Halloween isn’t for an additional six months, however that isn’t stopping Blumhouse for holding its first-ever Halfway to Halloween film fest.

The horror movie producer will display screen 5 movies as a part of the fest, together with “Sinister,” “The Purge,” “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Insidious” and “The Invisible Man.”

“This is a terrific way of just getting some older films out there and giving a younger generation who may have missed them on the big screen at the time they were released an opportunity to grab their friends and enjoy a night at the movies,” Blumhouse Vice President of Feature Film Development Ryan Turek advised Spectrum News.

The fest will mark the 13^th anniversary of “Insidious,” directed by James Wan, who Turek referred to as “a master of the craft of scary movies who gave us films like ‘The Conjuring.’” Earlier this 12 months, Blumhouse merged with Wan’s firm, Atomic Monster, so the pageant is bringing collectively “two powerhouses in horror,” Turek mentioned.

Each movie will display screen for a single day through the fest, going down at AMC Theatres in 40 cities from Atlanta to Indianapolis to Wichita. “Sinister,” the 2012 movie starring Ethan Hawke as a true-crime author who discovers a homicide case, opens the pageant March 29. Hawke additionally stars in 2013’s “The Purge,” a 12-hour interval throughout which all crimes are authorized, screening March 30.

“Ouija: Origin of Evil” performs March 31, “Insidious” on April 1 and “The Invisible Man” closes out the fest April 2.

“We have a lot of films that are sequels that are now streaming,” Turek mentioned, noting there are 5 movies in every of “The Purge” and “Insidious” franchises. “There are a lot of people who are seeing those sequels for the first time and are wondering where they all began.”

In addition to the options, pageant goers will see unique on-screen messages from Ethan Hawke, James Wan and Jason Blum, the latter of whom co-founded Blumhouse in 2000 and launched the blockbuster “Paranormal Activity” in 2007.

In 2023, the Blumhouse movie “Five Nights at Freddy’s” was the highest-grossing horror movie within the U.S. and Canada, bringing in additional than $137 million.

As of October 2022, nearly two-thirds (64%) of adults aged 30 to 44 surveyed within the United States mentioned they both preferred or beloved the horror film style, in line with Statista Research Department knowledge.

“We just happen to tell deeply dramatic stories through the conduit of scary movies,” mentioned Turek, who was government producer on “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” “The Black Phone” and the lately launched “Night Swim,” a couple of household who strikes into a brand new home solely to study it has a darkish secret that performs out within the yard pool.

“These movies are roller coaster rides. I think that there’s always been an appeal for kind of dark subject matter,” he mentioned. “People love to feel safe in the theater. There’s always a space between the horrors they are seeing on screen and their spot in the theater.”

Horror followers who miss the Halfway to Halloween fest may have no scarcity of Blumhouse movies to see this 12 months. “Speak No Evil,” a couple of household’s dream trip turning right into a nightmare, shall be launched in September. “Wolf Man,” the Blumhouse remake of the 1941 movie a couple of man stalked by a lethal werewolf, is at present in manufacturing and is anticipated to be launched round Halloween.