Gregg Bishop Teams Up with Bleiberg Entertainment for The Heretiks
Horror filmmaker Gregg Bishop, best known for the cult hit Dance of the Dead, is heading back into the genre trenches with his new supernatural horror project The Heretiks. According to Deadline, Bishop has partnered with Bleiberg Entertainment for the film, which promises to blend witchcraft, home invasion, and apocalyptic terror into one twisted Halloween tale.
Fans of Bishop’s work have been waiting for a new feature since his V/H/S spinoff Siren and his memorable segment from V/H/S Viral. Known for energetic, inventive horror storytelling, Bishop has built a reputation for combining dark humour with a wild sense of pacing, and The Heretiks looks like a return to the unhinged energy that made Dance of the Dead a festival favourite.
The film is written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the powerhouse duo behind The Night House, Super Dark Times, Stephanie, She Rides Shotgun, and the 2022 Hellraiser reboot directed by David Bruckner. That Hellraiser revival, produced by Spyglass and released on Hulu, earned acclaim for its haunting atmosphere and gender-swapped reimagining of the Cenobite leader Pinhead, played by Jamie Clayton. Collins and Piotrowski’s knack for crafting intelligent, emotional horror makes them one of the most in-demand writing teams working in the genre today, and their involvement in The Heretiks suggests something deeper than your average witchy bloodbath.
The plot of The Heretiks centres on a disaffected teenage girl who is forced to team up with a renegade witch to protect her younger sister from a murderous coven. The cult plans to use the child as a human sacrifice in a ritual that could bring about the end of the world — all on Halloween night. With its mix of supernatural menace and grounded family stakes, the premise feels like a spiritual successor to classic ensemble horror films from the 1980s and 1990s, where danger and dark humour shared equal billing.
Production is scheduled to begin in early 2026 in Bishop’s hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, a city that has become a hub for modern horror. Bishop will produce the film alongside Ehud and Ariel Bleiberg, Brad Miska, and Chris White. Ariel Bleiberg expressed excitement about the collaboration, telling Deadline, “We’ve wanted to work with Gregg again for a long time now. Things finally aligned when he showed us The Heretiks and his brilliant vision for bringing it to life. We are so excited to be part of this crazy and unique project that only an out-of-the-box thinking artist like Gregg Bishop can pull off. We started brainstorming this movie with our friend Gregg several years ago as a love letter to the imaginative horror films we all grew up with. It’s a surreal thrill to finally be unleashing him to make it. We just know he’s going to deliver something fun and frightening, nostalgic and new.”
That sentiment echoes what fans have come to love about Bishop’s previous work — horror that remembers to entertain while still managing to unsettle. With The Heretiks, he looks ready to channel that same blend of kinetic energy and classic storytelling into something that could stand alongside The Night House or Hellraiser as one of the most atmospheric horror films in years.
For fans of supernatural thrillers, witches, and Halloween-set horror, The Heretiks sounds like a spell worth waiting for. With a director known for energy and wit, and writers who can balance scares with emotion, this collaboration between Bishop, Collins, and Piotrowski feels like one of the most promising horror projects on the horizon.
If you needed any more reason to get excited, remember that Bishop’s career has always thrived on defying expectations. From zombies in high school dances to demonic sirens on the open road, he has a gift for making the familiar feel strange again. With The Heretiks, it looks like he might just conjure another modern horror gem from the dark.
