10 Films That Helped Blumhouse Take Over Cinema

10. The Visit

In the decade or so between The Village and After Earth, thriller maestro M Night Shyamalan couldn't buy a good review. The five films he made during that period have an average Rotten Tomatoes score of 21% and the success of The Sixth Sense must have seemed a very long time ago. His next film was The Visit - a found footage horror movie that eventually had the clout of Jason Blum placed squarely behind it.

The result of this was a decent set of reviews and a global box office haul of almost $100m from a budget of just $5m - as per the low-budget Blumhouse formula. The film is a solid, back-to-basics horror story with a killer twist that gives way to an unchained, bonkers final act. It isn't a movie as special and immediately memorable as The Sixth Sense, but it was enough to bring Shyamalan back into the fold, where he subsequently made Split, also for Blumhouse.

Such was the power of The Visit in rehabilitating Shyamalan's reputation that he was nominated for the Razzie Redeemer award as a result of his work on the movie, suggesting a phoenix rising from the ashes of his terrible fimography. In this case, it was Jason Blum who helped to hoist Shyamalan out of the dirt.