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Two people with very different connections to horror died on the same day this week. That gave the week a shape nobody wanted. Everything else, and there was plenty, felt like the fall schedule quietly assembling itself in the background.
This is our weekly look back at what ran on iHorror, for anyone whose week got away from them. Here is what mattered between Monday and Thursday.
Tim Curry Died at 80, and He Never Had to Chase Anybody
Curry died at 80, with his manager confirming the news Wednesday and no cause announced. Our remembrance goes after the thing his monsters had in common, which is that almost none of them ran at you. Frank-N-Furter, Pennywise, Darkness under Rob Bottin’s makeup in Legend. They stood still, held out a hand, and let you make the decision yourself.
The Pennywise section is the one to read. ABC’s two-night broadcast of Stephen King’s It in November 1990 could not be gory, so Curry had to be charming instead, and he plays the storm drain like a friendly adult having a perfectly ordinary conversation until the same smile stops meaning welcome and starts meaning appetite. The rest of that miniseries has aged unevenly. He has not. Three Tony nominations, no wins, a stroke in 2012 he kept working through, and a memoir, Vagabond, published in October 2025.
Dolly Parton’s Company Was in the Buffy Credits the Whole Time
Parton died Tuesday at 80, following what her representatives described as a brief battle with cancer. The type has not been disclosed. Our piece makes the horror argument that most of the obituaries skipped: Sandollar Productions, the company she co-owned with Sandy Gallin, helped produce the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer film alongside the Kuzuis, and Sandollar Television sat in the credits of the series and of Angel. She was never credited by name, which is why it stayed deep-cut trivia until Sarah Michelle Gellar told the Christmas gifts story on Fallon in 2023.
The detail that got me is that this was not a nineties footnote she wandered away from. When Hulu developed Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale, with Gellar returning and Chloé Zhao directing the pilot, Sandollar was attached and Parton was among the executive producers. That project was scrapped in March 2026. Thirty-four years after a movie that made $16.6 million and got shrugged at, she was still, on paper, a producer of Buffy.
Ridley Scott Says He Is Not Done With David
Scott told the Los Angeles Times that a third Alien prequel is in the works and that it picks back up with David, the synthetic played by Michael Fassbender, off building what he calls a “brave new world for himself.” That is the entire confirmed story, and our coverage is careful about it. In development is not greenlit. No release date, no production start, no word that Fassbender has signed anything new.
Worth remembering what he would be walking back into. Alien: Covenant ended in 2017 with David aboard the colony ship wearing Walter’s face, and the franchise left him there for the better part of a decade while Fede Álvarez made Romulus, Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth landed a second season order, and a Romulus follow-up got moving without Álvarez directing. A David movie in 2026 has to argue for itself against all of that rather than just resume.
RoboCop Found Its Alex Murphy, and It Is Dan Stevens
Stevens will play Murphy in Prime Video’s eight-episode RoboCop series. Peter Ocko writes and showruns, Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner from the 1987 film executive produce, and so does James Wan. Almost nothing else has been announced: no date, no other series regulars, no indication of how far the show intends to push the practical carnage.
The Wan credit is the part that should interest this readership, with the caveat our story attaches to it. An executive producer credit is not a directing credit. Still, RoboCop underneath the satire is a story about a man taken apart and rebuilt as corporate property who turns out to still be in there, and that is a horror premise wearing a badge. Stevens has the right instrument for it. The Guest is the obvious reference point, all warmth and manners over something that is no longer entirely human.
Resident Evil Got Its R, and the Operative Word Is “Throughout”
The MPA rated Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil R for “strong bloody violence, gore and language throughout,” which is roughly where anyone tracking this movie expected it to land. The wording is the interesting part. Descriptors are compliance language rather than criticism, and “throughout” points to gore spread across the runtime instead of parked in one showcase sequence.
That squares with how Cregger has described the film, leaning on T virus mutants rather than shambling crowds and running as one long survival gauntlet. Squares with is not the same as confirms, so hold it loosely. Austin Abrams stars as Bryan, a medical courier having the worst night of his life, with Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser and Johnno Wilson around him. It opens September 18 after a gala screening at Fantastic Fest. We also ran the new TV spot this week, which has a very bad dog in it.
Everything Else Worth Your Time
Insidious: Out of the Further opened to roughly $25 million domestically and finished second behind Spider-Man: Brand New Day, pushing the franchise past $800 million worldwide across six films. That is below the $33 million start of The Red Door in 2023, and it is still a sixth entry opening at nearly double what the original managed in 2011.
On the trailer side: the first Pendulum teaser puts Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor at a New Mexico retreat run by Jacki Weaver, from Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman in his directing debut, out January 1. Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton co-directed, produced, wrote the story for and star in Last Chance Motel, a desert slasher with Heather Langenkamp behind the front desk, arriving on Digital October 6. There was also The Death of Us, Joko Anwar’s Ghost in the Cell, and a rundown of ten horror movies landing before Halloween.
Elsewhere we had an exclusive clip from Ever After, Mike Hatton signing on to star in What Happened to Doris?, reviews of Blood Shine and the indie Chat, and the usual list of what is worth streaming this weekend.