Horror News Wire — June 12, 2026
Today’s horror wire — culled from Bloody Disgusting, sharpened by WLAI.
5 Things We Learned From The ‘Whalefall’ Trailer
WLAI take: Kraus spent three years inside a sperm whale's digestive tract so Hollywood could spend two minutes reminding you it's basically Jaws with better metaphors.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Kraus took the literary world by storm back in 2023 with the release of his hit novel Whalefall. A terrifying yet intimate survival thriller with mythological undertones, the book was almost immediately…
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Apple’s Hit Series ‘Widow’s Bay’ Gets Season Two Renewal!
WLAI take: A streaming horror comedy renewed before its first season even ends — the algorithm has fully replaced the audience.
Move over, Martha’s Vineyard, Apple has officially renewed fan favorite horror comedy series “Widow’s Bay” for season two ahead of its season one finale! The season one finale is set to arrive on Wednesday, June 17, on Apple TV, but don’t w…
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‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Michael Sarnoski’s Ultra-Violent, Dark Subversion of Legend
WLAI take: Sarnoski apparently missed that every other gritty Robin Hood reboot since 1991 also promised to bury the legend, yet here Sherwood stubbornly stands.
Myth gets brutally dispatched in The Death of Robin Hood, A Quiet Place: Day One filmmaker Michael Sarnoski‘s dark, loose adaptation of the 17th-century ballad Robin Hood’s Death. The 13th-century outlaw gets a gritty makeover in a subversi…
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‘Evil Dead Burn’ – Unique Character Posters Preview the Weapons Being Used This Summer
WLAI take: The franchise that gave us a chainsaw hand is now workshopping the dinner fork, which is either creative regression or the most honest thing the Evil Dead series has done in years.
Dad’s brush trimmer. A dinner fork. A family candelabra. An antique wooden corkscrew. A car headrest. These are the weapons used in Evil Dead Burn, and they each get their own posters this week. The poster series comes armed with a tagline:…
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Paul Anthony Kelly Joins Sydney Sweeney in ‘The Housemaid’s Secret’
WLAI take: Feig doing a housemaid sequel feels like the genre remembering it already had *The Hand That Rocks the Cradle* and choosing to politely ignore that.
Director Paul Feig is back to direct The Housemaid’s Secret, the sequel to last year’s smash hit thriller The Housemaid, and Paul Anthony Kelly (“Love Story”) has joined the cast. Kirsten Dunst will also star alongside Sydney Sweeney in The…
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A Tall Drink of Summer Terror: Peek Inside the Pages of ‘Hello Darkness’ #23 [Exclusive]
WLAI take: Anthology horror has been doing "summer slashing" since at least 1982, so issue twenty-three finding it fresh requires either optimism or amnesia.
An ongoing horror anthology series from BOOM! Studios, Hello Darkness is back this summer with Issue #23, and BOOM! has provided Bloody Disgusting with an exclusive sneak peek. The temperature rises and so does the body count, as the horror…
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— The WLAI Late-Night Desk