** RESIDENT EVIL reboot: In an interview for the new issue of SFX, director Zach Cregger says he's a big fan of the games but is aware he's going to get backlash for the film as it will change up the lore a bit:
"I am a gigantic RESIDENT EVIL game fan. I've played them all. I don't know how many times I've just looped [RE4] again and again. I just love it. I'm definitely not trying to be completely obedient to the lore of the games. I'm trying to tell a story that just feels authentic to the experience you get when you play the games. I don't think I'm breaking any major rules, but I also recognize that no matter what I do, people are going to come for me online. So all I want to do is just make a really good movie and tell a story that's compelling. I know that I'm gonna be happy with the movie, and hopefully other people will, too."
Cregger and Shay Hatten co-wrote the script which is rurmored to follow a medical courier who finds himself caught in the middle of a viral apocalypse. Austin Abrams is rumored to star. The new RESIDENT EVIL film releases on September 18th 2026. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** DIE'CED RELOADED: When notorious killer Benny escapes an asylum on Halloween night, his scarecrow-masked rampage turns 1980s Seattle into a blood-soaked nightmare - with one young woman in his sights.
** ICONIC: An offbeat beauty industry "celebrity" struggles to maintain her lifestyle and sanity after an internet scandal, new love interest and obsessive and violent new fan base turn her life upside down.
** MOTHER OF FLIES: Shudder has announced its acquisition of MOTHER OF FLIES, the latest horror feature from the acclaimed filmmaking family known as the Adams Family. Written, directed, and starring Toby Poser, John Adams, and their daughter Zelda Adams, the film also features their older daughter, Lulu Adams, in a co-starring role. The deal marks a continued collaboration between the directors and Shudder, following the release of their previous films HELL HOLE and HELLBENDER, with the rights for North America, the UK and Ireland, as well as Australia and New Zealand. Shudder's acquisition comes ahead of the film's world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival this July 24, 2025, with a streaming release slated for 2026.
----- July 17, 2025 -----
** HOLI WOMB: Psychological horror project HOLI WOMB, from Montreal writer-director Anouk Whissell, famed for her part in collective RKSS (TURBO KID), has been picked up by Mongrel Media for Canadian distribution. The acquisition comes ahead of the project's bow at the opening pitch session on July 23, of the Fantasia International Film Festival's Frontières Co-Production Market.
"With TURBO KID and SUMMER OF '84, Anouk showed she could play in genre with wit and precision," Mongrel Media co-president Andrew Frank told Variety. "HOLI WOMB is a bold leap – a fierce, unapologetically feminist vision that reclaims body horror with brains, blood and beauty." (thanks to Variety.com)
** WEAPONS: Here's a new poster for the upcoming film.
** NIGHT OF VIOLENCE: Following a major legal victory and the launch of their controversial drug Azlepta, a corporation's celebration is cut short when masked townspeople posing as caterers launch a brutal attack. Trapped inside their office tower, a handful of employees scramble to survive as they're hunted down one by one in a relentless, coordinated assault. With no escape and nowhere safe, the survivors are forced to fight back and turn the tables in a desperate bid to make it through the night of violence.
** BONE LAKE: Here's a poster for the upcoming film.
----- July 16, 2025 -----
** WERWULF: NOSFERATU actors Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp are reportedly set to reunite with that film's director Robert Eggers on his next feature WERWULF at Focus Features. The story unfolds in 13th century England and reportedly features dialogue that was true to the time period. It will also have translations and annotations as it uses Old English for the dialogue.
Eggers and Sjon have co-written the period lycanthropy tale which Eggers says is a "medieval werewolf movie" and "the darkest thing I have ever written, by far". It's expected to feature elements of witchcraft and plenty of gore. Production is expected to begin this September ahead of a debut on Christmas 2026. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: BoulderLight Pictures (BARBARIAN) and Divide/Conquer (HEART EYES) are partnering to produce a whole new take on the Amityville supernatural horror story.
Joseph and Vanessa Winter, the filmmakers behind the found footage horror tale DEADSTREAM, will direct from their own script. No studio is attached yet, but BoulderLight has a first look deal at New Line Cinema. Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath will produce, and the project is being fast-tracked with filming potentially beginning as early as the last quarter of this year. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** THE OCCUPANT: Desperate to save her sister, Abby (Ella Balinska) takes a dangerous job in the remote Georgian wilderness. Stranded in the mountains after her helicopter crashes, she finds hope through John (Rob Delaney), a mysterious helper radioing from nearby. As he guides her through the harsh conditions, Abby struggles to survive, and her grip on reality falters until she is faced with an impossible choice.
** RIVER OF BLOOD: A jungle kayak adventure descends into terror when a group of friends becomes the target of a merciless, bloodthirsty tribe. In select theaters, digital and on demand on August 1st.
----- July 15, 2025 -----
** RESIDENT EVIL reboot: Some new details have emerged about BARBARIAN director Zach Cregger's upcoming reinvention of the RESIDENT EVIL film franchise at Sony Pictures.
Now, scooper DanielRPK reports that EUPHORIA actor Austin Abrams will be playing an original character named Brian in the film, a character with no ties to the games. He also confirmed this will not be a faithful adaptation of any game in the series, rather an original story set in the RESIDENT EVIL universe. This is in line with rumours earlier this year that the story follows a hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital, only to be caught up in the middle of an outbreak. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** EXIT 8: A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don't, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
** THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART: PAST LIVES actress Greta Lee will make her directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures' psychological horror adaptation of Monika Kim's novel THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART. Lee will also write the script.
Set in Los Angeles, the book tells the story of a woman named Ji-won, whose life unravels after her father has an affair and then leaves the family. She finds an inventive way to satiate her rage and hunger – becoming a serial killer. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
** WENT UP THE HILL: Abandoned as a child, Jack travels to remote New Zealand for the funeral of his estranged mother, Elizabeth. There, he meets her widow, Jill, and over the nights that follow, Elizabeth's spirit begins to possess them in turn. What starts as a search for closure soon unearths deeper wounds. Bound by grief and haunted by what remains, Jack and Jill must break free from Elizabeth's grasp before she pushes them to the edge. Set against the deeply atmospheric backdrop of New Zealand's South Island, WENT UP THE HILL is an intimate, modern ghost story that explores the legacy of loss and the struggle to let go.
----- July 14, 2025 -----
** Jason Universe at San Diego Comic-Con: Room 5AB on Friday, July 25 from 5:30–6:30pm. It's been 45 years since Jason first haunted our screens and now, it's time to return for a new era. Join Jason Universe and Horror, Inc. to celebrate the legacy, evolution, and future of one of horror's most iconic franchises with Horror, Inc. president Robert Barsamian, VP Robbie Barsamian, and CMO Sheri Conn; Sweet Revenge writer/director Mike P. Nelson; and Atomic Monster EVP of Film Judson Scott. This can't-miss panel moderated by Mondo senior creative director Peter Santa-Maria (a.k.a. AttackPeter) will dive deep into Jason's blood-soaked history and what's lurking ahead, with an inside look at the brand-new design of Jason and his infamous hockey mask, as well as an exclusive first look at the upcoming Jason Universe short form vignette Sweet Revenge.
** PSYCHO KILLER: 20th Century Fox will debut on February 20, 2026. In PSYCHO KILLER, written by Andrew Kevin Walker and directed by Gavin Polone, police officer Jane Thorne (Georgina Campbell) makes it her mission to take down a serial killer referred to on the news as the 'Satanic Slasher', following the murder of her state trooper husband (Logan Miller). The horror-thriller that filmed in 2023 also stars James Preston Rogers. (thanks to Deadline.com)
** GHOST EATERS: Filmmaker Scott Derrickson has teamed up with his wife, filmmaker Maggie Levin, to tackle an adaptation of the horror novel GHOST EATER. Screen Gems, which has a first-look with Derrickson's Crooked Highway banner, is behind the project and has picked up the rights to the bestseller written by Clay McLeod Chapman.
Levin will write and direct the adaptation. Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Vince Cheng will develop and produce via Crooked Highway. The project is in early development. Chapman's novel has been described as a terrifying supernatural descent into the depths of grief and addiction. It follows a group of friends who discover a drug called Ghost, which allows them to see the dead. But Ghost has unfathomable side effects, and as the book jacket says, once you take it, you can never go back. (thanks to HollywoodReporter.com)
** IT WELCOME TO DERRY: Stephen King has shared a new poster for the upcoming IT prequel series IT WELCOME TO DERRY which will get a panel at this year's San Diego Comic Con. The series is set to debut on HBO Max in October.
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** QUEENS OF THE DEAD: Independent Film Company and Shudder have announced that they have acquired the North American rights to QUEENS OF THE DEAD, the award-winning feature debut from director Tina Romero. Co-written by Romero and comedian Erin Judge, the film boasts an ensemble cast led by Katy O'Brian, Jaquel Spivey, Tomas Matos, Nina West, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Jack Haven, Cheyenne Jackson, Dominique Jackson, stand-up comic Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome, Eve Lindley, Becca Blackwell, Shaunette Renée Wilson. Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the coveted Audience Award for Best Narrative Film, QUEENS OF THE DEAD will be released in theaters in the fall of 2025 by the Independent Film Company and Shudder.
In QUEENS OF THE DEAD, a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead. (thanks to ScreenAnarchy.com)
** BAMBI THE RECKONING: After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.
** NO TEARS IN HELL: In the frozen darkness of an Alaskan winter, a mother and son turn their home into a house of nightmares — luring victims into a twisted web of abuse and cannibalism. Based on the terrifying true story of Russian serial killer Alexander Spesivtsev.
** THE BACKROOMS: Avan Jogia, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell are all joining Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve in THE BACKROOMS film at A24, Chernin Entertainment, 21 Laps and Atomic Monster.
20-year-old Kane Parsons will direct the project which began production this week in Canada. Will Soodik penned the script with story details under wraps beyond it being based on the viral YouTube horror series. Shawn Levy and James Wan are among the many producers. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
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** MR. MELVIN: As most Troma fans know, THE TOXIC AVENGER PART II and THE TOXIC AVENGER PART III were originally written and shot as one movie, but directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz ended up with so much footage that they broke it up into two installments. 36 years later, the filmmakers' initial vision for the sequel has been reconstructed under its original title, MR.
** DEVIL IN DISGUISE JOHN WAYNE GACY: From 1972-1978, thirty-three young men were kidnapped, murdered and buried in a crawl space beneath their killer's house. And no one was the wiser. Not for all those years. Why? He was charming and funny. Had a good, All-American job. Was a community leader. He even volunteered to entertain sick kids... while dressed as a clown.
** DESCENDENT: Set in present-day Los Angeles, Sean Bruner, a school security guard who is haunted by childhood trauma while preparing for the birth of his first child with his wife, Andrea. After a beam of light appears in the sky during a late-night shift, Sean wakes up in the hospital with an inexplicable talent for vivid, unsettling drawings of extraterrestrials and desert landscapes. DESCENDENT hits theaters August 8, 2025.
** POSTHOUSE: A troubled film editor and his distant daughter release an ancient monster while working to restore an incomplete silent horror movie.
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** KEEPER: Here's the poster for the new film from Osgood Perkins. In theaters November 14 via NEON.
** THE STRANGERS PART 2: Here's a new poster for the upcoming sequel.
** THE CONJURING 4K: The movie will be available for purchase on 4K UHD Blu-ray release starting on August 26th.
** TOGETHER: Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.
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** FOREIGNER: Ahead of its World Premiere at the 2025 Fantasia International Festival Film Festival, the genre bending horror, FOREIGNER written, edited, and directed by Ava Maria Safai, has been picked up for worldwide sales and distribution by Raven Banner. The genre specialist will be introducing the director's feature debut to distributors during the festival.
FOREIGNER is set in the age of low-rise jeans and flip phones, where a Persian teen, Yasamin (Rose Dehgan) immigrates to a new country with her family. Trying desperately to fit in with her new clique, she dyes her hair blonde -- and invites a sinister force into her life. The film was shot in Vancouver, BC and features dialogue in both English and Farsi.
** HELLCAT: Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She's warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she'll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid? Dakota Gorman delivers a blistering performance in this tense, mind-bending horror where survival cuts both ways.
** HOLD THE FORT: Lucas and Jenny think their life is finally coming together when the couple become homeowners. Little do they know that their new house comes with a big catch. Lucas and Jenny soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when they become trapped in a battle between their Homeowners Association and an onslaught of monsters from hell. The horror-comedy takes the timely concern of home-ownership and wraps this up in an entertaining action-packed thrill ride.
----- July 4, 2025 -----
** Robert Eggers' WERWULF: According to World of Reel's report and a UK casting call sheet for Robert Eggers' WERWULF will begin filming this September in Elstree, England. This means casting for the film is likely already underway, and we might know more information sooner rather than later. According to a Q&A Eggers took part in at the Lincoln Center, the director himself said that his upcoming Werwulf will be the "darkest thing" he's ever written. The movie is currently slated to release on December 25, 2026. (thanks to ComingSoon.net)
** NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 4K: Sony will be releasing a 4K and Blu-ray two-disc set on September 23rd, and the 4K will contain an "uncensored cut" that was put together with Tom Savini's supervision. (thanks to JoBlo.com)
** THE TOXIC AVENGER remake: Here's yet another poster for the upcoming film.
** MY DAUGHTER IS A ZOMBIE: Here's the trailer for the upcoming film.
----- July 3rd, 2025 -----
** JAWS 50th Anniversary: The classic Steven Spielberg movie, JAWS, comes to IMAX this summer for its 50th anniversary.
** THE PLASTIC MEN: Based on a true story inspired by an untold viral craigslist ad, Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, struggling with guilt and horrifying hallucination, plans his suicide, but a chance encounter with a mysterious woman changes every thing.
** M3GAN 2.0: After years of successes, producer Jason Blum has had a rough year with multiple Blumhouse titles failing to ignite at the box-office. The company has released four titles in 2025 so far, all of which have bombed. WOLF MAN, THE WOMAN IN THE YARD and DROP all opened and closed fairly quickly – garnering between $23-34 million each globally by the end of their runs.
But the highest profile failure of all was M3GAN 2.0 this past weekend. The title's opening weekend came in at $10.2 million domestically and $17 million worldwide – that domestic start one-third of the opening of its predecessor. THR reports that insiders at Blumhouse indicate that "soul-searching within the company has already commenced" and they're pulling back on their grand ambition to release up to ten titles a year – understanding the danger of oversaturating the market.
A course correction for the brand is required, with the entire upcoming slate reportedly under review. Speaking with The Town, Blum says he's aware of the issues with M3GAN 2.0:
"We all thought Megan was like Superman. We could do anything to her. We could change genres. We could put her in the summer. We could make her look different. We could turn her from a bad guy into a good guy. And we classically over-thought how powerful people's engagement was with her." (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)
----- July 2nd, 2025 -----
** CLOUD: A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse), concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, young factory worker from Tokyo who side hustles in the murky realm of black market reselling, cheating buyers and sellers alike. After swindling his way into loads of cash, he becomes slowly disconnected to humanity, moving out of the city, shunning his girlfriend, and hiring a devoted assistant. But after a series of mysterious, sinister incidents occur, he begins to suspect his former victims could be plotting the ultimate revenge. A master of carefully simmering tension to a bloody crescendo, Kurosawa delivers a searing portrait of digital greed and vengeance. Opens 7/18!
** HELL HOUSE LLC LINEAGE: Haunted by visions and recurring nightmares years after a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepherd finds herself living in the town of Abaddon, unable to break free from its unexplainable hold on her. When people around her suddenly and inexplicably begin to die, she soon uncovers her terrifying connection to the Abaddon Hotel, the Carmichael Manor and the mysterious murders that have been occurring for decades, long before Hell House LLC.
** TOGETHER: Here's a new poster for the upcoming film.
** 40 ACRES: Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the first Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm against those hell-bent on taking their 40 ACRES.
