Mike Flanagan, Netflix & Matthew Lillard

BloodStream launches Nightmarish on June 28 as a 9:16, phone-native horror anthology, signaling a mobile-first rollout for serialized genre content.

Ripcord is launching the Halloween Film Festival as its debut platform play, backing 50 genre shorts with $200,000 in prizes and a free online screening run Oct. 19-29.

Vancouver production on Rot starts in November, with Mike Flanagan producing a Black List body-horror script from Geo Bradley and a cast led by Cooper Koch, Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard.

TIFF’s 51st edition runs Sept. 10–20, 2026, premiering Mike Flanagan’s Carrie miniseries, Brad Caleb Kane’s 1950s Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake, and horror titles including River, YAGA and Netflix’s Below.

Fearfolks and Studio76 have inked a three-picture Thai-Taiwanese horror development pact unveiled at the Toronto Film Festival Market, with theatrical release targeted across the slate. Lead project Cher is a supernatural folklore horror that already won at Frontières and qualified for Tokyo gap financing.

500,000-plus launch across PC and consoles makes Halloween: The Game the biggest asym horror debut on Steam; IllFonic and Gun Interactive are already touting franchise-scale demand.

81-feature slate with 10 world premieres, 4 North American premieres and 7 U.S. premieres; Robert Eggers brings first-look material from Werwulf, Mike Flanagan screens the first two Carrie episodes, and Beyond Fest runs Sept. 23-Oct. 6 at the Egyptian, Aero and Los Feliz 3.

Aura Entertainment has landed US rights to supernatural horror thriller Casket Girls ahead of Capture’s Toronto sales launch; production is wrapped and Gabrielle Union, Mike Colter, Raúl Castillo, Matt Frewer and Thomas Lennon star.

Hishow expands its We Love Cinema slate with a strategic push into genre by adding all four Rec movies to the brand’s release roster, alongside Josephine and Ah Girl. The Chinese distributor is using the zombie-horror franchise to broaden beyond arthouse fare while building out its community-driven distribution model.

Brandon Rogers’ horror-comedy Weird Party has wrapped with Giancarlo Esposito, Jinkx Monsoon and Debra Wilson aboard; A Brandon Bored produced, with Rogers directing from his own script.

Psychological thriller Ping is shooting in Mississippi as Ultimate Media Group launches international sales at TIFF; Megan Lawless stars, CAA Media Finance co-reps domestic rights, and this is UMG’s first formal market launch.

Netflix will start publicly reporting grosses on selected theatrical releases, beginning with La Bola Negra; the shift pairs longer cinema windows with a more studio-like read on performance for prestige titles in 2027 and beyond.

Horror Inc. is in court with Gun Interactive over millions in alleged unpaid royalties tied to Friday the 13th: The Game; the dispute puts fresh legal pressure on one of horror’s most litigated IPs.

BC shoot wraps on Mike Flanagan’s Carrie; Intrepid Pictures, Red Room Pictures and Amazon MGM produced the eight-episode Stephen King adaptation at The Bridge Studios in Vancouver, with the series set to close Primetime at TIFF before its Oct. 7 Prime Video debut.

TIFFCOM has selected 24 feature projects for the 2026 Tokyo Gap Financing Market, including five animated titles and Robot Playground Media’s A Banquet For Hungry Ghosts. The Frontières pick is a YA-based horror anthology co-produced across Singapore, Taiwan, Ireland and Malaysia, extending Fantasia’s market footprint into Tokyo.

Vertical has picked up U.S. rights to Serbian post-apocalyptic thriller Sanctuary; the English-language feature stars Nina Kiri and already has additional international deals via Sublimity. Telekom Srbija’s TS Media is using the film as a scale-up play for Serbian genre production with global sales in place.

CBS’ 48 Hours is adding video to its true-crime podcast slate with The Woman in the Woods, a six-episode launch built for YouTube-era consumption; audio and video episodes roll out Sept. 16 with CBS archive footage folded in.

Netflix pre-buys global rights to four-part Australian doc series 2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback ahead of TIFF Primetime; the Blackfella Films title lands on the streamer in early 2027 with SBS, NITV and Screen Australia behind it.

Kickstarter is funding Anthony Cousins’ Frogman-universe follow-up The Kentucky Goblins; the found-footage horror pic expands the same mythology as Frogman and Frogman Returns.

Toronto After Dark’s first wave pairs 5 More Minutes, I Love Paris and Frogman Returns with a new Late Night Programme kickoff at CFMDC’s CineCycle, broadening the festival’s Canadian genre lane.

Joe Gatto is scripting a new adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s 2007 novel Lost Echoes; the supernatural thriller is in early development with no buyer announced.

Flapjax, a sci-fi horror-comedy centered on “the most enthusiastic restaurant manager you have ever seen” who unknowingly becomes a pawn in an alien scheme.

Tor Nightfire has acquired Tif Robinette’s Swallerjaw as a two-book world-English deal; hardcover lands Aug. 17, 2027, with Nightfire UK, Tor Australia, and Tor Germany also on board.

Four-part psychological horror miniseries My Sad Dead lands on Netflix September 24 and plays San Sebastian competition; Pablo Larraín and Fabula adapt Mariana Enriquez’s stories with Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi and Nana-alike supporting cast.

Hammer Films rolls out Ithaqua after 14 years in the works; the revived label says the first new monster in six decades kicks off a fresh slate under John Gore.

Quarxx's 19th-century horror drama The Ones Who Grieve bows its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest; the teaser tees up a religious-madness plague tale for Austin.

Saber Interactive’s Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, previewed at Gamescom 2026, is a standalone story set more than 20 years after the first film, following Aiden and Sunny; Doug Bradley returns as Pinhead, with Barker advising on lore and aesthetics.

Bloober Team and Broken Mirror Games unveil Onyx: The Dark Grip, a 2.5D supernatural horror title landing on Switch 2 next year after the Project M tease.

Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics launch a new Creepshow comic volume next week with #1, featuring two original horror stories per issue from creators including Eisner Award-nominated Tyler Boss.