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Sony Pictures has officially landed Hollow, a new reimagining of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow that will star Sweeney and be written and directed by Pet Sematary: Bloodlines filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer. Instead of following Ichabod Crane, Hollow shifts the spotlight to Katrina Van Tassel, reimagining one of literature’s most recognizable characters as the center of the mystery.

Anthony C. Ferrante struck gold with his franchise, Sharknado. The series spawned five follow ups, with a seventh in the works. Instead of another sequel, this will be a prequel titled Sharknado Origins, with Ferrante back at the helm. However, if you can’t wait for the newest Sharknado movie, iHorror has your fix. The Father of Sharks has another movie that has just been released; Water Park Shark.

Terror Films Releasing has teamed up with Microhouse Films, the mobile-first vertical platform that launched July 7, and it is bringing horror along for the ride. The indie genre distributor behind the Hell House LLC franchise, Patient Seven, The Taking of Deborah Logan and Savageland is putting select titles on the phone-shaped format, starting with two new films dropped in an exclusive window to mark the platform’s debut.

A killer Pinocchio is an easy sell. You can picture the poster before anyone builds the movie: strings, teeth, a splash of red across something that used to be sweet. The version Rhys Frake-Waterfield would rather talk about is the one underneath the poster, where the puppet does not arrive already knowing what evil is. He has to be taught it. That is the part that unsettles me, and it is the part he kept circling back to when we talked.

Two versions of horror showed up this week and only one of them was making anything new. In one version, the genre spent seven days reselling its own past. Netflix reissued Stranger Things as a worn rental tape. A decade-old cult film packed its sequel with famous faces before shooting a frame. Criterion boxed up a Netflix monster in 4K. A festival handed out a career award.

Every zombie story made in the last half century walks through the same door. The shuffling dead, the barricaded survivors, the bite that dooms you, the headshot that saves you, the radio that stops helping: all of it comes from a farmhouse outside Pittsburgh in 1968. What most of those stories leave on the other side of that door is the reason George A. Romero built it. He was never particularly interested in the dead. He was interested in what the living do to each other once the excuse arrives.

Somewhere in the Disney vaults sits a 1993 ledger listing Hocus Pocus as a disappointment, and somewhere in Salem right now a tour guide is pointing at a house because of it. Few movies have a resume this contradictory. A Halloween institution, a costume industry, a tourism engine, and a genuine piece of shared American ritual all grew out of a witch comedy that critics shrugged at and Disney released, for reasons that remain eternally funny, in the middle of July.

Some rivalries never really end. They just change venues. On July 13, inside a single news cycle, Peacock released the first teaser for Crystal Lake, its Friday the 13th prequel series, and Paramount Pictures announced it had closed a deal for the United States rights to Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street screenplay. Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, who spent two decades circling each other before finally sharing a screen in 2003, are suddenly back in the same conversation.

Adam Wingard’s Onslaught is coming in hot, and it just picked up an R rating for strong bloody violence, grisly images, language throughout, and some sexual references. If you were hoping Wingard would hold back, it doesn’t sound like that’s happening. The upcoming A24 action horror film reunites Wingard with longtime collaborator Dan Stevens, and that’s only added fuel to a fan theory that’s been circulating ever since the first trailer dropped.

If giant spiders make your skin crawl, Don’t Move just landed on your must-watch list. The first trailer has officially dropped, and it wastes no time throwing viewers into a full-blown nightmare. What starts as a peaceful church retreat quickly turns into a fight for survival when a massive spider-like creature begins stalking everyone in its path. The trailer is packed with everything creature feature fans want to see. Thick webs. Dark woods. People disappearing. Plenty of suspense.