The week’s most share-worthy genre film news, gathered for OtherWorldly Culture: Friday the 13th finally returns, Stephen King blesses his Carrie adapter (and teases what’s next), Spielberg’s UFO thriller finds its audience on streaming, and horror gets its own hallowed ground at the Academy Museum — plus wrestling and rock crash the digest, with Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes headlining Street Fighter and Rob Zombie’s Firefly Trilogy getting the definitive box set.

Crystal Lake Brings Friday the 13th Back After 17 Years

Peacock dropped all eight episodes of Crystal Lake on October 15, bringing Friday the 13th back to screens for the first time in seventeen years. The A24 prequel centers on Pamela Voorhees, played by Linda Cardellini, a grieving mother whose young son Jason drowned in the town lake almost a year earlier. Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane expands the story beyond the camp to the town itself, with familiar names like Ralph, Claudette and Barry returning in new hands. It is Pamela’s journey, not Jason’s mask, that drives this origin story.

Source: CBR

Tim Burton Teams With Kazuo Ishiguro on a Post-War Japan Film

Deadline reports that Tim Burton is developing an untitled original film written by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, with Burton planning to direct. Multiple sources place the story in post-World War II Japan, though plot details are being kept firmly under wraps and no distributor or cast is attached yet. Ishiguro has described the project as not a war film, and hard to pin down by genre. Coming just as Waititi’s adaptation of Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun reaches theaters, the pairing is one of the year’s most intriguing collaborations.

Source: MovieWeb (reporting Deadline)

Stephen King Calls Mike Flanagan His Best Adapter, Teases a Secret Project

Stephen King has given Mike Flanagan’s Carrie series his strongest possible endorsement, calling Flanagan the best adapter of his work in a video posted October 9 while watching the show with his dog Molly. The eight-episode Prime Video series, which premiered October 7, stars Summer H. Howell as Carrie White and Samantha Sloyan as her mother Margaret. King also teased that if enough people watch, Flanagan might do something else really special, though he refused to name it. Fans immediately began speculating about The Dark Tower.

Source: People

Fangoria Reveals 2026 Chainsaw Awards Presenters for October 25 Shudder Premiere

Fangoria has announced the presenter lineup for the 2026 Chainsaw Awards, premiering Sunday, October 25 at 9 p.m. ET exclusively on Shudder. Host Devon Sawa will be joined by genre favorites including Lin Shaye, John Kassir, Mick Garris, Felissa Rose, Patrick Brice and Tracie Thoms, with special appearances by Rick Baker and Dee Wallace. Winners across nineteen categories were chosen by a global fan vote that drew nearly one million ballots. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple and Dust Bunny lead the nominees with nine nominations each, followed by Backrooms with six.

Source: Fangoria via Daily Dead

Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Tops Peacock in One Day

Steven Spielberg’s UFO thriller Disclosure Day is finding the audience theaters denied it. CBR reports the film debuted at number one on Peacock’s Top 10 movies chart on October 10, one day after arriving on the streamer, pushing The Grinch and a stack of Halloween favorites down the list. Emily Blunt stars as a meteorologist who teams with a cybersecurity analyst to warn the world about aliens while a government contractor works to bury the truth. The film finished its theatrical run with $244.4 million and a Certified Fresh critics score.

Source: CBR

The Horror Show at the Academy Museum Is Horror’s Hallowed Ground

The Academy Museum in Los Angeles has given horror its own hallowed ground. The Horror Show, now open through July 25, 2027, walks visitors through six themed chambers — Gothic, Psychological, Science, Slashers, Religion and Ghosts — filled with screen-used treasures including Bela Lugosi’s Dracula cape, a life-size Xenomorph, costumes from Misery, Get Out and Midsommar, and storyboards from The Exorcist. Fangoria’s tour ends in the Blood Room, a gore-coated finale. For a genre long ignored by the Academy, the exhibition reads like long-overdue recognition.

Source: Fangoria

Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes Hit the Big Screen as Street Fighter Opens in Theaters

WWE meets the World Warrior Tournament as Legendary and Capcom’s live-action Street Fighter hits theaters today, October 16. Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i plays the godlike Akuma and Cody Rhodes suits up as Guile, joining Andrew Koji’s Ryu, Noah Centineo’s Ken, and David Dastmalchian’s villainous M. Bison in a 1993-set tournament story from director Kitao Sakurai. The cast is stacked with crossover muscle — Jason Momoa as Blanka, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog, and NJPW star Hirooki Goto as E. Honda. Stick around through the credits: an animated mid-credits scene teases a sequel that’s already being written.

Source: ComingSoon

Chris Jericho Executive Produced the Slasher Dead of Night, in Theaters November 13

Chris Jericho keeps stacking horror credits. The wrestling legend — and Fozzy frontman — executive produced Dead of Night, an indie slasher just acquired by Level 33 Entertainment for U.S. and Canadian release, with a theatrical bow set for November 13, 2026. Directed by Derek Sulek, the film stars Dermot Mulroney as a small-town sheriff hunting a killer after a teenager’s mutilated body turns up in Elmwood Heights, with Scott Grimes, Jake Busey, and Kirrilee Berger rounding out the cast. The filmmakers say the story draws partly on the fear that gripped Los Angeles during the Night Stalker era.

Source: Daily Dead

Horror Rock Opera Wrathbone Rises Free on YouTube October 30

A dead rock star raising hell — literally. Wrathbone, a 29-minute horror rock opera from writer-director Steve Flavin, arrives free on YouTube on October 30. Part horror-comedy, part mockumentary, part visual album, it follows fictional rock icon Nigel Wrathbone, who had the fame, the money, and the excess — then died and woke up in Hell. Flavin performs double duty as Wrathbone and his evil pop-idol nemesis Frankie Ecco, backed by five original songs. The project grew from a character Flavin first played in YouTube sketches over a decade ago into a full concept album and film.

Source: Horror Society

Lionsgate Gives Rob Zombie’s Firefly Trilogy the Definitive Box Set

Rock’s most famous horror auteur gets the definitive treatment. Lionsgate’s eight-disc Firefly Trilogy collection arrived October 13 in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and digital, gathering Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses (2002), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), and 3 From Hell (2019) in Dolby Vision. The set includes the unrated cuts of The Devil’s Rejects and 3 From Hell, two bonus discs of legacy documentaries and special features, an exclusive poster, art cards, and a hardcover photography book curated by Zombie himself — a fitting monument to the White Zombie frontman who became one of modern horror’s defining directors.

Source: HorrorFuel

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