Horror News Wire — June 9, 2026
Today’s horror wire — culled from Bloody Disgusting, sharpened by WLAI.
‘Human Vapor’ Official Trailer – Classic Toho Film Gets a Netflix Reboot Series This Summer
WLAI take: Honda's catalog deserves better than eight episodes of whatever streaming has decided "tokusatsu" means in 2026.
Director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla) brought The Human Vapor to the screen for Toho back in 1960, and the classic tokusatsu film is getting a brand new series reboot from Netflix. All eight episodes of “Human Vapor” will premiere July 2 on Net…
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Ari Aster Reveals That He Wrote a Prequel to ‘Hereditary’
WLAI take: The horror prequel has a proud tradition of explaining everything audiences found unsettling, so naturally someone wrote one.
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’…
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NECA Reveals ‘Ultimate Thanksgiving Art the Clown’ Action Figure With Mashed Potatoes & More!
WLAI take: Art the Clown now comes with mashed potatoes, which is genuinely more character development than most slasher icons received across entire franchises.
NECA announced over the weekend that they’re putting a Christmas spin on Ghost Face with an upcoming action figure, and now Terrifier 2 is getting a holiday-themed figure of its own. Based on the memorable scene from Damien Leone’s unrated…
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Bruce Campbell Still Has No Plans on Playing Ash in Any Future ‘Evil Dead’ Movies
WLAI take: Ash Williams outlasted the Deadites, the sequels, the reboot, and apparently his own creator's willingness to strap on the chainsaw one last time.
The Evil Dead franchise is alive and well these days, with brand new installment Evil Dead Burn arriving in theaters this summer and Evil Dead Wrath already set for release in 2028. But one person you shouldn’t expect to see in either movie…
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‘Heart of the Beast’ – First Images of Brad Pitt in David Ayer’s Survival Thriller
WLAI take: Ayer's last few years suggest the real horror here is the studio notes document.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week. In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired comba…
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LKA Delves Deeper Into the Horror of ‘When Sirens Fall Silent’ in New Presentation [Video]
WLAI take: Three minutes of developer presentation is how every psychological horror game looks promising before it ships.
During the Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition, publisher Wired Productions and developer LKA released a three-minute developer presentation for psychological horror game When Sirens Fall Silent, offering players a deeper look into th…
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