rebecca Halpern directs for INE Entertainment, with Mark Koops, Eric Day and Brian Davidson exec producing.

Shudder sets Parasomnia for Sept. 4; James Ross II’s supernatural chiller follows a young woman whose night terrors bleed into waking life.

A24’s new Onslaught trailer confirms Adam Wingard’s film as a spiritual sequel to The Guest, with three genetically engineered soldiers—Crybaby, Cockroach and The Butcher—besieging the desert; Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens and Alex Pereira star.