Jason Blum

Born: 1969-02-20 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Known For: Production

Biography

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.

Filmography

2027

The Exorcist: Martyrs ... (Producer)
Paranormal Activity 8 ... (Producer)
Untitled Blair Witch Film ... (Producer)

2026

Obsession ... (Executive Producer)
Lee Cronin's The Mummy ... (Producer)
Strung ... (Producer)
Scarpetta ... (Executive Producer)
Worst Neighbor Ever ... (Executive Producer)
Insidious: Out of the Further ... (Producer)
The Uprising ... (Producer)

2025

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 ... (Producer)
M3GAN 2.0 ... (Producer)
The Bondsman ... (Executive Producer)
Black Phone 2 ... (Producer)
The Rainmaker ... (Executive Producer)
Wolf Man ... (Producer)
Drop ... (Producer)
The Lost Bus ... (Producer)
The Woman in the Yard ... (Producer)
Nightmares of Nature ... (Executive Producer)

2024

Speak No Evil ... (Producer)
Night Swim ... (Producer)
The Sticky ... (Executive Producer)
Worst Ex Ever ... (Executive Producer)
Afraid ... (Producer)
Imaginary ... (Producer)
Choir ... (Executive Producer)
House of Spoils ... (Producer)
Killer Cakes ... (Executive Producer)
Cabin in the Woods ... (Executive Producer)

2023

Five Nights at Freddy's ... (Producer)
Insidious: The Red Door ... (Producer)
Totally Killer ... (Producer)
The Exorcist: Believer ... (Producer)
The Horror of Dolores Roach ... (Executive Producer)
The Passenger ... (Executive Producer)
There's Something Wrong with the Children ... (Executive Producer)
Unseen ... (Executive Producer)
Floribama Murders ... (Executive Producer)
True Crime Story: Look Into My Eyes ... (Executive Producer)
My True Scam Story ... (Executive Producer)

2022

The Black Phone ... (Producer)
M3GAN ... (Producer)
Halloween Ends ... (Producer)
The Thing About Pam ... (Executive Producer)
They/Them ... (Producer)
Firestarter ... (Producer)
Mr. Harrigan's Phone ... (Producer)
Worst Roommate Ever ... (Executive Producer)
Nanny ... (Executive Producer)
The Anarchists ... (Executive Producer)
Soft & Quiet ... (Executive Producer)
Vengeance ... (Producer)
The Visitor ... (Executive Producer)
Torn Hearts ... (Executive Producer)
Our Father ... (Producer)
Unhuman ... (Executive Producer)
Dashcam ... (Producer)
Blumhouse's Compendium of Horror ... (Executive Producer)
Halloween in Hollywood as Self
Dangerous Breed: Crime. Cons. Cats. ... (Executive Producer)
The Youth Governor ... (Executive Producer)

2021

The Forever Purge ... (Producer)
Halloween Kills ... (Producer)
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin ... (Producer)
A House on the Bayou ... (Executive Producer)
The Manor ... (Executive Producer)
Relentless ... (Executive Producer)
What Happened, Brittany Murphy? ... (Executive Producer)
Tentacles ... (Executive Producer)
Blood Moon ... (Executive Producer)
American Refugee ... (Executive Producer)
Black as Night ... (Executive Producer)
Bingo Hell ... (Executive Producer)
Madres ... (Executive Producer)
Pray Away ... (Executive Producer)
This Is the Night ... (Producer)
Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity as Self
Covidwood as Self - Producer
Fall River ... (Executive Producer)
The People v. The Klan ... (Executive Producer)
Florida Man Murders ... (Executive Producer)
Pharma Bro ... (Executive Producer)
Groomed ... (Producer)
Exposure ... (Executive Producer)
The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween Hoedown as Himself
Ten Weeks ... (Executive Producer)

2020

The Hunt ... (Producer)
The Invisible Man ... (Producer)
History's Greatest Mysteries ... (Executive Producer)
The Good Lord Bird ... (Executive Producer)
The Craft: Legacy ... (Producer)
Fantasy Island ... (Producer)
You Should Have Left ... (Producer)
Freaky ... (Producer)
Black Box ... (Executive Producer)
The Vigil ... (Executive Producer)
Run Sweetheart Run ... (Producer)
My Valentine ... (Executive Producer)
Betaal ... (Executive Producer)
Nocturne ... (Executive Producer)
A Wilderness of Error ... (Executive Producer)
Evil Eye ... (Executive Producer)
Pooka Lives! ... (Executive Producer)
Crawlers ... (Executive Producer)
Good Boy ... (Executive Producer)
A Secret Love ... (Executive Producer)
Delivered ... (Executive Producer)
The Current Occupant ... (Executive Producer)
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections ... (Executive Producer)

2019

Glass ... (Producer)
Us ... (Producer)
The Loudest Voice ... (Executive Producer)
Down ... (Executive Producer)
Ma ... (Producer)
Happy Death Day 2U ... (Producer)
Sweetheart ... (Producer)
Stockholm ... (Executive Producer)
Adopt a Highway ... (Producer)
Treehouse ... (Executive Producer)
Don't Let Go ... (Producer)
Uncanny Annie ... (Executive Producer)
Black Christmas ... (Producer)
I'm Just F*cking with You ... (Executive Producer)
Midnight Kiss ... (Executive Producer)
Bloodline ... (Producer)
Prey ... (Producer)
School Spirit ... (Executive Producer)
Culture Shock ... (Executive Producer)
No One Saw a Thing ... (Executive Producer)
The Gallows Act II ... (Producer)
They Come Knocking ... (Executive Producer)
Pilgrim ... (Executive Producer)
Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice ... (Executive Producer)
A Nasty Piece of Work ... (Executive Producer)
All That We Destroy ... (Executive Producer)
Liberty: Mother of Exiles ... (Executive Producer)

2018

The Purge ... (Executive Producer)
Sharp Objects ... (Executive Producer)
Halloween ... (Producer)
Upgrade ... (Producer)
Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
Insidious: The Last Key ... (Producer)
BlacKkKlansman ... (Producer)
Unfriended: Dark Web ... (Producer)
The First Purge ... (Producer)
Truth or Dare ... (Producer)
Sacred Lies ... (Executive Producer)
GHOUL ... (Executive Producer)
Vidéo Club as Self
The Lie ... (Producer)
Delirium ... (Producer)
Tremors ... (Executive Producer)
Benji ... (Producer)
Flesh & Blood ... (Executive Producer)
The Body ... (Executive Producer)
Seven in Heaven ... (Producer)
Pooka! ... (Executive Producer)
New Year, New You ... (Executive Producer)
Run for Your Life ... (Executive Producer)
Bathtubs Over Broadway ... (Executive Producer)
The Purge: Behind the Series as Self
This Is Home: A Refugee Story ... (Executive Producer)

2017

Get Out ... (Producer)
Split ... (Producer)
Happy Death Day ... (Producer)
Cold Case Files ... (Executive Producer)
Creep 2 ... (Producer)
Amityville: The Awakening ... (Producer)
Birth of the Dragon ... (Executive Producer)
The Keeping Hours ... (Producer)
Lowriders ... (Producer)
Stephanie ... (Producer)
Sleight ... (Executive Producer)
Unveiling the Horror of Get Out as Self
Alive and Kicking ... (Executive Producer)
Haunters: The Art of the Scare as Self
Election Day: Lens Across America ... (Executive Producer)

2016

The Purge: Election Year ... (Producer)
Hush ... (Producer)
Ouija: Origin of Evil ... (Producer)
Viral ... (Producer)
12 Deadly Days ... (Executive Producer)
Incarnate ... (Producer)
The Darkness ... (Producer)
In a Valley of Violence ... (Producer)
The Veil ... (Producer)
#Room301 ... (Executive Producer)
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole? ... (Executive Producer)

2015

The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
Insidious: Chapter 3 ... (Producer)
The Boy Next Door ... (Producer)
The Visit ... (Producer)
Sinister 2 ... (Producer)
The Jinx ... (Executive Producer)
The Gift ... (Producer)
South of Hell ... (Executive Producer)
Eye Candy ... (Executive Producer)
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension ... (Producer)
Curve ... (Producer)
Visions ... (Producer)
Area 51 ... (Producer)
The Lazarus Effect ... (Producer)
The Gallows ... (Producer)
Jem and the Holograms ... (Producer)
Exeter ... (Executive Producer)
#15SecondScare ... (Executive Producer)
Hellevator ... (Executive Producer)
Fifteen ... (Executive Producer)
How to Dance in Ohio ... (Executive Producer)

2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
Whiplash ... (Producer)
Oculus ... (Executive Producer)
The Purge: Anarchy ... (Producer)
Ascension ... (Executive Producer)
Creep ... (Producer)
Unfriended ... (Executive Producer)
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones ... (Producer)
13 Sins ... (Executive Producer)
Ouija ... (Producer)
The Normal Heart ... (Executive Producer)
Jessabelle ... (Producer)
The Town that Dreaded Sundown ... (Producer)
Mockingbird ... (Producer)
Stretch ... (Producer)
Mercy ... (Producer)
Not Safe for Work ... (Producer)

2013

Insidious: Chapter 2 ... (Producer)
The Purge ... (Producer)
The Green Inferno ... (Executive Producer)
Dark Skies ... (Producer)
The Lords of Salem ... (Producer)
Plush ... (Producer)
Best Night Ever ... (Producer)
Whiplash ... (Executive Producer)
Stranded ... (Executive Producer)

2012

Sinister ... (Producer)
Lawless ... (Executive Producer)
The River ... (Executive Producer)
Paranormal Activity 4 ... (Producer)
The Bay ... (Producer)
The Babymakers ... (Producer)

2011

Paranormal Activity 3 ... (Producer)
Insidious ... (Producer)
The FP ... (Executive Producer)

2010

Tooth Fairy ... (Producer)
Paranormal Activity 2 ... (Producer)

2009

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
Shark Tank as Self - Shark
Washingtonienne ... (Producer)

2008

The Reader ... (Co-Executive Producer)
The Accidental Husband ... (Producer)

2007

Paranormal Activity ... (Producer)
The Darwin Awards ... (Producer)
The Fever ... (Executive Producer)
Graduation ... (Executive Producer)

2006

Griffin & Phoenix ... (Producer)
Stagedoor ... (Executive Producer)

2005

Made in Hollywood as Self

2003

Easy Sex ... (Producer)
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina ... (Executive Producer)

2002

Hysterical Blindness ... (Executive Producer)

2000

Hamlet ... (Executive Producer)

1997

Baggage ... (Producer)

1996

One Way Out ... (Executive Producer)

1995

Kicking and Screaming ... (Associate Producer)

1990

Air America ... (Production Office Assistant)