Blumhouse

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as studio. The films the hosts said they were behind, which the two lists below run through too: Unfriended (2014); The Visit (2015); Obsession (2025); River (2026); Happy Death Day; Insidious; Ouija: Origin of Evil; Sinister; The Purge. Count them as producer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Smile (2022): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Obsession (2025), which they were behind as buyer: Smile ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Even more so it borrows from the original Smile: what if a person stared at the camera.
    “Well, very much from the original smile.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:33 · Adam Nayman (0.55 sure it was them)

Smile 2: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Obsession (2025), which they were behind as buyer: Smile 2 ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2.
    “obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Blair Witch Project (1999): 1 line

  1. unmapped (forerunner) · through Obsession (2025), which they were behind as buyer: The Blair Witch Project ⇒ Obsession (the host's read). Blair Witch is named a forbear of a word-of-mouth phenomenon among young people.
    “obviously the Blair Witch Project is a forbear here in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:08:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Producing (1) everyone in producing

Studio (9) everyone in studio

What was said about them, by kind

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Blumhouse → Marvel. Blumhouse's small budgets let them do things a Marvel movie can't.
    “they can do a lot of stuff in these kinds of movies that they might not be able to in a Marvel movie”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:16:21 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Unfriended → Blumhouse. Unfriended fits the cheap, high-concept Blumhouse mold.
    “Yeah, you can see that it's in that blumhouse mold that I was describing.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Blumhouse → Kevin Bacon. Blumhouse pairs unknown-director micro-budgets with name stars like Kevin Bacon on profit participation.
    “we'll have Kevin Bacon star in this movie, like sinister”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:16:09 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.