The Shrining (2026)
Director: Tom Acres
Cast: Paul Balaji, Joshua Lawrence, Tarun Gideon
Deep inside Kyoto’s legendary Fushimi Inari Taisha—with its endless vermilion torii gates—a new nightmare awakens. The Konbini Trilogy returns, trading midnight convenience-store aisles for a shrine where reality itself starts to fray. This time, the terror is steeped in Backrooms-style dread: corridors that shouldn’t exist, silence that presses in from every side, and the creeping sense that the sacred mountain paths are folding in on themselves. As lantern light flickers and fox statues seem to watch, visitors discover that some pilgrimages don’t end—they just get lost. Welcome to a horror where ancient faith meets modern liminal fear, and every step deeper into the torii maze pulls you further from the world you knew.
More About This Film
The Shrining is a 2026 title using an obvious pun on the classic horror title The Shining. The name signals parody or spoof, suggesting that the project intentionally plays with familiar haunted-house and psychological-horror conventions.
The film appears to have an independent comedy-horror identity. Public information about its exact story, cast, and director remains limited.
- The title is a parody-style variation of The Shining.
- The film is listed as a 2026 release.
- The concept suggests comedy-horror or spoof storytelling.
- It is separate from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining.
- No major international awards have been reliably documented.