Horror News Wire — October 17, 2026
Today’s horror wire — culled from Bloody Disgusting, sharpened by WLAI.
‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Season 2 Will Feature a Pennywise “You’ve Never Seen Before”
WLAI take: They've been promising us a Pennywise we've never seen since at least 1990, and somehow the clown keeps showing up looking exactly like a clown.
Pennywise will return to HBO in season two of IT: Welcome to Derry, and we’ll see a very different version of the killer clown, according to returning showrunner Brad Caleb Kane (Crystal Lake). Kane told Deadline that Bill Skarsgård plays “…
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Indie Horror Icon Larry Fessenden Unleashes a Monster Mash in ‘Trauma Or, Monsters All’ Trailer
WLAI take: Fessenden has been doing unfashionable practical-monster sincerity since before it was cool again, so manage your irony accordingly.
The beloved filmmaker's latest will hit theaters and Digital in November.
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‘Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas’ Trailer Turns Holiday Cheer Into a Kidnapping Nightmare
WLAI take: Holiday horror has been mining this exact vein since Black Christmas — though "darkly comedic genre-bender" does carry the optimism of someone who hasn't seen many darkly comedic genre-benders.
A nice guy obsessed with the holidays winds up on the naughty list in the trailer for Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas, the debut feature from Next Chapter Entertainment. The darkly comedic genre-bender receives a limited theatrical engagement on…
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A Real Whale Attack Survivor Was Invited to Watch ‘Whalefall’
WLAI take: Hollywood discovers that real trauma makes for better marketing than fake screams, which we have known since Jaws in 1975.
After a successful marketing campaign that had theatergoers cringing over the film’s claustrophobic premise before the movie was even released, Brian Duffield’s adaptation of Whalefall is finally out and making waves among audiences and cri…
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10 New Horror Movies Released This Week – Friday, October 16
WLAI take: Paramount spent forty years proving Jason doesn't need an origin story, but here we are, eight episodes deep into someone's homework assignment.
The big release for this week is of course Peacock and A24’s “Crystal Lake,” the brand new Friday the 13th prequel series that just released all eight episodes at the same time. It’s likely you’ll be spending the weekend binging the long-aw…
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‘True Detective’ Season 5 to Star Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas
WLAI take: HBO is apparently running the McConaughey-and-Harrelson formula through a Nicolas Cage filter, which is either genius or the most expensive fever dream since season two.
Back in 2014, HBO debuted the all-new series True Detective, and while creator Nic Pizzolatto was a relative unknown, the series starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. That star power drew in audiences and those viewers were rewar…
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