WTAF happened to Blumhouse? In 2023, the horror imprint could do not wrong with mega-hits like M3GAN, and Five Nights at Freddy’s, while even the more played out Exorcist and Insidious horror franchises both grossed over $150 million each. In 2024, they can’t buy a hit. Shonky low-brow fare like Nightswim, Imaginary, and Afraid have sputtered to barely noticed single-digit openings; if there’s a Blumhouse house-style or flavour, it’s not playing well right now. A string of sequels await; their latest effort Speak No Evil has more buzz about it, but not much; it’s a routine if nasty-ass home-invasion movie in which the vague twist is that it’s the house-guests who are being terrorised by their creepy hosts. If the trailer for Speak No Evil was intriguing, the film itself lacks any real mystery; James Watkins’ highly derivative remake of a 2022 Scandinavian domestic violence thriller by Christian Tafdrup suffers from the same innate ridiculousness of many of 2024’s supposedly adult thrillers (Trap, Watchers, Blink Twice)…..