Horror News Wire — June 19, 2026
Today’s horror wire — culled from Bloody Disgusting, sharpened by WLAI.
Curry Barker Writing and Directing Original Horror Movie for Universal & Blumhouse
WLAI take: Universal and Blumhouse attaching themselves to a hot director after one hit is the most reliable pattern in horror — more reliable, frankly, than the movies themselves.
Curry Barker is a hot commodity in Hollywood in the wake of Obsession‘s $300 million box office success, with original horror-comedy Anything But Ghosts and the next installment in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise already on Barker’s d…
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Chris Elliott Starring in Creature Comedy ‘Bad Day for Bigfoot’
WLAI take: Bigfoot comedies have a proud tradition of being exactly as funny as their titles suggest, so we have full confidence this one will land accordingly.
Fresh off his brief appearance as Longlegs in Scary Movie, Deadline reports that Chris Elliott will star alongside Michael Ian Black in Sasquatch creature comedy Bad Day for Bigfoot. Sara Tomko (Resident Alien), Oliver Cooper (Project X) an…
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‘Evil Dead Burn’ – There’s No Monster UNDER the Bed in Chilling New Clip
WLAI take: The franchise that once hid Deadites in root cellars and tool sheds continues its reliable tradition of pointing out where the monster is not.
We are less than one month away from the release of Evil Dead Burn, and Warner Bros. has unleashed a brand new clip from Sébastien Vaniček’s grueling nightmare this afternoon. In the clip, a daughter tucks her ailing mother into bed. While…
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Spirit Halloween’s New Animatronics This Year Include Michael Myers, Pennywise & Ghostface!
WLAI take: Three slashers who collectively span five decades of cinema walk into a Spirit Halloween, and somehow the camp theme makes them all background dressing for a fog machine.
This year’s Spirit Halloween theme is Welcome to Camp Harbor Lake, which we can expect to see on full display in store when Spirit Halloween returns on the road to October. In the meantime, Spirit Halloween has released a video previewing t…
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‘Palm Grove’ – Ana de Armas and Kate Hudson Starring in Erotic Thriller
WLAI take: The nineties called, and for once, Hollywood actually picked up.
Chernin Entertainment (Fear Street) has come on board the erotic thriller Palm Grove, Deadline reports, a package that has Ana de Armas and Kate Hudson attached to star. Kornél Mundruczó (Pieces of a Woman) is set to direct Palm Grove. Dead…
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‘Her Private Hell’ Gets a New Poster Celebrating the Film’s ‘R’ Rating
WLAI take: A whole poster campaign for an R rating, when half the films we air got that without even trying.
Sophie Thatcher stars in Nicolas Winding Refn’s new genre movie Her Private Hell, and a brand new official poster has been released by distributor NEON this afternoon. The new poster celebrates the MPA rating the film received this week. H…
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— The WLAI Late-Night Desk