Horror News Wire — October 8, 2026
Today’s horror wire — culled from Bloody Disgusting, sharpened by WLAI.
Genre-Bending Horror-Comedy ‘Ghost in the Cell’ Gets Home Video Release Date
WLAI take: Anwar's earned the benefit of the doubt, though "genre-bending horror-comedy" has been the industry's polite term for tonal disaster since at least 1986.
Filmmaker Joko Anwar just unleashed his ambitious and boundary-pushing Ghost in the Cell in theaters earlier this month, and Well Go USA Entertainment has now revealed the movie’s release on home video. Ghost in the Cell will debut on Digit…
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Mike Flanagan Explains How His ‘Carrie’ Reboot Connects to Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’
WLAI take: King's multiverse ambitions have outlasted three Carrie adaptations already, so we'll believe the connective tissue when we see it hold.
The showrunner of the new Prime Video adaptation explains the overall connections to wider King lore.
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‘Vampire Carnival’ Review: A ‘Twilight’-Esque Vampire Romance That’s Light On Horror
WLAI take: Combining vampires with a carnival and still landing closer to Twilight than Vampire Circus takes a special kind of determination.
Some locations just lend themselves to horror. Asylums, the woods, anal cavities (seriously, if you haven’t yet watched 2019’s Butt Boy, add it to your list). Fans of the genre know that one other sure-fire locale for all things weird, cree…
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Psychological Horror Title ‘BECROWNED’ Announces Q1 2027 Release Window, Console Plans [Trailer]
WLAI take: Lo-fi psychological horror on console is a promising premise, assuming the texture compression does not accidentally sand away whatever dread the lo-fi aesthetic was doing in the first place.
Those itching to get their hands on Top Hat Studios and developer 13th Street Studio’s lo-fi nightmare in BECROWNED won’t have to wait much longer. During the Horror Game Awards Halloween Showcase, the devteam has announced a Q1 2027 releas…
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Retrofiction Games Announces ‘Dead of Darkness 2’ for PC, Consoles [Trailer]
WLAI take: The solo dev survival horror pipeline remains healthier than most AAA studios twice the size with a tenth of the soul.
Solo developer Retrofiction Games will be returning to intense, old-school, 2D survival horror with Dead of Darkness 2. Announced during the Horror Game Awards Halloween Showcase, the game is now in development for PC via Steam and GOG, Pla…
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‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’ Star Calls It the “Scariest Thing” Mike Flanagan Has Made
WLAI take: Stars have been calling their own projects the scariest thing since William Castle handed out barf bags in 1959.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a list of the scariest TV shows of the last decade and not find Mike Flanagan‘s The Haunting of Hill House on it. In fact, you might even find his other shows Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher, or e…
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