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Neon is developing and producing a 2027 SCP Foundation anthology feature, locking in a second major screen play on the open-source horror universe after A24’s competing adaptation announcement. Neon says it is working with the SCP Foundation team and plans a Creative Commons-friendly release strategy.

Netflix is hunting for an exec to lead its podcast business as the streamer deepens its audio push; Lemonada also cut a distribution and ad-sales deal with The Moment LIVE while A.J. Gentile escalates a fight with Night Media.

Closer Media has tapped Dan Guando as EVP while unveiling a multi-year Blumhouse Atomic Monster pact to develop and co-finance lower-budget original films; first up are Occupant and Lust, with Occupant set to roll in October.

Ahead of the Christmas Day release of Robert Eggers’ buzzy new horror film Werwulf, Focus Features has launched an alternate reality game in which fans must solve a puzzle every full moon from September through November to win a prize

Amazon MGM is developing Freddie the Fix as a feature adaptation of Garth Ennis’ horror-noir comic; Lawrence Lamont boards to direct, with Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell writing and Kenya Barris producing alongside Kimberly Steward.

Dark Sky Films has taken U.S. rights to Majid Al Ansari’s Arabic-language psychological horror thriller The Vile after its Fantastic Fest win and festival run through Sitges, BFI London and Busan. Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Derek Dauchy and Rami Yasin produce; U.S. release plans are still under wraps.

20th Century Studios has acquired Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman’s Every House Is Haunted from Netflix; Schindler and Netto are now directing, with Sam Raimi and Roy Lee producing.

$100,000 financing award plus a distribution deal for Father Figure, a 1970s wedding-set folk-horror feature from Connor Martin and producer Josh Farnworth; Fantastic Fest 2027 locks in a one-year production window.

Lionsgate and LG Channels are rolling out standalone Saw, Hunger Games and John Wick FAST channels in the U.S. and Canada; Saw gets its own Halloween-timed channel for the first time, while Saw 11 remains in development.

Tubi is developing Afraid of Clowns as another original R.L. Stine horror feature, extending its third collaboration with the author; Jem Garrard writes-directs with Front Street Pictures producing.

James Jordan is the latest cast addition to Neon’s It Follows sequel They Follow, with Maika Monroe returning, Naomi Ackie also on board and filming now wrapped. David Robert Mitchell is back writing and directing, putting the cult horror follow-up into post-production.

Bearing the Dead rolls in October; Parker Croft’s Vermont horror feature has Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson and co-writer Nolan Gould attached. The production is targeting a Q1 2027 premiere, with a local Vermont screening planned.

Hulu is developing Elle Kennedy’s Thornbird with Marlene King writing and executive producing at 20th Television; the serial-killer-family thriller keeps Kennedy’s IP hot after Off Campus and Girl Abroad.

Paramount Pictures has Osgood Perkins’ Hexagram shooting in Vancouver in January; Nicolas Cage is back and the film is set in the Longlegs universe. Neon stepped aside after the scope and budget pushed beyond its range, while Longlegs finished at $127M global on a $10M cost.

Tubi FrightFest Halloween 2026 unveils a London lineup heavy on mutants, folk horror, killer spiders, werewolves, and murderous-neighbor titles; Tubi stays embedded in the genre-fest circuit.

Peacock’s Crystal Lake prequel centers Pamela Voorhees before and after Jason’s death; Linda Cardellini says the series is leaning into grief, trauma, and the mother-son bond that turns her lethal.

BFI NETWORK South West-backed horror shorts are screening on Bristol Megascreen as opening-night programming for Forbidden Worlds: The Big Scream. The event doubles as a regional networking night with filmmakers, Films@59 and the BFI team supporting early-career genre talent.

$500M+ worldwide on a reported $750K budget has Focus Features and partners pushing Obsession into Golden Globes comedy categories; the campaign gives Curry Barker’s horror hit a shot at a less crowded awards lane.

Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group is bringing Delusion back to the Beckett Mansion for a 2026 run of Den of the Mosquito; the immersive horror production plays select nights Sept. 17-Nov. 8.

More than $400K in self-financing, director fees, condo credit and Canadian tax credits got Armageddon Road made; Karen Lam used LED volume-wall work plus practical miniatures to unlock the apocalyptic horror-thriller, which is now touring Canadian theaters.

SCREAMBOX is anchoring October around two originals: found-footage horror feature Creature of the Pines and Ted Raimi-hosted interview series Your Dearest Darkest Friend, both arriving Oct. 30. The service is pairing them with a monthlong stack of library titles to own Halloween viewing.

ID’s Aileen Wuornos docuseries is using an AI mask tool to digitally replace lead actor Morag Peacock with Wuornos’ likeness; executive producer Stephen Dost is pitching it as an ethical-prosthetics workflow for true-crime storytelling.

Republic opens a $2.5M Reg CF for cosmic horror debut Hollywood Hills; The Sandbox cofounders Arthur Madrid and Sebastien Borget back the campaign with NFT perks and revenue participation. Benjamin Rozovas’ script is in hand and casting is underway, with The Sandbox positioned as a community-marketing partner.

Eduardo Sánchez and Dean Alioto are lining up a future found-footage collaboration, pairing the Blair Witch Project and McPherson Tape creators on a new horror project.

Christmas Day bow for The Poolrooms; the found-footage Backrooms feature shot at Rigby’s Water World and Assembly Studios in Atlanta, with Rebel Raider Media and Grytt Picture Shows producing. No cast has been set yet, and the late-December slot signals a cheap or confident indie launch.

Prime Video set Oct. 7, 2026 for the eight-episode Carrie series at SDCC and rolled first teaser footage; Mike Flanagan fronted the panel with Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Siena Agudong, Alison Thornton, Amber Midthunder and Matthew Lillard, with Stephen King exec-producing.

Ted Raimi’s Screambox series adds a special collaboration from ‘The Last Podcast On The Left’; ‘Your Dearest Darkest Friend’ stays on track for an Oct. 30 Halloween launch.

Beyond Fest surprise-screened M. Night Shyamalan’s Remain four months early, and the first audience reaction is strong enough that Warner Bros. already moved it to Feb. 5, 2027. Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor headline the Hitchcock-leaning ghost-story romance, with Nicholas Sparks co-building the source material.

Principal photography has kicked off in Kentucky on The Spiral Down, a psychological thriller from Neil Marshall’s story. Charlotte Kirk, Costas Mandylor and Michael Pare star in the serial-killer pic about a kidnapping that exposes an escaped psychiatric patient with a violent past.

Nicolas Cage, Michael Sheen, Jordi Mollà, Emilio Sakraya and Adrian Topol are set for Simon Afram’s cyber-thriller C.L.A.Y.; London shoot is slated for November 2026 with Clay Pictures Ltd. Afram is writing, directing and producing the debut feature, which centers on an underground hacker collective turning digital provocation into real-world fallout.

Amazon MGM Studios is developing Freddie the Fix, Garth Ennis’ R-rated horror-noir comic, with Lawrence Lamont aboard to direct; Image’s Ninth Circle launched the property and Ennis is EPing the film.