But then there’s always been a lot more to Blumhouse than scares and gore, ever since Jason Blum founded the company in 2000. These films may turn off audiences expecting Happy Death Day or Sinister.

Releasing four not-quite-horror movies in October is a risk, especially while branding them as the product of one of the most popular modern horror-producing companies. (Four more are set for sometime in 2021.) Unlike the Into the Dark films, the Welcome to the Blumhouse installments all fall generally into the “suspense” category, with other elements mixed in - sometimes including horror, but not always. The first four films debut this October: The Lie and Black Box on the 6th, and Evil Eye and Nocturne on the 13th. Will Welcome to the Blumhouse break through? The project is certainly casting a wider net in terms of subject matter and approach. But while some individual Into the Dark episodes have been well-reviewed, the series as a whole has yet to become as much a part of the pop-culture zeitgeist as anthologies like American Horror Story or Black Mirror - or even Blumhouse horror franchises like Paranormal Activity and Insidious. In October 2018, Hulu started carrying the still-ongoing series Into the Dark, a monthly-installment anthology of low-budget, feature-length Blumhouse horror films, each with a loose seasonal theme. Welcome to the Blumhouse is the latest attempt by the successful, largely horror-focused media company Blumhouse Productions to showcase talented filmmakers with offbeat, perhaps-not-yet-ready-for-the-big-screen ideas. And on the ground, next to a garage containing a blood-stained car, a sullen family sits around a dining-room table.

The second floor is Evil Eye, and has Indian decor behind a grisly tableau featuring a knife-wielding woman and a corpse. Below that is the movie Black Box, with a man receiving a bizarre medical treatment while a young girl sits on a sofa nearby. The top floor represents the movie Nocturne, with a young woman sitting at a piano while a ghostly figure floats by the window. The poster for Amazon’s new film series Welcome to the Blumhouse features a picture of a literal house: a four-story family home, with each story occupied by, well, a story.

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