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For thirteen years the V/H/S franchise has been rooting through the world’s cursed camcorders looking for the scariest thing on tape. It turns out the scariest thing was a filing cabinet the whole time.

The next installment is V/H/S: SCP, and it drops the found footage anthology into the SCP Foundation, the giant online horror project that has spent years pretending to be a leaked government archive. This is the rare crossover where you read the headline and immediately think, well, obviously. Two things built out of the same broken parts finally noticing each other.

Per Variety, V/H/S: SCP is coming from indie genre label Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios. It is the first feature length trip into SCP territory, and it is aiming for theaters in 2027.

Producing are Roy Lee and Steven Schneider out of Spooky Pictures, alongside Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber. Goldbloom and Schreiber are not tourists here. Their fingerprints are already on recent entries like V/H/S/94 and V/H/S/Beyond, so the people assembling this actually know how the machine runs. (...)

The film has grossed $371 million against a budget of under $1 million

Saber Interactive is letting it all hang out

Horror fans won’t have to wait until October to celebrate the season of scares. Kings of Horror, one of YouTube’s premier destinations for horror entertainment, is proud to unveil Summerween 2026—a month-long programming event packed with movie premieres, original series, livestreams, gaming, trivia, and special events designed to bring Halloween vibes to the heart of summer.

Throughout the month, viewers can enjoy an ever-growing lineup of independent horror films spanning slashers, supernatural terror, psychological thrillers, found footage nightmares, creature features, and cult favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO6BFV6fgGwtb3kR5KLCndmMslZOnTZjO

Want to see the future of film? Look to the horror genre. While some corners of Hollywood feel stuck in the past, with the same old directors making the same sorts of movies year after year, scary movies are experiencing a genuinely thrilling moment. Young filmmakers worldwide are turning in bold and inventive work, and – even with small budgets and little marketing – audiences are turning out in droves.

In the first half of 2026, it seems that the cultural shift may be complete. At the weekend, Backrooms, directed by 20-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons, grossed a staggering $118 million at the global box office, while Obsession, directed by 26-year-old YouTuber Curry Barker, hit $148 million worldwide on a budget of under $1 million. Both films are outpacing big-budget releases from major studios, showing a clear sea change in audience taste.

Patricio Valladares blends analog horror aesthetics with immersive FMV storytelling in a chilling new interactive horror game.

Just saw a matinee earlier and it's been on my mind ever since.

A truly wonderful movie. I've not seen any of the director's previous stuff but I'I've heard it's all really good, so I know what I'm watching tonight!

Buffet Infinity is the kind of movie that restores your faith in truly independent filmmaking. With so much derivative chaff bombarding us at cineplexes and on streaming services, seeing something THIS unique, fresh and experimental is an absolute delight. It’s weird, it’s funny and yes, it’s even legitimately creepy at times. I can’t help but feel like we’ll be looking back on this one as a decade-defining genre movie — even if it might take a good 20 or 30 years before everybody else figures it out.

There’s an obvious gimmick to the film. About 90 percent of Buffet Infinity is comprised of fake commercials — usually running about 30 seconds to two minutes — stitched together and overlapping in carefully selected segments. Yes, it might give you some WNUF Halloween Special vibes at first, but it doesn’t take long before Buffet Infinity becomes its own animal.

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The film is broken into chapters. The first wisely mixed a few of the legends with a smattering of the background of the area, including some stunning photography as always; another is how the legend of the Rougarou started both by the American Indians/First Nations who lived in the area, and then by the French settlers. Apparently, the werewolf is historically common folklore in French literature.

Paranormal Activity: Threshold has been canceled

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i know you shouldn't get your hopes up for this kind of thing, but i will anyway

Afflicted by a mysterious condition that resets her memory, Ellie becomes trapped in a cyclical nightmare with a man who claims to be her husband. She soon must uncover the horrifying truth of her existence—before she forgets it all again.

Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64AZfPVYs2s

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Buffet Infinity is written and directed by Simon Glassman. It stars Kevin Singh, Claire Theobald, and Donovan Workun.

Hungry – but don’t know what to eat? Need a used car? A lawyer? How about insurance? Or a sandwich?

Echoing the Canadian comedy classic “SCTV” and picking from hundreds of hours of original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County. Ads for insurance, used car rivals, a local religious scholar, and a recording artist converge to tell the story of an expanding sinkhole, a cult, and an ever-growing restaurant that becomes unsettlingly sentient.

TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFRihhrbEU

A24 will soon plunge us all into a terrifying liminal space from which there's no escape, and we couldn't be more excited. A new trailer for "Backrooms," the movie based on the creepy, viral internet sensation, has arrived and it teases one of the most interesting horror films of 2026.

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/2136491/backrooms-a24-movie-trailer/

1. It's Canadian!!
2. Very creepy. I'm big on slow dread movies. Kind of felt like "I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House", but the plot device of using the in-movie podcast to explore creepy audio almost gave it a found-footage vibe (I love found-footage).
3. It was so good in theatres. I've never been more sharply aware of which direction a sound was coming from. I almost feel like the only better experience would be with headphones on a laptop in the dark.

Anyone else see this? I really enjoyed it. Just wondering what others think.