The Shock & Horror Report
A monthly deep dive into where horror is actually moving: which genres and sub-genres are compounding, which countries are shooting the most of it, and which effects houses are building the creatures behind it. Every figure below is counted from the 2026 release slate (147 titles across 29 countries, $1.92B reported worldwide) and compared against 2025 (234 titles).
This month: Psychological leads the slate with 50 of the 147 2026 titles (34% share, -22% vs 2025, $335.0M reported) — bellwether Disclosure Day. United States filed 86 titles (-31% year over year), mostly horror. On the craft side, Spectral Motion is exposed to 42 slate titles worth $1.32B.
Trending genres
2026 titles vs 202534% of the slate · leading modes: Horror thriller (13) · Psychological thriller (4) · Psychological horror (2) · bellwether Disclosure Day
20% of the slate · leading modes: Supernatural horror (12) · Supernatural Horror (4) · Supernatural horror thriller (2) · bellwether Obsession
14% of the slate · leading modes: Comedy horror (9) · Comedy drama horror (2) · Horror comedy (2) · bellwether Scary Movie
9% of the slate · leading modes: Science fiction horror (5) · Science Fiction Horror (2) · Science fiction mystery (1) · bellwether Backrooms
7% of the slate · leading modes: Action horror (2) · Action Horror Thriller (1) · Action thriller zombie (1) · bellwether Send Help
4% of the slate · leading modes: Post-apocalyptic horror (1) · Action thriller zombie (1) · Disaster horror (1) · bellwether 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
3% of the slate · leading modes: Slasher (5) · bellwether Scream 7
3% of the slate · leading modes: Gothic folk horror (1) · Folk horror (1) · Found footage folk horror (1) · bellwether Motherwitch
3% of the slate · leading modes: Monster (4) · bellwether Godzilla Minus Zero
2% of the slate · leading modes: Found footage Supernatural Horror (1) · Found footage horror (1) · Found footage folk horror (1) · bellwether 402 Haunted Korean Hospital
1% of the slate · leading modes: Body horror (1) · Musical Body Horror Romance (1) · bellwether Clayface
1% of the slate · leading modes: Gothic folk horror (1) · Gothic horror (1) · bellwether Motherwitch
1% of the slate · leading modes: Coming-of-age Drama Horror (1) · bellwether Don't Come Out
Sub-genre deep dive
the granular read from the slate| Sub-genre | Genres | Titles | 2025 | YoY | Gross | Outlook |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horror thriller | PSYC | 13 | 2 | +550% | — | ACCELERATING |
| Supernatural horror | SUPR | 12 | 9 | +33% | $631.9M | ACCELERATING |
| Comedy horror | COMH | 9 | 5 | +80% | $231.4M | ACCELERATING |
| Science fiction horror | TECH | 5 | 0 | +100% | $446.2M | ACCELERATING |
| Slasher | SLSH | 5 | 11 | -55% | $213.8M | COOLING |
| Psychological thriller | PSYC | 4 | 2 | +100% | — | ACCELERATING |
| Monster | CRTR | 4 | 5 | -20% | — | COOLING |
| Supernatural Horror | SUPR | 4 | 12 | -67% | — | COOLING |
| Psychological horror | PSYC | 2 | 3 | -33% | — | COOLING |
| Comedy drama horror | COMH PSYC | 2 | 0 | +100% | — | ACCELERATING |
| Horror Thriller | PSYC | 2 | 12 | -83% | — | COOLING |
| Action horror | SURV | 2 | 0 | +100% | — | ACCELERATING |
Locations
where 2026 horror is being madeDominant mode: Dark fantasy. Bellwether: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple ($58.5 million).
Dominant mode: Horror. Bellwether: Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island.
Dominant mode: Found footage Supernatural Horror. Bellwether: 402 Haunted Korean Hospital.
Dominant mode: Adult animated urban fantasy supernatural horror. Bellwether: Ella Arcangel: Awit ng Pangil at Kuko.
FX houses
who is building the creaturesGlendale, US · Animatronic characters that carry dialogue
42 2026 titles in its lanes · $1.32B reported · e.g. Obsession, Backrooms, Disclosure Day
Del Toro's creature shop; built the Demogorgon for Stranger Things.
Los Angeles, US · Character prosthetics for anthology horror TV
52 2026 titles in its lanes · $335.0M reported · e.g. Disclosure Day, Send Help, 99/66
Resets the creature brief every season — built for limited-series horror.
Wellington, NZ · Practical creatures, prosthetics, miniatures
31 2026 titles in its lanes · $631.9M reported · e.g. Obsession, Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Evil Dead Burn
Born in splatter — Braindead's blood rigs, now a full physical department.
Los Angeles, US · Studio-scale creature suits and animatronics
19 2026 titles in its lanes · $745.7M reported · e.g. Backrooms, Disclosure Day, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Suit performers inside the monster on the day — Alien, Tremors, The Thing.
Los Angeles, US · Gore, prosthetic makeup, creature suits
11 2026 titles in its lanes · $272.3M reported · e.g. Scream 7, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Colony
The reference shop for slasher and zombie prosthetics on a TV cadence.
Buckinghamshire, UK · Prosthetics, creature effects for UK productions
11 2026 titles in its lanes · $58.5M reported · e.g. 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Colony, Deep Water
Fast-turn prosthetic pipeline feeding British folk and infection horror.
Method: genre, sub-genre and location counts are tallied directly from the release slate (147 titles for 2026 vs 234 for 2025); gross figures are the reported worldwide totals published for each title, so genres carrying unreported indie titles will read light. 2026 is still filling in, which is why year-over-year counts skew negative this early. FX-house demand is scored from the slate volume, gross and growth of the lanes each shop works in. Want a genre, territory or shop added to the roster? Ask on the About page.