This Blumhouse Horror Movie Made Less than $1000 In Its Opening Weekend
Horror fans are interested in Blumhouse's production model, with movie budgets sitting around $5 million and sometimes as low as $3 million. Jason Blum told Nightmare Magazine that he was inspired by how he put out Paranormal Activity and began using that model for other films. Blum said, «I love the notion of a movie being done very low budget and independently and then distributed by a studio. So what I set my sights on was to try and build a business around that idea, and everyone felt we would never be able to do that again but then we did Insidious pretty soon after Paranormal. After Sinister and The Purge, everyone decided we were onto something.»
While many Blumhouse films have done incredibly well and made a ton of money, there is one film that made just a few hundred dollars. It's also not a film that is often talked about and seems to have slipped under the radar in general. Which Blumhouse horror movie made less than $1,000 at the box office? It's part of a famous horror franchise and is fascinating to hear about.
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Amityville: The Awakening was released in 2017 and ended up making less than $1,000. The movie has a star-studded cast including Jennifer Morrison, McKenna Grace, Bella Thorne, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, telling the story of Belle Walker (Thorne) who starts living in the famous haunted house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island from The Amityville Horror. Joan (Jason Leigh) thinks that the house can save Belle's twin brother James (Cameron Monaghan) who is in a coma. The movie isn't critically acclaimed at all, with a 30% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and 32% audience score. There are some Blumhouse sequels that aren't great in terms of plot and storytelling
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