Every New Horror Movie Announcement From CinemaCon 2026

Sony's panel at CinemaCon delivered the first trailer for Insidious: Out of the Further, the sixth installment in the long-running supernatural horror franchise hitting theaters this summer.

Directed by Jacob Chase (Come Play) from a screenplay he co-wrote with David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2, Orphan), in Insidious: Out of the Further, Amelia Eve stars as Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. Watch the full Insidious: Out of the Further trailer right here.

The teaser shown for Zach Cregger's hotly-anticipated Resident Evil hasn't been made available online yet, but lucky CinemaCon goers were kind enough to detail the rundown of what happens.

To nobody's surprise, it sounds like the Barbarian and Weapons director has gone nice ‘n gnarly for his take on Capcom's iconic survival horror gaming series, telling an entirely original new story not related to any previously known characters (sorry, Leon S. Kennedy stans) or any of Paul W.S. Anderson's previous Resident Evil movies. Read the full rundown of the first Resident Evil teaser here.

A remake of John Carpenter's Escape from New York has been in talks for years now, with Leigh Whannell, Robert Rodriguez and Radio Silence all attached at different points. Fingers crossed the new iteration, announced at the StudioCanal panel at CinemaCon is more successful.

No director has been named for the project just yet, with Studiocanal EVP Global Marketing and Distribution Hugh Spearing just announcing that a remake was in development in partnership with producers The Picture Company (A Complete Unknown). All we can do for now is speculate on who'd star – original star Kurt Russell's IRL son Wyatt Russell, perhaps?

Along with Escape from New York, Studiocanal also announced they're developing a “reimagining” of Joe Dante's 1981 werewolf horror The Howling, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last month.

Starring scream queen Dee Wallace, The Howling followed a television news anchor who ends up at a resort populated by werewolves. No news yet on who will direct or star in the new version, but with Robert Eggers' Werwulf also on the horizon, we're due a good werewolf renaissance.

As the video game adaptation trend continues to pick up speed, PlayStation's horror-action title Bloodborne is officially the latest to get a big screen movie version, with Sony Pictures announcing an an R-rated animated feature is in the works. Gaming YouTube giant Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin (Iron Lung) will officially produce, along with PlayStation Productions and Lyrical Animation.

Plot details are still being kept under wraps, but the project continues Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions’ expansion into game-based storytelling following Uncharted, Twisted Metal, HBO’s The Last of Us, and the upcoming Helldivers film from Justin Lin starring Jason Momoa. Stay tuned.

CinemaCon attendees got a new look at Ice Cream Man, the upcoming horror from Hostel‘s Eli Roth which hits theaters on the appropriately summery date of August 7.

Of no relation to the 1995 horror film of the same name, which starred Clint Howard as a demented ice cream vendor who uses human flesh in his recipes, Ice Cream Man follows inhabitants of the idyllic suburban town Bayleen Bay , that descends into madness after a mysterious ice cream man serves frozen treats that turn children into homicidal maniacs. Watch the Ice Cream Man trailer right here

The highly-anticipated first trailer for Takashi Yamazaki's latest kaiju epic Godzilla Minus Zero was revealed CinemaCon, giving us our first look at the kaiju king back in action.

Returning for the sequel to 2023's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One are stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe and Hidetaka Noshioda, with the story following two years after the events of the previous film, in which a failed kamikaze pilot (Kamiki) and a group of civilians trying to defend a ravaged Japan from the radiation-breathing beast.

In Godzilla Minus Zero, the big lizard boi seems to have his sights also set on New York City, as the new trailer shows him stomping towards the Statue of Liberty.

Watch the full first trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero right here.

Lucky CinemaCon attendees got a first look at Evil Dead Burn, the latest standalone entry into the Evil Dead series from Infested director Sébastien Vaniček.

While the trailer hasn't yet been made public (watch this space), a description makes it sound like we are in for some suitably gnarly Deadite action, making good on Vaniček's promise that Evil Dead Burn is a film that “hurts”. Ouch. While we wait for the public trailer, catch up on everything we know about Evil Dead Burn right here.

A new look at Evil Dead Burn wasn't all that came out of the Warner Bros. panel at CinemaCon, with the exciting announcement that Evil Dead Wrath from Francis Galluppi (The Last Stop in Yuma County) will officially release in theaters on April 7, 2028. Little is known about Evil Dead Wrath aside from its cast, with Charlotte Hope (The Nun), Jessica McNamee (Mortal Kombat), Zach Gilford (Midnight Mass), Josh Helman (Mad Max: Fury Road), Ella Newton (Dangerous Animals), Elizabeth Cullen (Diabolic), and Ella Oliphant all set to star. Look out for updates on Evil Dead Wrath as they creep in.

Another trailer from Warner Bros.' CinemaCon panel that is sadly not yet publicly available for us lowly peons is the first look at DC Studios' Clayface, the upcoming superhero adaptation from Eden Lake director James Watkins and writer Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, The Exorcist).

Starring Tom Rhys Harries as the titular shape-shifting villain, Clayface is due to hit theaters on October 23. Early accounts of the footage shown at CinemaCon tease a whole lot of blood and body horror, making us even more hyped to see what the “complete horror movie” has in store for us. Watch this space for updates.

The sequel to the 2022 Christmas action flick Violent Night was originally announced in early 2023. At long last though, it’s finally en route, and Universal Pictures brought a teaser trailer to CinemaCon. While they didn’t release the footage online yet, it did confirm who is playing Mrs. Claus. Find out who will be joining David Harbour in the bloody festive thriller right here.

Robert Eggers' latest Gothic nightmare Werwulf hits theaters on Christmas Day, but Focus Features are getting fans hyped before it's even summer by revealing a first trailer at CinemaCon.

Starring frequent Eggers collaborators Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Lily-Rose Depp (both stars of 2024's vampire epic Nosferatu), as well as Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) and Ralph Ineson (The Witch), Werwulf is said to be Eggers' “most terrifying motion picture yet”, and although the trailer hasn't been released publicly yet, a description from CinemaCon details it as “dark and ominous” (we'd expect no less from an Eggers pic), and that it depicts Taylor-Johnson seemingly transforming into the titular creature. Stay tuned.

The legendary Steven Spielberg took to the CinemaCon stage for the first time to receive the Motion Picture Association’s America250 Award, and to introduce a new trailer for his upcoming sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day. Based on a story by Spielberg with a screenplay from Jurassic Park‘s David Koepp, Disclosure Day stars a powerhouse cast that includes Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place), Josh O'Connor (Challengers), Colman Domingo (The Running Man) and Colin Firth (Kingsman).

The film asks audiences to imagine “if you found out we weren’t alone in the universe, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?” The latest trailer, which we can only hope will be made public soon, reportedly shows the alien life forms, and according to descriptions from CinemaCon, they look a lot like the smaller aliens at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, further fuelling rumors that Disclosure Day is a secret sequel to Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi epic. Watch this space.

Universal and Focus Features' panel at CinemaCon unveiled a first look of Blumhouse's Other Mommy, the upcoming Jessica Chastain-starring supernatural horror from Host and The Boogeyman director Rob Savage. Based on Josh Malerman's novel Incidents Around the House, Other Mommy centers on a family terrorized by a monster that takes on the form of the mother, played by Chastain. A description of the trailer makes it sound like we're in for something very creepy indeed, which has us even more hyped for Other Mommy‘s October 9 release date.

After many years of false starts, a sequel to the 2013 Brad Pitt-starring zombie horror World War Z is officially in development at Paramount Pictures. Will it get off the ground this time? Fingers crossed. Find out everything we know about World War Z II (title TBA) right here.

Shortly after the confirmation that a prequel to Zach Cregger's multi-story horror epic Weapons was in development, Warner Bros. revealed during CinemaCon 2026 that the film, working title Gladys, would release on September 8, 2028.

Amy Madigan will reprise the witchy role she won an Oscar for, with Zach Shields (Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Krampus) tapped to co-write alongside Cregger. More on that right here.

Following the success of last year's Final Destination Bloodlines, Warner Bros. has officially dated Final Destination 7 for May 12, 2028. Lori Evans Taylor, who co-wrote this year’s Bloodlines, has been tapped to return to pen the screenplay for the latest sequel. Specific plot details are being kept under wraps at this time, but here's everything we do know about the upcoming disaster horror.

Warner Bros. dated an official sequel to the 2019 supernatural horror The Curse of La Llorona for April 9, 2027. Jay Hernandez (Hostel, Quarantine), Monica Raymund and Raymond Cruz will return to star, with Santiago Menghini (No One Gets Out Alive) directing from a script by Sean Trett. Stay tuned for updates.

Audiences at Paramount's CinemaCon panel got a first look at Ebenezer, the upcoming “bold new twist” on the classic Charles Dickens ghost story from X and Pearl director Ti West. Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings franchise), Andrea Riseborough (Mandy, Possessor) and Mortdecai actor Johnny Depp lead the cast. The footage has yet to be made public, but per a description from the con, the Christmas Carol adaptation sees Depp don prosthetics as the elderly miser Scrooge, and shouting the classic ‘bah, humbug' phrase. Interesting indeed.

CinemaCon attendees got to go inside the belly of the beast when 20th Century debuted the first trailer for their upcoming thriller Whalefall. Starring Austin Abrams (Weapons, Zach Cregger's upcoming Resident Evil), Whalefall is based on Daniel Kraus' novel of the same name, and follows a scuba diver in search of his deceased father’s remains who gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. Josh Brolin also stars.

The Hollywood Reporter gave a rundown of the trailer, not yet made public, reporting that “Abrams is on a diving expedition when he encounters a squid, and menacing music plays as that squid is followed by a massive whale. He’s pinned against the rocks without a way to escape, and when he does try to swim free and hide among the kelp, the whale continues to circle in the darkness.” Thalassaphobes, brace yourselves.