
September 2026




Hollywood’s search for the next Curry Barker or Kane Parsons continues with Lust, a new horror movie from social media and YouTube creator Spencer Lackey.
What’s more is that THR reports that genre powerhouses Neon, Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Spooky Pictures are teaming up on the pic.
Lackey, who will write and direct, will receive guidance from producers Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity) for Spooky Pictures, and Jason Blum and James Wan for Blumhouse Atomic Monster. Neon and Blumhouse Atomic Monster co-financing the project.
Plot details remain under wraps at this time, of course.
Lackey has amassed over 6 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, and nearly 669,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel that focuses on short form horror content. Last Halloween, Lackey released short “You Are Here,” which features an associate producer credit from Mike Flanagan.
The filmmaker is partially glimpsed above in a creepy short of many that frequently depict ghosts and monsters observing him doing mundane tasks, like sleeping or laundry.
Lust joins an emerging trend of YouTube-to-feature filmmaking pipeline in the wake of Obsession and Backrooms massive success at the box office this year. The news arrives mere days after YouTuber Sam Evenson was snatched up to translate short “Ignore It” to feature film. Trevor Henderson, whose viral art provides his fanbase with regular nightmare fuel, as a feature adaptation of his Siren Head and Cartoon Cat on the way, as another example.
Stay tuned for more as it arrives.
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Jessica Chastain stars in the upcoming horror movie Other Mommy this Halloween season, and the film was recently Rated R for “some bloody violence, and language.”
We bring this up because Jessica Chastain is covered in blood in a brand new image from Other Mommy that was featured in Fandango’s Fall Horror Preview this afternoon.
Check out the new shot below.
From director Rob Savage (Host), Other Mommy is an adaptation of Josh Malerman’s (Bird Box) novel Incidents Around the House, and it’s in theaters October 9 from Universal.
From producer James Wan, one of the most influential architects of modern horror, and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, behind Backrooms and Obsession, comes a terrifying trip from breakout genre director Rob Savage, into the darkening world of a young girl, Bela, who forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home who looks uncannily like her own mother.
Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two, The Eyes of Tammy Faye) stars in dual roles as Bela’s mother and as “Other Mommy,” a manifestation of the entity.
Jay Duplass (Transparent, Industry) plays Daddo, Bela’s father, and Arabella Olivia Clark (The Housemaid, The Hand that Rocks the Cradle) plays Bela. The impressive supporting cast includes Actor Award nominee Dichen Lachman (Severance), Emmy and Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed (Succession) and screen legend Karen Allen (Indiana Jones).
Other Mommy is directed by Rob Savage (Host, The Boogeyman) from a screenplay by WGA award winner Nathan Elston, writer for the Emmy-winning sensation Succession, based on the New York Times bestselling novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman (Bird Box).

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Julius Avery (The Pope’s Exorcist, Overlord) will direct the upcoming python survival horror movie Crush for 20th Century Studios, and the film has now found its leading lady.
Sarah Catherine Hook (“The White Lotus”) will lead the cast of Crush, Deadline reports.
The survival thriller is said to follow “a woman hiking alone in the Everglades who wakes to find herself trapped in the crushing coils of a massive python, fighting to stay alive as every breath brings her closer to death.” Inspired by true events, Crush is said to take place in real time.
John Fischer wrote the screenplay that 20th Century Studios picked up amid a bidding war.
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will produce for Temple Hill.
Scott Glassgold’s 12:01 Films is also attached to produce.
Stay tuned for more on Crush as we learn it.
While you wait, another snake horror movie is headed to theaters this October. Mike P. Nelson directs Beware Boiúna, which sees a colossal ancient predator awaken deep in the Amazon.
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