New Zealand sales company Black Mandala has added five horror films to its international sales slate, spanning slasher, survival, anthology, giallo and British folk-creature horror. The announcement matters because it strengthens the company’s position in the genre market and gives buyers a clearer view of the kinds of horror projects it is backing across different territories and styles. The line-up also shows how horror producers are continuing to mix local folklore and regional settings with more commercial thriller formats.

The titles are “The Tree House,” “Babybacks,” “The Driftless,” “Saturnalia” and “The Shug”. “The Tree House” is a Spanish slasher set in the Basque Country, while “Babybacks” follows a couple fleeing cartel hitmen in the Sonoran Desert; “The Driftless” is a four-story anthology tied to Midwestern folklore; “Saturnalia” is a 1979-set supernatural giallo with music by Claudio Simonetti; and “The Shug” is a Cambridgeshire-set creature film about a missing daughter and a mysterious monster. Several of the films already have festival momentum: “The Driftless” has won 18 awards, “Babybacks” has been selected for the 2026 International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, “Saturnalia” premiered at Raindance in 2025, and both “The Tree House” and “The Shug” have picked up festival honours.