Jason Blum — Movies, TV Shows & Producing Credits

The essay

Reading Jason Blum

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Jason Blum has 0 productions in the Nutevio catalogue. Jason Blum (born February 20, 1969) is an American film producer and the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, the studio behind some of the most influential horror films of the 21st century. Under his leadership, Blumhouse produced the blockbuster franchises Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, and Halloween, helping redefine low-budget, high-impact genre filmmaking. Blum’s producing credits also include Sinister, Oculus, Whiplash, The Gallows, The Gift, Hush, Split, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Get Out, Happy Death Day, Upgrade, Us, The Invisible Man, Freaky, The Black Phone, M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Speak No Evil, spanning horror, thriller, and prestige drama. He has received multiple Academy Awards Best Picture nominations for Whiplash, Get Out, and BlacKkKlansman. In television, Blum won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for The Normal Heart and later earned an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for the acclaimed true-crime miniseries The Jinx.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Blum set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.