Blumhouse Productions

Todd K. Platts is Professor of Sociology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has published extensively on horror cinema.Victoria McCollum is Course Director of BSc Cinematic Arts at Ulster University, Magee. Victoria has published a number of cutting-edge books on film, media and TV.Mathias Clasen is Associate Professor of Literature and Media in the English Department at Aarhus University, Denmark, and director of the Recreational Fear Lab.

• AcknowledgementsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionBlumhouse at the Box Office, 2009-2018‘Those Things You See Through’: Get Out, Signifyin’, and Hollywood’s Commodification of African American Independent CinemaHaunted Bodies, Haunted HousesGothixity: Evoking the Gothic through New Forms of Toxic MasculinitySpace Invaders: Aliens and Recessionary Anxieties in Dark SkiesThe (Blum)House Found Footage Horror BuiltInsidious Patterns: An Integrative Analysis of Blumhouse’s Most Important FranchiseThe Purge: Violence and Religion as Toxic CocktailHappy Death Day: Beyond the Neoslasher CycleHaunted Networks: Transparency and Exposure in Unfriended and Unfriended: Dark WebBlumhouse’s Halloween (2018) the Shifting Ethos of Slasher Remakes‘Disobedient Women’ and Malicious Men: A Comparative Assessment of the Politics of Black Christmas (1974) and (2019)What Lies Behind the White Hood: Looking at Horror Through a Realistic Lens Through Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansmanBibliographyIndex