7 Reasons Why Blumhouse Taking Over The Universal Monsters Is A GREAT Thing

Most importantly, Whannell and the entire crew at Blumhouse have made their intentions abundantly clear when it comes to the genre of these upcoming films. As Whannell himself put it on Twitter after the announcement;

"Couldn't be more excited to show what Blumhouse and I are doing with this character. All I'll say is - my number one priority is that it is SCARY. AS. HELL."

One of the seemingly most forgotten aspects of the original Universal Monster movies, in all of the hoopla surrounding their various reboots and remakes over the years, is that they were genuinely horrifying. When James Whale's original Frankenstein opened in 1931, there were widespread reports of audiences quite literally running from the theater in fear one Karloff's monster appeared on-screen.

That is what makes those films still such genuine classics, is the way in which directors such as Whale, Tod Browning, and George Waggner were able to utilize the horror genre to its fullest potential, creating thematically rich stories that shook audiences to the bone.

While previous attempts at rebooting the franchises always paid lip service to the franchise's horror roots, they rarely seemed willing to even vaguely commit to honoring it in any meaningful way. With Blumhouse and a genuine horror auteur like Whannell leading the charge, there's reason to hope that things will actually be downright frightful this time around.