Mike Flanagan, Amazon MGM Studios & Prime Video

Neon and Blumhouse Atomic Monster co-finance Spencer Lackey's debut feature Lust; Lackey writes and directs after building a 7 million-follower horror short-form audience. Steven Schneider, Jason Blum and James Wan are producing via Spooky Pictures and Blumhouse Atomic Monster.

Curry Barker’s sub-$1M indie horror Obsession sold to Focus Features for $16M after TIFF 2025 and grossed over $500M; ahead of TIFF 2026’s first official market, buyers are seeking original, Gen Z-focused films.

FilmQuest has locked its 2026 lineup for Oct. 22-31 in Provo, with world premieres including The Avalanche, The Relic: Dragon, Whiskey Throttle and The Crawling plus regional/U.S. bows for Sender, Drag, Ithaqua, Grind and The VelociPastor 2. Jamie Lee Curtis, Rhea Seehorn, David Dastmalchian and other genre names anchor a slate spanning horror, sci-fi, fantasy and thriller.

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser joins Halloween Horror Nights 2026 in Orlando and Hollywood, with a walkthrough spanning the first three films, Pinhead, the Cenobites and the Lament Configuration, plus explicit bondage, torture and sexual themes.

TIFFCOM’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market has added Frontières for its first Asia showcase, bringing horror and thriller projects into the 24-title financing slate. Ten of the selected projects pitch Oct. 28, with body horror, Asian co-productions and an open-pitch session aimed at closing the last budget gaps.

Sitges sets the world premiere of Montenegrin minority co-pro Mraz in main competition; the horror-fantasy feature is backed by MEDIA, Eurimages and regional film funds, with Parangal film and Plan 9 among the key producers.

San Diego International Film Festival rolls out 90 films from 22 countries; genre titles in the 25th-anniversary lineup include Dead Deer High, Five Kinds of Fear, Mallory’s Ghost and Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream.

The Horror Collective and BloodStream roll Carry the Darkness out of its exclusive streamer window onto digital and Blu-ray today; Douglas Forrester's supernatural horror pic widens after the BloodStream run.

Alamo Exclusives books Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson’s Littermates into 30-plus Alamo Drafthouse locations Nov. 6, with a Fantastic Fest presentation Sept. 20. The 15-day indie’s dystopian domestic refuge premise gives Alamo a scrappy genre-adjacent play beyond documentary bookings.

20th Century Studios’ giant-python survival horror Crush enters production in Australia this November; Julius Avery directs Sarah Catherine Hook from John Fischer’s script, with Scott Glassgold and Temple Hill producing.

Casper Kelly’s feature debut “Buddy,” starring Keegan-Michael Key as an orange unicorn who slaughters viewers, opened Aug. 28 to $5.3 million and has grossed nearly $16 million through Labor Day. Roadside Attractions and Saban Films acquired it after Sundance.

Prime Video orders Free Spirits: The Backpacker Poisonings and Madness of Three plus season 4 of The Test; first major local commission since Australia’s streaming rules kicked in, with all three due globally in 2027.

Yellowjackets is compressing its endgame into four seasons; Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson say the original five-season roadmap got tightened to keep the story moving. The Showtime survival horror series now closes out this November on Paramount+.

Beta Film launches Blindspot Berlin at TIFF Primetime; the six-part true-crime thriller bows Sept. 13, with ARD streaming set for Oct. 20 and linear rollout following on Nov. 1.

World premiere set for New York Film Festival on Sept. 26; North American theatrical rollout lands Nov. 6. Toho’s trailer tees up a new kaiju threat after Minus One’s breakout run.

Prime Video sets Mike Flanagan’s eight-episode Carrie for Oct. 7, 2026; the full trailer spotlights Summer H. Howell as Carrie White and frames the Stephen King adaptation as a modern expansion of the original story. Amazon MGM Studios backs the series, with Kate Siegel, Axelle Carolyn, Kyra Sedgwick and Hiromi Kamata directing the season.

Aaron Harvey’s next sci-fi thriller, The Saviors, pairs Theo Rossi and Ron Perlman again; the film centers on a couple whose lives implode after they rent out a garage to mysterious tenants. Come With Me is now in select theaters, but the new project tease is the real intel here.

Dark Sky Films sets WHO’S WATCHING for a Sept. 18 digital and select-theater release, then rolls out a 14-city screening tour with Tim Kasher and live acoustic sets; Zachary Ray Sherman won Best Actor at Brooklyn Horror.

A new teaser trailer has made its way to the market from Paramount+, as the streaming service is behind the legacy spinoff show that sees Dexter Morgan navigating his life away from Miami (trying to get away from his infamous past as the Bay Harbor Butcher).

Cineverse puts Portal to Hell on digital and VOD September 8, with select theatrical play at the front end; the festival-circulated horror-comedy from Woody Bess stars Keith David and Richard Kind.

Elvira boards Tubi’s R.L. Stine sequel as Cassandra, a witch tied to ancient magic; Jem Garrard returns to write/direct and the film lands on Oct. 9 as part of Terror on Tubi.

Final season locked for 2027; AMC+ drops first-look teaser and images as Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride return to Spain for the spinoff’s conclusion.

Warner Bros. has the film in a Valentine’s Day 2027 theatrical slot after moving it off Halloween 2026; the first trailer sells Gyllenhaal and Dynevor as a creepy supernatural couple.