Blums

For all that Jason Voorhees is a scary movie icon who strikes fear (and machetes) in the hearts of his victims, Friday the 13th’s lawsuits and legal troubles over the years have been as much a horror as anything else about the franchise. Thankfully, TV fans will be taking a trip to Crystal Lake with Bryan Fuller and Peacock, and now Jason Blum is back in the conversation, and he has one of the best ideas possible for which director should spearhead the next big screen feature if his production company ever lands the…

Most, if not all, great horror filmmakers working today draw inspiration from the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. For Jason Blum, there is one Hitchcock classic that stands out among the auteur’s pristine filmography. As a contribution to Variety‘s “100 Greatest Movies of All Time” package, the producer behind some of the most successful horror and thriller films of the last decades wrote about Hitchcock’s Vertigo, and its ability to “possess” its viewers. In his essay, Blum talked about film’s incomparable…