Bummer House: A Deep Dive into the Blumhouse Horror Filmography and All Things Horror Movies

Night Swim (2024) With Steve Coates from the Bucket of Chum Podcast

The gang takes a dip into the deep end of haunted ghost horror films with returning guest Steve Coates from the Bucket of Chum podcast. Can you breathe through a kinked hose? was this better off as a short film? How can a bad movie look so good? all this and more on this weeks episode!
 
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Night Swim is a 2024 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Bryce McGuire (in his feature directorial debut), and based on the 2014 short film of the same name by McGuire and Rod Blackhurst. The film stars Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon. Its plot follows a suburban family who discover that their backyard swimming pool is haunted.

The Guest (2014)

This week the gang ponders the question… would there be any Stranger Things without 2014’s The Guest? Is this an homage to The Terminator and Halloween? (Spoiler alert: IT IS) Join the two dimwits as they try to parse out the details on all these questions and more as they attempt to avoid JUDGEMENT DAY! 
The Guest is a 2014 American horror action movie thriller film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. The film stars Dan Stevens and Maika Monroe, with a supporting cast that includes Leland Orser, Sheila Kelley, Brendan Meyer, and Lance Reddick. It tells the story of a U.S. soldier (Stevens) called David who unexpectedly visits the Peterson family, introducing himself as a friend of their son who died in combat in Afghanistan. After he has been staying in their home for a couple of days, a series of deaths occur, and the daughter Anna (Monroe) suspects David is connected to them.
 
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BUMMED DETECTIVE: TRUE DETECTIVE NIGHT COUNTRY: EP 2 & 3

The gang solves the case! Join them as they Discuss Issa Lopez's season 4 episode 2 and 3 of True Detective: Night Country

The Gift (2015)

Welcome to the re-gift! How bout that Max, It's got 3 speeds! this week the gang talks about the David Fincher esq 2015 horror thriller movie The Gift! 
 
The Gift is a 2015 psychological thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Joel Edgerton in his feature directorial debut, and co-produced by Jason Blum and Rebecca Yeldham. The film stars Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall as Simon and Robyn Callem, a couple intimidated by a figure from Simon's past, played by Edgerton.

BUMMED DETECTIVE: True Detective Night Country EP1 (2024)

The gang gets BUMMED as they begin their new spinoff series and explore the debut of True Detective season 4: NIGHT COUNTRY
 
The fourth season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 14, 2024, on HBO. The season is set in the fictional town of Ennis, Alaska, and follows the investigation behind the disappearance of eight men from a research station. The season stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis as Detectives Liz Danvers and Evangeline Navarro. It is the first season to carry a subtitle, Night Country.
 
 

When Evil Lurks (2023)

Merry Bleakmas everyone! This Christmas the gang is here to make sure none of your holiday wishes come true and all joy is sent to a farm upstate. The gang climbed down your chimney to discuss the 2023 soul crushingly depressing horror movie When Evil Lurks (Spanish: Cuando acecha la maldad). Join us... or you'll be rotten by Christmas morning!
Happy holidays everyone
 
When Evil Lurks (Spanish: Cuando acecha la maldad) is a 2023 supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Demián Rugna. An international co-production of Argentina and the United States, the film stars Ezequiel Rodriguez, Demián Salomon, Luis Ziembrowski, Silvia Sabater and Marcelo Michinaux.[3]

Thanksgiving (2023)

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! After a long holiday break riddled with sickness and technical difficulties, the Bummer Boys are back to give thanks as they cover the 2023 Eli Roth slasher horror movie THANKSGIVING! Corn Mazes, Proper turkey recipes, Patrick Dempsey, ALL WILL BE CARVED! Oh the Horror!
 
Thanksgiving is a 2023 American slasher film directed by Eli Roth and written by Jeff Rendell, based a story by the pair, who produced with Roger Birnbaum. Based on Roth's fictitious trailer of the same name from Grindhouse (2007), it is the third feature-length adaptation of a fictitious Grindhouse trailer after Robert Rodriguez's Machete (2010) and Jason Eisener's Hobo with a Shotgun (2011). The film stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon, and follows a small Massachusetts town that is terrorized by a killer in a John Carver mask around the Thanksgiving holiday.
Thanksgiving was theatrical released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on November 17, 2023. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $37 million worldwide. A sequel is in development.

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S (2023)

The Bummer Boys cover the Blumhouse horror movie adaption of the video game FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S! And they do it in one night! How 'bout them apples? Is Matthew Lillard's character just bootleg Stu Maher? Is Josh Hutcherson just bootleg Kyle Gallner? All this and more on this nights saturnalia inside THE BUMMER HOUSE!
 
Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2023 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series and franchise of the same name created by Scott Cawthon. Directed by Emma Tammi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback, from a story by Cawthon, Chris Lee Hill, and Tyler MacIntyre, the film stars Josh Hutcherson as a troubled security guard who accepts a night-time job at an abandoned family entertainment center, where he discovers its four animatronic mascots come alive and are prone to murder. Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard appear in supporting roles.

HALLOWEEN KILLS (2021)

This one has been a long time coming. Some would say it’s been in gestation for… FOURTY YEARS! Join the Bummer Boys as they delve into the good movie within a bad movie, David Gordon Green’s horror movie sequel continuation of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic. Does evil die tonight? Does halloween truly kill? That’s right! It’s time for HALLOWEEN KILLS!
 
Halloween Kills is a 2021 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and co-written by Green, Danny McBride and Scott Teems. It is the sequel to 2018's Halloween and the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney, who reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers respectively. Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton also reprise their roles from the previous film, with Anthony Michael Hall and Thomas Mann joining the cast. The film, which begins where the previous film ended, sees Strode and her family continuing to fend off Myers, this time with the help of the Haddonfield community.

Totally Killer (2023)

The Bummer Boys head back to the year 1987 to bring you a story... A STORY THAT YOU HAVE HEARD BEFORE! the debate of what is homage and what is pure plagiarism unfolds as they cover the 2023 blumhouse horror comedy movie TOTALLY KILLER!
Totally Killer is a 2023 American black comedy slasher film directed by Nahnatchka Khan from a screenplay by David Matalon, Sasha Perl-Raver, and Jen D'Angelo, and a screen story by Matalon and Perl-Raver.[3] Produced by Jason Blum, under his Blumhouse Television banner, and Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath under their Divide/Conquer banner, it stars Kiernan Shipka, Olivia Holt, and Julie Bowen. The story follows Jamie (Shipka) who, after her mother is murdered by the same Sweet 16 Killer who went on a murder spree 35 years earlier, travels back in time to 1987, where she pairs up with her mother to catch the killer during his original spree and return to her timeline before she is trapped in the past forever.