Saw Writers' New Horror Label Teams Up With Vertical Streamer TerrorBox
Vasaria Pictures, a horror label set up by Saw writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunston with producers Sean Gowrie and Nick Phillip, has struck a deal with TerrorBox, a streaming service built around horror. Deadline first reported the pact as an exclusive on 6 November 2026.
The partnership is built around vertical content. That means episodes filmed in a tall, phone-friendly frame, designed to be watched on a handheld screen. The two companies will develop short-form work, often by emerging horror filmmakers, and they say they want to take some of those projects up to feature-length films.
TerrorBox is the first product of Box Entertainment Group, which was set up by Ryan Justice in 2025. It launched earlier this year as a microdrama service, meaning a streaming home for short episodic drama, dedicated to horror. The service's own website describes it as a destination for vertical horror series, short films and feature films.
The first project is Jezebel. TerrorBox will release Vasaria's short film of that name as a vertical series. The short was directed by Phillips and written by and stars TikTok creator Claire Dellamar. According to Deadline, it was inspired by classic Hammer horror films, the British studio's gothic chillers of the 1950s and 60s. The short has also drawn more than four million views on Alter, a horror-focused YouTube channel.
Vasaria is developing Jezebel as a feature film. The label and the streamer will also work together on a vertical adaptation of Fate, a screenplay by Melton and Dunstan. The two writers worked on four instalments of the Saw franchise: Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI and Saw 3D.
The deal also points the other way. Vasaria says it will look at select TerrorBox titles for possible feature development, so a show that finds an audience on a phone could, in principle, be turned into a film. Deadline did not report a release date for any of the projects, and no episode counts have been announced.
For viewers, the change is simple. Horror that once lived mostly on short-video apps and YouTube now has a dedicated place to be watched in longer form, with a clear route from short episodes to a bigger screen. For the filmmakers involved, it means a label with a Saw pedigree is putting its name on new talent. Whether the feature films follow will depend on how the first vertical series perform.
