“I was a big fan of shaving cream,” he continues.
“I got very good at creating shaving cream art on the streets of Dobbs Ferry.”
Halloween has continued to have importance for Blum down the decades.
Leslie Odom, Jr. and Ellen Burstyn in ‘The Exorcist: Believer’.Universal Pictures
This year, the producer is hoping to terrify audiences withtwobig-screen terror tales.
Don’t care to leave your house?
It doesn’t take a genius to know that releasing horror movies at pumpkin-carving time makes commercial sense.
Josh Hutcherson in ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’.Universal Pictures
But bringingThe Exorcist: BelieverandFive Nights at Freddy’sto the screen was not easy.
That turned into a legendarily tortuous process.
“I really give David Gordon Green credit for that,” Blum says.
Jason Blum.Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
Blumhouse executive and diehard horror fan Ryan Turek helped produce Blumhouse’s threeHalloweenmovies andThe Exorcist: Believer.
He reveals that Burstyn is a horror icon of a different stripe to the larger-than-life Curtis.
“We were very respectful and just made sure that everyone was on their A game.”
The exec admits he did slightly embarrass himself when he first met Burstyn.
I was like, oh my God, I wore the band’s shirt to a rock concert!"
Burstyn seems to be happy about her decision to return.
“Scott’s never been a writer or a producer on a movie.
“We went through an intensive process for this role, because he really anchors the whole film.
I’m excited for people to see Josh in a slightly new light.”
IfFive Nights at Freddy’sis successful, Tammi says she “hopes to be able to do more.”
“M3GAN 2is down in the Blumhouse laboratory getting worked on,” Turek says.
Jason will come in and go, ‘Guys, you’re overthinking it.
Cut to the chase, get to the scare.’
Blum is interested in reviving a couple more well-known horror franchises under the Blumhouse umbrella.
That’s for him to know and us to find out.
There’s two or three that I’m interested in, most of them I’mnotinterested in.
Some horror, at least in my opinion, won’t resonate to an audience from 2023.
But there’s some that’s timeless and that’s what I look for.”
The CEO will likely be making future plans in cahoots with Atomic Monster.
Although, he admits he pursued them.
“Someone asked me, ‘Did they call you or did you call them?’
My answer is, I called them about 100 times,” the Blumhouse boss says.
It’s something I really wanted to do.
I pursued it and I really had a lot of fun.
You see these people [who] have five minutes to pitch their lifelong dream.
It’s a very emotional thing."
Not everything has gone Blum’s way of late.The Exorcist: Believerwas set to be released Oct. 13.
ThenTaylor Swiftsurprise announced in August that she would premierean Eras Tour concert movieon the same date.
Later that same day, Blum blinked and announced the Universal-distributedThe Exorcist: Believerwould be released one week earlier.
“Obviously, we moved off that and we bowed our head to Taylor Swift.
It was too risky to see if ‘Exorswift’ was going to take or not.
The one thing that scares me to death is Taylor Swift!”
Maybe Blum shoulddressas “Exorswift” this Halloween: half Bible-clutching priest, half guitar-strumming pop icon.
In 2018, Blum attended the event dressed as Donald Trump-tormenting adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Last year, the producer went as the titular robot fromM3GAN.
The Blumhouse chief explains that he is already thinking seriously of his costume for this year’s shindig.
“I am, I am, I am,” he says.
“I haven’t decided yet.
But I’ve narrowed it down to a few.”
At least he doesn’t have to worry about the cost of shaving cream.
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