Jason Blum.Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty
The producer behind theParanormal Activityfranchise doesn’t think highly of the latest entry.
At the Locarno Film Festival,Jason Blumsaid, according toVariety, that the end is near for the series, which bolstered his company Blumhouse Productions with the low-budget 2007 original.
“It has been enough already. That lastParanormal Activitymovie was terrible,” he said.
This past October, a reboot titledParanormal Activity: Next of Kinpremiered debuted on Paramount+ fromUnderwaterdirector William Eubank. Set on an Amish farm, the film started a new narrative and lore for the franchise, straying away from the main storyline of the previous installments. It starred Emily Bader, Roland Buck III, Dan Lippert and Jaye Ayres-Brown.
Reps for Eubank did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin(2021).Courtesy Paramount Players
Through Blumhouse Productions, Blum, 53, has produced hits likeGet Out,The Purge,Sinisterand HBO’sSharp Objects, plus recent releases likeThe Black Phone,They/Them,Firestarterand theHalloweensequels. The company’s ownership of that horror franchise concludes with this fall’sHalloween Ends, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Blumhouse is also working on a reboot ofThe Exorcist.
“WithHalloween, we only had the rights to three movies, so we said, ‘Halloween Ends!’ It ends for Blumhouse, at least. With other things, you just have this feeling it’s time to put them to bed,” Blum also said of deciding to end theParanormal Activityseries. “It would come back if some director I love, like Scott Derrickson, said: ‘I have a great idea for aParanormal Activitymovie. But it’s not something I want to do [right now].”
Back in 2015, whenParanormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension(in 3D, no less) was touted as the “last"Paranormal Activitymovie, Blum told IGN about concluding the franchise and giving fans answers.
“It felt like we posed a lot of questions and I was tired of doing that. There was a fatigue in the audience that was like, ‘Stop teasing us, we want answers.’ It’s hard to give answers and keep going so it felt like a natural time to wrap it up,” he said at the time. “Most horror franchises, they just stop when the last one doesn’t make any money. That’s just sad and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth about the whole series. I really didn’t want to do that with this.”
“Paramount was very agreeable to that notion. They came to the same conclusion themselves so we really are agreed about it. It’ll giveParanormal Activitya better cultural impact without grinding it into the ground.”
source: people.com
