EJ Moreno ranks 2019’s big horror releases… On the surface, it would seem that A24 and Blumhouse dominated horror this year with significant releases. But on closer inspection, 2019 has a wide variety of horror movies coming from all over the place. The genre is in such a great spot in 2019 with a little […]
Exclusive Interview – Prey actor Logan Miller talks modern horror, Blumhouse and Escape Room 2
Flickering Myth writer Justin Cook chats with actor Logan Miller ahead of Friday, September 27th’s home video release of Prey… The past few years have been big ones for Logan Miller. Between such high-profile projects as A Dog’s Purpose, Love, Simon, Escape Room and even a four-episode stint on The Walking Dead, the former Disney XD […]
Oliver Jackson-Cohen is Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man
Upgrade director Leigh Whannell and horror powerhouse Blumhouse plan to bring back the classic Universal Monster movie The Invisible Man, and we now have our titular character. Oliver Jackson-Cohen, a highlight from Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, will take on the iconic role. He joins previously cast Elisabeth Moss, Storm Reid, Aldis Hodge, and […]
Movie Review – Ma (2019)
Ma, 2019. Directed by Tate Taylor. Starring Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, McKaley Miller, Corey Fogelmanis, Gianni Paolo, Dante Brown, Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans, Allison Janney and Missi Pyle. SYNOPSIS: A lonely woman opens up her home to a group of teenagers in search of a police-free place to drink booze, but it soon becomes clear […]
Blumhouse brings the scares to Netflix with Ghoul
Currently riding high with yet another low-budget/big box-office success on their hands in The First Purge (read our ★★ review here), Blumhouse are now insidiously creeping into the world of streaming television with Ghoul. The 3-part series is being dropped on Netflix, and the spooky new trailer can be watched here… SEE ALSO: Boogeymen, Box Office, and […]
SXSW Movie Review – Upgrade (2018)
Upgrade, 2018. Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Betty Gabriel SYNOPSIS: Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem. There’s a scene in Upgrade […]
Chris Columbus and Blumhouse set to make Five Nights at Freddy’s movie
There’s good news today for fans of pant-wettingly scary video games as Blumhouse has announced it’s set to make an adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s, with director Chris Columbus in the chair. The director, who made Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter movies, has signed up to helm the adaptation of the […]
Boogeymen, Box Office, and Best Picture: The Blumhouse Effect
Matt Rodgers on the rise of Blumhouse Productions… If you peek through the window at Blumhouse Productions, past the levitating chair in the middle of the room, and the dank haired girl performing a spasmodic rendition of the robot to creepy effect, you’ll see an empty shelf, suspended by cobwebs, on a wall with an […]