Sara Tomko (Resident Alien), Oliver Cooper (Project X) and James Duval (Donnie Darko) also star in the film from filmmakers Zach Green and Devin O’Rourke (Foil).

Deadline details in today’s exclusive report, “The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.”

“I have always been drawn to cryptids and monster lore, and the over-the-top sincerity of 80s and 90s protagonists,” director Zach Green said in a statement. “Bad Day for Bigfoot is a love letter to those creature-filled adventure comedies. I couldn’t be more proud of the cast and crew we’ve assembled, and for the support and enthusiasm from the people of La Grande [Oregon]. It was their gumption that proved to us that making this thing was very possible, and that what’s lurking in those woods may be very real indeed.”

The cast also includes Ashley Rae Spillers, Brian McGuire and Kyle D. King.

Stay tuned for more on Bad Day for Bigfoot as we learn it.

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In the clip, a daughter tucks her ailing mother into bed. While the mom makes mention of monsters under the bed, it turns out the real monster may be mommy herself…

Classic Evil Dead mind-play ensues. Watch the clip below.

Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters nationwide July 10, 2026.

After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.

Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, and Hunter Doohan star.

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Kornél Mundruczó (Pieces of a Woman) is set to direct Palm Grove.

Deadline notes in their exclusive report this afternoon, “Insiders say the package will hit the streets tomorrow and is sure to attract a number of buyers given the star power.”

The erotic thriller from writer James Morosini is “set in Miami’s most exclusive neighborhood, where a picture-perfect wife uncovers her husband’s double life – igniting a seductive power game that turns betrayal into the most intoxicating game of her life.”

Stay tuned for more on Palm Grove as we learn it.

Kate Hudson in ‘Shell’

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The new poster celebrates the MPA rating the film received this week.  Her Private Hell is rated ‘R’ for “some strong/bloody violence, sexual content, and language.”

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell will be released in theaters July 24 via Neon.

In the film, when a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.

Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”), Charles Melton (“Riverdale”), Kristine Froseth (How to Blow Up a Pipeline), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), and Diego Calva (Babylon) star.

The ensemble also includes Dougray Scott (Hitman), Aoi Yamada (Perfect Days), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool & Wolverine), and Hidetoshi Nishijima (Shin Ultraman).

Nicolas Winding Refn directs Her Private Hell from a script he co-wrote with Esti Giordani (“Vida”). Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now) composed the score.

Refn produces under his byNWR Originals banner. Executive producers include Takuma Takasaki, Kimberly Willming, Christina Erritzøe, and Lene Børglum.

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The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Ron Howard and Jim Carrey are in talks to reunite for a sequel to the live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie!

If all the deals go through, Jim Carrey would reprise his iconic role as the live action version of the Grinch, while Ron Howard would find himself seated back in the director’s chair.

Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing, with Brian Grazer producing.

THR notes, “The untitled sequel will have a script by Alec Berg (Barry, Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Jeff Schaffer (Life, Larry and The Pursuit of Unhappiness, Dave, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and David Mandel (Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm).”

The Dr. Seuss character was originally introduced in the 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, later brought to the screen in the world of animation in the 1966 special.

Horror legend Boris Karloff voiced the Grinch in that animated classic, while Jim Carrey much later played the character in live action in Ron Howard’s 2000 movie. More recently, Benedict Cumberbatch voiced the character in the 2018 animated movie The Grinch.

David Howard Thornton even played a (more) twisted version of the Grinch in the horror movie The Mean One, a wildly unofficial adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss tale.

Another fun horror connection? Back in 2001, makeup effects legend Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) won an Oscar for his work turning Jim Carrey into the Grinch!

In the 2000 live action holiday classic, “On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.”

The film of course ends with the Grinch embracing Christmas and the Whos, completing his character arc from a nasty beast to a big-hearted citizen of Whoville. Where could a sequel possibly go from there? Well, I did float a fun idea on Twitter just a couple months ago…

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The feature debut by writer-director Alex Ullom will officially arrive in theaters on August 21.

In It Ends, “Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.“

Starring in the film are:

• Akira Jackson as Day
• Phinehas Yoon as James
• Mitchell Cole as Tyler
• Noah Toth as Fisher

“This was always a movie that was more about how we live with horror than about the actual horror. I make this joke too much, but I always wanted to see the family in Hereditary give a postgame interview and just be like, ‘Yeah, that was terrifying. That was absolutely terrifying.’ Then, they all die, obviously, but like they go about their lives. The movie is constantly recontextualizing the things that happen in it,” Ullom previously told BD of his existential horror film.

It Ends premiered at SXSW earlier last year and went on to win Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival.

I wrote in my review, “It Ends captures a universal fear, that anxiety-inducing transition into full-blown adulthood where we’re all expected to become responsible contributors to society. It’s a lot of pressure with no clear guide. As such, it runs through every emotion that comes with that journey.”

Ullom is already a filmmaker to watch; the newcomer has already been tapped to helm 4 X 4: The Event, which is described as Battle Royale meets Saw meets Climax.

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It could still be several months before the production kicks off, but Nicolas Winding Refn has already taken to social media this week to show off a piece of very early teaser art.

Check out NWR’s Maniac Cop tease below and read on for everything we know.

First conceived as a feature then reworked as a series for HBO, the new take on the 1988 slasher is once again set up as a feature, with MUBI now on board to finance the movie.

From what we understand, a wide theatrical release is planned.

In the original Maniac Cop from director William Lustig, innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell), finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.

As Lieutenant Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) investigates, the death toll rises and he suspects a mysterious police cover-up. This maniac cop (Robert Z’Dar) must be stopped, but it might not be so easy. He seems inhuman, and he’s ready to take on the entire police force.

“The concept has always appealed to me,” Nicolas Winding Refn said in a statement to Deadline last month. “In today’s political and social climate, the iconography of Maniac Cop alone provokes an immediate, uneasy reaction. I’ve been watching it all unfold while constructing this project in the shadows… waiting. Now, that moment has finally arrived.”

“The time has come to unveil a radical new vision where there is no protection, no safety net, only mayhem,” Refn’s official statement continued.

“Maniac Cop in Nicolas’s hands is not a remake. It is a resurrection,” said Efe Cakarel, Founder and CEO of MUBI. “Nicolas has one of the most dangerous imaginations in modern cinema, and he is exactly the filmmaker to reawaken something this iconic. We’re proud to be partnering with him on a film that feels bold, singular and impossible to ignore.”

Expect NWR’s Maniac Cop sometime in 2027.

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Son of Sara will be available in the U.S. and Canada on Digital & VOD July 31.

Watch the official trailer from Saban Films below.

In Son of Sara, “A pregnant woman’s cravings turn sinister as her estranged boyfriend’s return coincides with a terrifying secret about the life growing inside her.”

The film stars Chloe Van Landschoot, Tymika Tafari, Garret Hnatiuk and Jane Moffat.

Canadian filmmaker Houston Bone directed Son of Sara.

Houston Bone said in a statement, “After gagging Toronto at Blood in the Snow this past winter, we are excited to be working with Saban to bring our grisly horror movie, and our new little monster, to audiences across the United States. This film has been a passion project for all of us since we shot it back in October 2023. Real blood, sweat, and tears went into bringing Son of Sara to the screen. We are humbled and thrilled by the response from film festival audiences so far. It is a dream come true to be sharing this film at this scale internationally.”

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Kino Cult is bringing a new 2K restoration to US theaters on August 7, after it makes its World Premiere at the prestigious Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna (Festival of Rediscovered Cinema).

Arguably featuring more authentic on-screen deaths than the original Faces of Death, Hell’s Highway isn’t for the squeamish despite its kitschy tone.

We’re exclusively unveiling the trailer for this morbid curiosity that aims to scare drivers straight with grisly depictions of highway-induced death.

Hell’s Highway is an “exploration of the near mythical driver education films shown to American schoolchildren in the 1960s and ‘70s. Produced between 1959 and 1979 in Mansfield, Ohio, films such as Signal 30 (1959) encouraged safety by force-feeding high school kids color footage of careless driving’s dark consequences: blood-stained wreckage, injured bodies, fresh corpses.

“In the 1970s and ’80s, these traumatic films disappeared from the American classroom and assumed an almost mythical status. Eager to document this obscure chapter of cinema history, filmmaker and restorationist Bret Wood compiled these vanishing artifacts of grim Americana into a feature, and interviewed the filmmakers responsible for this misguided educational movement.”

Originally produced in 2002 in standard-definition video, this new edition of Hell’s Highway has been reconstructed through the remastering of the original 16mm interview footage, as new restorations of the original educational films which appear throughout the documentary.

David Edelstein of Filmmaker Magazine called this “A Lynchian view of the nightmarish underbelly of middle America,” as seen in the new poster below, accurately describing this wild shockumentary that casts an unflinching eye on road death.

Buckle up.

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Evil Dead Wrath recently wrapped production, with the upcoming film from director Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) set for theatrical release on April 7, 2028.

We’ve known virtually nothing about the movie up to this point, but a recent interview with producer Rob Tapert has surfaced this week (thanks, Dread Central) and it reveals a very surprising bit of information about Evil Dead Wrath. The film is set in 1972!!

Tapert told the students at Michigan State University during a chat, “Evil Dead Wrath is yet another great departure. It predates everything. It takes place in 1972.”

That means Evil Dead Wrath takes place even before the arrival of Ash Williams and friends to that infamous cabin in the woods, which should give the film a whole new kind of flavor.

Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was of course set in the Middle Ages, but Evil Dead Wrath will take place chronologically before Ash Williams was transported into medieval times!

“It will feel like a 1972 movie because the director and his DP want to imitate the film’s look and feel of something that’s called Ektachrome 100, which was a film stock,” Tapert notes. “Still available. A lot of movies shot on back then. And so it’s very warm, very tungsten.”

Tapert calls Wrath “very Tarantino-esque, very deliberate. [Galluppi] made a movie, not a horror movie, that I liked a great deal called Last Stop in Yuma County. It’s worth looking up.”

The Last Stop in Yuma County, it’s interesting to note, is also set in the 1970s!

Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Zach Gilford (“Midnight Mass”), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic), and Ella Oliphant will star in Evil Dead Wrath.

Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi and franchise producer Rob Tapert are producing. Bruce Campbell and Lee Cronin will executive produce alongside Romel Adam and Jose Canas.

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The sci-fi thriller is unveiling an eerie new poster by artist Hans Woody ahead of its premiere tomorrow night, opening the fest.

Johnny Sibilly (“Hacks”), Alexis Louder (Violent Night), Trace Lysette (“Transparent”), AJ Bowen (You’re Next), and Scott Poythress (I Trapped The Devil) star.

In the film, “One of only two Security Guards employed by ‘The University‘, Andrew Gersh’s days are spent going through the motions. Dismissive of his partner Willis’ growing paranoia about the school’s secretive founder and relentless expansion, Andy’s carefully controlled routine begins to unravel when Willis suddenly vanishes under mysterious circumstances. While patrolling a newly constructed wing, he discovers a sealed room— and inside it, a stranger who returns each night in a newly formed body, as if remade from scratch.

“Guided only by Willis’s final, cryptic warning, Andy’s drawn deeper into a mystery that feels less like an investigation and more like an invitation. As the line between observer and participant begins to blur, he’s forced to confront a chilling possibility: The University isn’t hiding something—it’s building toward something. And Andrew may already be a part of it.“

Horace Gold, Melissa Macedo, Michelle Macedo, and Jennifer Blair round out the cast. Simon Waskow (Cuckoo) will compose the score.

Night After Night is said to harken back to ’70s sci-fi and conspiracy thrillers, featuring morally ambiguous characters.

Stay tuned for more out of Chattanooga Film Fest this weekend.

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Part horror movie and part fitness video, Slashercise will premiere exclusively for BloodStream subscribers on July 1 before expanding to additional platforms on October 1, 2026.

Written and directed by Ama Lea (Deathcember), the retro-styled feature follows “a masked killer known only as Meathead as he stalks the fitness clubs of Los Angeles, turning workout sessions into blood-soaked nightmares. As the city’s top trainers are picked off one by one, a group of determined fitness fanatics must fight back before they become the next bodies on the mat.”

Slashercise features an ensemble cast of horror heavy hitters, too.

Vanessa Decker (Stiletto), John Bloom (The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs), Spencer Charnas (Ice Nine Kills), Sarah French (Blind), Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), Sarah Nicklin (V/H/S/Halloween), Diana Prince (The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs), Jared Rivet (The Once and Future Smash), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley), and Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) star.

“Slashercise is a blood-soaked love letter to 1980s workout videos and slasher movies,” filmmaker Ama Lea said.

Vanessa Decker adds, “We never set out to make a traditional fitness video. We wanted to create an experience horror fans could laugh with, sweat through, and revisit again and again.”

Watch the teaser below that unleashes a killer Meathead in a throwback genre experiment in the vein of Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout.

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The Asylum (who else?!) will release Summerween on June 26, 2026.

Exclusively watch the official trailer for killer clown horror movie Summerween below.

In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”

Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.

Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.

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From The Lure director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, the dystopian sci-fi thriller will be released in North American theaters on August 21 via Focus Features.

The genre-bending film is set in “a near future society ruled by sentient AI, where a private eye investigates a murder case, only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord.”

Andrzej Konopka (The Lure), Noomi Rapace (Prometheus), and Reika Kirishima (Drive My Car) star. 

Robert Bolesto (The Lure) wrote the screenplay.

“To me, ‘Hot Spot’ is a story where the main feeling is fear, just like in a horror movie. And in today’s world,” Bolesto previously told Variety. Smoczyńska describes the new project as a “personal blend of horror, science fiction and anti-detective story,” signaling another unique genre-bender from the filmmaker.

The project was developed with the support of The Sundance Institute, which presented Smoczyńska with its 2017 Global Filmmaking Award.

Producers include Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska at Poland’s Madants, who produced Claire Denis’ High Life and Agnieszka Holland’s Mr Jones, alongside Before Midnight producer Christos V. Konstantakopoulos at Greek production outfit Faliro House. 

Hot Spot will open against Insidious: Out of the Further.

Also on the way from Focus Features is Robert Eggers’ Werwulf on December 25.

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The outlet details, “Sphere Studios will use its signature immersive technology to enhance the 1975 film, a cult classic famous for its rowdy midnight showings and audience participation.”

The cult sensation originally released in 1975 and has become the longest-running theatrical release of all time, with the film celebrating its landmark 50th anniversary last year.

The cult musical was created/written by Richard O’Brien and directed by Jim Sharman.

“Through Sphere Studios, we are building a slate of original experiences that push the boundaries of technology and storytelling for this new medium, while always keeping the audience at the center of the experience,” said Jim Dolan, Sphere Entertainment’s executive chairman and CEO. “Since The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, it redefined audience participation and became a cultural phenomenon. With Sphere, we have the opportunity to take that spirit of immersion to an entirely new level.”

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Las Vegas has been a massive success, generating over $400 million in ticket sales. The release also generated a lot of controversy, with Sphere Studios editing the movie and using AI to essentially create a whole new version of the classic film.

In Rocky Horror, “Fasten your garter belt and relive the time-warping, gender-bending cult classic! When a newly engaged couple’s (Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon) car breaks down on a rainy night, they wind up in the creepy castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry). There, they have an adventure that will thrill you, chill you, and fulfill you like never before!”

Definitive Rocky Horror documentary Strange Journey was just released this month.

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Brainstorm Media will release the film on VOD on August 7, 2026.

In the upcoming slasher, “A nightmare involving a maniac killer in a baby mask serves as inspiration for horror screenwriter Adam Lewis’s new script. As more nightmares, visions, and real life terror begin to challenge Adam’s sanity, he finds himself in a desperate struggle to control his writing, his reality, and who will be Big Baby’s next victim.”

Watch the teaser below as Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier) falls prey to the Big Baby, but with a bloody meta twist.

Krsy Fox (Little Bites, Terrifier 3), Adam Marcinowski (Allegoria), Jordan Elsass (Little Fires Everywhere, Superman & Lois), Radek Lord (Ballers), Sierra McCormick (The Vast Of Night), Chaz Bono (American Horror Story), Kate Freund (Creepshow), Torio Van Grol, Cameron Cowperthwaite (Dahmer, Fallout), Kirby Bliss Blanton (The Green Inferno, Project X), and Nelson Leis (The Last Of Us, The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina) also star.

Written and directed by Spider One, Big Baby is executive produced by pop icon Cher, Chaz Bono, Tyler Connolly, Wendy Berry, and Terry Poor. 

Before making its VOD debut, Big Baby is embarking on an immersive tour with exclusive photo ops and Q&As:

• July 11 from 10-4 pm at Scarepros Levittown, PA – Signing with Spider One and Krsy Fox- Photo Op with Big Baby
• July 12 at 4 pm at Smodcastle – Special Screening Hosted by Kevin Smith, Followed by Q&A with Spider One and Krsy Fox
• July 23 at Culver Theater – Special Screening Hosted by Dead Meat’s James A Janisse
• July 27-August 10 at Slasherworld – Big Baby Exhibit and Photo ops at  Slasherworld
• August 15th at Horror Vibes Coffee – Horror Vibes Coffee in LA with Specialty Drink & Giveaways and Photo Ops

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Her Private Hell is rated ‘R’ for “some strong/bloody violence, sexual content, and language.”

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell will be released in theaters July 24 via Neon.

In the film, when a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.

Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets”), Charles Melton (“Riverdale”), Kristine Froseth (How to Blow Up a Pipeline), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), and Diego Calva (Babylon) star.

The ensemble also includes Dougray Scott (Hitman), Aoi Yamada (Perfect Days), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool & Wolverine), and Hidetoshi Nishijima (Shin Ultraman).

Nicolas Winding Refn directs Her Private Hell from a script he co-wrote with Esti Giordani (“Vida”). Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Don’t Look Now) composed the score.

Refn produces under his byNWR Originals banner. Executive producers include Takuma Takasaki, Kimberly Willming, Christina Erritzøe, and Lene Børglum.

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Black Diamond comic book creator Brendan Columbus will write the screenplay.

Black Diamond follows Owen and Victoria Welch on a family ski trip that spirals into a nightmare. When their son is abducted by a mysterious cult, the couple is pushed to the brink and faced with a soul-crushing ultimatum: sacrifice another child or lose their own forever.

The comic book series from Panick Entertainment is described as a “chilling folk horror thriller blending Hitchcockian psychological tension with the dread of The Wicker Man.”

“Black Diamond was my attempt to put everything I love about thrillers on the page,” Columbus tells Variety. “I want to make sure it feels like you physically can’t leave the theater or else you’ll miss the next twist or turn. With his masterful cinematic eye and his great story sense, Ernest is going to scare the hell out of everyone with this one.”

“Black Diamond immediately grabbed me because its horror is rooted in impossible human choices,” says Dickerson. “It taps into parental fear, morality, isolation, and survival in a way that is so unsettling and emotionally real. That combination will make for a very suspenseful and exciting cinematic experience.”

Ernest Dickerson is directing and executive producing the feature film. Black Diamond will notably be Ernest Dickerson’s first feature film as director since Double Play in 2017, though he has in more recent years been directing for an impressive string of television shows including “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Purge,” “Raised by Wolves,” “Bosch,” and “DMZ.”

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Mali Elfman (Next Exit) is directing the film, with Radio Silence producing.

Deadline details, “Based on an original screenplay by Noga Pnueli (Meet Cute), Thud watches as the Grim Reaper and the Devil meet cute at a three-day destination wedding, falling in love after colliding at the event, where they’ve each come to sow their own chaos.”

Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin are producing Thud for Radio Silence. The project marks a reunion between the filmmaking team and Sarah Michelle Gellar after Ready or Not 2.

Deadline notes that Thud will shoot in Los Angeles “with a California tax credit.”

Mali Elfman directed the animated short The Scariest Skeleton, and she’s also produced horror films including Queens of the Dead, Haunting of Queen Mary, and Birth/Rebirth.

Mali Elfman is the daughter of legendary composer/musician Danny Elfman.

Rudy Pankow in ‘Outer Banks’ (2020)

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Oscar nominee Emma Donoghue (Room) will write the screenplay.

The gothic feminist retelling of William Shakespeare’s classic play “reimagines one of literature’s most enduring figures through a dark, intimate lens, following a young noblewoman thrust into a politically arranged marriage in a brutal medieval world.

“As she navigates survival, power, and identity within a system designed to constrain her, her transformation unfolds into a portrait of ambition, resilience, and consequence.”

Curious Gremlin’s Sinan Eczacibasi said in a statement, “At Curious Gremlin, we have always aimed to share our excitement for telling fresh, bold, and daring stories that trust their audience to embrace new perspectives and sit with complexity. In that spirit, Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth — a ferocious reimagining of the timeless Scottish Play from a fresh and surprisingly overlooked lens — adapted for the big screen by Emma Donoghue, with Kari Skogland in the director’s seat, feels like a natural fit for us.”

“Launching Take A Trip with Lady Macbeth feels deeply aligned with the kind of storytelling we want to champion: visceral, feminine, dangerous, and emotionally uncompromising,” adds Take a Trip’s Mackenzie Munro. “Ava Reid’s novel has such a singular pulse and loyal audience, and with Emma Donoghue adapting and Kari Skogland directing, this project brings together artists with a fearless command of tone and character. I can’t imagine a more exciting first film for Take A Trip, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Curious Gremlin to bring it to life.”

Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth: A Novel was published by Del Rey in 2024.

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Coming soon from Luke Sparke? Dinosaurs of the Wild West!

Inspired by the artwork of creator Shaun Keenan and expanded into an original cinematic universe by filmmaker Luke Sparke, the project blends western frontier mythology with a world where dinosaurs and humans have existed side by side for generations.

The brief teaser this week offers only a glimpse of the world and marks the project’s public debut ahead of the official Kickstarter campaign that’s scheduled to launch on July 7, 2026.

“This is an opportunity for dinosaur enthusiasts, Primitive War fans and cinema buffs to be a part of the production process and create something the world has never seen. We want to create something that feels completely fresh while still capturing the sense of wonder and adventure that first made us fall in love with dinosaur stories,” said Sparke.

Watch the official teaser for Dinosaurs of the Wild West below.

Also coming soon from Luke Sparke? Primitive War 2! Expanding the scope and mythology, Primitive War 2 is said to be a darker, more intense escalation — and more grounded war epic — continuing the distinctive blend of military realism and survival horror.

Set in the aftermath of the original film, the upcoming sequel follows a new U.S. platoon sent into an increasingly unstable valley, where competing kill zones, rival apex predators, and secret Cold War agendas converge. As containment collapses, the mission becomes one of survival — and the cost of failure threatens to extend far beyond the battlefield.

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The filmmaker unveiled the new teaser and poster, both below, on social media.

In Hedges, “A man secretly records his wife as she loses her grip on reality. But the cameras reveal much more than he expected.“

Blackhurst also teased more about the Nashville-shot film on FB, citing favorites like The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Noroi as examples of authenticity. ” I like found footage that feels ‘possible‘, like it really could have happened, and with a reason why the footage (aka evidence) came to exist and why it’s been presented to us now in this form,” he writes.

To achieve that plausible feeling, Blackhurst revealed that he “had actors live in a house for two weeks and everything they did/experienced was captured on cameras.“

Russ Tiller and Quinnlan Ashe star.

While the release date hasn’t been announced just yet, Hedges is coming soon.

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The 12-minute short was uploaded in 2014 and has amassed nearly 2 million views at the time of this article being written, and Deadline reports that it’s getting a feature adaptation.

Witchcraft Motion Picture Company & Fever Dream will turn the viral short into a feature film.

Alone Time follows Ann Saunders, a young NY professional whose carefully constructed life begins to unravel following a devastating personal loss. “Seeking refuge from a collapsing relationship, a deteriorating family situation, and mounting emotional trauma, Ann reluctantly joins her closest friend on a remote camping trip deep in the Adirondack wilderness.”

The synopsis continues, “When her friend mysteriously disappears, Ann becomes convinced that an unseen figure is stalking her through the forest. What begins as a survival nightmare slowly transforms into something far more disturbing as fractured memories, conflicting realities, and hidden truths force Ann to confront the possibility that the greatest threat may not be lurking in the woods at all, but buried deep within her own psych.”

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Deadline reports today that an untitled “event film” from writer/directors Matt and Ross Duffer will be released in theaters by Paramount on November 3, 2028.

Literally nothing is known about the project at this time. Stay tuned for more.

We had learned last year that the four-year deal with Paramount would allow the brothers to develop film, TV, and streaming projects, with a particular focus on large theatrical movies.

The projects will be developed under their Upside Down Pictures banner.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to be joining the Paramount family. David, Josh [Greenstein], and Dana [Goldberg] are passionate about bringing bold, original films to the big screen. To be part of that mission is not just exciting — it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream,” Matt and Ross Duffer said in a statement last year. “To do so at a studio with such a storied Hollywood legacy is a privilege we don’t take lightly. We’re also excited to reunite with our friends Cindy and Matt, who were among the very first to believe in us and an unusual little script we wrote that became Stranger Things. They took a chance on us in 2015, and they’re taking a chance again — we can’t wait to create new stories together.”

Their statement continued, “Our time at Netflix has been incredible. Ted [Sarandos], Bela [Bajaria], and Peter [Friedlander] have given us the kind of creative freedom and support that artists dream of but so rarely receive. A decade in, they are family. We’re excited to continue collaborating — not only on Stranger Things 5, but also on shows we’re deeply proud to be producing, including Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen and The Boroughs. And we look forward to building out the future of Stranger Things together — there are many more stories to tell beyond Hawkins, and we can’t wait to share them.”

“Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” and “The Boroughs” are now streaming on Netflix.

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Written & directed by Curry Barker and produced by Cooper Tomlinson, Milk & Serial follows a well-known social media comedy team (played by Barker and Tomlinson) whose lives are thrown into a tailspin following a birthday prank intended for their channel.

The hour-long movie has been viewed over 3 million times on YouTube to date, and the viral success of the self distributed horror movie – and other YouTube horror shorts like Barker’s The Chair – paved the way for Barker to direct Obsession, which was ultimately acquired by Focus Features and is well on its way to making $300 million at the worldwide box office.

As Luiz H.C. noted here on Bloody Disgusting last month, “Produced on a minuscule budget of roughly $800 dollars (most of which was spent on a camera and the hiring of a single extra actor), Milk & Serial was Barker’s second horror project, released on the comedy channel That’s a Bad Idea. The filmmaker had previously worked with his comedy partner Cooper Tomlinson, who produced and starred in Milk & Serial, on a creepy short film called The Chair, with the success of that video inspiring the duo to envision a larger horror production.”

That larger horror production of course was Obsession, which was still a relatively small production with a budget of less than $1 million. It’s safe to say that Curry Barker is now on the path to becoming a big time player in the Hollywood horror scene, but does he ever plan to return to the world of his smaller YouTube projects like Milk & Serial and The Chair?

Curry Barker tells The Hollywood Reporter this week, “The Chair could definitely be a horror film. I think eventually it would be cool to bring a feature version of the haunted chair story to life. Milk and Serial is probably going to happen [as a film].

“I wonder if there’s an opportunity to bring somebody else onto Milk and Serial and I’ll produce but not necessarily direct,” Barker continues in his chat with THR, thinking aloud.

It’s interesting to note that Barker was offered the chance to turn The Chair into a feature film by producer James Harris, but Barker chose instead to make original feature Obsession.

That turned out to be the possible decision, of course, but it sounds like Curry Barker is not done with The Chair or Milk & Serial at this time. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.

You can watch both Milk & Serial and The Chair below.

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Well, according to director Sébastien Vaniček, the theatrical cut of the movie won’t be quite as brutal as the Director’s Cut he hopes to release on home video down the road.

Vaniček tells SFX Magazine (via Games Radar), “There is a scene that is not R-rated. It’s a really, really hard scene. And I have to cut it, unfortunately, so you just won’t experience it as brutally as it is right now because I need to have the R-rated movie. So we are trying to find a good balance.”

The outlet notes that this interview was conducted before Evil Dead Burn officially received its ‘R’ rating, so it seems Vaniček was ultimately able to make the MPA happy with his edits.

“The director’s cut will be way more violent than what we will have in the theater,” Vaniček promises.

Even still, Evil Dead Burn is being promoted as “the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date,” so there will be no shortage of bloody violence in the rated ‘R’ theatrical cut!

Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters nationwide July 10, 2026.

After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.

Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, and Hunter Doohan star.

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The Paz Brothers (Jeruzalem, The Golem) will be directing Twilight of the Dead, and the website Daily Dead has learned that Greg Nicotero has joined the filmmaking team as well.

Daily Dead got the scoop from Nicotero at the Living Dead Weekend event this past weekend, which took place inside the Monroeville Mall from Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.

The outlet explains, “[Greg Nicotero] exclusively shared with me that he has joined the upcoming production of Twilight of the Dead to handle special makeup effects for the film, which comes as very welcome news! Of course, our readers are no strangers to the jaw-dropping work of Nicotero and his team on The Walking Dead, along with his work on Day of the Dead, the Creepshow TV series, and so much more. Like many Romero fans, I’m very excited to see Romero’s last zombie story and there is no one better to bring the movie’s zombies to life than Nicotero. When speaking with Nicotero, he expressed his excitement to join the project, stating that he has a vested interest in preserving Romero’s legacy.”

Greg Nicotero of course had a long history with George A. Romero, working on various Romero projects including Day of the Dead, Monkey Shines, and Land of the Dead.

The upcoming Twilight of the Dead is set on a decimated earth where the last vestiges of humanity are trapped between warring factions and an evolving undead threat.

Magenta Light Studios (Strange Darling, Deep Water) has secured the North American rights and is due to distribute the film in theaters across the U.S. and Canada.

“Stepping into Romero’s world is the ultimate privilege for any genre filmmaker,” the Paz Brothers said in a joint statement. “This is more than a continuation; it’s a responsibility. We are committed to honoring his voice while delivering a visceral, terrifying, impactful experience for today’s audience that resonates beyond the screen.”

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Kojima Productions and A24 previously teased not to expect a direct translation of the 2019 game, which introduced “a catastrophic series of events that blurred the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead, bringing forth nightmarish creatures into a fragmented world on the brink of collapse.”

The adaptation is said to delve into the mysteries surrounding “Death Stranding,” with the game’s creator, Hideo Kojima, revealing it would introduce a brand new story.

While plot details remain scarce at this stage, writer-director Michael Sarnoski is nearly finished with the script. In a chat with Bloody Disgusting, the filmmaker teased more about what to expect, at least tonally.

“It’s not going to be as dark as Robin Hood. That was a movie that really had to capture this kind of visceral violence so that we could go to this deeply soulful place, and feel that contrast, yet also feel how those things coexist in this world. That was really important to me. Death Stranding is a game that deals with heavy stuff like the veil between life and death, isolation, connection, loss, and the distance between people both in space and time generationally. And so it has all of these pretty weighty themes, but it’s also like an adventure game and an adventure movie,” Sarnoski says.

Expect a different kind of darkness in his adaptation. “So, I think it will definitely have some darkness to it, because yeah, there are ghosts and things like that in that game. There’s heavy stuff to explore, but I think it’s going to be a different kind of darkness.

“I think I like making movies that don’t shy away from the darkness, don’t try and sugarcoat it, don’t try and make it easy, but find a way through it, and a way to integrate it into the light and hope as well.“

Sarnoski explains why he gets so confrontational with darker themes and subject matter: “So at the end you don’t feel like you’ve copped out on the dark things to get to the light, but that you’ve found a way to properly bring both of those things into yourself. That’s what we needed to do, because there’s no escaping the darkness and the death, and the sadness and all that stuff of life, but we have to find ways to still be good to ourselves and good to other people through that.“

Featuring an all-star cast including Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux, Guillermo del Toro, and Margaret Qualley, 2019’s Death Stranding centres on courier Sam Porter Bridges (Reedus) as he embarks on a mission to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America.

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Curry Barker has floated the idea of turning Obsession into an anthology TV series centered on the One Wish Willow, but don’t expect to see any new Obsession projects right away.

Barker told Total Film back in May, “I do see Obsession 2 [happening], maybe. Or even, what really is exciting to me, is maybe an anthology. Like a one-hour episode… each episode is a different wish that goes completely off the rails.”

Barker now tells The Hollywood Reporter in a brand new interview this week, “I have a lot to weigh and that’s where the stress really comes from. I don’t know what to do next.”

He notes, “I don’t want to go straight into Obsession 2. I have such a cool idea for it that I won’t say. I’m not saying it has to be five, six years from now. But I think people would be just as excited for it if it came a little down the road. It’s a whirlwind and I’m trying to figure it out.”

Curry Barker’s career is indeed a bit of a whirlwind at the moment, with the mega success of Obsession surprising everyone including its young filmmaker. Barker has immediately become a hot and in-demand filmmaker in Hollywood, with all possible doors opening up to him. His next is the paranormal comedy Anything But Ghosts, which has already wrapped filming.

Barker has also been handed the keys to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, and he aims to recapture the “rawness” of Tobe Hooper’s original classic for his own installment.

Stay tuned for more on Curry Barker and all things Obsession.

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Curry Barker’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie has been described as a “reimagining” of the franchise, but he’s aiming to recapture the vibe of Tobe Hooper’s original classic.

Barker tells THR in a new interview this week, “I wouldn’t be interested if I didn’t think I could find a way in that feels fresh and new, while still respecting the original.”

“The canon itself is all over the place, so there’s not much to stay loyal to other than the original,” Barker elaborates. “I want to make a new generation of people scared and give them this feeling of: ‘What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?’ I want to capture the rawness and the grounded-ness of the original.”

Barker has stated in other interviews that he wants to make a Chainsaw movie that’s more than just Leatherface running around with a chainsaw hacking people up, and his comments have seemed to suggest that he’s going to be leaning into Leatherface’s family and other elements from the ’74 original that became less central to the franchise in recent years.

Roy Lee and Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures will produce A24’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, along with Stuart Manashil and Exurbia Films’ Pat Cassidy, Ian Henkel, and Kim Henkel. Ben Ross of Image Nation serves as executive producer.

Curry Barker’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is only part of A24’s grand plans for the franchise. A television series from A24, JT Mollner, and Glen Powell is also in the works.

Strange Darling filmmaker and The Long Walk screenwriter JT Mollner is spearheading the TV series based on the iconic horror property. Glen Powell will executive produce.

In the 1974 genre-defining masterpiece from Tobe Hooper, five youths traveling through rural Texas fall prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family.

Stay tuned for much more on Curry Barker’s Chainsaw Massacre as we learn it.

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The Damned filmmaker Thordur Palsson has been tapped to helm the adaptation, producers Jason Blum and Stephen Mulrooney announced on stage last night.

“There is no better moment than the tenth anniversary to share this news. Thordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry Dead by Daylight from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theaters,” said Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse Atomic Monster.

“For me, the main thing is capturing the feeling of playing Dead by Daylight,” said Palsson. “The main thing is I want to capture the feeling of looking over your shoulder. I want to capture the dread, the tension, the fear of what’s waiting for you in The Fog.”

The “scary cinematic adaptation” of the Behaviour Interactive video game will be written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (Orphan, Aquaman, The Conjuring 2) and French master of horror Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, Crawl).

Launched in 2016, the popular Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer slasher video game that pits characters up against slasher maniacs both original and iconic to the world of horror.

Expect to visit iconic backdrops like The MacMillan Estate and Greenville in the adaptation, which is expected to begin production in 2027.

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Greta Lee and Wagner Moura star in The Last House. “A family of four are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped.”

Watch the trailer below and find The Last House only on Netflix August 7.

This one looks similar to The End of Oak Street, which is coming to theaters one week later. Both films center on families trapped in their suburban neighborhoods with a mysterious sci-fi/horror threat prowling outside, so they should make for a good double feature this summer.

Riley Chung (Sunrise), Emma Ho (“The Expanse”), Noah Alexander Sosnowski (Section 8), and Gabriel Barbosa (May December) also star in Netflix’s The Last House.

Matthew Robinson (Love and Monsters, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die) penned the script.

Leterrier produces alongside Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, & Kori Adelson and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Oly Obst. Executive producers include Thomas Benski, Cecile Gaget, Lars Sylvest, Thorsten Schumacher, and Damian Anderson.

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Here’s all the new genre movies that released on Friday, June 12, 2026!

These aren’t all HORROR movies, but we want you to be aware of them all the same…

Norwegian creature feature Kraken is now available on Digital.

The film was also unleashed in select theaters. Check your local listings.

In the monster movie Kraken, “unnatural behavior in wild salmon, followed by inexplicable deaths in Norway’s deepest fjord, points to the mythical Kraken. The ancient, multi-armed monster has awakened, ready to crush everything that moves or makes a sound.”

Pål Øie (The Tunnel) directs Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Kraken from a script by Vilde Eide, Kjersti Jelen Rasmussen, and Natasha Arthur. Sara Khorami, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Øyvind Brandtzæg, Jenny Evensen, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Jon Erik Myre, Hans Morten Hansen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, and Filip Bargee Ramberg star.

An all girls trip into the desert for escapism fun instead implodes in violence in the revenge thriller Find Your Friends, now streaming only on Shudder.

In the film, “Amber and her four best friends flee Los Angeles for a girls’ trip in Joshua Tree, only to find themselves unwelcome in a desert town simmering with quiet hostility. As isolation sets in and encounters with aggressive locals grow more threatening, festering resentments within the group begin to surface.

“What begins as fun and reckless escape spirals into a violent struggle for control and survival, as past wounds and present dangers collide in a night that turns their trip into a nightmare.”

Bella Thorne (The Babysitter), Chloe Cherry (“Euphoria”), Helena Howard (I Saw the TV Glow), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), Zion Moreno (“Gossip Girl”), and Chris Bauer (“True Blood”) star in the feature debut by writer/director Izabel Pakzad.

Steven Spielberg is more sure today than he was when he made Close Encounters and ET that aliens are very real, and with Disclosure Day, he aims to make you a believer too.

Okay so it’s not a horror movie, but the sci-fi blockbuster is now playing in theaters.

The vague synopsis for Disclosure Day reads: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to Disclosure Day.”

The film stars SAG winner and Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and two-time Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin).

Based on a story by Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Combined, those films earned more than $3 billion worldwide. Koepp also wrote the script for Jurassic World Rebirth.

Steven Spielberg is of course no stranger to extraterrestrial encounters, directing two of the greatest alien movies of all time: Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 and E.T. in 1982. It’s an arena he returned to in 2005, directing an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.

Here in 2026, Steven Spielberg sees hope in the existence of aliens. He notes in the final trailer for Disclosure Day, “How will disclosure change us? I believe for the better.”

Another movie that’s not a horror movie but worth mentioning here is the violent martial arts revenge thriller The Furious, which is now playing in theaters from Lionsgate.

Xie Miao (The New Legend of Shaolin) and Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat) star.

After his daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wang Wei sets out on a rampage to find her himself.

His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo ruthlessly fights against the kidnappers.

Kenji Tanigaki (Enter the Fat Dragon) directs from a script by Mak Tin Shu (Kung Fu Jungle), Lei Zhilong, Shum Kwan Sin (Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In), and Frank Hui.

A disturbing weight loss craze involving human ashes opens up a haunting world of hurt for a young woman in Saccharine, which is now available on Digital outlets at home.

From writer/director Natalie Erika James (Relic, Apartment 7A), the Australian supernatural body horror film follows lovelorn medical student Hana, who becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.

Midori Francis (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$), and Madeleine Madden (“The Wheel of Time”) star in Natalie Erika James’ latest nightmare.

From directors Arturo Ambriz and Roy Ambriz, I Am Frankelda is billed as the first ever full length stop motion movie from Mexico, and it’s now streaming on Netflix.

The history-making stop-motion film is a dark fantasy set in a world of monsters.

Here’s the synopsis: “In 19th-century Mexico, Frankelda is a gifted writer whose dark tales are ignored and dismissed. Forced to suppress her voice, she refuses to give up, even as many try to silence her. But when she is thrust into her subconscious, the very monsters she created come to life.

“Guided by Herneval, a tormented prince trapped between dreams and nightmares, she must restore balance between fiction and reality before both realms collapse. Meanwhile, the sinister writer Procustes and his conspirators plot to seize control. As Frankelda and Herneval grow closer, their bond becomes both a strength and a curse.

“To rewrite their fate, she must confront a love that defies existence and reclaim her power as a storyteller—before dark forces consume her imagination and reveal horrors beyond her creation.”

The directors said in a joint statement, “As brothers, we grew up inventing worlds together, drawing, playing, imagining. Over time we understood that fictional characters were not only companions but guides. Sometimes they felt closer than the people around us. They provided us courage, wisdom, and solace. We believe fiction is not an escape from reality but a way of understanding it. A way of converting truth into palatable chunks. I Am Frankelda comes from a lifelong love of storytelling.”

Mireya Mendoza, Arturo Mercado Jr., and Luis Leonardo Suarez lead the voice cast.

Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Mexico’s first stop-motion animated feature is a macabre beauty.” Meagan also notes in her review, “I Am Frankelda is a gothic fantasy feature whose boundless creativity is matched by its ambition.”

The lines of reality and delusion blur in Time of Death, now available on Digital.

Michael Kelly (“The Penguin,” Dawn of the Dead 2004) stars with Kevin Pollak (End of Days), Mena Suvari (Vampires of the Velvet Lounge), and Dennis Haysbert (Send Help).

In the horror-thriller, “When a prisoner vanishes without a trace, Detective Frank Morley (Michael Kelly) is sent to a decaying prison on the verge of shutdown. What begins as a routine investigation quickly spirals into a dangerous search for answers.”

Will Wernick (Escape Room 2017, Follow Me) directs from a script by Jason Rosen. They also produce alongside Kelly Delson, Jeff Delson, and Kyle David Crosby.

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While Original Blair Witch Project filmmakers Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, producer Gregg Hale, and stars Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams will executive produce the upcoming movie, Heather Donahue has made the decision to NOT be involved with the project.

Donahue explains in a Facebook comment this week, “There seems to be some willful confusion about my involvement with the reboot. I want to clarify that I am not participating.”

“I was offered an agreement that, for me personally, raised difficult long-term questions about rights, future technological use of identity and voice, the ability to speak freely, and compensation. Ultimately, it just wasn’t something I felt comfortable signing,” Donahue explains. “I genuinely wish everyone involved well.”

Donahue adds, “But preserving my autonomy mattered more to me.”

Thanks to the website Sequel Buzz for bringing this news to our attention.

Dylan Clark (Portrait of God) is set to direct the new take on the seminal found footage horror movie, and producer Jason Blum recently teased that it’s expected sometime in 2027.

Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Atomic Monster‘s James Wan are producing the new Blair Witch Project with Roy Lee and Divide/Conquer’s Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath.

According to Deadline, Blair Witch‘s return “will deal with a family that goes on a camping trip but goes missing one by one after they hear strange noises in the forest.”

Much like David F. Sandberg, Curry Barker, and Kane Parsons before him, Dylan Clark was discovered on YouTube after going viral with his horror short Portrait of God. That short is already being expanded into a feature, with Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi producing.

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Rose of Nevada opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters on June 19, 2026.

Watch the exclusive clip below, which sees the disoriented Mrs. Richards (Mary Woodvine) accost Nick Dyer (George MacKay), suggesting she knows him from her past, before he embarks on a trip to sea that will change everything.

In the film, “Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again. Joining the crew is Nick (George MacKay), desperate to provide for his young family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a mysterious drifter eager to escape his past. After a successful voyage, they return to harbor, only to find that nothing is as they remember it.”

Edward Rowe, Francis Magee, Rosaline Eleazar, and Adrian Rawlins also star.

Written, directed, edited, and scored by Mark Jenkin, Rose and Nevada closes out the filmmaker’s Cornish trilogy that also includes shot-on-film folk horror nightmare Enys Men and 2019’s Bait. All three films in the experimental series are set along the Cornish coast and were shot on a 16mm Bolex camera.

It’s also worth noting that Woodvine, who appears in the below clip in effective age makeup, and Rowe also starred in the trilogy’s previous installments.

The film is described as a “hallucinatory time-travel mystery.” The press release notes, “Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it.”

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David Chokachi and Chelsea Gilson star in Water Park Shark, which is set to be screened as part of the upcoming Shark Con in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, July 18, 2026.

In Water Park Shark, “When Great White Sharks storm a Cape Cod water park, a washed-up football star-turned-lifeguard and his ex-girlfriend police chief must uncover the shocking secret drawing in the ocean’s biggest predators before it’s too late.”

Al Kratina wrote the screenplay for the upcoming shark attack movie.

The cast also includes Matthew Dame, Kacie Patricia, Michael Shaun Sandy, Snow Feng, Hector Becerra, Brigdon York, Rob Eubanks, Camilla Bastos, and Giovanna McMaster.

Check out the poster for Water Park Shark below and expect the trailer soon.

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James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca have joined the cast alongside Aristotle Athari (“Saturday Night Live”), Ally Maki (“Toy Story 4”), Zac Oyama (“Game Changer”), and Lynley Eilers.

The previously announced cast includes Bobby Moynihan (“Saturday Night Live”), Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Kimia Behpoornia (“Abbott Elementary”), Eliza Bennett (“Dynasty”), Jessie Ennis (“Mythic Quest”), Aparna Nancherla (A Simple Favor), Esther Povitsky (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), and Rekha Shankar (“Between Two Ferns: The Movie”).

The horror comedy follows the bachelorette party reunion of five high school friends as they become exposed to toxic positivity-turned-supernatural and begin to turn against each other. The film explores the things we don’t say and all the things we don’t show, as women, to our friends.

Liz Manashil will direct from a script she co-wrote with Amy Taylor.

Filmmakers Emily Hagins (Scare Package), Ted Geoghegan (We Are Still Here), and Carter Smith (The Ruins) serve as associate producers for the upcoming Best Friends Forever.

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What’s more is that it’s found its writer and director.

Isaac Ezban (Párvulos, Evil Eye) is attached to direct the script by Tim Hedrick (Avatar: The Last Airbender).

Per the official synopsis, “When Zak, a brilliant but troubled musical prodigy, is invited to perform at a major music festival simulcast in the world’s most popular video game, he is shocked to discover the game’s mysterious creator may be using him to promote a terrifying new technology. In a harrowing twist, our hero comes to believe that this technology may be of inestimable benefit to humanity, and he is hunted by ruthless, anti-technology mercenaries.”

Karn Evil 9 is being developed by Radar Pictures with the cooperation of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and the band’s management. 

“This is, quite literally, a miracle of a movie and just the kind of movie I had always dreamt of directing: It’s both an original and a very epic piece of science fiction that deals with a relevant subject through a completely new lens,” Ezban said in a statement. “This is actually a story where AI might be our biggest ally, and the bad guys are … well, I won´t say more … Hedrick’s magnificent script feels very human, unique, fresh, unpredictable, gripping and deeply touching and beautiful all at the same time … Bringing this story to life with the incredibly gifted team of Radar Pictures is truly a dream come true.”

Ezban’s comments and the plot synopsis bring Disney’s Tron to mind, but with a more mature genre slant.

“I have been obsessed with this music ever since I spotted the iconic H.R. Giger album cover lurking in my cool older cousin’s vinyl collection,” Hedrick added in a statement. “‘Karn Evil 9’ predates ‘The Matrix’ and ‘The Terminator,’ but it anticipates both of those films, as well as our present moment of technological chaos. I can’t wait to explore this world.”

Stay tuned for more.

Emerson Lake & Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery album cover

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Fast forward to June of 2026, and we finally got our first glimpse at Brian Duffield’s long-awaited adaptation of Whalefall, starring Austin Abrams as our unfortunate lead who gets swallowed alive by a sperm whale. While this two-and-a-half-minute teaser only covers the beginning of the story, it’s already been making waves online (and in-person at select 4DX promotional screenings) as one of the most stressful cinematic experiences of the year.

In fact, my own wife had to cover her eyes and exclaim, “You’re definitely not dragging me to watch this one” when we saw the whale’s jaws begin to close in on Abrams, with this incident alone already leaving me convinced that this will likely be one of the biggest genre hits of the year. With that in mind, I’d like to invite you to take a closer look at the teaser in order to break down interesting details and get a better idea of what’s in store for genre fans when the movie finally comes out this October.

Of course, as usual, don’t forget to comment below if you noticed something we didn’t!

Now, without further ado, here are five things we learned from the Whalefall trailer!

5. Austin Abrams Performed Many of His Own Stunts

Much like in his previous film, No One Will Save You, Duffield insisted that this visceral experience should be grounded by our main character’s believable reactions, regardless of the plot’s effects-heavy setup. That’s why the camera always makes sure to linger on Abrams through his diving mask, so we know that it’s really him going through this ordeal alongside the audience.

While plenty of CGI was used in order to bring this larger-than-life story to the big screen without killing our leading man, Abrams apparently insisted on performing many of his underwater stunts himself (several of which are visible in the trailer) – much to the chagrin of a worried Duffield and the flick’s stunt coordinator, Shauna Duggins.

4. The Film Seamlessly Transitions Between the California Coast and Underwater Sets

Duffield obviously wasn’t about to drag his crew out to the middle of the ocean and shoot inside a real sperm whale, but it’s reassuring to see the filmmaker blend on-location footage with the underwater tank segments and the literal belly of the whale set.

There may be plenty of CGI stitching these elements together, but the trailer shows us that only the truly impossible shots are completely digital, meaning that the filmmakers didn’t take the easy way out when it came to adapting this unique story.

3. The Whale is Only Part of the Story

Book adaptations tend to leave out inner monologues and the occasional flashback in order to streamline the narrative (which is one reason why it’s so difficult to translate Stephen King novels to the big screen), but a claustrophobic parable like Kraus’ Whalefall would get a bit dull after a while if the whole thing was entirely set within the creature’s stomach.

That’s why it’s such a relief that the trailer hints at how Duffield will also be adapting many of the book’s introspective moments chronicling our protagonist’s harsh upbringing under his troubled father. Not only do these inclusions give the audience some much-appreciated breathing room, but they also give Josh Brolin a chance to shine as a truly complicated character.

2. The Movie is Keeping the Book’s Scientific Accuracy…

While Kraus’ novel was inspired by a viral video of kayakers nearly being swallowed by a humpback whale, the writer ended up consulting with marine biologists about exactly what kind of situation might lead to a whale actually eating a human being alive.

The answer was surprisingly specific, as cetaceans are almost universally known to be friendly towards humans. However, even a gentle giant can make mistakes, and as we see in the trailer, Abrams’ unpleasant fate is more of an accident than anything else – with the massive sperm whale only trapping the poor diver in the first (and thankfully acid-free) chamber of its stomach due to a mix-up involving a giant squid.

Fortunately for the film’s special effects artists, they can now reference the first-ever footage of a real-life sperm whale chowing down on one such squid, as this freaky recording was released late last year.

1. …With a Catch!

Duffield may be doing his best to recreate the grounded (or is it submerged?) thrills of Kraus’ novel, but there are limits to what can be depicted onscreen while still guaranteeing an entertaining movie. That’s why it’s no surprise that Whalefall will take advantage of certain cinematic parlor tricks as the director tests the limits of both physics and biology so we can actually watch his movie.

For starters, the innards of the whale itself have been greatly exaggerated so there’s enough space to make out the action, and in the spirit of movies like Neil Marshall’s The Descent, there also seems to be plenty of non-diegetic lighting meant to show us what’s going on even if Abram’s character wouldn’t necessarily be able to see anything.

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Meet the characters weapons of Evil Dead Burn below!

Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters nationwide July 10, 2026.

The upcoming installment unleashes the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date, blazing onto big screens with an all-new chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem.

After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.

Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, and Hunter Doohan star.

Evil Dead Wrath, meanwhile, just wrapped production. Expect that one in 2028.

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Kirsten Dunst will also star alongside Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid’s Secret. Michele Morrone will also return to star as Enzo, reprising his role from the first film.

In The Housemaid’s Secret, Sydney Sweeney’s character Millie returns, this time taking a job keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see—only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.

The film will open on December 17, 2027 in theaters.

Screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted the first book, will also return to write The Housemaid’s Secret, based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden.

The Housemaid proved to be a massive hit at the box office late last year and into this year, generating $395.7 million at the worldwide box office and guaranteeing a sequel.

Sydney Sweeney starred alongside Amanda Seyfried.

In The Housemaid, Millie, trying to escape her past, accepts a position as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy family. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “It’s a crowd-pleaser through and through, meant to be seen with a rowdy audience on board with the wild swings taken. Feig and Sonnenshine push the novel’s more outrageous aspects even further, injecting even bigger thrills, twists, and stakes. It’s the type of operatic insanity that practically begs for more.”

Stay tuned for more on The Housemaid’s Secret.

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The restoration of 1982’s Der Fan, aka Trance, will premiere at the Metrograph theater in NYC on August 28.

In the film, “The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.”

Der Fan, written and directed by Eckhart Schmidt, stars Désirée Nosbusch as Simone and Bodo Staiger as “R”, the object of Simone’s desire.

Staiger, as frontman for new wave group Rheingold, also provided the film’s score.

Without giving anything away, it’s the shocking third act that sets Der Fan apart and earned its cult status. Much like Takashi Miike’s Audition, it’s an assuming feature that hides its visceral horror side until a jaw-dropping finale.

Fun City Editions announced the restoration’s premiere on socials, with promises to reveal further details closer to its August date.

That also includes additional theatrical screening locations, so stay tuned.

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Independent Film Company will release Night Nurse on July 10, 2026.

In the film, “At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni (Cemre Paksoy) is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents, a pull she can’t quite name or resist. As the community’s strange rhythms close around her, she grows increasingly intimate with her elusive patient, Douglas (Bruce McKenzie), until the line blurs between care and desire, devotion and delusion.”

Mimi Rogers (Ginger Snaps) also stars in Night Nurse.

Georgia Bernstein makes her feature debut as writer and director.

She also produced the film with Edwin Linker, Liane Cunje, Veronica Barbosa, and Lucy Rogers. Executive producers include Eddie Linker, Eric Ashworth, Stephen Lanus, and Amar Gupta.

Watch the trailer below and look for the psychosexual thriller next month.

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Ben Young, who broke out with the ultra-bleak horror movie Hounds of Love, is attached to helm the short story adaptation from King’s 2015 collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Deadline reports.

The story follows “Ollie Franklin, a charismatic resident of an assisted living facility who begins experiencing disturbing visions after the death of a fellow resident. As the line between memory, regret, and the supernatural begins to blur, Ollie is forced to confront long-buried secrets from his past before time finally catches up with him.”

Young adapts the screenplay with writer Troy Abruzzise.

“Stephen King was one of the first authors I ever read religiously, so getting to work on something that came from his imagination is a genuine honour,” Young told Deadline. “What I love about Mister Yummy is that the horror is inseparable from the humanity. It’s creepy, moving, character-driven, and exactly the kind of movie I’d line up to see. It’s also the first feature I’ll direct that I’ve also written on since Hounds of Love, so helping shape the script into the kind of Stephen King film I’d want to experience myself has been a real joy.”

Producers include Aimee Schoof, Isen Robbins, and Megan Freels Johnston of Intrinsic Value Films (Tesla, Experimenter), along with Josh Kesselman (Devil’s Peak, The Great), and Thomas Mahoney of Handsome Watson (Wild Indian, Brian).

Mister Yummy joins upcoming King adaptations “Carrie,” The Stand, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Rat, Autopsy Room Four, and Cujo.

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The meta horror movie by debut writer/director Josh Heaps begins streaming on Midnight Pulp on July 7.

In City Wide Fever, “Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.”

Diletta Guglielmi, Angelica Kim, and Nancy Kimball star with Onur Tukel (Summer of Blood), Larry Fessenden (You’re Next), Carolyn Farina (The Age of Innocence), and comedian Ian Fidance.

Paul Lê wrote in his review, “To Heaps’ credit, this isn’t just a case of throwback filmmaking that’s been achieved with contemporary technology; the director used era-authentic equipment to help create this striking and nostalgic piece of modern horror. The end result is a movie that, despite all appearances, doesn’t entirely escape convention, but it’s also teeming with enough verve and style to make it feel fresh.”

Heaps produces alongside Vincent “Chenzy” Graziano. Maddin executive produces with Robert Forbes, Richard Stoeffel, Jim Stoeffel, Brooks May, Amanda Romo, Franklin Laviola, and Nicholas Laviola.

City Wide Fever is also available on Blu-ray.

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Shane Dax Taylor (Murder Company) directs from a script by Chad Law (6 Bullets) and Josh Ridgway (The Flood).

The logline for Halloween Store reads: “a group of people find themselves trapped inside a costume store on Halloween night with a mysterious killer on the loose.“

Natalie Alyn Lind (“Dutton Ranch“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) and Simon Rex (Red Rocket) lead the cast that includes Anthony Michael Hall (Halloween Kills), Thomas Dekker (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Nicholas Hamilton (It), Lindy Booth (Dawn of the Dead), Sydney Park (“The Walking Dead”), Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”), Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Bumblebee), Drew Ray Tanner (“Riverdale”), Kai Caster (“Spider Noir”) and Taipei Houston musicians Myles Ulrich and Layne Ulrich. 

Meet the cast in the trio of official posters below, all hand-drawn by the artist Kadie Video.

It also gives a tiny glimpse of the Halloween store itself, Shriek Shack.

In addition to starring, Lind also produces Halloween Store alongside Kenneth Burke and Andrey Romanyuk. “Saturday Night Live” mainstay Kenan Thompson and Steven Schneider (Insidious, Paranormal Activity) are among the executive producers on the project.

The posters indicate Shriek Shack might be one fun romp of a destination this Halloween season.

Stay tuned for additional news and release details for Halloween Store.

Natalie Alyn Lind, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Thomas Dekker, Anthony Michael Hall. Art by Kadie Video.

Simon Rex, Sydney Park, Kai Caster, Grave Van Dien. Art by Kadie Video.

Drew Ray Tanner, Lindy Booth, Nicholas Hamilton, Myles Ulrich, Layne Ulrich. Art by Kadie Video.

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Watch the trailer for Heart of the Beast starring Brad Pitt below.

In the film, “After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness.

“Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements.”

Heart of the Beast is said to be “an intense adventure thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend as they face their greatest battle yet.”

J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also star.

Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.

David Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”

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Mercy Good follows a family that relocates to Salem, Massachusetts for a fresh start, only to discover their historic home may be tied to a centuries-old supernatural force waiting to return.

Deadline details, “Stephen Lang will play Henry Woodward, a respected local historian with knowledge of Salem’s dark past that could hold the key to the family’s terrifying ordeal.”

Michael Caissie (Hangman, Hunter’s Moon) wrote the screenplay.

“Stephen has a rare ability to bring intelligence, authenticity, and emotional truth to every role he takes on,” said Caissie. “Henry carries much of the weight of Mercy Good‘s mythology, but what makes the character work is his humanity. I knew Stephen could bring both to the role.”

Stay tuned for more on Mercy Good as we learn it.

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For instance, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation makes genius use of the analog gimmick in order to trap us in the titular rooms alongside our main characters before effortlessly switching back to a more cinematic language. In honor of these dynamic films that manage to combine the best of both worlds, today I’d like to share six other hybrid horror movies that successfully incorporate found footage into their scares!

For the purposes of this list, “hybrid” horror movies are defined as any flick that shifts between diegetic recordings and traditional filming techniques for a significant amount of time (or at least for pivotal scenes).

As usual, don’t forget to comment below with your own hybrid favorites if you think a particularly freaky one was missed.

With that out of the way, onto the list!

5. The Last Broadcast (1998)

Internet critics may have overstated the influence that Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s The Last Broadcast had on The Blair Witch Project, but the found footage subgenre still owes a huge debt to this underrated piece of avant-garde filmmaking. However, while the movie sets itself up as a documentary about the disappearance of a group of cryptid-hunters attempting to track down the Jersey Devil, things take a darker and much more grounded turn towards the final act.

I won’t get into details in order to avoid spoilers, but suffice to say that the jarring shift in perspective actually helps to sell the idea that everything we’ve seen before the finale was an attempt at using filmmaking to manipulate the public perception of a “real” incident.

Not bad for a movie with a $900 budget!

4. Cam (2018)

When you consider just how much the internet affects our daily lives, it’s strange that we don’t see Screenlife elements pop up in more movies these days. For instance, Isa Mazzei & Daniel Goldhaber’s highly underrated Cam only works as a freaky parable about online sex-work because it masterfully balances Madeline Brewer’s intimate moments with highly immersive segments within cyberspace.

While one might argue that the entire film could have been produced as a Screenlife experience, the hybrid approach allows the filmmakers to explore our main character’s life beyond the screens – with the duality of modern human existence actually becoming a recurring theme in the story.

3. Banshee Chapter (2013)

Most of H.P. Lovecraft’s popular stories were told in the epistolary format (where the text is presented as an in-universe compilation of letters or personal notes), so it makes sense that a spiritually faithful adaptation of his work would incorporate elements from the modern-day equivalent to epistolary fiction – found footage!

That’s why Blair Erickson’s Banshee Chapter is such an effective scare-fest, as this hybrid adaptation of From Beyond -retold through a conspiratorial lens as it references MK-Ultra and even secretive numbers stations- immerses viewers in a mind-bending tapestry of Cosmic Horror that blurs the line between fiction and reality.

2. The Deep House (2019)

The underwater setting does a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s The Deep House, with the film being especially uncomfortable if you’re already scared of tight spaces and being deprived of oxygen. However, even the universally unsettling elements of the flick only work because the POV often shifts into claustrophobic footage courtesy of our main characters’ GoPro cameras.

Telling the story of a couple of YouTubers who encounter a haunted house at the bottom of an artificial lake while vacationing in France, The Deep House’s first-person exploration sequences contain some of the film’s scariest moments. In fact, I’d argue that the movie didn’t even need ghosts, as becoming trapped in the titular House already sounds like a fate worse than death.

1. Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

My personal favorite instance of filmmakers successfully managing to combine traditional cinematography with POV filmmaking, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, is proof that the two formats can co-exist if the right story comes along.

After all, what better way to conclude a mockumentary all about reality getting increasingly more cinematic than by ditching the found footage gimmick altogether during the finale? Not only does this shift in presentation work on a conceptual level, but it also elevates Behind The Mask into a proper Slasher, which is probably why we’re so excited for that long-overdue sequel!

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The new feature from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin) releases on June 26 in select US theaters, with a New York Theatrical Premiere at the IFC Center with Fast in attendance for the opening weekend.

In Camp, “Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.

“Just as Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”

The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.

Taylor Nodrick, Jacob Glickman, Jackie De Niverville, Martin Cadieux-Rouillard, and Maya Cadieux-Rouillard produce, with Paul Cadieux, Milan Chakraborty, Peter Kuplowsky, Michael Peterson, and Sanjay M Sharma serving as executive producers.

“Like its main character, Camp requires the viewer to give itself over to the experience. If you’re on its wavelength, it will suck you into a hypnagogic limbo that exists in the space between dream and reality; adolescence and adulthood; grief and acceptance,” our review writes.

Meet the coven in the images below.

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