The first four horror films in a planned eight-film anthology from Blumhouse Productions, Welcome to the Blumhouse, are officially coming to Amazon Prime Video in October. The announcement was made via a short teaser trailer that covered all four films, set to a creepy cover of 4 Non-Blondes’ “What’s Up” by the Canadian musician FJØRA. This first wave of movies are collaborations between Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, The Hunt, You Should Have Left) and Amazon Studios, with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum as executive producer on each one.
Black Box, the first feature-length film directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., stars Mamoudou Athie (Sorry For Your Loss, the forthcoming Jurassic World: Dominion) as a man who loses both his wife and his memory in a car accident. He opts to undergo, to quote the press release, “an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.” Black Box also stars Phylicia Rashad, Tosin Morohunfola, Charmaine Bingwa, and Troy James.
The Lie, also known as Between the Earth and Sky, originally premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. Directed and written by Veena Sur (The Salton Sea), it stars Mireille Enos and Peter Sarsgaard (who have both worked with Sur before on The Killing) as a couple who try to cover up a murder committed by their teenage daughter. The Lie, a remake of the 2015 German film We Monsters, also stars Joey King, Cas Anvar, Devery Jacobs, and Nicholas Lea.
Evil Eye, based on an Audible Original audio play written by Madhuri Shekar, stars Sarita Choudhury (Lady in the Water) as a mother who becomes convinced that there’s something wrong with her daughter’s seemingly perfect new boyfriend (Omar Maskati). Evil Eye is co-directed by twin brothers Elan and Rajeev Dassani, co-creators of the 2019 Netflix original series Jinn; this is Elan’s first time directing a full-length feature film and Rajeev’s third. Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico, the upcoming fourth Matrix movie) is listed as an executive producer alongside Blum.
Nocturne, the debut feature-length film from writer-director Zu Quirke, stars Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The Handmaid’s Tale) and Madison Iseman (Jumanji: The Next Level). A shy girl attending a prestigious school for classical musicians finds a notebook that belonged to a deceased classmate, and soon, begins to overtake her more accomplished twin sister. Nocturne also stars Jacques Colimon, Ivan Shaw, and Brandon “Garrus Vakarian” Keener.
Blumhouse Productions was founded in 2000 by Jason Blum, and first came to prominence in the film industry with the 2009 horror hit Paranormal Activity. The general Blumhouse model is to make a lot of original low-budget movies, most but not all of which are horror, and release them through the studio system. Unlike a lot of production studios with similar plans (shout-out to Charles Band), Blumhouse has a remarkably consistent track record of producing mainstream hits. These include the Purge series, Happy Death Day, Unfriended, Insidious, the 2018 reboot of John Carpenter’s Halloween, this year’s The Invisible Man, and most famously, Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Blumhouse’s other upcoming projects, most of which have been kicked to 2021 by COVID-19, include Halloween Kills, The Forever Purge, and Paranormal Activity 7.
It’s worth noting here that of the five directors in Welcome to the Blumhouse so far, three are making their first feature-length production here. Additionally, two are women, Sur and Quirke, which makes them the third and fourth female directors on Blumhouse projects following Black Christmas‘s Sophia Takal and Run Sweetheart Run‘s Shana Feste. This is only notable in that it follows up on Jason Blum’s 2018 pledge to hire more female directors for Blumhouse’s future horror projects.
Black Box and The Lie are planned to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on October 6th, with Evil Eye and Nocturne coming on October 13th. The other four films in Welcome to the Blumhouse are as yet unannounced, but are scheduled to debut at some point in 2021.
Source: Cinema Blend
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