Warner Bros. has won a five-studio auction for the rights to Siren Head, the skeletal internet horror creature created by Canadian artist Trevor Henderson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The rights deal landed in the low seven figures after competing bids from Sony, Universal, Paramount, and Disney's 20th Century Studios.
Brian Duffield, who wrote and directed No One Will Save You (2023), will helm the project from a screenplay he will co-write with Zach Cregger. Cregger, director of Weapons and Barbarian, will also produce alongside Roy Lee and Andrew Childs of Vertigo Entertainment, Scott Glassgold, and Duffield's Jurassic Party Productions. Henderson will executive produce. Streamers were excluded from the bidding, with a theatrical release required.
Created by Henderson in 2018, Siren Head depicts a towering, emaciated humanoid with two emergency sirens in place of a head. The character communicates through distorted recordings of screams, alerts, and broadcast fragments, and has accumulated 3 billion TikTok views, 1 billion YouTube views, and a significant presence in Roblox and video games.
The acquisition mirrors the path of Backrooms, another internet-born horror property that opened to $81.4 million domestically in May 2026, signaling continued studio appetite for creature-driven genre films rooted in online culture.