Jason Blum on The Forever Purge, Insidious 5 & Universal Monsters - Collider Connected

From hit original franchises like Insidious, Paranormal Activity, and The Purge to Oscar-winners like Whiplash and Get Out to having a hand in reviving beloved horror staples like Halloween and the Universal Monsters, Blumhouse is one of the most dominant forces in filmmaking right now. Growing from the core idea that lower budgets and established filmmakers with creative control would yield more interesting films with better returns, producer Jason Blum built a production studio with a sprawling creative net, collaborating with multiple studios, streamers, and a lengthy list of creative talent that consistently delivers some of the best genre films of the era. The latest big Blumhouse debut is The Forever Purge, the fifth installment in the near decade-long running franchise about a near-future America where all crime becomes legal during an annual 12-hour window known as “The Purge”. But in The Forever Purge, extremists decide that 12 hours a year just isn’t enough and in order to fix America, The Pu