Hanna Bergholm just made parenthood terrifying all over again, and this time, she brought Rupert Grint.

The Story

Nightborn is now streaming exclusively on Shudder. Directed by Bergholm and co-written with Ilja Rautsi, the film follows Saga (Seidi Haarla) and her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint). They move into her childhood home deep in a remote Finnish forest to start a family. The second their baby is born, Saga knows something is deeply wrong with her son. Jon tries to support her. Everyone else dismisses her fears as postpartum stress. Only Saga suspects the terrible truth about what she’s brought into the world.

The film draws from Finnish folklore, specifically tales of trolls in the woods exerting dark influences on newborns. It works as both a dark cultural fable and a visceral look at postpartum realities. This is not a demonic possession story. It’s something older, stranger, and far more unsettling.

The Team

Nightborn marks Bergholm’s English-language debut. It runs 92 minutes and is a co-production between Finland, Lithuania, France, and the United Kingdom. The cast includes Seidi Haarla, Rupert Grint, Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey, John Thomson, and Silvia Saloranta. Pietari Peltola serves as cinematographer, with a score by Eicca Toppinen.

The Creature Work

For the practical effects, Bergholm went to the very top. Animatronics designer Gustav Hoegen (Star Wars, Andor, Prometheus) and two-time Oscar-nominated SFX makeup designer Conor O’Sullivan (The Dark Knight, Game of Thrones) both worked on the film. If Hatching’s creature effects got under your skin, prepare accordingly.

The Festival Journey

Nightborn world-premiered in competition at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2026. It then made its North American premiere at Fantasia on July 22. Shudder holds the rights for the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

HorrorFuel calls it an absolute must-watch, beautifully shot and emotionally bruising, with a final act that leaves you in shock. Furthermore, IndieWire praises the way Bergholm explores the gap between the expectations and realities of parenthood. Bergholm herself calls it “a film made for genre enthusiasts, parents, and anyone who has ever asked themselves: Why do I feel different?”

Nightborn is streaming on Shudder right now.

Watching Pennywise on a regular screen was terrifying enough. Now imagine him filling an 87-foot dome on every side of you.

Cosm just announced its first-ever horror experience. The immersive technology company previously brought The Matrix, Harry Potter, and Willy Wonka to Shared Reality. Next up: Andy Muschietti’s IT (2017). It gets the full treatment starting August 28 at Cosm venues in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta. Detroit follows at a later date.

The production brings together Cosm, Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Little Cinema, and Double Dream, the company founded by Andy and Barbara Muschietti. Together, they rebuilt the film for Cosm’s 12K+ LED domes. The Derry sewers, haunted woods, and shadowy streets now wrap entirely around the audience. On top of that, intensified sound design and dynamic environmental effects supplement the original film. The result, according to Cosm, redefines the jump scare entirely, with Pennywise coming at you face-to-face.

Alexis Scalice, Cosm’s VP of Business Development, put it plainly, “We are taking horror beyond the frame, creating an immersive experience to deliver thrills unlike anything fans have experienced before.”

Furthermore, Jay Rinsky, Chief Creative Officer at Little Cinema, added, “IT teaches us fear, and we’re treating every shadow, every silence, and every red balloon as a chance to invent something the medium hasn’t seen yet.”

The highest-grossing horror film of all time. An 87-foot dome. Pennywise in every direction. August 28.

One night. One house. One continuous shot. No cuts. No escape.

The trailer for Bury the Devil just dropped, and it’s unlike anything else in the possession horror space right now. The film hits select theaters and VOD on August 21.

Director Adam O’Brien (Mom) shot the entire film in a single, unbroken take, a genuinely radical choice for the possession subgenre. O’Brien explains the decision plainly: “This film depicts the most harrowing 90 minutes of our protagonist’s life, and I felt that the most visceral way to really feel this was to do a single-shot film. We are with her every step and misstep she takes, through the unraveling of the mystery to the horror of her discovery.”

The script comes from John Petrizzi and Brad Hodson. The story follows Julia, a nurse who finds herself trapped in the home of her dementia patient when she begins to sense something deeply wrong. Something demonic seeps through the walls of the old house. With nowhere to run and no one coming, Julia must fight to drive the evil out before it’s too late.

Dawn Ford, Emmanuelle Lussier Martinez, Bill Rowat, and Mark Antony Krupa star. O’Brien produces alongside Philip Kalin-Hajdu (The Sacrifice Game) and Benoit Beaulieu (Turbo Kid).

This is also just the beginning. Bury the Devil is the first installment in a planned trilogy, with prequel Bury the Devil: Origin already in development under O’Brien.

Bury the Devil opens in select theaters and on VOD on August 21.

The haunted DVD is now on demand, and your movie night is officially at risk.

Dead Media lands on Digital today. The debut feature from Minneapolis comedian-filmmaker Joseph Scrimshaw opened in select theaters on July 16. Now, your second chance arrives — and honestly, this one plays best at home anyway.

Maggie (Sammi-Jack Martincak) wants a quiet October movie night with friends. Then her lonely Gen X uncle Heppy (Sam Landman) shows up uninvited. He brings a physical DVD of The Lurcher, a long-lost ’90s horror cult classic nobody has seen in decades. They watch it. The disc turns out to be haunted. Creatures from inside the film start materializing in the living room. Movie night is cancelled. Survival mode: on.

The cast also includes James Urbaniak, Jessica Fenton, Anna Sundberg, Bill Corbett, and Gael Palen. Additionally, Joe Lynch executive produces. Scrimshaw calls the film “an exciting homage to great horror, cult classics, and the bygone era of DVD bonus features.”

Reviews landed in mixed but fond territory. The Pitch called it enthusiastic and infectious. Furthermore, Projected Figures placed it alongside The Final Girls and Beyond the Gates as a warm, postmodern love letter to horror nostalgia. The consensus: imperfect but original. In a summer of franchise horror, that counts for a lot.

Dead Media streams on Digital now via Antenna Releasing.

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 premieres tonight, Sunday, July 26, at 9 PM ET on AMC and AMC+. The eight-episode season runs weekly through its finale on September 13, 2026. Early streaming access is available on AMC+ right now.

Season 2’s finale eliminated the major antagonists. Bruegel is dead. The Croat vanished. The Dama survived, but barely. That power vacuum changes everything. Season 3 follows Maggie, Negan, and Perlie as they work together to build something resembling a real community in post-apocalyptic New York City. After two seasons of toxic history, watching these two try to actually build something together is a genuinely fresh direction.

Seth Hoffman steps in as showrunner, taking over from Eli Jorné. He brings experience from the original Walking Dead series. Two episodes also screened early at the 65th Monte Carlo Television Festival in June. Cohan, Morgan, and Hoffman all attended. AMC clearly views Season 3 as a major step forward.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan return as Negan and Maggie. Logan Kim is back as Hershel, alongside Gaius Charles and Željko Ivanek. New additions include Aimee Garcia (Dexter, Lucifer) as Renata, and Jimmi Simpson as Dillard, a bar operator who believes he can talk to walkers. That last one sounds either deeply interesting or completely unhinged. We mean that as a compliment.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan took the Hall H stage at SDCC on July 24. They revealed an exclusive sneak peek from tonight’s premiere to a packed, enthusiastic crowd.

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 airs tonight at 9 PM ET on AMC and streams on AMC+.

Christmas is getting a horror makeover.

The first trailer for Ebenezer has arrived, offering a chilling new take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Directed by horror filmmaker Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine), the film stars Johnny Depp as Ebenezer Scrooge in what looks to be a darker, more gothic retelling of the classic holiday story. 

The trailer leans heavily into eerie imagery and supernatural horror, transforming Dickens’ familiar ghost story into something far more unsettling. Depp’s Scrooge remains the bitter, isolated miser audiences know, but West’s atmospheric direction gives the tale a haunting new identity. 

The cast also features Andrea Riseborough as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Ian McKellen as Jacob Marley, Rupert Grint as Bob Cratchit, Sam Claflin as Fred, Daisy Ridley, Tramell Tillman, Ellie Bamber, Charlie Murphy, and Arthur Conti as a young Scrooge. 

Ebenezer marks Depp’s first major Hollywood studio release in several years and reunites audiences with one of literature’s most iconic characters through a horror-inspired lens. Paramount Pictures will release the film in theaters on November 13, 2026.

Forget everything you know about Resident Evil adaptations. Zach Cregger’s version just dropped its official trailer, and it looks nothing like what came before.

Sony releases Resident Evil in theaters and IMAX on September 18, 2026. The film runs 1 hour 35 minutes, making it one of the leanest entries in the franchise’s history. Cregger co-wrote the script with Shay Hatten (John Wick: Chapters 3 & 4).

Austin Abrams (Weapons) plays Bryan, a medical courier who stumbles into Raccoon City on the worst night of its existence. One fateful delivery drops him into the middle of a T-virus outbreak. From there, it’s a nonstop race for survival through chaos, mutation, and increasingly horrifying things the virus does to human bodies.

Cregger has been very clear about that, and the trailer backs him up. He explained, “This movie doesn’t utilize zombies that much. It’s much more focused on the weird creature stuff than the zombies. There’s really only two scenes, maybe three, where there’s proper zombie stuff going on.” His reasoning? “You have this opportunity for the T-Virus to do all these really fascinating things to the human body, and to just limit it to zombies feels like a squandered opportunity.” The trailer teases those mutations, and they look genuinely unsettling.

For franchise fans, Cregger hasn’t forgotten where this comes from. The trailer includes signature Resident Evil shotgun shells, environmental details pulled directly from the games, and a visual language that clearly knows its source material. It’s an original story told within a deeply familiar world.

Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX on September 18 from Sony.