Tyra Banks has beef with Halloween: Resurrection. She signed up hoping for an acting breakthrough and an unforgettable death scene. Instead, her character’s big moment didn’t even make the movie.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Banks recalled initially turning down the eighth Halloween film before her agent pointed to Josh Hartnett’s success following Halloween H20: 20 Years Later.
“I was like, ‘I’m not going to do that. What is it going to do for my career? I’m a model, and I need to do things that are kind of different to get this acting career that I want,’” she explained.
The pitch that changed her mind? Hartnett had done Halloween, and look where his career was going.
“So I was like, yeah, okay, this is going to do it for me,” Banks recalled. “Not only did it not do anything for me, they cut the damn death scene.”
Banks joked that she was “promised the career of Josh Hartnett, of an actor, and promised an iconic death scene that will last forever, and neither of them happened.”
“So, I have beef with Halloween 8!”
Frankly, I think Resurrection is the worst in the franchise by a mile. A complete disaster of a film, but that’s another conversation. You can understand her disappointment: she took a role she wasn’t particularly interested in because she thought it might lead somewhere, and then lost the scene that was supposed to make her memorable... keep reading at dreadcentral.com:
Disney’s Hocus Pocus remains a perennial Halloween favorite, 33 years later, with the original cast frequently reuniting in Salem this time of year for events. This year, some of them revisited the 1993 film’s Salem shooting location to recreate one of its most memorable scenes.
Omri Katz, Larry Bagby, and Tobias Jelinek dive back into their roles to recreate the early scene that sees teen protagonist Max (Katz) peddle through Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, where he’s accosted by bullies Ice (Bagby) and Jay (Jelinek). Watch below as the original film’s footage gets spliced with their present-day recreation.
They’re having a blast, interjecting bits of comedy into the classic scene. Katz’s line about smoking is likely a knowing wink to his 2022 interview with EW, where he confessed to being stoned during production.
While the OG stars, along with Vinessa Shaw, are back in Salem to host their annual Buncha Halloween event and celebrate a Halloween classic, a third film is currently in development. Hocus Pocus 3 is officially in early development at Disney, with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy set to reprise their roles as the Sanderson sisters... more from bloody-disgusting.com:
Beetlejuice 3 is making the rounds on social media again, with an industry listing being treated as a fresh update on the sequel. Before we start saying his name three times, there’s something worth clearing up: that listing was last updated on March 24, 2026.
The entry on Production List, published by the Film & Television Industry Alliance, categorizes the movie as being in pre-production. It names London as its shooting location, lists Tommy Harper as line producer and Sophie Holland as casting director, and identifies Tim Burton as director with an important qualifier: “TBC,” or to be confirmed. The shoot date remains TBA.
Its listed producers include Dede Gardner, David Geffen, Jeremy Kleiner, Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, and Marc Toberoff. Warner Bros., Tim Burton Productions, Plan B Entertainment, KatzSmith Productions, and Toberoff Productions appear among the companies.
So, yes, the listing exists. It does not establish that the movie has just entered pre-production, that Burton has signed on, or that cameras are about to roll... keep reading at dreadcentral.com:
Deep breaths, Pam.
Ahead of the show’s debut, Peacock has unleashed the opening scene from the Friday the 13th prequel series, Crystal Lake. And oh, what a bloody good tease it is!
In the clip, we find Pam (Linda Cardellini) covered in blood, staring into a mirror. We don’t know what happened or why, but we can make a pretty good guess. “What did you do?” she asks herself after pulling a piece of glass from her knuckles. Soon, viewers will find out exactly what she did... full writeup at dreadcentral.com:
“What did you do?” Linda Cardellini’s Pam Voorhees is covered in blood and pulling glass from her knuckles in the opening scene of 'CRYSTAL LAKE'. Peacock has released the clip ahead of the October 15 premiere. https://t.co/eni8NsxoYe
— Brad Miska @ DREAD CENTRAL (@DreadCentral) October 1, 2026
The Crypt Keeper is hosting horror again.
AMC has brought the ghoul back as the official host of FearFest 2026, which runs throughout October and marks the event’s 30th anniversary. Bloody Disgusting debuted the first footage on October 1.
This isn’t a digital stand-in or a quick archival clip. Greg Nicotero rebuilt the puppet. John Kassir is back on the voice. The cackle is back too. A practical Crypt Keeper, rebuilt by hand... read more at ihorror.com:
The Crypt Keeper is back | AMC FearFest:
It’s been seventeen years since Michael Dougherty’s anthology film Trick ‘r Treat arrived on the scene and became an almost instant Halloween classic, but the origins of the beloved Halloween icon Sam actually date back even further. Sam was first introduced by Dougherty in his 1996 animated short Season’s Greetings, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
And for the horror icon’s 30th birthday, Michael Dougherty is bringing Sam back to life…
Dougherty, director of Trick ’r Treat, Krampus, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, has launched SAM: THE SOUL OF HALLOWEEN, a new creative home for the pint-sized trickster!
The launch tonight, on the eve of October 1st, coincides with a month-long run of festival and independent theater screenings of the newly restored 4K edition of Season’s Greetings... more info at bloody-disgusting.com:
YouTube Playlist of Sam: the Soul of Halloween trailer & short videos from @SamTheSoulofHalloween:
Netflix is officially putting the final nail in the coffin of production for Wednesday Season 3, celebrating the wrap with a striking new photo of Jenna Ortega clacking away on a vintage 1934 Juwel Model 3 portable mechanical typewriter.
The hit show’s sophomore run saw Netflix release the season in two distinct batches. The strategy paid off massively, with the first four episodes racking up a staggering 50 million views in their initial five days alone. That explosive start tied the launch of Season 1, which firmly retains its crown as Netflix’s most-watched English-language series of all time. While the Tim Burton-directed phenomenon focuses heavily on Wednesday Addams’ macabre individual exploits, it also seamlessly integrates the rest of her famously peculiar family directly into the overarching mystery... from joblo.com:
Halloween arrived in the mail today.
Fox sent over a really cool package celebrating The Simpsons’ upcoming “Treehouse of Horror XXXVII,” and the artwork gives us a closer look at Springfield’s transformation into The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Bart as Jack Skellington? Marge as Sally? Santa’s Little Helper as Zero? Amazing.
The annual Halloween special airs Sunday, October 25, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox, and the mailer teases everything from supernatural marital problems to a very unfortunate adventure for Bart and his dog... view all pics at dreadcentral.com:
Sam is back this Halloween season with the brand new graphic novel Trick ‘r Treat: Witching Hours, and Legendary Comics has released the official trailer this morning.
The new graphic novel from Legendary Comics and Rocketship Entertainment is now set for release for everyone on October 13, 2026, and you can check out the cover and trailer below.
This marks the first all-original Trick ‘r Treat graphic novel in a decade, presented by Trick’ r Treat creator and director Michael Dougherty.
Trick ‘r Treat: Witching Hours features four brand-new, original stories centered around everyone’s favorite mischief-maker, Sam. The stories are brought to life by a talented group of creators, including writers Michael Dougherty (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Trick’ r Treat: Days of the Dead), Zach Shields (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Trick’ r Treat: Days of the Dead), Todd Casey (Trick’ r Treat: Days of the Dead), Breehn Burns (Trick’ r Treat movie, Trick’ r Treat: The Haunting), and Curtis Waugh (Stegosaurus, the Moistest), with artistic contributions from Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night), Breehn Burns (Trick ‘r Treat movie original concept artist and comic illustrator), and Tristan Jones (Mad Max: Fury Road comics).
Read the titles of new Sam stories at... bloody-disgusting.com:
Trailer from X.com:October is almost here! What better way to celebrate than with the new Trick ‘r Treat: Witching Hours trailer. On sale Oct 13. Preorder your copy now wherever books are sold! @Mike_Dougherty @Legendary @trickrtreat https://t.co/sjltyRz1LM https://t.co/1l2iHWZIWV
— Legendary Comics (@LegendaryComics) September 28, 2026
With a new A Nightmare on Elm Street film in development, horror fans are asking who should inherit Freddy Krueger’s glove. One name gaining grassroots support is Terrifier actor and producer Michael Leavy, whose videos of his Freddy voice, mannerisms, and personality sparked the #LeavyForKrueger campaign.
Leavy has a direct link to Freddy’s legacy: he played the younger version of Robert Englund’s character, Dr. Andover, in Fear Clinic (2014) and was a producer on the documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.
Leavy first put his hat in the ring in an Instagram video that went viral, prompting the team to create the full makeup short... read more from dreadcentral.com
As the campaign spread, one fan request kept appearing: “Put him in the makeup.” So they did.
FREDDY'S BACK by @FuzzOnTheLens:
Halloween monsters, a shit ton of practical gore, and an indie trilogy heading home on physical media. That’s a pretty good way to get into the spirit of the season.
The Barn Part III is now available to preorder on Blu-ray and VHS through Scream Team Releasing, with shipping estimated for mid-October 2026. The Blu-ray even includes an anaglyph 3D version with special-edition glasses!
Directed by Justin M. Seaman, the intended final installment in his Halloween-set trilogy continues the series’ do-it-yourself spirit with murderous monsters and some seriously messy effects. We premiered the trailer back in August, and its old-school Halloween chaos remains a hell of a selling point... read more at dreadcentral.com:
The Barn Part III Official Trailer:The preorder options include:
Blu-ray — $19.99, with four cover options.
Blu-ray with slipcover — $24.99, featuring slipcover artwork by Graham Humphreys.
Signed Blu-ray with slipcover — $69.99.
VHS — $39.99.
The store identifies Cover D as limited to remaining crowdfunding prints.
The Blu-ray extras include:
Anaglyph 3D version with special-edition glasses.
Commentary with Justin M. Seaman and first assistant director Brandon Delph.
Commentary with Seaman and effects artists Cody Ruch and Samantha Sanford.
A 79-minute making-of documentary.
“Through Hell” music video by Any Given Sin.
“Fear the Boogie” music video by Courtney Gains.
“10 Years of Terror” poster-design timelapse by Mariano Mattos.
Premiere Q&A, bloopers, deleted scenes, and trailer.
In the film, Josh Harper, played by Courtney Gains (Children of the Corn), has spent years protecting Helen’s Valley and his sister Heather, played by Kelli Maroney (Chopping Mall), from the barn’s monsters. Now, something sinister threatens to bring them back.
William Ragsdale (Fright Night), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), and John Kassir (Tales from the Crypt) also star alongside Tristan Olsen and Amanda Byrne.
You can browse the editions and preorder directly from Scream Team Releasing. For a Halloween movie built around practical monsters and buckets of blood, a VHS release feels right at home.
Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) has a pretty fascinating story about how she nearly auditioned for The Exorcist. There’s just one wrinkle: director William Friedkin publicly disputed it.
Curtis revisited the anecdote over the weekend during the Academy Museum’s September 26 screening of Halloween, where she appeared alongside director John Carpenter for a conversation moderated by makeup artist Howard Berger.
The story has been making the rounds for years. As Dread Central covered last December, Curtis has said her mother, Janet Leigh (Psycho), turned down a request to let her audition for Regan MacNeil. In that telling, producer and family friend Ray Stark made the call, and Leigh refused because she wanted her daughter to have a childhood.
But back on September 28, 2018, Friedkin responded to coverage of Curtis’s audition anecdote with four very direct words:
“This is totally untrue.” read the rest at dreadcentral.com:
John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis on “Halloween” and “The Exorcist”:DEVOUR In Select Theaters & On Digital 10/13! DIRECTED BY SCOTT B. HANSEN (BAD CANDY) Opening in Select Theaters and On Digital Platforms Beginning October 13th
Epic Pictures and Dread, the genre specialty releasing label of Epic, announce the October 9th release of DEVOUR, a wild new supernatural horror film from director Scott B. Hansen (Bad Candy, The Possession Experiment), written by Desiree Hansen (Bad Candy). Combining heavy metal, vampires, cannibals, witchcraft and werewolf horror into one blood-soaked night of mayhem, the film stars KateLynn E. Newberry, Gus Langley, Alex Lucchesi, Chelsea LeSage, Gaven Wilde and Heidi Shepherd, vocalist for the heavy metal band Butcher Babies.
In the vein of Deathgasm, DEVOUR follows an all-girl heavy metal band left stranded after a disastrous gig. When the musicians encounter a woman in danger, they find themselves trapped in a remote town controlled by a powerful warlock and populated by cannibals, vampires and a deadly werewolf. With nowhere to run and an increasingly bizarre collection of supernatural enemies closing in, the band is forced to tap into dark powers of its own to have any chance of surviving until morning... more at horrorsociety.com:
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Robert Eggers’ Werwulf Trailer Teases a Brutal 13th-Century Horror Nightmare as a Harvest Moon Rises! After getting underneath our skin with films like The VVitch: A New-England Folktale, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and Nosferatu, director Robert Eggers is back with another hair-raising horror film, Werwulf. Today, as the harvest moon rises, Eggers and Focus Features unleash a new trailer for Werwulf, a gripping descent into madness, starring several of Eggers’ favorite collaborators.
The synopsis for Werwulf is brief, but also tells you everything you need to know to get excited about Eggers’ latest frightfest:
“Witness Robert Eggers’ most visceral and haunting experience yet. Focus Features presents WERWULF, a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation and the devil within.” more at joblo.com
WERWULF | Official Trailer 2 | released 8 days ago:WERWULF | Official Trailer 1 | released 3 months ago:
The afterlife is under new management, and that’s probably bad news for everyone.
Hulu has released the official trailer for Family Guy’s new Halloween special, Happy Hell-o-ween, which premieres October 5 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
This time, Brian and Stewie find themselves in hell, answering for 24 seasons of terrible behavior. But when they manage to get on the Devil’s nerves, they somehow end up running the place... more at dreadcentral.com:
Family Guy 2026 Halloween Special | Official Trailer:
Your wish for movie-accurate Obsession costumes has come true.
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Bear Costume:
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‘V/H/S/MIXTAPE’ Trailer Hits Before Beyond Fest Premiere! GWAR is hosting. The wraparound of V/H/S/MIXTAPE is staged as an MTV-style show broadcast from hell, and the trailer Shudder put out Thursday is the first footage of it anyone outside the production has seen. The ninth found-footage anthology world premieres at Beyond Fest on Wednesday, September 30, and reaches Shudder October 9... at ihorror.com:
Trailer:
Trailer Premiere for HALLOWARRIOR – Shudder’s Halloween Home Invasion Thriller. Directed by Ben Sottak. Starring Milly Shapiro, Ajani Russell, AJ Bowen and Shannyn Sossamon. STREAMING ON SHUDDER STARTING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16TH!
Synopsis
Pumpkin, the last girl on earth and sole survivor of a humanity-ending plague, scavenges the wasteland for supplies on the eve of Halloween. Her lonely holiday ritual is interrupted by the arrival of a savage gang of raiders at her doorstep led by the fearsome Thalia. Outnumbered and armed with candy, wit and weapons, Pumpkin must ferociously fight back to survive the night.
About the Director
Ben Sottak is an NYC-based filmmaker. His commercial directing includes work for Warheads, Sweethearts and PGATour. His narrative projects have screened Tribeca, Fantasia, FrightFest, Telluride Horror Show and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Hallowarrior is his feature debut as a writer/director. He loves scary movies, gin martinis, and his two spooky cats... from horrorsociety.com:
Jinga Films is pleased to announce the US theatrical release of southern slasher HELLBILLY HOLLOW which will open in cinemas across America on September 25th followed by a DVD and digital release on October 27th – just in time for Halloween... by horrorsociety.com:
In the tradition of box office sensation Terrifier and cult classic The Funhouse, a team of paranormal investigators attend a horror themed fun-park rumoured to be haunted. But when their YouTube documentary exposes the tragic death of a child, the owners, Bull (a psychotic ringmaster) and Tickles (a homicidal clown) will stop at nothing to keep it secret. One by one the sleuths fall victim to the sadistic siblings who force them to participate in a series of inventive kills.
Belmont Cameli (pictured below in Until Dawn) must be losing his head right now, because he’s been cast in Sony’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow adaptation starring Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate), simply titled Hollow, reports Deadline... from dreadcentral.com:
Gizmo is back on screen, and the wait for everything around him just got another ten months. Warner Bros. has moved Gremlins 3 from November 19, 2027 to October 6, 2028, and sent the news out with a short teaser on its X account carrying a date card that reads “10.6.28. Only In Theaters.”... at ihorror.com:
10.6.28. Only In Theaters. https://t.co/kZVLPrNd12
— Warner Bros. (@warnerbros) September 23, 2026
