Masked killer Johnny (Ry Barrett) made a surprise appearance at New York Comic Con today to reveal that he’ll be carving up campers in sequel In a Violent Nature: Part 2, in theaters on February 12, 2027. The perfect date night movie for Valentine’s, perhaps?

The announcement comes on the heels of the film’s world premiere at Fantastic Fest, where the return of the franchise’s relentless killer surprised audiences as a secret screening.

Part 2 picks up immediately after the events of the first film, expanding Johnny’s lore as he finds a new crop of victims. This time, Johnny’s violent rampage leads him to a summer camp just as a young, outcast camper is forced to spend the night with his counselor sister and her friends at their annual end-of-season party.

Nate Wilson co-directs with returning director Chris Nash, who also penned the script. The film is produced by Peter Kuplowsky, Shannon Hanmer, and Nash.

Lucas Nguyen, Olivia Scriven (Blood Quantum), Laurie Babin (Red Rooms), Fionn Laird (“The Institute”), Donald MacLean Jr. (The Craft: Legacy), and Evan Marsh (Shazam) also star.

“With this sequel, fans can expect an exponential increase of the ol’ ultraviolence with a distinct hook, but one that still collides with storied slasher traditions,” Kuplowsky said previously, and he’s not exaggerating. In a Violent Nature: Part 2 not only doubles the body count, but gets even more outrageous with the deaths.

I wrote in my Fantastic Fest review, “Nash and Wilson not only top the yoga-pretzel kill of the first with a gruesomely protracted stand-out sequence but also deliver a solid handful of crowd-pleasing kills that’ll leave gorehounds howling.“

But it also takes a much more straightforward approach, shifting the story from Johnny’s perspective to its new young protagonist: “As a showcase of stunning practical effects and slasher carnage, In a Violent Nature 2 tops its predecessor with ease. That’ll be more than enough for those looking for a fun time, but this sequel doesn’t have much to offer beyond its inventive gore.“

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After dominating the box office with theatrical debut Obsession, writer/director Curry Barker is back next year with his horror-comedy follow-up movie Anything But Ghosts.

Anything But Ghosts will release in theaters on May 7, 2027.

Check out the official title treatment and expect more soon.

Curry Barker directs the film from a script he co-wrote with longtime creative partner Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial, Obsession). The duo also stars as wannabe ghost hunters who must face real ghosts while dealing with the deception of their own fraudulent business.

“It’s all going to feel like the same brand,” Curry Barker previously told Bloody Disgusting. “It’s slightly different. It’s so different than Obsession, because the idea itself just lends itself better to comedy, because it’s literally about two ghost hunter con artists.”

Barker teased of the film’s tone, “It’s Cooper and me doing our thing, so it lends itself better to comedy, but it’s still set in this super grounded world. It’s ghosts being real in a world where ghosts are not real. Just like [Obsession] is a wish going wrong in a movie where magic doesn’t exist or in a world where magic doesn’t exist, right? That’s kind of what I try to do.”

Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), Chris Reinacher (“Superstore”), and Violet McGraw (M3GAN) also star in Anything But Ghosts.

Blumhouse’s Jason Blum produces with Roy Lee & Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures (Hokum) and Adam Hendricks & Greg Gilreath of Divide/Conquer (M3GAN). Executive producers include Barker & Tomlinson for That’s a Bad Idea and Ben Ross for Image Nation (Late Night with the Devil).

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James Tynion IV‘s Something Is Killing the Children comic book series isn’t only known for its ominous title, it’s also one of the most successful horror comic book franchise’s of the last decade. The concept is relatively straightforward: shape-shifting and bug-like monsters arrive in small towns and terrorize their younger residents (as implied by the name), with the catch being it’s only kids who can even see the creatures, resulting in adults dismissing the threat.

The series has spawned a number of spin-offs focusing on all sorts of communities, with there being immense potential to translate the concept into other mediums. Because of this, a live-action adaptation of the project has been in the works for years, with various iterations seeing starts and stops in their development.

We finally got some significant news about a movie adaptation of the book, as it was confirmed at Blumhouse‘s Blumfest panel at New York Comic Con that a the movie would be directed by Craig Zobel. The filmmaker previously helmed the thriller Compliance, based on real-life events, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi adaptation Z for Zachariah, and the horror satire The Hunt. He also has a number of TV credits on his resume, including The Penguin and Mare of Easttown.

This new announcement makes good on a promise from Tynion from earlier this week, in which he teased significant momentum on the franchise.

“What I can say about Blumhouse … is they are not afraid of stories that put children in peril,” Tynion shared with Entertainment Weekly. “This time around, I am much more directly involved in the development as it makes the jump into other media, in ways that I can’t fully say yet.”

He added, “Jason Blum himself has been a huge advocate of the series, and I know he feels the potential for what this could be beyond a comic, beyond a novel, beyond all of this. I think Erica Slaughter is a character who has the potential to resonate with people all over the world. She already has in publishing, and I am thrilled that we’re going to have the potential to see her come to life in a whole bunch of different ways.”

The movie is currently being developed alongside an adult animation adaptation of the story. There are no details yet about when either project could be released.

Are you excited by the pick for director? Let us know in the comments below!

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Back in 2020, Rob Savage first captured the attention of the internet thanks to a viral short he released in which he tricked friends into thinking he was attacked by something in his attic, which was just a clever edit of a scene from [REC]. Despite the constraints of the pandemic and quarantine measures, that short earned him the budget to write, direct, edit, and releas Host, which replicated the effectiveness of that original short but extended the amount of terror to be a feature.

His subsequent releases have been a bit of a mixed bag, first with Dashcam and then with the Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman. The filmmaker continues to explore all facets of the genre, with his latest, Other Mommy, just landing in theaters this weekend. At today’s Blumfest panel at New York Comic Con, his next project was confirmed.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Savage’s next film is set to be Molepeople. The movie has enlisted actors LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn, which is based on a script by Nathan Elston. The movie focuses on “a man who descends into the abandoned tunnels beneath New York City, where he discovers a twisted society lurking beneath the streets.” Reports of the project date back to 2024, though Anthony Ramos was previously attached.

Even though the effectiveness of Savage’s post-Host movies have been debatable, what’s exciting is that he continues to push himself into uncharted territory. Host was about a group of friends conducting a seance over Zoom, only for otherworldly spirits to target them one by one. Dashcam followed a conservative conspiracy theorist who was livestreaming her visit to London, resulting in a series of unsettling encounters along the way. The Boogeyman focused on a family attempting to overcome their grief all while they were stalked by a malevolent presence.

Other Mommy is an adaptation of the novel Incidents Around the House, in which a young girl is being stalked by a nefarious figure who looks identical to her real mother. While it’s too early to tell exactly what we’ll get in Molepeople, these initial details about the project could mean we get a more straightforward creature feature about disfigured individuals, or if they aren’t physically transformed, they might adhere to cult-like beliefs that wouldn’t be acceptable for the surface world.

Stanfield has a handful of horror movies to his name, including Get Out, Death Note, Haunted Mansion, and the TV series The Changeling. Mendelsohn might not have had as many significant horror roles in his career, but he has had important roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in the Star Wars franchise, and he also starred in the Stephen King TV series adaptation The Outsider.

Production on Molepeople is currently set to start later this year and it will hit theaters on August 27, 2027.

Are you looking forward to the new movie? Let us know in the comments below!

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