Despite Murphy expanding expectations of story he tells on the small screen, the tremendous success he’s found in the horror realm has seen him continue to explore that realm. His American Horror Story earned the spin-off American Horror Stories, and the original program was renewed for a Season 14. Over on Netflix, his Monster series just wrapped up with Season 4, with that show’s exploration of real-life killers earning both major viewership numbers and also awards recognition.

Not all Murphy shows are created equally, it would seem, as a new report from The Ankler claims neither Grotesquerie nor The Beauty will return for more seasons. Given that Grotesquerie was released in 2024 and that there have been no significant updates on a sophomore season in the years since, it likely won’t come as much of a surprise that a Season 2 won’t be happening. The Beauty, however, debuted earlier this year and featured a number of beloved Murphy collaborators, making its fate a bit more surprising.

Proving just how prolific of a creator Murphy is, The Beauty isn’t his only series of 2026. In addition to Season 13 of American Horror Story, he also released Season 4 of Monster, which focused on Lizzie Borden. This year also saw the debut of an all-new series, which was FX’s The Shards. The new series is based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name, and this latest report claims that an official decision has yet to be made on whether the show will return for another season.

In Grotesquerie, Niecy Nash-Betts played homicide detective Lois Tryon, who teams up with a nun (Micaela Diamond) in hopes of solving a series of bizarre and shockingly violent murders. Courtney B. Vance, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Raven Goodwin, and Lesley Manville also starred in the series.

The Beauty was based on an Image Comics series of the same name. In it, Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall played agents investigating a series of bizarre deaths, which came with the discovery that what started as a drug that could unlock an individual’s superficial potential transformed into a sexually transmitted disease that ignited a change, as well as ultimate destruction. Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, and Jeremy Pope also starred in the series.

Stay tuned for updates on Ryan Murphy’s future projects.

Are you disappointed by the series coming to an end? Let us know in the comments below!

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The new series aims to introduce a new universe, original characters, and a fresh storytelling concept, and you can find the first teaser below.

Like Verity, which originated in a series of cinematic horror videos using the Minecraft game engine that generated more than 81 million views, Mikey’s Magical Mayhem also introduces a colorful Minecraft-style world. It begins cheery enough, but eventually detours into liminal territory.

ThatMob’s YouTube channel has amassed nearly 3 million YouTube subscribers, approximately 1 million TikTok followers, and over 1.3 million followers on Bilibili, one of China’s leading video platforms, and Variety reports today that ThatMob has signed with CAA to further develop and expand his creations. The agency says Verity “is an original horror universe with the potential to transcend its digital origins and evolve into a major entertainment franchise.”

While the enigmatic teaser doesn’t divulge much in the way of plot, Verity centers on an AI companion whose desire for friendship gradually spirals into obsession and plays on prevalent anxieties over artificial intelligence.

The teaser for Mikey’s Magical Mayhem ends with a cheeky teases that the series’ pilot is coming. Sometime, anyway.

As ThatMob expands a growing portfolio of original entertainment properties, expect to hear more about Verity and Mikey’s Magical Mayhem in the future.

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Lee Jae-wook (Alchemy of Souls) stars as Byeon Hyeok-jun, a desperate, jobless 30-year-old living in contemporary Seoul. It’s the type of setup that brings Netflix’s Squid Game to mind, bolstered by each episode’s anthology format that introduces a new part-time job. With it comes social commentary and an increase in terror, as every job comes with a supernatural threat that prompts a battle for survival.

Worse, there’s a ticking clock hovering over Hyeok-jun and a set of rules to follow to complicate survival odds. With the help of his younger sister, Ji-yoon (Kim Min-ha), and Yeon-joo (Go Min-si), the protagonist seeks to uncover the truth behind the mysterious Spider Staffing Agency.

Dead-End Job is touted as a limited series but leaves the door ajar for continuation. Not only do some questions remain unanswered by the finale, but a mid-credit scene also signals potential for more.

Considering it’s quickly becoming one of the buzziest new series on Netflix, season two could happen. Dead-End Job has spent the last two weeks in the Top 10 Non-English Shows and currently sits in the number one spot on Tudum. 

The official synopsis: “Desperate to escape crushing debt, Hyeok-jun is drawn to a strange flyer advertising a “high-paying part-time job” and ends up at the mysterious Spider Staffing Agency. The wages start at fifty times the minimum hourly rate, with just one rule: never reveal what happens on the job. Sent to what appears to be an ordinary convenience store, Hyeok-jun soon discovers that in this nightmarish workplace, every shift could cost him his life.

Check out the trailer below and watch Dead-End Job on Netflix now. It’s worth the watch.

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What’s actually on the TV, however, varies quite significantly for everyone. Some watch religious ceremonies, others watch parades, and some watch their favorite movies and TV shows. Some even take a nostalgic approach to the holiday by watching footage of a yule log burning, with there being countless videos honoring all sorts of seasonal scenes available online.

Making this December 25 extra exciting is that iconic horror host Svengoolie is unveiling an all-new yule log on MeTV.

MeTV explained, “From Sunday, November 22 through Christmas Day, the network will celebrate the season with classic holiday-themed TV series, beloved movies and animated specials! Adding a little extra holiday cheer to this year’s celebration is Svengoolie’s Yule Log, premiering Christmas morning from 6-8am ET/PT. In this festive new twist on their Very Merry holiday tradition, Svengoolie (aka Rich Koz) trades his usual spooky surroundings for the warmth of a crackling fireplace, settling in for two cozy hours of Christmas morning fun.”

“Along the way, he’ll welcome some special friends, including members of The Sven Squad alongside other guest appearances viewers will have to wait until Christmas morning to unwrap!”

The full broadcast schedule for MeTV on Friday, December 25 is as follows:

• 12:35 AM – The Twilight Zone, “Changing of the Guard”
• 1:05 AM – Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “Together”
• 1:35 AM – Alfred Hitchcock Presents, “The Festive Season”
• 5:00 AM – Dragnet, “The Christmas Story”
• 6:00-8:00 AM – Svengoolie’s Yule Log (Premiere)
• 8:00 AM – Leave It to Beaver, “The Haircut”
• 10:00 AM – Matlock, “The Scrooge”
• 12:00 PM – The Waltons, “The Children’s Carol Part 2”
• 2:00 PM – Bonanza, “Gabrielle”
• 4:00 PM – Wagon Train, “The Mary Ellen Thomas Story”
• 6:00 PM – M*A*S*H, “Dear Dad”
• 6:30 PM – M*A*S*H, “Dear Sis”
• 7:00 PM – M*A*S*H, “Death Takes a Holiday”
• 7:30 PM – M*A*S*H, “T’was the Day After Christmas”
• 8:00 PM – The Andy Griffith Show, “Christmas Story”
• 9:00 PM – Everybody Loves Raymond, “The Ball”
• 9:30 PM – Everybody Loves Raymond, “All I Want For Christmas”
• 10:00 PM – The Golden Girls, “T’was the Nightmare Before Christmas”
• 10:30 PM – The Golden Girls, “Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas”
• 11:00 PM – Carol Burnett and Friends, “Mrs. Wiggins/Harry’s Mirage and Grill”

MeTV is available on broadcast television over the air in 98% of the country, on select cable and satellite systems, and streaming on Frndly TV, Philo, Fubo and Sling TV.

Will you be checking out Svengoolie’s Yule Log? Let us know in the comments below!

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Anyone familiar with Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? wasn’t surprised by Scott’s adaptation, but audiences at large and critics didn’t fully connect with the narrative. Slowly but surely, audiences reevaluated the movie to realize it as one of the most inventive and ambitious sci-fi movies of the ’80s, with it now being regarded as a high point of the genre.

The legacy of Blade Runner continues in the new Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099, which has just released a final trailer. Check out the trailer below before all eight episodes of the new series hits the streamer on November 25.

50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse a fragile city.

Stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) lead the series, alongside series regulars Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) and Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy). Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon), Tom Burke (Furiosa), and Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley) are recurring guest stars.

Silka Luisa serves as showrunner, creator and executive producer. Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, Steven Johnson, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Richard Sharkey, Tom Spezialy, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, Tim Gamble, and Isa Dick Hackett serve as executive producers. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shōgun) is an executive producer and directed the first two episodes of the limited series Blade Runner 2099.

Blade Runner 2099 hits Prime Video on November 25.

Are you looking forward to checking out the series? Let us know in the comments below!

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Released back in 2020, Midnight Sun retold the story of Twilight from Edward Cullen’s perspective, with a straight-to-series order announced for the animated series at the time.

This week, Lionsgate’s Kevin Beggs announced during an earnings call that Lionsgate has “high expectations” for the series, and he also spilled the beans that the project has actually already been ordered up for TWO seasons. Beggs noted, “That’s a 2-season adult animation order at Netflix. Stephenie and her team are very hands-on, really running the process along with us at Netflix.”

Thanks to the website What’s-on-Netflix for their reporting on this story.

Sinead Daly (“Raised by Wolves”) will serve as writer and executive producer on the series.

Stephenie Meyer is also on board as an executive producer.

In the 2020 novel Midnight Sun, “Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire’s point of view.”

Here’s the full official synopsis for the novel…

“When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella’s side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward’s version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.

“This unforgettable tale as told through Edward’s eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward’s past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life.

“How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger? Midnight Sun transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love.”

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From fast food chains to toys to merchandise to video games, the record-breaking success of the movie meant it invaded all corners of pop culture. However, one realm in which it failed to capitalize was as an animated series. Even stranger, with everything from Sonic the Hedgehog to MC Hammer getting their own animated series, Jurassic Park failing to cash in on the trend feels like a glaring omission.

That’s not for lack of trying, though. In 1993, before the movie had been released, Universal Cartoon Studios was developing the animated series Escape from Jurassic Park. The team over at Jurassic Outpost have gotten their hands on the promotional sizzle reel for the series, which you can see below.

Jurassic Outpost describes the plan for the series as follows:

“Before the feature film even made it to the screen, Universal Cartoon Studios commissioned the development of an animated sequel: Escape from Jurassic Park. Picking up where the film left off, it would have continued the clash between InGen and Biosyn, with Hammond returning to Jurassic Park alongside Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm as they worked together to make his dream a reality. Overseen by Will Meugniot (The Real Ghostbusters, Captain Planet and the Planeteers), with a visual style developed by renowned artist William Stout, a full season of 23 episodes was outlined. A one-minute pitch film was also developed, illustrating the potential style of the series, including groundbreaking CGI elements created by MetroLight.”

Given how strongly Jurassic Park had permeated pop culture in the 1990s, it almost seems like a Mandela Effect when confronted with the fact that we didn’t actually have such a TV series to tune into on Saturday mornings. Luckily, it was only a few years later that we got another adventure with The Lost World: Jurassic Park, resulting in another marketing deluge.

It wouldn’t be until 2020 that we got a Jurassic Park animated series, which came in the form of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous on Netflix. At first, the series seemed to merely be an adventure set within the franchise, though by the time Jurassic World Dominion rolled around, it was confirmed that in Season 5 of Camp Cretaceous, a character discovered the can of shaving cream that contained dinosaur DNA that Dennis Nedry tried to smuggle off the island in the original movie.

Camp Cretaceous spawned the sequel series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. While both of these series were effective in their own right, they utilize the popular medium of 3D animation, so revisiting this original 1993 pitch reminds us of the magic and charm of early ’90s animation.

What do you think of the footage? Let us know in the comments below!

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“Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure” will premiere on Netflix in 2028.

The upcoming spinoff series will be set in Marion, Nevada in April 1955, making it a prequel to the main series and even a prequel to the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning director Joe Wright (Darkest Hour) is set to direct the first three episodes of the new series, with production to take place in New Mexico.

From co-creators and Executive Producers The Duffer Brothers and Kate Trefry, the series will be produced by 21Laps Entertainment. Kate Trefry will serve as the showrunner.

Jinny Howe, Netflix Head of Scripted Series, US & Canada, said in a statement this morning, “Stranger Things has always belonged to the fans, and their passion made it a worldwide phenomenon. Today, on Stranger Things Day, we’re honored to partner again with Matt and Ross Duffer and Kate Trefry to give fans a new dimension of this universe to step into. Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure takes us to the 1950s with new heroes and all the heart, mystery, and spectacle of the original series. We’re proud to keep building this world with the Duffers, Kate, Shawn Levy, and Joe Wright, and we can’t wait for fans to see what’s next.”

Co-Creators/Executive Producers Matt & Ross Duffer said, “We’ve been dreaming of Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure for many years now, and to see it become a reality is surreal and exhilarating. We’re so grateful to our incredible team of collaborators: our showrunner Kate Trefry, who has been in the trenches with us since Season 2 and wrote Stranger Things: The First Shadow; and our director, Joe Wright, a brilliant artist whose work we’ve long admired. We can’t wait for you to see what they’re cooking up. It’s Stranger Things, but also thrillingly fresh, with a new setting, new heroes and villains, and new… actually, we’re not allowed to say any more. Now, on to casting. In the meantime — watch the skies, nerds!”

Co-Creator/Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer Kate Trefry adds, “The Duffer Brothers gave me my first paying job in Hollywood, and it has been a joy and a fever dream ever since. Now, it is my insane honor and privilege to be bringing this new chapter of Stranger Things to life alongside them and our incredible director Joe Wright. With the support of Netflix and 21Laps, we have had the time of our lives returning to all the horror, wonder and mystery of the flagship, while also telling a wholly new story, one we hope will blow your minds and break your hearts all over again. There are so many more mysteries to explore. Welcome to Other Worlds.”

Executive Producer Shawn Levy adds, “All of us at 21Laps are thrilled and privileged to be continuing the storytelling legacy of Stranger Things. With Other Worlds, the Duffer Brothers and Kate Trefry craft a new ensemble and adventure that is imbued with the DNA of our flagship series while exploring a new era, setting and all-new characters, themes and mythology — the seeds of which may have been planted in Hawkins, but now venture into other worlds of spectacle, action and emotion.”

Watch the announcement trailer for “Other Worlds” below.

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Character details remain under wraps, of course, but the actors join previously announced cast members Pilou Asbæk (Salem’s Lot), Millie Brady (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Corey Stoll (Imperfect Women, Billions), Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The Fantastic Four: First Steps), and Nyasha Hatendi (Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials, Casual).  

The series will follow Colonel Lee Shaw, an American operative who, in 1984, went on a secret mission behind enemy lines in an attempt to stop the Soviets from unleashing a horrific new Titan big enough to destroy the U.S. and turn the tide of the Cold War.

“Obi-Wan Kenobi” showrunner and “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” executive producer Joby Harold will serve as showrunner on the as-yet-untitled spinoff.

Wyatt Russell told Collider earlier this year, “You’ve got absolutely no fucking clue what to expect. I think people are going to expect one thing and be like, ‘Holy shit, this is not what I expected.’ It’ll go deeper into Lee’s experience after he came up, and being sort of put on ice, in 1982, and then what happens after that, and why he’s needed and the mission he goes on.”

Producers include Kei Banno, Brian Rogers, and Kenji Okuhira. Russell and Harold will executive produce alongside Tory Tunnell, Chris Black, Kyle Bradstreet, Alex Boden, Max Borenstein, Andy Goddard, Hiro Matsuoka, and Takemasa Arita.

As for the spinoff’s parent series, a third season of the main series, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”, is being planned, but with major changes.

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Also starring in the series are Sabine Grace, Logan Kim (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Marin Ireland (The Boogeyman, The Dark and the Wicked) and Intae Kim (Severance).

Pagans follows a man, Gus (Yeun), who becomes the sole caretaker of his two children after the tragic loss of his wife. While his son Nate (Logan Kim) is typical, his daughter, Alice (Grace), is anything but. What starts as a strained father-daughter relationship soon evolves into something far more sinister.

Bettany plays Mag, a charismatic stranger. Ireland will play single mom Janelle, attempting to connect with her strong-willed 14-year-old daughter, Jade. Gus’s younger brother will be played by Intae Kim.

In a fun bit of trivia, Logan Kim previously played the teenage version of Hershel Rhee, the son of The Walking Dead‘s Glenn (Yeun) and Maggie’s (Lauren Cohan), in The Walking Dead: Dead City.

The supernatural drama was previously described as “equal parts emotional, horrifying and humorous; Pagans is a show that unearths all our darkest thoughts about family.” It received a straight-to-series order late last year, after an intense bidding war back in September.

Pagans is created by showrunner Joshua Zetumer. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods), Sarah Esberg, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Erica Kay executive produce. 

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Recent years, however, have seen more concerted efforts to honor the games that inspired adaptations, either in their narratives or in their cinematic techniques. One of the more surprising adaptations in recent memory is Peacock‘s Twisted Metal, given how the major appeal of the games is the combat gameplay as opposed to the overall lore. Still, the series impressed audiences enough for multiple seasons, with a third on the way.

Speaking with Screen Rant, star of the series Anthony Mackie has confirmed that Season 3 of the series has wrapped filming. He also confirmed that the plan was to “elevate the third season,” resulting in the team “figuring out ways to blow people up and kill sh-t” and bring it to “a whole ‘nother level.”

The actor added:

“We were able to get everybody back, and we were able to evolve the story so much more. And [we were] lucky enough to get Anthony Carrigan back. It’s just a really fun season. I feel like if you watch Season 2 from Season 1, you see, ‘Wow, there’s really something happening here.’ And Season 3 just goes off the richter, man. And Stephanie Beatriz is just an awesome partner. I feel like we’re a great duo, man. Everything is just rock-paper-scissors to see who’s gonna get punched in the face next. You get to see all of that again in Season 3. So, it’s amazing.”

What’s interesting is that, while Mackie says “we were able to get everybody back,” Season 3 of the series saw a creative overhaul both behind the scenes and on camera, which means multiple key creatives didn’t return.

Original showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith was replaced in Season 3 with David Reed, while various other creatives also didn’t return for Season 3.

The most notable excision from Season 3 is Mike Mitchell, who played Stu in the first two seasons and even won the Twisted Metal tournament at the end of the most recent season. Despite that Season 2 finale teasing the start of an all-new dynamic, in which Stu would be an integral component, he won’t be appearing.

Audiences have expressed their frustration over Stu’s dismissal, resulting in a “No Stu, No Stream” campaign, as followers have opted to not watch Season 3 due to Stu’s absence or even the cancellation of Peacock altogether.

Twisted Metal Season 3 doesn’t yet have a release date.

Are you excited about the series’ return? Let us know in the comments below!

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The final season premieres Friday, November 20, exclusively on Paramount+ with the Premium Plan.

Created by showrunners Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, Yellowjackets is the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. Equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story, and coming-of-age drama, the series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over.

Here’s the official season four synopsis: “The Yellowjackets race to bury their sins before rescue arrives — but the Wilderness has its own ideas about who gets out alive.

“After returning to Wiskayok, their secrets fester under the growing weight of what they’ve done and who they’ve become. Meanwhile in the present, two of the Yellowjackets prepare to kill one of their own as an old flame roars back to town with plans all their own. Turns out not every homecoming is a joyous one, and this one’s going to sting.”

Season four stars Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher,  Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson,  Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins, Nia Sondaya, Jenna Burgess, and Hilary Swank.

Guest starring are June Squibb, Elijah Wood, Molly Ringwald, Devon Sawa, Sam Braun, Dulé Hill, and more.

Watch the new trailer below that infuses the survivors’ rescue with a sense of foreboding. Death certainly looms large, both in the wilderness and in Wisayok.

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Fresh off that breakout role in Obsession, Inde Navarrette hosted “Saturday Night Live” on Halloween Night this past weekend, and the October 31 episode was a huge success for NBC.

Deadline reports that the Halloween night episode of “SNL” saw season high viewership with 5.2 million viewers, breaking this season’s previous record of 4.6 million viewers in September.

Deadline details, “The episode also drew the highest number in the 18-49 demo in two years, since John Mulaney hosted and Chappell Roan was the musical guest. Further highlighting interest from younger viewers, the episode was also the top Peacock performance of the season and was the most-watched streaming episode since Harry Styles hosted and performed in March.”

Variety notes in their own report, “Video content from the episode garnered 325 million video views across YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok — a season high.”

The musical guest for the October 31, 2026 episode of “SNL” was Gracie Abrams.

Watch Inde Navarrette’s monologue below along with some select sketches from her “SNL” debut.

One could argue that Inde Navarrette dominated Halloween at large this year. Nikki made a splash at Halloween Horror Nights and the character was one of this year’s most popular costumes.

Up next? Obsession hits Netflix on November 17!

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The age of streaming helped introduce the idea of 8-, 10-, or 13-episode seasons, which meant the production budget could be used more efficiently. One only has to look at AMC‘s recent adaptations of Anne Rice‘s worlds like The Vampire Lestat or Mayfair Witches to fully appreciate how far otherworldly literary adaptations have come.

A new literary universe is set to make the jump to the small screen, with Deadline confirming that author Wendy Webb‘s novels will be adapted into the TV series The Invited. While there isn’t one specific novel with the title “The Invite,” the show is set to weave together multiple books from the author, resulting in a sprawling shared universe.

The outlet explains, “The books are based in the fictional, haunted, historic lakeside town of Wharton; Season 1 of the series will adapt Webb’s book The End of Temperance Dare. Further adaptation details are being kept under wraps.”

Helen Black, writer of Life and Death in the Warehouse, is partnering with Jeff Howard, who previously collaborated with Mike Flanagan on titles like The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and Gerald’s Game.

“When Shaun Redick, one of the producers of the stunning Get Out — which I saw three times in the theater — contacted me about adapting my work into a series, I had to sit, staring into space, for a good long while,” Webb shared with Deadline. “When he told me Jeff Howard, a writer and producer of Midnight Mass and Haunting of Hill House — which I have binged-watched more times than I care to admit — was involved, life got a little surreal. Then, I met the brilliant Helen Black, and I started bragging to whoever would listen. I am honored and privileged beyond measure to be working with these geniuses of the genre to bring my books to life.”

Webb’s most recent novel is 2024’s The Witches of Santo Stefano, with other books including The Stroke of Winter, The Keepers of Metsan Valo, The Haunting of Brynn Wilder, Daughters of the Lake, The Vanishing, The Fate of Mercy Alban, and The Tale of Halcyon Crane.

No network or streamer has officially been revealed as the home of The Invite.

Are you looking forward to the series adaptation? Let us know in the comments below!

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One of the most significant differences, however, is that no series does gore and violence quite like Friday the 13th. The franchise’s contemporaries spill plenty of blood in inventive ways, though it’s hard for any franchise to secure the staggering body count of the Jason Voorhees series. What makes the violence all the more unsettling is that, while A Nightmare on Elm Street or Hellraiser get otherworldly and grotesque in its gore, Friday the 13th always keeps things simple and uses rudimentary methods of mayhem.

When it came time to expand the world of Friday the 13th with the prequel series Crystal Lake, everyone involved in the project wanted to honor the source material by delivering intense violence. Special effects techniques have evolved quite a bit since the ’80s, so while CGI may have amplified some sequences, a new behind-the-scenes featurette highlights the practical methods of delivering carnage. You can check out the featurette below.

One of the more interesting details in the video is in regards to crafting the design of Jason in the series. The nature of the show meant that we knew we wouldn’t see Jason wearing his hockey mask that was introduced in Friday the 13th Part III, but the special effects team found ways to pay tribute to that iteration of the character.

When we first meet Jason in Crystal Lake, he’s a young boy, and even though he seemingly drowned, we know that’s not the end of the story. Throughout this first season, we saw how Jason had been subjected to scientific experiments that altered his DNA and a side effect was that the more physical trauma he endured, the more his growth accelerated. By the time we reunite with Jason at the end of the season, only a year has passed, but his stature is that of a grown man.

Looking specifically to the makeup of this iteration of Jason, the artists wanted to incorporate the subtle hump in Jason’s back that is seen in some of the original movies. Even if we don’t get a full look at these prosthetics in Crystal Lake, this attention to detail highlights the devotion and passion of the filmmaking team.

Season 1 of Crystal Lake is now streaming on Peacock.

What did you think of the effects in the series? Let us know in the comments below!

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On the other hand, some books have endless potential, yet struggle to find the right way to be adapted. Take, for example, Daniel H. Wilson‘s 2011 novel Robopocalypse. Since its publication, some of the biggest names in Hollywood have been attached to an adaptation, from Steven Spielberg to Michael Bay. The latest contender to take a crack at the material is Ron Howard, and this time the plan is for a TV series.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Imagine’s Ron Howard is attached to direct the pilot and Weed Road’s Akiva Goldsman is set to showrun and write the pilot. At this time, there’s no streamer or network attached to the adaptation. Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment will executive produce.

“Robopocalypse has all the scale and suspense of a major action story, but what drew me to it are the thought-provoking themes and humanity at its center,” Howard shared in a statement about the project. “Daniel created a future that feels both startling and increasingly plausible, with characters who must figure out what connects us when the technology we rely on turns against us. I am also thrilled to work with Akiva again. We have shared some incredibly meaningful creative experiences, and this feels like the right story to bring us back together.”

The book is described, “Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. At Zero Hour — the moment the robots attack — the human race is almost annihilated, but as its scattered remnants regroup, humanity for the first time unites in a determined effort to fight back. Brilliantly conceived and amazingly detailed, Robopocalypse is an action-packed epic with chilling implications about the real technology that surrounds us.”

Despite Goddard’s success with Weir novels, he doesn’t necessarily always have the magic touch, as he was attached to Robopocalypse when Spielberg tried to adapt it. That iteration of the adaptation had previously unveiled concept art and even had Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway attached at one point.

Stay tuned for updates on Robopocalypse.

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The release of the series, though, revealed the various ways in which Flanagan explored uncharted territory and made a variety of updates to the source material that allowed for new narrative threads to be explored. One of the most significant changes from the original story is that the Season 1 finale allows Summer H. Howell‘s Carrie White to survive the ordeal, whereas previous versions see her dying. Instead, Carrie leaves her small town behind, seemingly putting her on a collision course with other women who have telekinetic abilities.

Given this major change, it allows for more stories to be told in this world, with Carrie having been renewed for a Season 2 by Prime Video. Speaking with Bloody Disgusting, Howell explained what she hopes to see in her character’s future:

“I think she ends this series off in a really dark, dark place, but at least with a little excitement to be out in the world. And I think we just, it would be cool if we could see that, see her go on an adventure, experience things.”

Even though Flanagan’s series makes some changes from the source material, we still see iconic elements like Carrie being doused in pig’s blood and getting laughed at by everyone at the prom, only to unleash her powers on everyone. The result is hundreds of deaths, the destruction of the school, and the town itself decimated.

Carrie also stood up to her mother Margaret (Samantha Sloyan), and while she survived her daughter’s wrath, she didn’t last much longer, as she was killed by Adelaide (Kate Siegel), who was one of the women with telekinetic abilities similar to Carrie’s.

It’s unknown what the future holds for Carrie, though Flanagan has confirmed he hopes the series can run for three seasons. Whatever is in story for Howell’s character, she joked that she would like to see some more lighthearted adventures for the character, suggesting, “I always talked about her going to the zoo. I don’t know if they’ll put that in.”

All eight episodes of Carrie are now streaming on Prime Video.

What would you like to see in future seasons of the series? Let us know in the comments below!

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But is the streamer still developing a streaming series set in the world of Hostel? Speaking with Edward Douglas for an interview that ran earlier this summer but has only been surfaced this week (hat tip to Dread Central), Eli Roth reveals that Peacock actually passed on the series some time ago.

“Peacock said no,” Eli Roth reveals in the interview that was uploaded to YouTube on August 4, 2026. “They’re not gonna do it. We were surprised and that’s their decision.”

He adds, “Chris Briggs and I wrote the scripts and we love them, and I definitely want to turn them into something. So it might not be a TV series, but I still want to continue Hostel.”

Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti had been attached to star in the Hostel TV series, with Eli Roth himself attached to write, produce and direct the small screen franchise revival.

Released in 2005, Hostel was set in a world where the rich can pay to literally torture and murder captured victims, and Eli Roth returned to direct Hostel: Part II in 2007. The film did spawn second sequel Hostel: Part III in 2011, but the late Scott Spiegel took over as director.

What’s next from the world of Hostel? Stay tuned for updates.

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Titled “A Story of Derry,” the special episode is now streaming on HBO Max.

The never-before-seen 30-minute special explores the origins of IT in Derry.

Hundreds of years before Pennywise, three youngsters venture into the Western Wood … where they encounter a terrifying ancient spirit. Stream “A Story of Derry” on HBO Max now.

Check out two teasers below for a small taste of the terror.

Pennywise will return to HBO in the upcoming second season of “IT: Welcome to Derry.” Season 2 will travel back in time to 1935, 27 years before the events of Season 1, and it will revolve around the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang from Stephen King’s novel, bank robbers who finds themselves wrapped up in a mess of trouble when they stop off in Derry.

“We’re making something very exciting for Season 2 that I can’t talk too much about, but it’s got a different palette,” showrunner Brad Caleb Kane tells Entertainment Weekly. “It’s the Depression, it’s 1935. Beyond that, I can’t talk about it, but you can imagine a Warner Bros. gangster picture through the lens of Pennywise and Stephen King. That’s kind of what we’re doing.”

“We’re deep into the writers’ room now,” he continues. “We have multiple scripts, we’ve broken more than half the story for Season 2, and we’re edging into pre-production. Beyond that, I think I’ll get suffocated by somebody if I tell you too much more. But, yes, we are deep into it, and it is happening. It’s very exciting. It’s very, very bloody, and it’s very different from Season 1.”

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Understandably, a story about the drastic measures the police industrial complex took in order to secure peace and thwart crime has been relevant since the first movie was unleashed back in 1987, though an effective take on the concept is easier said than done. Prime Video, however, has finally made significant progress on their revival series, which includes casting Dan Stevens to play the main character.

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Stevens reflected on his love for the character and the experience of finally securing the role.

“Oh, my goodness, I was so thrilled. In fact, the announcement was made while I was on the set of Dexter,” the actor recalled. “I was teasing [producer] Scott [Reynolds] about it, like, ‘It’s this thing, but I can’t quite tell you about it,’ and then [looks at his watch] I was like, ‘Oh wait, it’s been announced!’ I was waiting to do a scene and Michael [C. Hall] came up to me, ‘Congratulations.’ It was a very surreal moment.”

He added, “And what an amazing universe to get to inhabit. The original left such an imprint on me as a young film watcher, and I think on most of my generation. I’ve never had so many texts from guys over 35 in one day as that day; people I haven’t heard from for 20 years.”

While the actor didn’t outright explain what the new approach to the material would be, he explained what he feels made the original movie so effective, which implies those elements will also be present in this new TV series.

“There seems to be an appetite for it. The original had two elements that I’m a huge fan of: extreme violence and satire,” Stevens pointed out. “And I think it is such a ripe paradigm for satirizing this moment that we’re in, with the police industrial complex. There’s so much to play with there, so I can’t wait.”

Peter Ocko will be the writer and showrunner, with James Wan executive producing for Blumhouse Atomic Monster. RoboCop co-creator Ed Neumeier is an executive producer.

At this time, it’s unclear when the project will begin filming or be released.

Are you looking forward to the new series? Let us know in the comments below!

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Confirming the popularity of the series, Netflix has confirmed today that Haunted Hotel has been renewed for a Season 3. The announcement was made on social media, which featured a Halloween-inspired piece of key art honoring the new season. Haunted Hotel is expected to return to Netflix sometime in 2027.

Looks like Halloween came early this year. HAUNTED HOTEL is renewed for Season 3, coming 2027! https://t.co/tqtcrM7EEx

— Netflix (@netflix) October 30, 2026

Season 2 of the series was described, “New ghosts. New employees. New undefined evils that we haven’t even discovered yet! Katherine and her family find their groove as more paranormal problems come looking for vacancies. But can a haunted hotel ever really feel like home?”

Haunted Hotel stars Will Forte (Sweet Tooth), Eliza Coupe (Future Man), Skyler Gisondo (The Quarry, Santa Clarita Diet), Natalie Palamides (The Powerpuff Girls), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld, Black Mirror).

The series was created by showrunner Matt Roller (Rick and Morty, Community) and produced by Titmouse (Big Mouth, The Venture Bros). In the debut season, a single mother tries to run the world’s most haunted hotel with her ghost brother, two kids, a demon trapped in a little boy’s body, and an ever growing collection of ghosts, monsters, and supernatural disasters.

Erica Hayes (Rick and Morty, Carol & the End of the World) is the supervising director. Roller executive produces alongside Chris McKenna (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Community), Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community), and Steve Levy (Rick and Morty, Community).

Even though this new season didn’t fully dominate the pop-culture conversation, given how much thrilling content has been released this month, Season 2 of the series has been received positively. There might only be a handful of published reviews calculated, but Rotten Tomatoes currently tallies Season 2 as having 100% positive reviews. It would seem that, for anyone who connected with the original season, the creators maintained consistency with its blend of humor and horror.

Stay tuned for updates on Season 3 of Haunted Hotel.

Are you glad to see the series will return? Let us know in the comments below!

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After years of focusing on real and confirmed creatures, Animal Planet experimented with pseudoscience. In hindsight, Lost Tapes was a sign of things to come, seeing as how cryptozoology went from niche to mainstream in the 2010s. For instance, Finding Bigfoot, one of Animal Planet’s highest-rated programs, was only a few years away at that point. And how can we forget the controversial documentary, Mermaids: The Body Found?

Lost Tapes, on the other hand, didn’t waste your time like Finding Bigfoot and other similar shows. No, you were guaranteed to see a weird beastie or monster of some kind in every episode of this mockumentary, even if it was nothing more than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sort of moment. Not to mention, those darting shadows and peripheral figures were quite fearsome.

It was the night before Halloween of 2008 when Animal Planet delivered a sneak preview of Lost Tapes, ahead of its official season premiere the following January. Gateway episodes “Chupacabra” and “Bigfoot” tackled two of the best-known cryptids in North America, as well as established the series’ format. Using a combination of real-life footage, reenactments, and interviews from experts, Lost Tapes quickly set itself apart from other monster hunting-type shows, such as Destination Truth.

It’s hard to be fooled by something like Lost Tapes, especially when every episode opens with the lines “the presence of hidden creatures is the subject of continued debate” and “the following story is inspired by the possibility of their existence”. Right there you’re told this is a work of fiction. The style of each episode, however, submits a notion of reality that’s based on our histories with documentaries. We know better than to think any of this is real, but the presentation messes with our brains.

Found footage didn’t immediately take off after the success of The Blair Witch Project. Indeed, there were attempts to cash in on the style, but Blair Witch parodies tended to receive the most attention back then. It was only after Paranormal Activity that found footage saw a substantial resurgence not only in cinema, but also on television, albeit to a lesser degree for the latter. Lost Tapes preceded both The River and Siberia, two shows that aired on big broadcast networks. However, out of the three, only Lost Tapes lasted more than one season.

Unlike the aforementioned shows, Lost Tapes didn’t have a continuous plot. It was more in the vein of classic anthology television that focused on self-contained storytelling. And in a little under thirty minutes, you could get in and out of any given episode with no fuss. You went in knowing these were essentially miniature found-footage horror movies, and that’s exactly what you got.

A basic installment of Lost Tapes followed the routine of most cinematic found footage; a third party compiled video shot by whoever crossed paths with the unexplained. They then padded that with the contributions of cryptozoologists, scientists and folklorists, plus any real-life footage and scientific tidbits that supported the subject matter. These traumatic encounters, by the way, didn’t always end in death for the humans involved. Some escaped their ordeals, whereas plenty others disappeared.

On the same channel, you could find Cats 101 and Too Cute was now a show prefaced with a “viewer discretion is advised” warning. Seasoned horror hounds would struggle to be frightened of anything here, but fans of cheap thrills would be absolutely delighted. Those reenactments of people’s run-ins with cryptids and whatnot were the small-screen equivalent of jump-scares found inside a haunted attraction, although less coherent. Money shots of the monsters were not ever certain, either.

In the show’s humbler beginnings, you could expect to see a whole lot of nothing. A creature’s being was hinted at, or if you were lucky, briefly shown under a veil of darkness. Gruesome makeup on the actors, courtesy of artists like Scott Conner, helped drive home the ferocity of these monstrosities. However, it wasn’t until Season Two that an episode’s subject was occasionally seen in plain view. Their time on screen was, once again, limited to a matter of mere seconds, or they were conveniently obstructed. It’s understandable that the show was minimizing your seeing an obvious costume, but somehow it’s actually more effective to have cryptids, and their ilk, exist in flashes and fragments.

It was in the third and final season that Lost Tapes introduced a recurring character of sorts. That impulse to raise the ante on otherworldly matters had already happened with the Season Two episode “Alien”, but now zombies, ghosts, and the deity Quetzalcoatl had been thrown into the mix. And a few of these more out-there additions to this show’s cabinet of creepy curiosities were confronted by a group called the Enigma Corporation. This private security firm popped up every now and then, in lieu of civilians, and their presence suggested an underlying plot that, unfortunately, never got the chance to grow.

Nowadays, Lost Tapes comes across as silly and lightweight. Having said that, this show gave us a fresh and fun way of investigating cryptozoology and the paranormal on television. The artifice is easy to see through, and the episodes are formulaic, but in an age where Bigfoot and the like have been sterilized by pop culture, it’s nice to remember a time when they were depicted as mysterious and scary.

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The new series will tell a completely original story, separate from the video games. Under director Takayuki Sano, the hand-drawn animations have been brought to life by renowned studio E&H Production (NINJA KAMUI, BULLET/BULLET, Magic Knight Rayearth).

Death Stranding Isolations is set in North America and takes place immediately after Sam, the game’s protagonist, reconnects the continent by means of the Chiral Network. However, as America is reborn from the ashes, the renewed connections that bind it together bring about new and unforeseen consequences.

“In this tumultuous new landscape, there are some who walk a different path to the one chosen by Sam and his Bridges comrades: a wise old man who connects people through a method that defies all reckoning; a female soldier ensnared in a cycle of war and destruction; a boy who seethes with rage at the absurdity of his life…and of course, the girl who chose to sever all ties with the outside world…Fate has other plans for her, however, and chance encounters see her launched headfirst into a world she does not recognize.”

“One of the unique abilities of entertainment is its power to enhance the spirituality of those who consume it, and I think this is something that Mr. Kojima’s works have always achieved. As a result, I approached this production with an exceptionally strong sense of duty and responsibility. I knew that no matter what, I needed to accomplish the same thing,” said Takayuki Sano.

The series’ original character designs are by Ilya Kuvshinov, with screenplay by Tow Ubukata. Hideo Kojima executive produces.

As of June 2026, the Death Stranding series has reached a cumulative player base of over 27 million worldwide. Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is currently available for PlayStation5 and on PC, available through Steam or the Epic Games Store, while Death Stranding 2: On The Beach is currently available for PlayStation5 and on PC, available through Steam or the Epic Games Store

A live-action Death Stranding film is in development from A24 with Michael Sarnoski (A Quiet Place: Day One) set to write and direct, while an animated Death Stranding movie is also in the works with Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) penning the script.

Watch the new Death Stranding Isolations teaser below.

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Variety details, “Apple TV and Legendary Television are currently in talks for a third season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, but with some major changes. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Season 3 of the show would be helmed by a new showrunner and new writers, and would feature new Titans from Legendary’s Monsterverse.”

“No word yet on if that would mean characters from the first two seasons would not carry on into the third,” Variety’s report this afternoon goes on to explain. “Sources say that multiple individuals have been approached about potentially taking over showrunning the series.”

Chris Black and Matt Fraction created “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” for Apple TV.

The series follows members of the Monarch organization as they encounter Godzilla and other monsters called Titans, across a half century. The series, which premiered in 2023, stars Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett and Elisa Lasowski, alongside son-father duo Wyatt and Kurt Russell in the shared role of Lee Shaw.

Season 2 of “Monarch” premiered earlier this year on Apple TV.

Originally announced back in December, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” showrunner and “Monarch” executive producer Joby Harold will serve as showrunner on the untitled Lee Shaw spinoff series.

The series will follow Colonel Lee Shaw, an American operative who in 1984 went on a secret mission behind enemy lines in an attempt to stop the Soviets from unleashing a horrific new Titan big enough to destroy the U.S. and turn the tide of the Cold War.

Wyatt Russell told Collider earlier this year, “you’ve got absolutely no fucking clue what to expect. I think people are going to expect one thing and be like, ‘Holy shit, this is not what I expected.’ It’ll go deeper into Lee’s experience after he came up, and being sort of put on ice, in 1982, and then what happens after that, and why he’s needed and the mission he goes on.”

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Purnell then joined the highly anticipated adaptation of the video game series Fallout for Prime Video, where her bright-eyed Lucy embarked on a mission in a post-apocalyptic world in hopes of finding her father. Her naivete as she navigated the wasteland was immediately endearing, anchoring what could be a downtrodden show in much more delightful territory.

Her Starz series Sweetpea, on the other hand, is a much more ruthless experience, as she plays a character pushed over the edge and into the realm of violence. A new trailer for Season 2 of the series has been released, which you can see below.

Season 2 sees wallflower-turned-killer Rhiannon Lewis (Purnell) navigate a new promotion, an irresistible rebound, and a copycat killer threatening to expose her. The kill list is mounting, and she is forced to question whether her perfect ex, AJ, was right: is she a monster?

Jon Pointing, Jeremy Swift, Leah Harvey, Ingrid Oliver, Nitin Ganatra, and Alexandra Dowling return to star in Sweetpea Season 2 alongside Ella Purnell. New additions include Rish Shah, Tamsin Greig, Taj Atwal, and Jenny Walser.

Created by Kirstie Swain, Sweetpea is based on the 2017 novel written by CJ Skuse.

While the narrative itself is compelling enough in its own right, as audiences have watched the descent of Rhiannon into a dark and disturbing place after she’s pushed too far, what makes the adaptation all the more engaging is how it showcases Purnell’s range as a performer. Her role in Fallout similarly forces her to embrace a more aggressive approach to the world around her, though in a way that’s necessary for survival. Sweetpea, though, might deliver glimpses of empathetic moments due to the way her character is treated, but it’s also challenging to root for her to continue to descend down such a dark path.

Season 2 of Sweetpea is set to launch on Sky in the UK in November and early 2027 on Starz.

Are you looking forward to Season 2 of the series? Let us know in the comments below!

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Throwing on a horror movie is one way to get your fix of terror, as a complete journey into the macabre can be completed within two hours. With a horror TV show, however, the tension is stretched across multiple hours, making for a prolonged sense of unease that can keep us on the edge of our seats for days. While there are plenty of horror movies that are dominating streaming services, a number of 2026 horror series have also been climbing the ranks in recent months.

Over at JustWatch, the service that alerts you to the availability of movies and TV shows available on streaming platforms, the most popular 2026 streaming horror and thriller series for Halloween have been revealed. The top 10 are as follows:

1. Widow’s Bay (Season 1) — Apple TV
2. FROM (Season 4) — MGM+
3. Carrie (Season 1) — Prime Video
4. American Horror Story (Season 13) — Hulu
5. Crystal Lake (Season 1) — Peacock
6. Below (Season 1) — Netflix
7. The Beauty (Season 1) — Hulu
8. YAGA (Season 1) — AMC+
9. Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (Season 1) — Netflix
10. The Vampire Lestat (Season 3) — AMC+ / Prime Video

Widow’s Bay has become one of the year’s biggest surprises. Created by Parks and Recreation alum Katie Dippold and starring Matthew Rhys, there was plenty to be excited about, though no one was prepared for just how hilarious and frightening a show about an island community off the coast of New England plagued by otherworldly forces could be. The series didn’t only appeal to genre fans, as it went on to score a record-breaking 14 Emmy Awards, the most ever for a single season of a comedy series.

FROM, meanwhile, has slowly but surely amassed a devoted fan base, as proven by the fact that even on a niche service like MGM+, the story of travelers getting trapped in small town has become one of the most popular shows of the year. A new Mike Flanagan show is always something worth celebrating, as is a new Stephen King series, so the two creatives uniting on Carrie has understandably made it a strong performer on streaming.

Ryan Murphy has been a major force in genre TV for years, so it’s no surprise that two of his 2026 series, American Horror Story and The Beauty, both landed in the top 10. Just weeks after its debut, the Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake has become one of Peacock’s most popular series, while Netflix’s Below has also quickly gained prominence in just the few short weeks on the platform.

Two AMC series have made their way into the top 10, courtesy of YAGA and The Vampire Lestat, and even though Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen debuted all the way back in January, clearly fans still can’t stop thinking about it.

Which of these TV series have you checked out? Let us know in the comments below!

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They join previously announced Caitríona Balfe, who leads the cast and executive produces, and Bill Nighy.

The series follows “a relentless documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother, brilliant at uncovering others’ truths but struggling to resolve her own. When Rose begins a project on a mysterious 20th-century cult known as the Church of Ascension, she finds unexpected refuge in its teachings – until she discovers something far more insidious beneath.”

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men) co-writes the series with his brother Carlos Cuarón as well as Natalie Erika James (Saccharine, Apartment 7A, Relic) and Christian White (Apartment 7A, Relic). James and White are sharing showrunning duties. James will also serve as lead director.

Nevill’s source novel drew inspiration from Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and more to build chilling suspense centered around a cult. The series, which will feature one-hour-long episodes, is described as exploring evil and innocence at the highest level, and how far one will go to protect the ones they love. Sometimes from even themselves.

Our review of the novel describes a terrifying, if long-winded descent into cult-induced horror: “There’s nothing like scaring the shit out of a couple of skeptics, and there are moments in Last Days that are so frightening, it feels like Neville is giving your heart a bare-handed squeeze. And as a rudimentary crash course in the art of guerrilla filmmaking, Last Days is top notch.”

Expect to hear more about Ascension as the cast continues to grow.

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There’s another annual event that we can always rely on to honor achievements in horror, which comes in the form of Fangoria‘s Chainsaw Awards. The event launched in 1992 and, while a staple of the publisher, things went to a new level in 2021 when David Dastmalchian hosted a ceremony on Shudder, which has since become an annual event. This past weekend saw the debut of the 2026 iteration of the awards on Shudder, and now the ceremony is available to stream for free on YouTube.

Below you’ll find a list of the presenters, categories, and winners.

Best Costume Design — Spencer Williams and Kelli Maroney

• Olivier Bériot & Catherine Leterrier, Dust Bunny
• Kate Hawley, Frankenstein [WINNER]
• Carson McColl & Gareth Pugh, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Sandy Powell, The Bride!
• David Tabbert, Queens of the Dead

Best Creature FX — John Kassir

• Legacy Effects, Dust Bunny
• Studio Gillis and Wētā Workshop, Predator: Badlands
• Millennium FX, Primate
• Werner Pretorius and Amazing Ape Productions, Backrooms
• Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 [WINNER]

Best Documentary Feature — Dr. Emily Zarka and Vander Von Odd

• 1000 Women in Horror
• Chain Reactions
• In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 [WINNER]
• The Last Sacrifice
• Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

Best International Movie — Aurora Perrineau

• Alpha
• Exit 8 [WINNER]
• Mārama
• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
• The Wailing

Best Limited Release Movie — Krsy Fox and Adam Marcinowski (as Big Baby)

• Dust Bunny [WINNER]
• Mārama
• Queens of the Dead
• The Serpent’s Skin
• Touch Me

Best Makeup FX — Darren Stein and Peaches Christ

• Olivier Bériot & Catherine Leterrier, Dust Bunny
• Kate Hawley, Frankenstein [WINNER]
• Carson McColl & Gareth Pugh, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Sandy Powell, The Bride!
• David Tabbert, Queens of the Dead

Best Non-Fiction Series — Isa Mazzei and Sarah Lind

• The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans
• Grave Conversations
• The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs [WINNER]
• Monstrum
• Svengoolie

Best Score — Curtis Rx and Cerina Vincent

• Gavin Brivik, Faces of Death
• Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
• Hildur Guðnadóttir, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Daniel Hart, Mother Mary
• Kane Parsons & Edo Van Breemen, Backrooms [WINNER]

Best Series — Julia Marchese and Teri Gamble

• Alien: Earth
• The Creep Tapes
• Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
• The Vampire Lestat
• Widow’s Bay [WINNER]

Best Streaming Premiere Movie — Patrick Brice

• I Am Frankelda
• Influencers
• Mother of Flies
• Reflection in a Dead Diamond
• V/H/S/Halloween [WINNER]

Best Supporting Performance — Tracie Thoms

• Stacy Clausen, Leviticus
• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
• Elle Fanning, Predator: Badlands
• Regina Hall, Scary Movie
• David Jonsson, The Long Walk
• Amy Madigan, Weapons [WINNER]
• Mads Mikkelsen, Dust Bunny
• Dacre Montgomery, Faces of Death
• Jack O’Connell, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Sigourney Weaver, Dust Bunny

Best Video Game — Alanah Pearce

• Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake
• Little Nightmares III
• No, I’m Not A Human
• Resident Evil: Requiem [WINNER]
• Silent Hill f

Best Screenplay — Dr. Stephen Graham Jones

• Curry Barker, Obsession [WINNER]
• Zach Cregger, Weapons
• Alex Garland, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, Faces of Death
• Damian McCarthy, Hokum

Best Director — Mick Garris and William Malone

• Curry Barker, Obsession [WINNER]
• Zach Cregger, Weapons
• Nia DaCosta, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Bryan Fuller, Dust Bunny
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride!

Best Lead Performance — Mink Stole

• Zazie Beetz, They Will Kill You
• Jessie Buckley, The Bride!
• Peter Dinklage, The Toxic Avenger
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, Backrooms
• Ralph Fiennes, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Rachel McAdams, Send Help
• Inde Navarrette, Obsession [WINNER]
• Toby Poser, Mother of Flies
• Adam Scott, Hokum
• Sophie Sloan, Dust Bunny

Best Wide Release Movie — Lin Shaye

• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Backrooms
• The Bride!
• Faces of Death
• Forbidden Fruits
• Hokum
• Leviticus
• Obsession [WINNER]
• Send Help
• Weapons

Best Kill — Tiffany Shepis and Felissa Rose

• Obsession, Brick Kill

Best First Feature — Chris Colfer

• Backrooms [WINNER]
• Buffet Infinity
• Dust Bunny
• Iron Lung
• Queens of the Dead

Best Cinematography — Dylan Clark

• Sean Bobbitt, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• Jeremy Cox, Backrooms [WINNER]
• Andrew Droz Palermo & Rina Yang, Mother Mary
• Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, Dust Bunny
• Colm Hogan, Hokum

Editor’s Eyeball — Phil Nobile Jr. and James A. Janiss

• FANGORIA Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. presented the Editor’s Eyeball Award to rising star Joe Bird (Talk to Me, Leviticus), recognizing his early achievements and promising future in horror.
• Phil Nobile Jr. then surprised co-presenter James A. Janisse with a second Editor’s Eyeball Award, honoring Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca, the creators of Dead Meat, for their contributions to horror fandom and for introducing a new generation to the genre.

What did you think of this year’s awards ceremony? Let us know in the comments below!

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The untitled “Fear Factor” spinoff series, in other words, won’t be an unscripted reality series but rather a fully scripted horror series with a narrative conjured up by (hopefully human) writers.

The catch? This new “Fear Factor” project will be a Vertical series, meaning it’ll be one of those shows that’s intended to be watched vertically on your cell phone. We live in wild times, don’t we?

Deadline details that the series from Fox Entertainment Studios and Endemol Shine North America, a Banijay America company, will debut on Holywater Tech‘s My Drama platform.

I have no idea what any of this means, mind you. But I’m just the messenger who’s been tasked with regurgitating this news from that outlet onto this outlet. And that’s all I’m here to do.

The unscripted “Fear Factor” series will feature THIRTY EPISODES, each one running 3-minutes long, “taking the thrills, tension, and terror synonymous with Fear Factor and reimagining the franchise as an entirely original fictional horror story.”

Hey, cool, why the hell not… right?!

Deadline further details in their report this afternoon, “The vertical series takes place during prep week on a remote horror television set, where a practical-effects artist and her crew unleash a haunted fortune-telling machine that forces them into personalized death trials, leaving the survivors to uncover its tragic origins before it claims everyone they love.”

“Fear Factor has always tapped into something primal: what scares us, how far we’ll go and what happens when we’re forced to confront our fears,” said Hannah Pillemer, Head of Scripted, Fox Entertainment Studios. “Michael Thorn and his network team saw the opportunity to bring this iconic franchise to Fox in a bold new way, successfully introducing House of Fear and the outrageous Johnny Knoxville to a whole new generation of fans. That tremendous response has opened the door to take Fear Factor somewhere it has never gone before: becoming the first unscripted television franchise to make the leap into original scripted storytelling. Our friends at Endemol Shine came to us with an inspired way to do exactly that, turning everything audiences love about Fear Factor into the foundation for a completely original horror story.”

“Few franchises are as naturally built for vertical as Fear Factor,” said Michael Heyerman, EVP, Unscripted Series, Endemol Shine North America. “Vertical storytelling is creating a new language for entertainment, one built on immediacy, intimacy, and serialized discovery, and Fear Factor already speaks it fluently. Our partners at Fox gave the franchise a powerful new life with House of Fear, and we’re proud to build on that momentum. Alongside Holywater, together we’re creating a new generation of horror that doesn’t just fit the mobile screen but uses it as part of the experience.”

The Johnny Knoxville-hosted reboot series, in the meantime, will return for a second season.

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The streaming service has announced this week that “Crystal Lake” has been streamed for 1.3 billion minutes since its premiere on October 15, becoming Peacock’s fourth most-watched scripted original series debut of all time. Variety breaks that down as follows: “Divided by the series’ 398-minute runtime, that comes out to a total of 3.3 million estimated views.”

“In terms of overall minutes watched on Peacock,” Variety adds, “it ranks behind only The Best Man: The Final Chapters (2022), All Her Fault (2025) and The Five Star Weekend Season 1 (2026).”

The outlet further details, “The series also boasted strong social engagement, garnering 1.8 billion impressions in one day and more than 7.6 million video views in 11 days.”

[Related] Meet the SIX Actors Who Played Jason Voorhees in Peacock’s ‘Crystal Lake’

Peacock hasn’t yet said anything about whether or not they plan on renewing “Crystal Lake” for Season 2, but showrunner Brad Caleb Kane already has a Season 2 Wish List in mind.

He tells Bloody Disgusting, “If we’re lucky enough to get a season two, I already sort of have a framework in my mind. I do know thematically what I want to touch on, which is a little bit different than part one. I do know that I want there to be a whole hell of a lot more of Sackhead Jason, I’ll tell you that. I want there to be a whole lot more carnage.”

All eight episodes of “Crystal Lake” are now streaming only on Peacock.

The A24 series follows single mother Pam Voorhees who has been unable to shake her grief after her young, sickly son Jason tragically drowned in the town lake almost a year before. When two strangers arrive at Pam’s door digging into her past, a disturbing chain of events is set into motion, leaving the townspeople of Crystal Lake wondering: just who is Pam Voorhees?

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However, now that the dust has settled and our readers have likely had the chance to watch all eight episodes of the prequel show, let’s explore the most controversial element of showrunner Brad Caleb Kane’s latest entry in the long-running franchise: Jason Voorhees’ sci-fi-inspired origin story as the only successful subject of Bellflower Chemical’s “Project Argonaut”.

Before we dive in, it’s worth mentioning that Jason’s backstory has never made much sense to begin with. Whether it’s the inconsistencies surrounding his tragic drowning in the first movie and inexplicable reappearance as a grown man in Friday the 13th: Part II or even the reasoning behind the bolt of lightning that revives him in Part VI: Jason Lives, filmmakers have always played fast and loose with the franchise’s established mythology in order to produce entertaining standalone movies.

Historically, this approach tends to work because slasher films are uniquely well-suited for formulaic campfire stories with details that shift according to the needs of the storyteller. However, a made-for-TV prequel with nearly eight hours of runtime (and possible future seasons to contend with) doesn’t have the luxury of dancing around information that our characters would surely have by now. That’s why it’s understandable that Brad would decide to pick a lane and come up with a definitive answer to the problem of Jason Voorhees.

What Crystal Lake ultimately reveals is that the Voorhees name itself is a sham, with Pamela Wittering (Linda Cardellini) and her son (Callum Vinson) actually being fugitives on the run from the insidious Bellflower Chemical, a secretive corporation that was conducting human experiments during the Cold War. According to the seventh episode, Jason is actually the only successful subject of the cleverly-named Project Argonaut, a research program meant to develop enhanced humans capable of withstanding the inevitable nuclear holocaust of World War III.

In the first live-action appearance of a character that the franchise has been teasing for decades, Jason’s father and Director of Operations at Bellflower, Elias Wittering (Hamish Linklater), claims that the project is attempting to emulate the cockroach’s uncanny resistance to radiation. In practice, what the company’s cruel research ultimately achieved was the creation of a preternaturally strong child that only grows stronger and develops faster after being exposed to trauma, a conclusion that the company reached after poking and prodding at Jason and even subjecting him to insane amounts of radiation.

In theory, these powers would explain Jason’s apparent immunity to all forms of serious bodily harm, with Bellflower’s fascination with the child even harkening back to David Cronenberg’s character from Jason X. While some dissatisfied fans are now referring to this incarnation of the iconic character as “Cockroach Jason”, it’s never actually implied that Bellflower is literally injecting arthropod DNA into fetuses – especially since the whole spiel about cockroaches being nuclear-resistant is a scientifically discredited myth.

That being said, the final episode of the show, cheekily titled “The Final Chapter”, adds an interesting caveat to Jason’s abilities, as his watery resurrection in Crystal Lake appears to have come with unfortunate side effects. The eleven-year-old may have come back bigger with enhanced strength and durability, but he also lost much of his humanity in the process. By the end of the episode, he very nearly murders Pamela before recognizing her as his doting mother and fleeing into the woods to continue life as a serial-killing woodsman.

This added detail explains why Pamela would still be grief-stricken about what happened at the lake despite Jason having technically survived, and it even factors in how each subsequent Friday the 13th sequel depicts the iconic Slasher as more of a monster after each “death”. The sci-fi shenanigans also open the door for more Bellflower experiments to show up further down the line, something that could even be used to explain the telekinetic Tina Shepard from New Blood – or maybe Kane could give Jason another unkillable slasher to fight!

While I personally would have preferred not to know exactly how Jason keeps coming back for more punishment, as I’ve always interpreted the curse surrounding Crystal Lake and the Voorhees family to be an actual supernatural force instead of anything explainable by science, Peacock’s show technically takes place in an alternate continuity where Jason drowned in 1971 instead of 1957, and the initial camp counselor murders weren’t even committed by Pamela. That’s why I don’t think this new take on the character harms the existing mythology, even if it’s not exactly the story I would have chosen to tell.

Besides, no matter what backstory Kane had gone with, the fan backlash would likely have been the same because he’s still dealing with millions of genre enthusiasts who each have their own theories about the Voorhees mythos and what makes the character tick. Since I’m of the opinion that Stranger Things doesn’t have a monopoly on the concept of super-powered youngsters who were abused by MK Ultra-adjacent programs —the Duffer brothers actually borrowed that idea from Stephen King’s Firestarter, which was in turn based on real-life experiments and conspiracy theories— I actually have no qualms with “Cockroach Jason.”

As the Joker once said: “If I’m going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice.” If you ask me, I think there are worse possible origins for Jason than the ones we got from Crystal Lake.

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Tom Spezialy, who executive produced HBO’s The Leftovers and Watchmen, is attached to write the series pilot.

First announced in May, the limited series is described as “a visceral, present-day reimagining of Hitchcock’s classic set in Spezialy’s home state of Alaska with a murder mystery at the center and new characters, led by a new female protagonist, Myra Massey (Snook).“

The Birds “introduces traveling magistrate Myra Massey as she returns to her isolated Alaskan hometown for a routine presumptive death hearing, expecting a simple cold case. Instead, she finds her childhood friend’s bullet-ridden body. When Myra is forced to step outside her role as judge to untangle the mystery, nature itself turns hostile with a wave of bird attacks. Now, Myra isn’t just trying to close a case; she’s fighting to survive in a place where death lurks in both the shadows and the skies.”

Universal International Studios and Heyday Television are behind the project and shopped it to buyers earlier this year. Spezialy and Snook executive produce alongside Heyman and Danny Samit. 

Released in 1963, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was based on the same-named story by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1952. The film spawned a mostly-forgotten sequel in 1994. The Birds also inspired a 2007 remake announced with Naomi Watts attached to star and Martin Campbell to direct, and a BBC series announced in 2017 written by Irish playwright Conor McPherson, though both failed to launch.

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Bacon has been cast as methodical physicist Alex Regan.

In The Black Tapes, “Dr. Richard Strand (Coster-Waldau), a brilliant psychiatrist with a mysterious past, teams with the obsessed, relentless scientist Alex Regan to debunk paranormal cases of hauntings, possessions, disappearances, and sinister legends – the infamous black tapes. But as Strand and Regan unravel the secrets of these events, they uncover a hidden occult world behind our own and must unravel a centuries-old apocalyptic conspiracy.”

The eight-episode series is based on the 2015 horror podcast of the same name created by Terry Miles and Paul Bae. Miles and Bae, who will also executive produce, team with series’ showrunner John Rogers (Leverage) on writing duties.

Production is expected to begin in Vancouver in January 2027 for release on MGM+ in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Latin America.

“The Black Tapes crafts a compelling story around our cultural fascination with the unexplained, while delivering the cinematic, classic storytelling that MGM+ audiences expect,” said Michael Wright, global head of MGM+. “With Nikolaj’s compelling presence and the creative vision of John Rogers, Kearie Peak and our talented production team, we’re excited to make something that is both provocative and hugely entertaining.”

While Bacon can next be seen in the horror-comedy Family Movie, starring her real-life family, releasing on April 23, 2027, the actress also played a scientist in the horror-comedy Cold Storage earlier this year.

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Yet for those who have a busy schedule, or maybe they’re just looking for some variety in their viewings, there’s always the option of television.

The twenty following recommendations, all of which come from horror series, are another great way to observe Halloween.

Night Gallery – “Fright Night”

After The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling gave us another anthology show called Night Gallery (1970–1973). In the Halloween-adjacent episode “Fright Night”, a couple (Stuart Whitman, Barbara Anderson) inherits a house with one stipulation: they can’t open the locked trunk in the attic. Following that one rule proves difficult when the trunk then starts to move.

Tales from the Darkside – “Halloween Candy”

There are three solid episodes about Halloween in the anthology series Tales from the Darkside (1984–1988), and I advise you to watch them all. The pilot (“Trick or Treat”) is about trick-or-treaters entering the haunted house of a miser, and “The Cutty Black Sow” sees a boy trying to save his great-grandmother’s soul from a demon that comes after anyone who dies on Halloween. As for “Halloween Candy”, which was directed by Tom Savini, a curmudgeon (Roy Poole) is visited by a wicked goblin.

The Ray Bradbury Theater – “The Emissary”

Halloween is in the background of this notable episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992), that anthology based on the namesake’s body of work. In “The Emissary”, a sick, housebound boy has a dog that will fetch him anything. This includes a friendly teacher played by Helen Shaver. In due time, the episode takes a creepy turn that’s hard to forget.

The Real Ghostbusters – “The Halloween Door”

With so much bustin’ of ghosts, ghouls, and demons in The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991), Halloween episodes seemed unnecessary. That said, some of the more memorable episodes of this live-action-movie-turned-cartoon are about Halloween. The primetime-aired “The Halloween Door” boasts snazzier animation, as the Ghostbusters deal with the supernatural consequences caused by anti-Halloweeners trying to cancel the holiday.

Werewolf – “All Hallow’s Eve”

One of Fox’s first scripted dramas was Werewolf (1987–1988), wherein a college student named Eric (John J. York) hopes to cure himself of his affliction by killing the originator of his whole bloodline. During the full moon on Halloween Night, Eric holes up in what he thought was an empty house. Turns out he was wrong.

Friday the 13th: The Series – “Hellowe’en”

By now, every Friday the 13th fan knows Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990) wasn’t connected to the movies, in spite of both being co-produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. Here, the characters go around reclaiming cursed objects that were sold at their inherited antiques store. In the Halloween episode “Hellowe’en”, a festive party is crashed by the store’s previous owner; the dead Uncle Frank now wants to rejoin the living.

Tales from the Crypt – “Only Skin Deep”

Like most horror shows, Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) didn’t require Halloween settings, on account of every episode feeling like Halloween. Nonetheless, “Only Skin Deep” is one story that takes place on the holiday. Here, a woman’s abusive ex (Peter Onorati) leaves a Halloween costume party with another guest (Sherrie Rose). This other woman, though, never removes her mask. What does she have planned for their evening?

Are You Afraid of the Dark? – “The Tale of the Midnight Ride”

Before it became a full-on series, the classic children’s anthology Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1992–1996, 1999–2000) began with the Halloween-set special called “The Tale of the Twisted Claw”. Subsequent episodes “The Tale of the Dream Machine” and “The Tale of the Midnight Ride” also feature the holiday, although it’s the latter that contains some of the series’ most iconic imagery. Here, the new kid in town learns that the Headless Horseman is neither mythical nor friendly.

Eerie, Indiana – “America’s Scariest Home Video”

Shortly before he appeared in Hocus Pocus, Omri Katz was the lead in a children’s horror series called Eerie, Indiana (1991–1993). The main character, Marshall, ends up in bizarre situations after moving to the titular town. While he and Simon are stuck babysitting on Halloween, their charge, Simon’s little brother, somehow switches places with the mummy from a movie.

Goosebumps – “The Haunted Mask”

If you only ever watch one episode from Goosebumps‘ first television adaptation, make it “The Haunted Mask”. The premiere episode, wherein a girl named Carly Beth (Kathryn Long) becomes what she wears for Halloween, is on a completely different level when compared to other entries in this beloved anthology for kids. Additional Halloween episodes include “Haunted Mask II” and “Attack of the Jack-O’-Lanterns”.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Fear, Itself”

Cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) established the in-universe lore that supernatural activity was minimal on Halloween. As fans learned, that rule didn’t always hold up. Episodes like “Halloween”, “Fear, Itself” and “All the Way” showed how October 31 was no different than any other creepy day in Sunnydale. The strange goings-on in the fun “Fear, Itself” had the Scoobies getting trapped inside of a haunted frat house.

Millennium – “…Thirteen Years Later”

While Millennium (1996–1999) fans would say “The Curse of Frank Black” is the show’s best Halloween-set episode, and you should definitely watch it, “…Thirteen Years Later” is amusing. Millennium didn’t get a lot of chances to be silly, like Chris Carter‘s other show, The X-Files. So for some lighter shades of darkness in Frank Black’s (Lance Henriksen) bleak universe, this episode delivers. Not only is Frank visiting the set of a movie based on one of his cases, but the band KISS performs.

Supernatural – “Mint Condition”

There are more than enough creepy, stand-alone episodes of Supernatural (2005–2020) that you could watch for Halloween, but for episodes that actually have to do with the holiday, your choices are “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester” and “Mint Condition”. The latter is from Season 14, and it has much less to do with the overarching story. There, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) investigate what look to be toys being turned into life-sized killers. This includes Dean’s favorite horror movie character, a Michael Myers-type named David Yaeger, a.k.a. Hatchet Man.

Fear Itself – “The Spirit Box”

Anthology series Fear Itself (2008), a spiritual successor to Masters of Horror, had two Halloween episodes: “The Spirit Box” and “The Circle”. The former has Anna Kendrick and Jessica Parker Kennedy using a homemade spirit board to speak to their dead classmate on Halloween. As you would expect, the cheap thrill has dire consequences.

Grimm – “La Llorona”

In Grimm (2011–2017), that show about a homicide detective (David Giuntoli) whose second job is to keep the balance between humans and supernatural creatures, Halloween tackles the legendary La Llorona, a.k.a. the Weeping Woman. Could she be to blame for a series of missing children in the area?

Inside No. 9 – “Dead Line”

Multi-genre British anthology Inside No. 9 (2014–2024) was a big fan of horror, and episodes like “Dead Line” show that affection. This Halloween special confused some audiences back then, as they thought the technical difficulties during what was said to be a live airing were genuine. On the contrary, creators and stars Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith channeled the TV ruse that was Ghostwatch. “Dead Line” wanted us to believe an old television studio was haunted.

Scream: The TV Series – “Halloween Special”

The Scream show (2015–2016, 2019), which is unrelated to the movies, eventually found the surviving characters of Seasons One and Two going to an island for Halloween and getting tangled up in a new mystery. For those new to the series, this whodunit is mostly self-contained.

Wynonna Earp – “Hell Raisin’ Good Time”

The town of Purgatory is no stranger to weirdness. On Halloween, Wynonna Earp (2016–2021) whipped up a villain perfect for the holiday. In this episode from the supernatural western, a pumpkin-headed demon called Rotten Jack comes and causes havoc.

Evil – “October 31”

It’s a busy Halloween Night in this episode of Evil (2019–2024). While Kristen (Katja Herbers) and David (Mike Colter) spend their Halloween debating the legitimacy of an exorcism case, Ben (Aasif Mandvi) debunks the supernatural on his favorite show. The kids also have some Halloween fun during a scary sleepover.

Chucky – “Give Me Something Good to Eat”

Halloween gets plenty of love in Chucky (2021–2024); every season features the holiday at one point. In the first season, Halloween feels different for Jake (Zackary Arthur) after he loses someone close to him. Nonetheless, he goes to a Halloween party where mean girl Lexy (Alyvia Alyn Lind) wears the most insensitive costume possible. It’s then up to Jake to stop Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) from murdering Lexy.

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This year’s Halloween Terror-Thon takes over Turner Classic Movies on Friday, October 30 (Halloween Eve) and Saturday, October 31 (Halloween Day), and the schedule is packed with classic horror movies including Carnival of Souls, White Zombie, The Haunting, House of Wax, The Tingler, Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, The Cat People, and so many more.

TCM previews, “TCM has celebrated Halloween since its launch in 1994. In 2023, the network started what is now an annual tradition — 48 hours of horror films beginning at 6am, this time with horror icon Donald Pleasence as the infamous wife killer Dr. Crippen (1963), with Coral Browne as the shrew who drives him to murder, and ending in the wee hours of Halloween night with the film that unleashed a thousand zombies on the world, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). In between, TCM presents 27 feature films, one documentary and a trio of late Warner Bros. cartoon shorts.

“The network’s newest franchise, Films on Film, goes all out for Halloween with the October 30 TCM premiere of Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive (2026). The documentary tells the story of one of classic Hollywood’s last great horror stars, with contributions from fans like John Waters and Tim Burton, and Price’s daughter, Victoria, son Vincent Barrett and grandsons Jody and Keir. The network then presents a bill of Price’s early fright films, like House of Wax (1953) and House on Haunted Hill (1958), that paved the way for his emergence as one of the 1960s’ definitive horror icons in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations.

“This year’s Hollywood Terror-Thon features three other network premieres. Two 1970s horror films debut in primetime on Halloween night. The 1979 version of Dracula stars Frank Langella as one of the screen’s most romantic versions of the blood-sucking Transylvanian Count. It’s followed by Brian De Palma’s often-hilarious mash-up of The Phantom of the Opera, Faust and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Phantom of the Paradise (1974). Earlier in the day, a talking dragon helps young Jack Wild face off against a coven of witches led by Martha Raye, Cass Elliott and Billie Hayes in Pufnstuf (1970), an adaptation of the classic Saturday morning children’s show.

“Eddie Muller joins the festivities with the first-ever Noir Alley triple feature. The Saturday night film noir showcase presented a double feature of Cat People (1942) and The Leopard Man (1943) to celebrate Halloween weekend in 2021. This year, Muller ups the ante by adding The Seventh Victim (1943) to the mix.

“Other highlights of TCM’s Hollywood Terror-Thon include horror icons Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre in Spider Baby (1967), White Zombie (1932), The Walking Dead (1936) and Mad Love (1935), respectively. Psychological thrills are on display in Georges Franju’s classic French thriller Eyes Without a Face (1960), Robert Wise’s The Haunting (1963) and Jacques Tourneur’s Curse of the Demon (1958). Those all air on Friday, October 30. On Halloween day, you can catch a pair of restored two-strip Technicolor films from director Michael Curtiz, Doctor X (1932) and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), both starring Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill. The afternoon features a bill of iconic early horror features: Dracula (1931), The Mummy (1932), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).”

Head over to TCM’s website to browse the complete Terror-Thon 2026 schedule.

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Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men) co-writes the series with his brother Carlos Cuarón as well as Natalie Erika James (Saccharine, Apartment 7A, Relic) and Christian White (Apartment 7A, Relic).

The series follows “a relentless documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother, brilliant at uncovering others’ truths but struggling to resolve her own. When Rose begins a project on a mysterious 20th-century cult known as the Church of Ascension, she finds unexpected refuge in its teachings – until she discovers something far more insidious beneath.”

James and White are sharing showrunning duties. James will also serve as lead director.

Exact details on Nighy’s role are being kept under wraps, but Balfe will play Rose, the documentary filmmaker.

Nevill’s source novel drew inspiration from Jim Jones, Charles Manson, and more to build chilling suspense centered around a cult. Our review of the novel describes a terrifying, if long-winded descent into cult-induced horror: “There’s nothing like scaring the shit out of a couple of skeptics, and there are moments in Last Days that are so frightening, it feels like Neville is giving your heart a bare-handed squeeze. And as a rudimentary crash course in the art of guerrilla filmmaking, Last Days is top notch.”

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October has gone by in a flash, and we are now just days away from the big day. Halloween is taking place on a Saturday this week, which gives us a nice full week – and weekend – to celebrate.

AMC is hoping you’ll keep FearFest on your television as background noise at the very least, and today they’ve released the full schedule for Halloween Week: October 26 – October 31, 2026.

It all begins with the Jason vs. Everyone Marathon today (October 26), an all-day celebration of the Friday the 13th franchise that features films including A New Beginning, The New Blood, Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell, and the original slasher classic.

On Tuesday, Freddy Krueger takes over AMC FearFest with an all-day A Nightmare on Elm Street Marathon, followed by a Final Destination Marathon of Death this Wednesday.

On both Friday and Saturday, Halloween Eve and Halloween Day, Michael Myers comes home to AMC for the two-day Halloween on Halloween Marathon. Those days will be packed with all the Michael Myers slashing you can handle, with the marathon including various installments in the Halloween franchise – including the Myers-less Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

Here’s the full AMC FearFest schedule for Halloween Week 2026…

Monday, October 26 – Friday the 13th Marathon: 

• 9am: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• 11am: Friday the 13th : A New Beginning
• 1pm: Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
• 3pm: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• 5pm: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
• 7pm: Friday the 13th (2009)
• 9pm: Friday the 13th (1980)
• 11pm: Friday the 13th Part 2
• 1am: Friday the 13th Part III
• 3am: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Tuesday, October 27 – Nightmare on Elm Street Marathon: 

• 12pm: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master
• 2:15pm: Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
• 4:45pm: Freddy vs. Jason
• 7pm: A Nightmare on Elm Street
• 9:15pm: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
• 11:15pm: A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
• 1:30am: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wednesday, October 28 – Final Destination Marathon: 

• 6pm: Final Destination (2000)
• 8pm: Final Destination 2
• 10pm: The Final Destination (2009)

Thursday, October 29:

• 9:15am: The Exorcist
• 12pm: Child’s Play
• 2pm: A Nightmare on Elm Street
• 4pm: Friday the 13th
• 6pm: It (2017)
• 9pm: TNA iMPACT!
• 11pm: Thir13en Ghosts
• 1am: Child’s Play

Friday, October 30 – Halloween on Halloween Marathon: 

• 4:30am: Halloween (1978)
• 6:30am: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• 8:30am: Halloween II (2009)
• 11am: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• 1pm: Halloween (1978)
• 3pm: Halloween II (1981)
• 5pm: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• 7pm: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• 9pm: Halloween (1978)
• 11pm: Halloween (2007)
• 1:30am: Halloween II (2009)
• 4am: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Saturday, October 31 – Halloween on Halloween Marathon: 

• 6am: Halloween II (1981)
• 8am: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• 10am: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• 12pm: Halloween II (2009)
• 2:30pm: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
• 4:30pm: Halloween (2007)
• 7pm: Halloween (1978)
• 9pm: Halloween II (1981)
• 11pm: Halloween (1978)
• 1am: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
• 2am: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
• 4am: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Sunday, November 1 – Halloween Hangover:

• 6am: Christine
• 8am: Halloween (1978)
• 10am: The Terminator
• 12:30pm: Predator
• 3pm: Men in Black
• 5pm: Men in Black II
• 7pm: Jurassic World: Dominion

For a more detailed day-to-day breakdown, consult the official AMC TV schedule.

This year’s AMC FearFest is hosted by the Crypt Keeper!

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“Blade Runner 2099” premieres on Prime Video on November 25.

The new Blade Runner television series is set 50 years after the events of Denis Villeneuve’s movie Blade Runner 2049 and stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Hunter Schafer (Cuckoo) as partners Olwen and Cora, respectively. 

Like Rutger Hauer’s Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, Olwen is a replicant at the end of her life cycle. Her partner, Cora, is a human passing herself off as a replicant.

“Blade Runner 2099” comes from Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Amazon Studios. Silka Luisa (“Shining Girls”) is writing, show-running, and executive producing.

Jonathan van Tulleken (“Shōgun”) will direct and executive produce the first two episodes.

Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), and Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell) also star in the upcoming series, alongside Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), and Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon).

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Deadline reports that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Nightwatch, Mama) will star in the eight-episode series, with Miles and Bae joining John Rogers (Leverage) on writing duties.

In The Black Tapes, “Dr. Richard Strand (Coster-Waldau), a brilliant psychiatrist with a mysterious past, teams with the obsessed, relentless scientist Alex Regan to debunk paranormal cases of hauntings, possessions, disappearances, and sinister legends – the infamous black tapes. But as Strand and Regan unravel the secrets of these events, they uncover a hidden occult world behind our own and must unravel a centuries-old apocalyptic conspiracy.“

Production is expected to begin in Vancouver in January 2027 for release on MGM+ in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Latin America.

“The Black Tapes crafts a compelling story around our cultural fascination with the unexplained, while delivering the cinematic, classic storytelling that MGM+ audiences expect,” said Michael Wright, global head of MGM+. “With Nikolaj’s compelling presence and the creative vision of John Rogers, Kearie Peak and our talented production team, we’re excited to make something that is both provocative and hugely entertaining.”

“I was an early and passionate fan of The Black Tapes podcast,” says Rogers. “It’s a unique blend of truly unsettling horror and puzzle-box conspiracy mystery. With Paul and Terry not just executive producing, but also in the writer’s room, we have a chance to both bring The Black Tapes to a new generation of genre fans and deepen and expand the mythos in ways that will surprise long-time supernatural horror fans.”

The Black Tapes podcast has amassed over 60 million downloads since its launch 11 years ago. NBC previously attempted to develop a series based on the podcast in 2018, but it did not go to pilot.

Also on the way to MGM+ very soon is season two of The Institute, arriving next month.

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And now that enough time has passed that we don’t mind discussing a few spoilers about the recently released show, we’ve decided to shine a light on the young thespians that brought our favorite machete-wielding killer to life in the latest installment of the Friday the 13^th saga.

For starters, we have Callum Vinson as the eleven-year-old Jason that has the most amount of screentime throughout the series’ eight episodes. Horror fans may remember Callum as Henry Collins from the third and final season of SyFy’s Chucky, though the young actor somehow manages to be even more adorable in his latest horror outing.

Even under all those meticulously crafted prosthetics (which reportedly took over three-to-four hours to apply during initial tests), Callum remains remarkably vulnerable and likable, making it surprisingly easy to side with Pamela’s crash out when her sweet, sweet boy inevitably drowns.

Of course, the icy waters of Crystal Lake have never been able to keep Jason down for good, so it’s only natural that a slightly older and more mysterious version of the character shows up months after his tragic demise and begins to stalk the nearby wilderness (and his mother’s nightmares).

Played by actor and stunt performer Zachary Branch (who previously worked on Stranger Things, Goosebumps and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters), this heavily obscured version of Jason -which was nicknamed The Prowler during production- is treated almost like a supernatural cryptid lurking in the woods surrounding the camp – though Crazy Ralph immediately suspects that this “demon” might actually be real.

You can check out more of this eerie design in Branch’s behind-the-scenes photos below.

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This is where we start getting into heavy spoiler territory, as the show’s later episodes dive further into Jason and Pamela’s backstories, requiring an even younger version of the character to show up onscreen as we see the toll that Project Argonaut is taking on the young boy’s body.

According to Jason Parker (owner of the Friday the 13^th fan site), the four-year-old Jason seen during the heart-wrenching flashback episode is portrayed by a duo of young actors named Kaiden Cullen and Theo Lonsdale in their first credited roles.

The duo is also joined by several mutated siblings/prototypes that Pamela encounters at Bellflower’s mysterious clinic, with these monstrous attempts at creating a nuclear-resistant superhuman being brought to life by the Oscar-nominated practical effects maestro David Preston and his talented team of makeup artists.

That leads us to Crystal Lake’s final (and arguably most interesting) take on Jason, the “adult” form of the character that appears in the final episode of the season. Looking almost exactly like the Jason we see Friday the 13^th: Part 2, this incarnation of the deformed killer is larger and more dangerous due to his bioengineered body’s unique response to physical trauma. That’s why this twelve-year-old has adult proportions and can easily slice through Bellflower goons as if they were made of butter.

Alternately played by stuntman David Armstrong and actor Jonathan Tison (who only discovered that he was playing the iconic killer once he showed up for makeup tests after learning that he’d been cast as “Joey” in a show that the producers had codenamed “Mama’s Boy”), this Jason appears to be a first draft of the sack-headed murderer from 1981. In fact, Tison revealed that he immediately did his homework upon learning the true nature of his character on the show, with his performance during the climactic confrontation between him, Pamela and Elias being based on Warrington Gillette/Steve Daskewisz’s encounter with Ginny towards the end of Part 2.

And if Peacock greenlights a second season of Crystal Lake (which seems likely as this point, given the show’s international popularity), this is likely the Jason that we’ll continue to see going forward – which is pretty cool for ultra-fans of Part 2 who think that the character was scarier before he donned the iconic hockey mask.

That being said, I think it’s a shame that Callum Vinson didn’t get more time to shine as the more lovable version of the deformed killer, especially given his excellent chemistry with Linda Cardellini’s take on Pamela Voorhees, though it’s always possible that he could return through further flashbacks and hallucinations!

In any case, let us know in the comments below which of these “Jasons” was your favorite, and which ones you’d like to see return in a possible Season 2.

The complete first season of Crystal Lake is now streaming exclusively on Peacock!

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It’s safe to say a certain generation of horror fans had trouble sleeping after watching 1975’s Trilogy of Terror. You just don’t forget a childhood trauma like the Zuni Doll. A little over two decades later, Dan Curtis did the unexpected and sequelized that classic TV movie. Surely no one asked for this to be made, but speaking only for myself, I’m happy it exists.

The star of 1996’s Trilogy of Terror II, Lysette Anthony, may not seem familiar until you remember her from Krull. However, that possible lack of instant recognition helped Anthony fade into each of her three roles here. To be clear, the sequel is using the same concept as its predecessor; as Karen Black did in her movie, Anthony portrays multiple protagonists in hers. For the most part, she’s rather convincing as a murderer, a mother, and a scientist. You might even say it’s the most challenging work she ever received in her career as an actor.

As with the original movie, there is no framing device in Trilogy of Terror II. You’re thrown into the stories with neither introduction nor interlude. Don’t expect a narrator to steer you, either. This way, though, there is more of an immersive effect. The focus is on the individual tales, their characters and their settings, as opposed to any sort of looming outcome that’s often attached to having a physical storyteller present.

There have been many times that an anthology put a short story on the map. This was the case for “The Graveyard Rats”, an impressive yet overlooked Henry Kuttner short that dates back to the 1930s. It wasn’t until sixty-something years later that Curtis and his co-writer, William F. Nolan, first brought Kuttner’s rodent-infested tale of comeuppance to life.

Before a more faithful version of “The Graveyard Rats” surfaced in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Curtis and Nolan reworked the source material so that it could now include Anthony’s character, an avaricious trophy wife whose adultery has been exposed. Yet rather than staying faithful to her cruel and curmudgeonly husband (Matt Clark), she and her paramour (Geraint Wyn Davies) choose murder. This mild, soap opera-esque setup is eventually eclipsed by the dog-sized rats coming to feast, as Anthony’s character goes from golddigger to gravedigger. Those obvious-looking hand puppets are as unnerving as they are cheesy.

For the second segment, Curtis slightly cheated by redoing “Bobby” from his other ‘70s anthology for TV, Dead of Night. Richard Matheson penned the original teleplay, hence his credit here. Dead of Night was, and still is, not quite as renowned as Trilogy of Terror. Once again, though, Curtis saved the best for last, as “Bobby” is a masterful tale of maternal horror—one so good that it was worth repeating.

The chances of finding Dead of Night at your local Blockbuster back then were low. So more than likely, Trilogy of Terror II was a lot of people’s first time seeing “Bobby” in any form. This do-over is essentially verbatim, albeit with more nightmarish Dutch angles and longer, fuller stretches of eerie darkness in the back half. Meanwhile, the previous version, wherein Joan Hackett played that grieving mother who resurrected her dead son, benefits from that fuzzy, dreamlike quality that was innate to ‘70s horror. Both tellings of “Bobby”, however, pack a wallop of a twist at the end.

The crown jewel of the first Trilogy is its last chapter. Matheson, whose short stories inspired the whole movie, personally penned the adaptation for “Prey”. In what was then called “Amelia”, Black’s character is menaced by a diminutive fetish doll that had been possessed by a demon. Her grueling victory over evil, though, was short-lived.

Matheson was credited on “He Who Kills”, a direct sequel to “Amelia”. Otherwise, Curtis and Nolan took the wheel in this follow-up that did more to update the special effects than the story. Like before, a woman is on the receiving end of that demonic doll’s rampage; Anthony squares off with her tiny assailant inside a science lab. The death count is raised a bit, too, now that the Zuni Doll is not confined to just one room.

“He Who Kills” is enjoyable as something of a fast-paced, supernatural slasher, although it’s far more direct and less mysterious than its progenitor. The depth found in Matheson’s “Amelia” also isn’t replicated in the sequel. Black’s character felt the many cuts of an overbearing mother, prior to her stabby standoff with the Zuni Doll, whereas Anthony’s character has no meat on her bones, so to speak.

Sequels for TV movies weren’t then common, especially ones two decades old—now five, as of this writing. That said, Trilogy of Terror II was a welcome surprise. A curio, if you will. Plus, the first movie wasn’t readily available; Anchor Bay’s DVD wouldn’t be available until three years later. So in the meantime, this follow-up was the next best thing. It doesn’t replace what many consider to be the best horror TV movie of all time, but if I may be so bold, the sequel offers more consistent, if not tawdry, entertainment.

The next time the USA Network pre-celebrated Halloween with an anthology was 2000’s Terror Tract. Technically, though, this is not an in-house production; it was acquired like Cherry Falls, which just so happens to be this movie’s companion on an out-of-print DVD. Finding Terror Tract these days isn’t always easy, but your efforts will be rewarded.

Unlike the last anthology, this one includes both a framing story and a host. The wraparound (called “Make Me an Offer”) is immediately funny, as the camera goes from the top level of an idyllic residential neighborhood to the gruesome underbelly. After that darkly comical take on the food chain, we’re off to meet our host for this bizarre tour; John Ritter turned in a delightfully twisted role as Bob, the realtor who’s desperate to make a sale. Although not desperate enough to keep his mouth shut.

Joining Ritter’s character are the Doyles. These preppy newlyweds (David DeLuise and Allison Smith) are looking for a starter home in the seemingly safe suburbs, until Bob quickly shatters the illusion using only his candor. For every listing Bob brings the Doyles to, he is compelled to be honest about the property’s dark past. Eventually the buyers understand the movie’s premise just as well as the audience does, but by then, it’s much too late to escape the ‘burbs.

The first house on the itinerary belonged to the Freemonts. Sarah (Rachel York) was having an affair, but then her husband Louis (Fredric Lehne) caught her and her hunky lover (Carmine Giovinazzo) in the act. What followed was like an old-fashioned story of adultery from the pages of EC Comics, right down to the guilty party’s surreal moments of conscience-stricken dread. Chilling atmosphere aside, “Nightmare” is a pretty standard tale of revenge from beyond the grave.

Naturally, the Doyles aren’t exactly keen on buying a murder house, so Bob escorts them to the next locale. Again, though, this guy is way too forthcoming about the place’s sinister history. You can bet Bob didn’t earn his commission after informing the Doyles of the Gatleys. In the second piece, husband and father Ron Gatley (Bryan Cranston) feared losing his young daughter Jennifer (Katelin Petersen ). Not to a boy, mind you, but rather the story’s hairy namesake.

Every anthology has that one segment you remember it for—the one you recommend to other people. And many would agree Terror Tract’s showpiece is that mini creature-feature called “Bobo”. Here, Cranston was his usual shouty self as his character’s daughter adopted a stray capuchin, then paid only him any attention. However, the father’s jealousy-seasoned concern ended up being justified, due to lil’ Bobo having a hidden talent for murder.

You are barely over the explosive ending of “Bobo” before Bob tries his luck again, this time at the old Goodwin house. Technically no one died at this address, but as the frank realtor explains, the former residents had a “unique problem”. One that pertained to their teenage son Sean (Will Estes), whose sudden psychic ability linked him to an active serial killer.

“Come to Granny” is teen horror mixed with Eyes of Laura Mars. Sean was somehow capable of clairvoyantly witnessing the Granny Killer’s grisly crimes, but he couldn’t do a thing to stop them. This story, though, isn’t about that sort of futility. No, we instead accompany Sean to a therapist’s office one late evening. Brenda Strong was that shrink who misguidedly accepted a random patient on such short notice, and she listened to the sad ramblings of a troubled, not to mention suspicious, boy.

Co-director Clint Hutchison penned the movie’s screenplay, and his directed share of the segments, “Nightmare” and “Come to Granny“, are arguably the most straightforward of the bunch. The latter makes up for the former’s simplicity, even though it doesn’t necessarily bear any huge shocks. The climactic payoff is still very much worth the wait, as are the hag-masked slasher’s ghastly appearances.

Over the course of “Make Me an Offer”, it’s apparent that Bob is in a bind, and his life depends on this one sale. So you can imagine how things turned out after the Doyles declined. Actually, scratch that, you can’t imagine. Lance W. Dreesen, who also directed “Bobo”, wrapped everything up in an all-hell-breaks-loose manner. Ritter’s deranged performance is then the cherry on top. What was hinted at in the opening—the hidden horrors of this neighborhood were waiting to emerge—finally came to fruition.

Out of everything we do to celebrate Halloween, telling scary stories ranks high after wearing costumes and going trick-or-treating. The USA Network must have agreed, because the cable channel delivered these two memorable collections of macabre tales that are well suited for not only Halloween, but really any time that you’re hungry for some anthology horror.

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Make no mistake; The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It isn’t an adaptation. Stine gave his thoughts on Dan Angel and Billy Brown’s screenplay, but ultimately nothing from his literary anthology, The Haunting Hour, was used for Don’t Think About It, apart from the title. We wouldn’t see a proper adaptation until the series also called The Haunting Hour, and even that drew more inspiration from Stine’s other book called Nightmare Hour.

We can assume no one from the intended target audience cared if the movie was or wasn’t really based on Stine’s stories. They simply wanted to be scared, and Don’t Think About It does exactly that. It’s an experience well suited for youngsters who crave frights, but aren’t yet ready for the harder stuff. As Angel put it, the movie delivers a “safe place for kids to be afraid.”

Like a good chunk of Stine’s output, the main character in Don’t Think About It is the new kid in town. Emily Osment—yes, the sister of the boy who could see dead people—plays the slightly warped Cassie Keller, a Hot Topic goth drowning in a sea of Old Navy basics. Even though she would rather do anything else but take her scaredy-cat of a brother trick-or-treating, Cassie is doomed to spend her Halloween battling the Evil Thing.

It’s a bit of a wait before reaching the more horror-y parts of Don’t Think About It. In the meantime, you get to know Cassie, who’s quite surly to just about everyone except her crush. So, yes, the movie gives us a difficult protagonist, but at the same time, Cassie has a distinct personality. Unpleasant or not, she leaves an impression. Plus, that off-putting attitude of hers allows for minor yet decent character development later on.

Stine fans may have felt some déjà vu while watching this movie. It has strong notes of The Haunted Mask, that iconic Goosebumps story where another teen girl happens upon a creepy shop and then experiences the worst Halloween of her life. Here, Cassie encounters a hidden Halloween store, wherein she buys a book called “The Evil Thing”. The foreboding seller, by the way, is played by Tobin Bell, who at that point was very booked in the horror genre. He doesn’t have that many scenes in this movie, but Bell’s mere presence makes every one of them feel big.

Typically we’d expect the bully to pull a Carrie-esque prank on the outcast. Surprisingly, Don’t Think About It flipped the script by having Cassie do something gross and undue to get back at Priscilla (Brittany Elizabeth Curran), the school diva. Sure, Priscilla went out of her way to insult Cassie on her first day, yet filling a festive piñata with live cockroaches, the same one the Halloween Queen is due to hit, is excessive. By then you’re wondering who’s the real mean girl in this movie. Couple that roach stunt with the unwarranted disdain Cassie has for her little brother Max (Alex Winzenread), and we find ourselves growing weary of the main character.

Refreshingly, director Alex Zamm and the writers don’t let Cassie off the hook. She’s put on the receiving end of public humiliation after Priscilla and the boy she and Cassie both like, Sean (Cody Linley), enact their own prank. It’s after this tit-for-tat that Don’t Think About It finally starts to better resemble a horror movie, albeit one made for the TV-14 crowd. Childish antics preface that inevitable plot turn where someone foolishly reads aloud the words from a cursed book. Never a good idea!

The third act is elevated by special effects whiz Greg Nicotero and KNB EFX Group Inc’s creature design for the Evil Thing itself, a hellish, six-foot monster that collects humans as food for its soon-to-hatch offspring. This beastie’s teeth have teeth, and it can also split its one head into two. A handful of puppeteers were required to make the Evil Thing move and menace, and from what little we do see of it in action, the monster is impressive. Adults will admire the craftsmanship while younger viewers will cower.

As mentioned earlier, Cassie endures a fair deal of personal growth in such a short amount of time. This is after her run-in with the Evil Thing, and after she’s made to see the errors of her ways. The parents watching with their children would surely appreciate a story where the teenager learns to be nicer to their younger sibling. It’s some wholesomeness following a lot of potential nightmare fuel.

Now that we’re seeing what looks to be a surge of R. L. Stine-based media, you might be inclined to skip out on this movie, on account of it not being an adaptation. Technicalities aside, this is a solid movie for the right demographic.

Although Don’t Think About It is indeed gateway horror through and through, adults may also find themselves enjoying this youthful Halloween tale. It really captures the spirit of the holiday in a way that adult horror can’t always do.

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The unscripted competition series is set to debut on Prime Video on January 13, 2027, with the first four episodes. The final three episodes will air weekly through January 27.

Fallout Shelter invites “everyday participants to test their aptitude for the apocalypse in Vault-Tec’s state-of-the-art bomb-proof vault shelters. will go head to head in a series of high-octane drills, psychological dilemmas, and morally challenging behavior trials until one special dweller emerges to win the prize of a lifetime: $1,000,000.”

Set inside Vault-Tec’s bomb-proof vaults, a group of contestants will take part in a series of escalating challenges and must prove their ingenuity, teamwork, and resilience as they compete for safety, power, and a huge cash prize.

Studio Lambert, which is also behind Netflix’s “Squid Game: The Challenge”, produces with Kilter Films (“Fallout”), in association with Amazon MGM Studios and Bethesda Game Studios. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, creators of the Fallout TV show, serve as executive producers alongside franchise boss Todd Howard.

The third season of Fallout went into production earlier this summer for a spring or summer 2027 debut. Fallout Shelter: The Experiment will keep us busy this January while we wait.

The series based on the video games tells “the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.“

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The Crypt Keeper is serving up shocktails all month long on FearFest, presented by Bacardi.

If you’ve been watching AMC FearFest this month you’ve probably seen him pop up here and there during the commercial breaks, and three of those segments have now made their way online.

You can watch “Guess Who’s Back?!,” “Raising the Bar from the Dead,” and “Better With a Beat” below, which play out a bit like “Tales from the Crypt” intro segments back in the day.

In collaboration with AMC Global Media’s Content Room, the company’s in-house branded entertainment studio, Greg Nicotero directed the Crypt Keeper segments for FearFest with John Kassir providing the signature cackle and wit that cemented the Crypt Keeper’s legacy.

This year’s FearFest programming event features over 650 hours of iconic horror films, franchises, new series, specials and more. And the classic HBO television series “Tales from the Crypt” is now streaming on the AMC-owned Shudder. Click here for the full AMC FearFest 2026 schedule.

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Deadline reports this morning, “The pickup comes two weeks after Carrie‘s eight-episode first season was released on October 7 to strong reviews.” The outlet adds, “Carrie, starring Summer H. Howell, has topped Prime Video’s weekly global TV series rankings, hitting number 1 in over 105 countries worldwide, though the streamer does not release viewership figures.”

“Carrie is connecting with both longtime Stephen King fans and a new generation altogether — including young adults and international audiences, with particular strength among female viewers,” said Peter Friedlander, Head of Global Television, Amazon MGM Studios. “It speaks to the enduring power of this story and signals that Mike Flanagan’s reimagining of the iconic IP has real breadth. We’re excited by where he and Stephen plan to take the story.”

“For 50 years, audiences have known and gravitated to Carrie White’s story. From the beginning, we imagined a story that goes far beyond the prom, and I’m incredibly grateful for Stephen’s trust and support in exploring what comes next,” Flanagan said in his own statement.

“I can’t wait for audiences to get to see what’s down the road for Carrie White,” Stephen King said. “Mike Flanagan and I are excited about what comes next. It’s bound to be thrilling.”

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In the new horror series, “Misfit high‑schooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). After her father’s sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.”

Also starring in Prime Video’s series are Siena Agudong, Alison Thornton, Joel Oulette, Josie Totah, Arthur Conti, Thalia Dudek, Amber Midthunder, and Matthew Lillard.

Flanagan’s hope? That the story of “Carrie” is spread across three total seasons.

The filmmaker explained in a recent interview, “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.”

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“IT: Welcome to Derry” Season 2 will travel back in time to 1935, 27 years before Season 1, and in a brand new chat with Entertainment Weekly this week, Brad Caleb Kane doubles down on how different the second season will be from the first season of the HBO horror series.

“We’re making something very exciting for Season 2 that I can’t talk too much about, but it’s got a different palette,” Kane tells Entertainment Weekly. “It’s the Depression, it’s 1935. Beyond that, I can’t talk about it, but you can imagine a Warner Bros. gangster picture through the lens of Pennywise and Stephen King. That’s kind of what we’re doing.”

“We’re deep into the writers’ room now,” he continues. “We have multiple scripts, we’ve broken more than half the story for Season 2, and we’re edging into pre-production. Beyond that, I think I’ll get suffocated by somebody if I tell you too much more. But, yes, we are deep into it, and it is happening. It’s very exciting. It’s very, very bloody, and it’s very different from Season 1.”

IT of course wakes up and feeds every 27 years, so the series is tracking those cycles throughout time. The show’s first season took place in 1962, while the first IT (2017) movie was set in 1989 and Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two (2019) jumped forward 27 years to 2016. Each cycle begins and ends with a horrific act, while Pennywise feasts on children throughout.

“Welcome to Derry” Season 2 will revolve around the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, bank robbers who finds themselves wrapped up in a mess of trouble when they stop off in Derry.

Bill Skarsgård is expected to return to the screen as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

“We are excited to return to the chilling world of Derry and to further expand on Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s horrifically iconic adaptation,” said HBO’s Sarah Aubrey. “Together with Brad Caleb Kane, they will break new ground in season two, deepening the terror, the mystery, and the unforgettable Pennywise lore that fans love to devour.”

Producers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti said, “Continuing to explore and expand on the amazing world Stephen King created is an absolute privilege. The support of our partners at HBO and Warner Bros. Television is priceless. Boy do we love our jobs!”

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From writer and showrunner Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z, Deepwater Horizon) and AGBO (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Extraction), “Zero Hour” is based on the short story by Harrison Query (The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Trigger Point),

When mysterious ovals appear in the sky, the world changes forever…

In the minutes that follow, a wife fights to keep her ailing husband alive, a doomsday prepper races to get his family to safety, teenage runaways are caught in the middle of a bank robbery, and a brilliant young presidential aide scrambles to make sense of it all.

“What begins as a pulse-pounding survival story slowly unravels into a sweeping mystery,” the show’s official plot synopsis continues, “as the truth about who these visitors are, and why they have come, upends everything humanity thought it knew about first contact.”

The series is produced by Paramount Television Studios and executive produced by Matthew Michael Carnahan and AGBO. Additional executive producers include Scott Glassgold of 12:01 Films.

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Sabine Grace, Logan Kim (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Marin Ireland (The Boogeyman, The Dark and the Wicked) and Intae Kim (Severance) have all boarded Pagans in starring roles.

Pagans follows a man, Gus, who becomes the sole caretaker of his two children after the tragic loss of his wife. While his son is typical, his daughter, Alice, is anything but. What starts as a strained father-daughter relationship soon evolves into something far more sinister.

While Yeun will star as Gus, Logan Kim will play Nate. Kim previously played the teenage version of Hershel Rhee, the son of The Walking Dead‘s Glenn (Yeun) and Maggie’s (Lauren Cohan), in The Walking Dead: Dead City.

Sabine Grace will make her television debut as the family’s black sheep, Alice. Ireland will play single mom Janelle, attempting to connect with her strong-willed 14-year-old daughter, Jade. Gus’s younger brother will be played by Intae Kim.

The supernatural drama was previously described as “equal parts emotional, horrifying and humorous; Pagans is a show that unearths all our darkest thoughts about family.” It received a straight-to-series order late last year, after an intense bidding war back in September.

Pagans is created by showrunner Joshua Zetumer. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods), Sarah Esberg, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Erica Kay executive produce. 

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The teaser introduces Hojo, a businessman whose obsession with the unknown leads him to solve strange mysteries. Deadline reports that the six-part series will debut in January 2027.

Based on a short horror story collection from Ichi Sawamura, Night Tales Club will follow Hojo as he introduces each different mysterious story. “He is convinced that ghost stories, monsters, and other supernatural anomalies are ‘bugs‘ in an underlying conspiracy, so he begins inviting people to share their experiences and evidence at his Night Tales Club in exchange for 20 million yen.“

Takayuki Yamada has been cast as the series’ narrator, Hojo.

Even more impressive are the directors attached to this project: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Chime, Pulse), Takashi Shimizu (Ju-On), Shinzo Katayama (Gannibal), Yukiko Sode (Aristocrats), Yuichiro Sakashita (I Can’t Cry With Your Face) and Yosuke Nakamura (Higuma!!), with Kenji Nakajima (The Naked Director) directing the wraparound Hojo sequences.

Yusuke Wakabayashi and Teruhisa Yamamoto produced and adapted for the screen by the original writer, Ichi Sawamura, who told Deadline: “As the original author of these stories, I feel an enormous sense of surprise and joy that they will soon be available on screen to scare audiences around the world.”

Watch the brief teaser below that introduces Hojo and the series title treatment. We’ll have to wait for a full trailer to get a glimpse at the stories helmed by J-horror giants like Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Shimizu.

Look for the horror anthology series early next year.

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Recent years have proven challenging for the network, though, as it has had to compete with streamers with bigger budgets and more viewers are cutting the cord from their cable companies. Confirming the downward trajectory of the network is the fact that, according to Matt’s Inside Line, SYFY has canceled their original series Revival. This brings the current number of original series on the network down to one, as The Ark is still producing episodes.

In the series, “On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story as the ‘revived’ appear and act just like they once were. When local Officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she’s left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect. ”

Revival stars  Melanie Scrofano, Romy Weltman, David James Elliott, and Andy McQueen. Recurring guest stars include Steven Ogg, Phil Brooks (CM Punk), Gia Sandhu, Katherine King So, Maia Jae, Nathan Dales, Mark Little, Glen Gould, Lara Jean Chorostecki, and Conrad Coates.

The show was created by Aaron B. Koontz and Luke Boyce, who serve as showrunners and executive producers. Revival was based on the comic book series of the same name, which was created by Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash) and artist Mike Norton, and it was published by Image Comics between July 2012 and February 2017.

The timing of the cancellation is interesting, as Season 1 of the series just landed on Netflix recently. While it has yet to dominate the streamer, the availability on the platform means audiences who overlooked the show’s initial release in 2025 can now catch up with it. There have also been multiple instances of a series getting canceled by SYFY and either getting revived for an official sendoff or picked up at another network, such as was the case with Wynnona Earp and The Expanse.

Fans of the series should hope that, like the characters in the series itself, the show will be revived.

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