Blumhouse Productions: The New House of Horror

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ISBN: 9781786838636

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Platts, Todd K.
Pub Date	15/05/2022
Binding	Paperback
Pages	288

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS

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Blumhouse Productions is the first academic book to examine one of the film industry's most successful producers of horror cinema. Individual chapters offer readers a deeper appreciation of how Blumhouse makes its films with an unusual, but successful, business model.

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Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and toxic masculinity. Blumhouse's business strategies and funding model are considered - including the company's high-profile franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Happy Death Day, and Halloween - alongside such key standalone films as Get Out and Black Christmas, and nonhorror films like BlackKklansman. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough primer for one of the most significant drivers behind the contemporary resurgence of horror cinema.