Terror Tram: Enter the Blumhouse (HHN 2025)

[Jerroddragon]

lol, I enjoyed last years house....but who was demanding this back?

 

[EAS]

lol, I enjoyed last years house....but who was demanding this back?



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Jason Blum

 

[rageofthegods]

I mean, I liked it.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I mean, I liked it.

I did as well but thats not the same as Popular Demand

 

[Lc.]

I mean,

lol, I enjoyed last years house....but who was demanding this back?

Apparently, it wasn't last place this time around on the GSATs after what sounded like being on a hot losing streak for a while now lol. So I guess from that perspective it makes sense, not "Back by Popular Demand" sense, but that's just media talk, like AVP with different circumstances

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

It's neat that theres more indoor maze-like sections here than previous years with a significant bit more detail than the usual generic fences, but its very funny to me that this is supposedly a "15 Years of Blumhouse" celebration and what we have representing 15 years worth of movies is uh....
-2 Critical flops from the last 2 years
-2 Pretty good slashers (that we've had twice before)
-1 As-of-yet unreleased sequel (to a movie we've had twice before)
-Presumably the same Purge and Insidious stuff we've gotten for 12 of those 15 years
Would've really liked to see some Sinister, Creep, Hush, heck just give me an empty room with a door slowly opening to represent Paranormal Activity, just something we haven't gotten to see much of before.
I hope there's at least a good handful of easter eggs from other stuff otherwise why even use that in the branding. If the mirror from Oculus is sitting around somewhere I'll forgive all.

 

[DTH]

The finale room(s) are a manifestation of an actual Blumhouse that Megan creates, so my guess is most of the easter eggs will be there. Unless it's just a repeat of that section where they did that in Horrors of Blumhouse Vol 2.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

The finale room(s) are a manifestation of an actual Blumhouse that Megan creates, so my guess is most of the easter eggs will be there. Unless it's just a repeat of that section where they did that in Horrors of Blumhouse Vol 2.

I pray for the former but I expect the latter lol.
Either way I do expect this to be better than last year since it seems like they're throwing more money at it, just a very strange marketing choice.

 

[Viator]

me and a friend were talking logistics, and I think the key comes to that even with Insidious (only the 5th film was distributed by Sony, first film falls under Comcast now for NA as a result of distribution being morphed into FocusFeature), that all of the Blumhouse IPs featured are those owned by NBCUniversal.

It’s not because they don’t want them creatively, but I imagine they’d rather play it safe and keep it with in-house distributed IPs more than anything. As much as I’d like to see Sinister + Paranormal Activity.

 

[Jerroddragon]

I mean we are getting two new Ips

Currently only the purge area might feel the most similar but you can see a snowman so black phone is getting completely new areas and sets and I assume the same for Megan

I’m just glad it’s not a clone, my guess is it’s a little bit better then last year

 

[ghostsarejerks]

As long as we see that cheesy demon from Horrors of Blumhouse Vol 2 from the fake movie they added at the end I'll be happy.

 

[bdubsCEO]

This is representative of something larger that I’ve always found sort of interesting. For whatever reason, Blumhouse are very, VERY proud of themselves and their brand identity and Universal seems more than willing to push them as some kind of horror giant as well.

It’s not that I dislike them, but their legacy is mediocrity. They’re just “that horror studio that puts out like 20 movies a year, mostly just lazy sequels and incredibly derivative spins on the most overdone tropes in the genre”.

They have a couple exceptional and influential movies, but their pride in BEING Blumhouse has always confused me. It’s like they think their movies are far better received than they actually are. I’d love to see an easter egg from the bizarre horror version of Fantasy Island they made in 2020, such a weird project.

 

[EAS]

This is representative of something larger that I’ve always found sort of interesting. For whatever reason, Blumhouse are very, VERY proud of themselves and their brand identity and Universal seems more than willing to push them as some kind of horror giant as well.

It’s not that I dislike them, but their legacy is mediocrity. They’re just “that horror studio that puts out like 20 movies a year, mostly just lazy sequels and incredibly derivative spins on the most overdone tropes in the genre”.

They have a couple exceptional and influential movies, but their pride in BEING Blumhouse has always confused me. It’s like they think their movies are far better received than they actually are. I’d love to see an easter egg from the bizarre horror version of Fantasy Island they made in 2020, such a weird project.

Truthfully, I do not think Jason Blum really has any pride in Blumhouse as a creative brand. It's more that he is proud of having achieved a business model that is very profitable, and the more it can be pushed, the more profitable it can be; Universal stands to benefit as well given that they finance many of the movies under the Blumhouse banner. I'm not a Blumhouse hater exactly because there are plenty of films they have made that I have liked, and there are exceptional talents who have been involved in Blumhouse movies (like, as one example, Ethan Hawke). But unfortunately, Blumhouse is the opposite of a horror brand created as a passion project. Eldritch Terror on YouTube had what I thought was a very fair video expressing this view.

 

[rageofthegods]

This is representative of something larger that I’ve always found sort of interesting. For whatever reason, Blumhouse are very, VERY proud of themselves and their brand identity and Universal seems more than willing to push them as some kind of horror giant as well.

It’s not that I dislike them, but their legacy is mediocrity. They’re just “that horror studio that puts out like 20 movies a year, mostly just lazy sequels and incredibly derivative spins on the most overdone tropes in the genre”.

They have a couple exceptional and influential movies, but their pride in BEING Blumhouse has always confused me. It’s like they think their movies are far better received than they actually are. I’d love to see an easter egg from the bizarre horror version of Fantasy Island they made in 2020, such a weird project.

Ehh, disagree, I think they deserve a lot of credit. Insidious, Invisible Man, Black Phone, Happy Death Day, Ma, Upgrade, Paranormal Activity, Sinister, Halloween '18, Get Out, Split, M3gan, Whiplash, Blackkklansman, and Speak No Evil are all movies that range from pretty good to masterpieces. Brands have been built on less.

I think you're right that they're not as on-top as they were in the 2010s though, and I chock that up to competition and changing tastes. In general, their strategy of "give a veteran director with some flops a ghost/slasher movie with marketable hook" doesn't work as well when there's a new horror movie every week. You need to be a little unusual and auteur-driven to stand out now.

 

[Spookies n' Stuff]

This is representative of something larger that I’ve always found sort of interesting. For whatever reason, Blumhouse are very, VERY proud of themselves and their brand identity and Universal seems more than willing to push them as some kind of horror giant as well.

It’s not that I dislike them, but their legacy is mediocrity. They’re just “that horror studio that puts out like 20 movies a year, mostly just lazy sequels and incredibly derivative spins on the most overdone tropes in the genre”.

They have a couple exceptional and influential movies, but their pride in BEING Blumhouse has always confused me. It’s like they think their movies are far better received than they actually are. I’d love to see an easter egg from the bizarre horror version of Fantasy Island they made in 2020, such a weird project.

It does feel like they very clearly want to be thought of as a household name for all things horror, but I think they're trying a little too hard to kinda manicure their public image rather than letting the public dictate it and letting things actually grow naturally.

The assumptions they made about the surefire sucess about Megan 2 and their tendency to just throw stuff at the wall and try as hard as they can to make it stick I feel like kinda perfectly exemplify that. They objectively have hits and have influenced modern horror's landscape, but I don't think that was because they curate the best talent and ideas, it's kinda just getting lucky with their scattershot method of filmmaking and just picking out the things that make money to be their identity. In the process of that it feels like they just expect people to forget the bad movies ever existed, but like, they're right there, we can see them, so I feel like that waters down their brand so much more in the public eye than you'd see with other big horror-forward production companies like Neon.

 

[TheHaunter]

I'm really excited for this Tram. The IPS sound really cool even though some of them are repeats from Last Year. I like that they added Insidious, Black Phone 2, and Excorcist beliver. Last year's tram was really good but I'm also glad they bought back some kind of storyline since last year seemed like the team members were a part of the terror tram instead of it feeling like it got hijacked.