📊 Market Pulse — February 2026

🔥 Hot Right Now

• Elevated horror (A24-style psychological dread)
• Grounded superhero (deconstructed, morally complex)
• Dark comedy (absurdist, genre-blending)
• Contained thriller (single-location, low budget, high concept)

📈 Rising

• Audio drama / podcast fiction (Spotify & Audible investing heavily)
• Fantasy (streaming adaptations driving demand for new IP)
• Sci-fi horror (Lovecraftian / cosmic horror resurgence)

📉 Cooling

• Zombie (oversaturated — but subversions and comedy still work)
• Pure social commentary (audiences want it woven into genre, not foregrounded)