** SLAYGROUND: On the week of Halloween, the primary suspect in a mass murder investigation escapes police custody and goes on the run, attempting to prove his innocence while becoming the target of a massive manhunt.
** HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK 2: Here's the trailer for the upcoming film.
** BRUTE 1986: Terror returns in BRUTE 1986, a blood-soaked follow-up to 2025's hit, BRUTE 1976. A glam metal band and their crew venture to an abandoned desert town to film a music video. Unbeknownst to them, a deranged family of violent misfits lives there, and they don't take well to uninvited visitors. As they begin killing off their unwanted guests, the band, unable to escape, plots revenge.
** A QUIET PLACE PART III: Jack O'Connell has confirmed he'll play the brother of Cillian Murphy's character in A QUIET PLACE PART III, the pair working together after both appeared in 28 YEARS LATER THE BONE TEMPLE earlier this year.
Speaking with Collider, O'Connell says: "A QUIET PLACE was, that felt like family. It's about family, obviously. Got John Krasinski and Emily Blunt involved, and Cillian and I play brothers. There was a real familial feel to that one. It was cool, man. But horror's popping off. People are turning out for horror. So it's great. Yeah, it's amazing." (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
----- October 19, 2026 -----
** HELLRAISER: Author and filmmaker Clive Barker says the recently released HELLRAISER REVIVAL, a video game adaptation of his iconic horror franchise, is a call to action for more stories set in that universe. Developer Boss Team Games and publisher Saber Interactive recently released the single-player, first-person, survival-horror action game.
You play as Aidan, a man who wields the 'Genesis Configuration' puzzle box. He journeys across the hellish abyss to aid his missing girlfriend, who has been taken by the Cenobites. In an interview, Barker says he has "many ideas" as to where to take the franchise next:
"I think what was achieved in the game is a wake-up call to anyone who's been involved in the making of a franchise like HELLRAISER. It says to get your ideas warmed over so you can go back into existing worlds in a brand new way. I have many ideas that I'd like to see realised in the HELLRAISER universe, and I'm planning to keep my fingers in that pie."
Barker's 1986 novella THE HELLBOUND HEART resulted in a franchise that has sparked multiple movies, the most recent being 2022's reboot, which starred subsequent breakout stars Odessa A'zion, Drew Starkey, Brandon Flynn and Adam Faison, along with Jamie Clayton as Pinhead. Barker controls the rights to the franchise which returned to him in 2020. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** SPECIES: Fangoria is excited to partner with IFC Entertainment to reveal that they've acquired SPECIES, the French-language body horror from director Marion Le Corroller that premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Le Corroller from a script she co-wrote with Thomas Pujol, SPECIES (released in France as SANGUINE) stars Mara Taquin, Karin Viard, Sami Outalbali, Kim Higelin, Clement Bresson, Sonia Faidi, Benjamin Mendes, and Etienne Langar. The film's synopsis is as follows:
Margot begins her internship in the ER, where she struggles to adapt. Very soon, she finds herself treating patients her own age with unexplained symptoms. The frequency of these unusual cases leaves her wondering, especially as she begins to notice increasingly alarming symptoms on her own body. (thanks to Fangoria.com)
** DEADBOLT: Here's the trailer for the upcoming home-invasion thriller directed by Zac Coleman. The 76-minute film hits VOD and Digital on November 13, 2026.
** TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL: An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town's dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within. Directed by Larry Fessenden.
----- October 16, 2026 -----
** IN A VIOLENT NATURE 2: Here's a new poster for the upcoming sequel.
** THE MUMMY BOOK OF THE DEAD: Universal Pictures has announced THE MUMMY BOOK OF THE DEAD as the official title for the upcoming fourth film in the franchise. The highly anticipated film sees Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reprising their roles as roguish American adventurer and former French Foreign Legion soldier Rick O'Connell and English Egyptologist and librarian-turned-action heroine Evelyn O'Connell.
Both starred in the roles in the original 1999 film and 2001's THE MUMMY RETURNS while Fraser returned solo for a third film with Maria Bello taking over the Evie role. Also back for the new film are John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan, Kevin J. O'Connor as Beni Gabor, and Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay. Michael Johnston joins the cast as a new character. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** HEAT OF MADNESS: From the director of MEGALOMANIAC. On the verge of becoming a father, Scola is hoping to make it big with one final heist. However, betrayed by his accomplices and blinded by the obsession to recover his loot, he embarks on a vengeful quest that leads him into a supernatural world. Check out the trailer!
** LOVE KILLS: Marcos, a downtrodden employee at a grimy cafe in a crack-ridden Sao Paulo neighborhood, is captivated by a customer in the corner holding her coffee without taking a sip; staring intensely, dressed to the nines. As Marcos' intrigue grows he unwittingly follows her into a 'mundo fantástico.' Soon he is caught in the middle of a hyperbolic gang war between two tribes of glamorously bespoke modern-day vampires, whose looks do more than kill. Bathed in mesmerizing neon with slick and savvy cinematic panache to spare, Love Kills is a scintillating, action-packed tale of seduction, redemption and bloodlust.
----- October 14, 2026 -----
** SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN: Filmmaker Craig Zobel has been set to direct a live-action feature adaptation of the comic SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN.
James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera created the BOOM! Studios graphic novel series in 2019 and follows Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter who arrives in the small town of Archer's Peak after children begin disappearing, to take down the creature preying on them. Announced at New York Comic-Con yesterday during the Blumhouse panel, Jason Blum, Stephen Christy and Tynion IV will produce the film.
** DEAD OF NIGHT: A small town is terrorized by a series of brutal murders, as a determined sheriff, his daughter, and a desperate mayor race to uncover the truth behind the killings before the town descends into chaos.
** THE THIRD PARENT: Your family will soon be complete.
** MUM I'M ALIEN PREGNANT: When a messy underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant, she must overcome skeptical doctors, a useless baby daddy, and her oversharing mum in order to survive and reclaim her life.
----- October 13, 2026 -----
** 28 YEARS LATER 3: Filmmaker Danny Boyle has confirmed that movement has stalled on the Cillian Murphy-led third entry in the 28 YEARS LATER franchise. At the London Film Festival this week to promote INK, Boyle participated in a Q&A and said that while he hopes the film gets made, financing still needs to be set. As a result, the movie is "on the back burner at the moment". (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** IN A VIOLENT NATURE PART 2: IFC & Shudder have confirmed that Nate Wilson and Chris Nash's IN A VIOLENT NATURE PART 2 is set to hit cinemas on February 12th 2027 – just in time for Valentine's Day.
Actor Ry Barrett reprises his role as the firefighter mask-clad undead Johnny (Barrett) who continues his violent rampage at an Ontario summer camp. This time a young outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counsellor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** RIVER: The sun is down. The boat is dead. There's no cell service. And there's someone standing, staring, from the shore. From the producers of BACKROOMS and OBSESSION comes a vivid, visceral new vision in the slasher genre, marking an electrifying feature-film debut by writer-director Joshua Giuliano. Only in theaters January 15th.
** THE BABYSITTER: Tubi has confirmed it will release THE BABYSITTER, a live-action film adaptation of GOOSEBUMPS and FEAR STREET author R.L. Stine's popular novel series first published in 1989.
The story follows a 16-year-old babysitter, Jenny, who is so desperate to earn enough money for a prestigious writing program that she takes the job despite a prowler terrorising girls across town. But when she starts receiving threatening phone calls and a dangerous fugitive surfaces in town, Jenny's suspicion of those around her grows. Meanwhile, danger begins closing in. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
----- October 12, 2026 -----
** Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND remake: The Italian horror classic is set to get a remake. Lucio Fulci's 1981 film THE BEYOND was announced as the first remake from a strategic partnership between Hangtime International Pictures and Severin Films, which aims to "secure remake rights to genre films for theatrical, streaming and physical media," per a press release. THE BEYOND is the first of several planned remakes over the next two years from the partnership.
"The impetus for this partnership was our shared commitment to fans of the genre and our desire to deliver for new horror audiences," Frank Murray, the co-CEO of Hangtime, said in a statement. "This is a rare opportunity for an established director to reimagine THE BEYOND, contemporize it as a classic of experiential horror and further the ever-growing cultural significance of Fulci's work. We also love the built-in sequel opportunity afforded us by Fulci's Gates of Hell universe."
Frida Torresblanco, co-CEO at Hangtime, added in the statement that, "Severin is the ideal partner, not just in helping us navigate the rights process but as a uniquely knowledgeable creative sounding board." (thanks to Variety.com)
** THE EXORCIST MARTYRS: Darkness must be hunted. Mike Flanagan's THE EXORCIST MARTYRS is only in theaters March 12.
** THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY: Here's the poster for the upcoming film.
** AMANDA THE ADVENTURER: A movie adaptation of DreadXP's indie video game series AMANDA THE ADVENTURER is in the works at Blumhouse. Based on the indie puzzle-horror video game franchise of the same name from developer MANGLEDmaw Games, AMANDA THE ADVENTURER follows Riley Park, who starts exploring her reclusive Aunt Kate's house after she passes away and leaves the house to Riley. (thanks to Variety.com)
** MOLEPEOPLE: LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn are set to star in MOLEPEOPLE, a horror feature that sees the teaming of two horror powerhouses, Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Paramount Primal. The feature will be co-financed and co-produced by Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Paramount, with Paramount handling worldwide distribution. A release date of Aug. 27, 2027 has been set.
Rob Savage, who had OTHER MOMMY opening last weekend, will direct the horror thriller, which has a script by Nathan Elston. The logline concerns a man who descends into the abandoned tunnels beneath New York City, where he discovers a twisted society lurking beneath the streets. (thanks to HollywoodReporter.com)
----- October 9, 2026 -----
** CROSSED: Here's the trailer for the highly anticipated live action adaptation.
** THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY: Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him. In Theaters, November 4th.
** CHRISTMAS AT THE KRINGLES: Here's the trailer and new poster for the upcoming film.
** THE AWAKENING: An elite military unit ventures into a Colombian jungle on a mission to eliminate an enemy target. What begins as a tactical operation quickly descends into a frenzied nightmare when a primeval force awakens in the darkness. Five hundred years earlier, a Spanish conquistador expedition was consumed by the same relentless curse. Separated by centuries but connected by the same hostile territory, both groups fight to survive the jungle's curse.
----- October 8, 2026 -----
** OBSESSION: The film returns to cinema for one day only.
** HUMAN: What she wanted: a little sexting before bed. What she's going to get: a blood-drenched supernatural nightmare of horrors and heartbreak. Sometimes the universe just sucks, doesn't it.
** TERRESTRIAL: Something strange is landing in theaters.
** CREATURE OF THE PINES: Discover the true story of Pine Hollow in the found-footage horror CREATURE OF THE PINES is streaming on Screambox October 13.
** I SEE THE DEMON: After seeing a strange object floating in the sky, Lucy comes home to a surprise birthday party with all of her favorite people. She's overjoyed, but when asked about her day, she realizes she can't remember anything about it. Her loved ones assure her it's nothing to worry about, but as more unsettling things occur that only she seems to notice, they keep telling her to relax… enjoy the party… there's nothing to worry about… we'll take care of you… As the evening descends into madness, Lucy must discern reality from illusion, and who of her friends are really on her side. All of this will reveal the forgotten trauma Lucy's tried to bury, and the secrets of a bizarre procedure she cannot understand.
----- October 7, 2026 -----
** THE EXORCIST MARTYRS: A determined rookie detective eager to establish herself confronts a horrifying darkness that challenges her deepest convictions and tests everything she thought she knew about right and wrong.
** NEW GROUP: A student appears on the playground, crawling on all fours. Days later, others join, forming a human pyramid. It marks the start of a bizarre phenomenon that spreads across the community.
** PENDULUM: Married couple Patrick and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the possibility of healing after a traumatic event. Patrick is willing to do anything to help his wife, but becomes distrustful of the retreat's enigmatic leader even as Abigail falls under her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple must determine if the group's spiritual practices offer genuine healing – or mask a terrifying truth that threatens to consume them both.
** POSTMORTEM: Six months after her husband's sudden death, medical examiner Helena Martinez (Odette Annable) runs a small morgue on the California–Mexico border, holding herself and her teenage daughter together by not talking about it. Then sixteen bodies arrive at once: an elderly cult that took its own lives in a ritual meant to raise their leader from the dead. Processing them, Helena finds the ceremony recorded on the members' own camcorder, and one survivor still breathing in the hospital next door. He tells her the ritual can be finished. She has a body of her own. Check out the trailer!
----- October 6, 2026 -----
** CROSSED: The upcoming film revolves around Stan and Cindy, the leaders of a group of strangers thrown together as they attempt to escape northward away from the inflicted konwn as the Crossed. In this world, those affected by a mysterious disease appear to have a cross on their foreheads, with these people follow their worst impulses. Imagine if zombies were just humans who their intellect, but are also homicidal maniacs.
** BLACK SHEEPS: Here's the poster for the upcoming sequel.
** VICTORIAN PSYCHO: Here's a new poster for the upcoming film.
** OTHER MOMMY: Here's two new posters for the upcoming film.
----- October 5, 2026 -----
** TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD: Filming has wrapped on TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD, the long gestating "final chapter" of George A. Romero's classic zombie saga. UNDERWORLD star Kate Beckinsale stars alongside genre regular Betty Gabriel, newcomer Abigail London, Kurt Deimer, Phil Burke, Cooper Barnes, Tait Fletcher and John D. Hickman.
Filming took place in Kentucky and wrapped last month. Greg Nicotero, the legendary WALKING DEAD make-up effects supervisor and director who also worked with Romero on DAY OF THE DEAD, handled special effects. The horror project, which has buy-in from the Romero estate, is "set on a decimated earth where the last vestiges of humanity are trapped between warring factions and an evolving undead threat". The Paz Brothers, Doron and Yoav Paz, whose movies include THE GOLEM and PLAN A, directed. (thanks to Deadline.com)
** BUDDY: The film will capture the hearts of audiences everywhere at home when it drops on Digital on October 13th, followed by a DVD and Blu-ray release on December 8th, 2026.
** MARROW: Based on a series of real-life police files regarding a stalking in small-town Texas, "Marrow" follows Jamie Foster, a formerly successful vlogger who attempts to revitalize her career by inviting her stalker onto the show—knowing he may be the serial killer responsible for murdering a string of influencers. Although Jamie's views go up, she begins to realize more than her life is at stake when the stalker's identity—and humanity—come into question. Arriving on VOD from Scatena & Rosner Films on November 3.
** INCOMPLETE CHAIRS: A Japanese craftsman's obsession with creating the perfect chair spirals into a nightmare of flesh and wood. When artistic ambition crosses into madness, the human body becomes raw material.
----- October 2nd, 2026 -----
** HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER 4K: The classic returns with a new 40th anniversary Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Steelcase, arriving on 10/27. Pre-order exclusively through Dark Sky Selects from 10/1 - 10/9. The collaboration includes a Rucking Fotten T-shirt + 4K UHD Steelcase bundle, as well as an additional bundle featuring the Rucking Fotten T-shirt + 4K UHD Steelcase + VHS.
** OBSESSION: Focus Features has reportedly submitted Curry Barker's OBSESSION under the 'musical or comedy' categories at the Golden Globes. The move has raised some eyebrows. The film chronicles the chaos and violence that ensues after a young man is granted his wish of a young woman loving him too much.
Many awards pundits expected it to be submitted as a drama, but those associated with the film insist it's far more a dark comedy, and THR says even the Golden Globes voters themselves have indicated they regard it as a comedy. The film, which cost just $750,000 to make, has grossed more than $500 million worldwide and has catapulted star Inde Navarrette to the top of many casting calls. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** GHOST IN THE CELL 4K: Coming to 4K UHD on 11/17 from Well Go USA.
** SLITHER 4K: Coming to 4K UHD on 12/8 from Scream Factory.
----- October 1st, 2026 -----
** FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 3: Actor Matthew Lillard has confirmed that a third FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S movie is aiming to shoot next year while out promoting the new CARRIE series for Amazon. it's unknown if stars Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, and Elizabeth Lail will return.
Lillard said; "I know the early version of the script came through, and everyone's really excited about it, and I know they're moving to the next level, so we will be shooting in 2027." That likely means an early 2028 release. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** CARRIE: Mike Flanagan was asked how many seasons he would make if he could choose his ideal length for the upcoming CARRIE series at Amazon Prime Video. Flanagan explains: "In my dream scenario. I think it's three seasons. In my dream scenario, I think Carrie has a wonderful three-step arc. It's a trilogy, really."
Flanagan has made no bones about the fact that he's significantly changed up the source material for this take on the property with the eight-episode series set to debut on the service on October 7th. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** WHALEFALL: Here's two new posters for the upcoming film.
