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Jason Blum
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Jason Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer and the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, the studio behind some of the most influential horror films of the 21st century. Under his leadership, Blumhouse produced the blockbuster franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and Halloween, helping redefine low-budget, high-impact genre filmmaking. Blum’s producing credits also include Sinister, Oculus, Whiplash, The Gallows, The Gift, Hush, Split, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Get Out, Happy Death Day, Upgrade, Us, The Invisible Man, Freaky, The Black Phone, M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Speak No Evil, spanning horror, thriller, and prestige drama. He has received multiple Academy Awards Best Picture nominations for Whiplash, Get Out, and BlacKkKlansman. In television, Blum won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for The Normal Heart and later earned an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the acclaimed true-crime miniseries The Jinx.
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The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword
Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...
7 films
Death as Choreography: Eight Films of Inventive Demise
From cosmic indifference to moral punishment, these eight horror films treat death as a precise, theatrical art form. Each kill is a set piece, a statement, and...
8 films
The Bogeyman Never Dies
From Elm Street to Halloween, Scream to Candyman, horror icons keep returning in new forms. Freddy's Dead marked a strange end that became a beginning.
8 films
It was Miss Scarlet, in the cinema...
Celebrating Lesley Ann Warren's 80th birthday with a journey through board game adaptations, from the witty whodunit of Clue to the explosive naval warfare of B...
8 films
From Oscar Glory to Genre Gold: A Career Reinvention Chain
Trace the arc of performers who swapped prestige for pulp, and found a different kind of immortality in genre cinema.
4 films
From External Beast to Internal Trauma
Here is a five-film narrative chain that traces how the monster evolved from an exotic physical threat into a psychological mirror of society.
5 films
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Worst Neighbor Ever
2026
Obsession
2026
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
2025
Drop
2025
Speak No Evil
2024
Afraid
2024
Choir
2024
M3GAN
2022
The Anarchists
2022
The Black Phone
2022
Halloween Kills
2021
The Forever Purge
2021
Freaky
2020
Black Box
2020
The Good Lord Bird
2020
The Vigil
2020
The Hunt
2020
The Invisible Man
2020
The Loudest Voice
2019
Us
2019
Happy Death Day 2U
2019
Glass
2019
Halloween
2018
The Body
2018
BlacKkKlansman
2018
Sharp Objects
2018
The First Purge
2018
Upgrade
2018
Truth or Dare
2018
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Happy Death Day
2017
Creep 2
2017
Birth of the Dragon
2017
Get Out
2017
Split
2017
12 Deadly Days
2016
The Purge: Election Year
2016
Hush
2016
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
2015
The Visit
2015
Ouija
2014
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014
Whiplash
2014
The Green Inferno
2014
The Purge: Anarchy
2014
Unfriended
2014
The Normal Heart
2014
13 Sins
2014
Creep
2014
The Purge
2013
Paranormal Activity 4
2012
Sinister
2012
Insidious
2011
Paranormal Activity 2
2010
Tooth Fairy
2010
Paranormal Activity
2007
The Darwin Awards
2007
Anything but Ghosts
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Untitled Curry Barker Film
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