'Weapons' Director Zach Cregger Is Making 'Siren Head' Horror Film Based on Viral Meme
Warner Bros. won a five-studio bidding war for the viral horror meme, with a theatrical release planned and Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield attached.
- Warner Bros. Pictures won a competitive bidding war last week for the rights to "Siren Head," a viral horror meme created by Canadian creature designer Trevor Henderson, securing a theatrical release for the feature film.
- Created by Henderson in 2018, the roughly 40-foot-tall creature gained massive popularity online as a predatory monster with sirens for a head, evolving into a vast fan-driven mythology across YouTube and TikTok.
- Filmmakers Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield are teaming up to write the script, with Duffield set to direct, while producers Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, and Scott Glassgold secured the project after intense competition.
- Hollywood studios are aggressively pursuing internet-rooted horror intellectual property following "Backrooms" success, with Warner Bros. prioritizing theatrical distribution and excluding major streamers from the bidding process.
- Industry observers suggest the project could become a major horror franchise, as producers aim to expand the original mythology rather than simply recreate viral images for Gen Z-ers who are cinema's most consistent audience.
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Siren Head: The First Post-Backrooms Creepypasta Movie Has Been Greenlit
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Warner Bros is set to adapt another Creepypasta horror sensation after the success of A24's Backrooms — but I'm unsure what to make of it
Warner Bros will adapt Trevor Henderson's Siren Head for the big screenWeapons director Zach Cregger and Whalefall's Brian Duffield are working on the scriptThis news comes after A24's Backrooms became the second highest grossing horror movie of 2026We're seeing a trend of Creepypasta adaptations coming back, and Siren Head is the next internet horror phenomenon to be adapted for the big screen.Creepypasta-based movies have varied in quality ov…
'Weapons' director Zach Cregger is making 'Siren Head' horror film based on viral meme
A movie based on the viral Siren Head meme is in development with Weapons director Zach Cregger developing the script. READ MORE: ‘Weapons’ director Zach Cregger is ripping up the horror rulebook The internet horror sensation is based on a 2018 illustration by Trevor Henderson, which evolved into a character that has featured in fan-made animation, stories, and video games. The character is a tall skeletal being with sirens for a head, and has …
Siren Head | Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield to adapt viral online horror short
The viral horror short Siren Head is now becoming a Warner Bros movie, with Brian Duffield and Zach Cregger behind it. Backrooms and Obsession have sent Hollywood into a hunting frenzy. With both films being directed by young YouTube creators, studios are now looking around for other viral videos they can use as fodder for hit movies. Another candidate has already been found: Siren Head, a creature and accompanying set of viral videos created by…
Warner Bros. is Turning a Viral Meme into a Horror Movie With ‘Siren Head’
Siren Head started as a creepy internet legend and quickly grew into one of those viral creatures that feels like it escaped from the darkest corner of the web. With its tall, thin body and the pair of sirens mounted where a head should be, the character became a perfect fit for online horror culture, spreading across fan art, videos, and stories until it was impossible to ignore. .link { text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; text-decor…
Weapons’ Zach Cregger to pen Siren Head movie for Warner Bros.
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: Weapons’ Zach Cregger to pen Siren Head movie for Warner Bros. Warner Bros. are turning to a meme in the hope of finding the next unexpected hit, and have tapped Weapons and Resident Evil-director Zach Cregger to pen a movie based on the Siren Head phenomenon. With Backrooms packing the multiplexes with a hitherto unseen Gen Z audience, studios are keen to tap into this demographic, […] Read the o…
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