Has any single person had a greater impact on horror this century thanJason Blum?
Lets take a look at the very best Blumhouse efforts that paid off with a bloody good time.
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The Huntfeatures plenty of political provocations and lots of blood and guts.
But it primarily operates as an epistemological game, constantly undermining the audiences knowledge.
Joe George
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Hush
This taut thriller comes fromMike Flanagan, director ofThe Haunting ofseriesandDoctor Sleepfame.
Rosie Fletcher
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AndHappy Death Dayis no exception with its horror-comedy blend of Punxsutawney hijinks and 80s slasher movie cliches.
Worse still, she must also wake up in a dormitory afterward.
She even manages to find a little pathos, one stab wound at a time.
David Crow
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The Visit
The Sixth Sensemay remainM.
Kirsten Howard
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Sweetheart
The idea of getting stranded on a desert island terrifies many people… especially filmmakers.
How in the world do you tell a compelling story with one actor, by themselves?
Dillard, you keep things short and you hire an actor with oodles of charisma.
Well, almost alone, because each evening, a sea monster comes ashore.
Creep
No, not the one set on the subway.
But Josefs behavior is weirdexactly how weird is too weird is the challenge faced by Aaron.
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However, fans of the original forget two details about the Danish film.
First, that it is trash.
The definitive Zoomer horror flick isM3GANwith its TikTok-ready marketing and its ambivalent take on technology.
Stories aboutkiller dollsare certainly nothing new, asChuckyorThe Twilight Zones Talking Tina can attest.
Not that any tween checking outM3GANcares about that nonsense.
future ahead of them.
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This is not a bad thing.
Instead, he simply made a direct sequel toCarpenters 1978 masterpiece.
Don Kaye
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A rarity in horror.
When these true selves finally cross paths in a genuinely tense finale,Splitis maniacally thrilling.
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Derrickson sustains the films foreboding mood for the entire running time, making the movie an authentically frightening experience.
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It also remains a truly unnerving ghost story.
Not since the days ofDead of Nighthas a film so successfully made you scared of looking in a mirror.
When they were children, their mother starved and mutilated herself before their father killed her.
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The First Purge
The Purgefranchise might constitute the strangest set of movies in the Blumhouse stable.
Turns out, it doesnt.
McMurray frames scenes of genuine terror when Nazis and Klansmen enter non-white areas and kill with impunity.
It is also the movie that put Blumhouse on the map.
Only occasionally does the horned shadow on the wall manifest.
But thenParanormal Activityis chilling in its isolation.
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But in fact its just beginning.
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