First look at Amazon’s ‘Welcome to Blumhouse’ series featuring Sydney Sweeney, Sunita Mani, Joey King and more

Erik Anderson August 14, 2020

Phylicia Rashad as Dr. Lillian Brooks and Mamoudou Athie as Nolan in BLACK BOX

Today revealed a first look at Amazon Prime Video’s Welcome To The Blumhouse, a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios.

The films feature a wide array of star including Phylicia Rashad, Sydney Sweeney, Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joey King.

THE LIE, BLACK BOX, NOCTURNE, and EVIL EYE are the first four films to premiere worldwide in October. BLACK BOX and THE LIE will be exclusively released on Prime Video October 6, followed by EVIL EYE and NOCTURNE on October 13.

Check out your first look at this soon to be horror classics.

BLACK BOX October 6, 2020

Having lost his wife and his memory in a tragic car accident, news photographer Nolan Wright (Mamoudou Athie) is desperate to regain a sense of normalcy for both himself and his young daughter Ava (Amanda Christine). So when brilliant neuropsychiatrist Dr. Lillian Brooks (Phylicia Rashad) invites him to participate in an experimental treatment that might reverse his condition, he agrees. Using a hypnosis-inducing device called the Black Box, she unearths lost memories which allows patients to experience them first-hand. But the memories he experiences reveal a much darker past than he anticipated. Even more terrifying is the disfigured creature that threatens to kill Nolan in his surreal dream-state. A haunting descent into one man’s shattered psyche, Black Box is a high-tech thriller that poses the question: Do we run our minds or do our minds run us?

Directed by: Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.; Teleplay by: Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. and Stephen Herman; Story by: Stephen Herman; Starring: Mamoudou Athie, Phylicia Rashad, Amanda Christine, Tosin Morohunfola, Charmaine Bingwa, and Troy James; Executive produced by: Jason Blum, Jay Ellis, Aaron Bergman, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Mynette Louie and William Marks.

Peter Sarsgaard as Jay and Joey King as Kayla in THE LIE

THE LIE October 6, 2020

A divorced mother and father find themselves trapped in a living nightmare when their daughter confesses to murder in The Lie, a gripping psychological thriller about the lengths parents will go to in order to protect their child. While driving his 15-year-old daughter Kayla (Joey King) and her best friend Brittany (Devery Jacobs) to a weekend retreat in the dead of winter, aging rocker Jay (Peter Sarsgaard) pulls over to the side of the road for a quick bathroom break. Although the two girls enter the surrounding woods together, only Kayla returns. Terrified she could be tried as an adult, Jay and his ex-wife Rebecca (Mireille Enos) cover up Kayla’s crime with a web of lies and deceit. But the truth won’t stay buried, and as one mistake leads to another, the desperate parents discover that what actually happened in those icy woods is more shocking than they imagined.

Written and directed by: Veena Sud; Starring: Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joey King; Produced by: Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Christopher Tricarico, and Jason Blum; Executive produced by: Howard Green, Kim Hodgert, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Aaron Barnett.

Sunita Mani as Pallavi and Sarita Choudhury as Usha in EVIL EYE

EVIL EYE October 13, 2020

At home in Delhi, India, proud parent Usha Khatri (Sarita Choudhury) is overjoyed when her daughter Pallavi (Sunita Mani) calls from New Orleans with news she has met someone special. But as Usha learns more about Pallavi’s wealthy boyfriend Sandeep (Omar Maskati), she becomes convinced something more nefarious than chance brought the young couple together. When Pallavi announces her engagement to Sandeep, mother and daughter are forced to confront dark family secrets and a terrifying supernatural force in this stylish psychological thriller.

Written by: Madhuri Shekar; Directed by: Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani; Starring: Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Omar Maskati, and Bernard White; Executive produced by: Jason Blum, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Guy Stodel, Anjula Acharia, Emilia Lapenta and Kate Navin; Produced by: Ian Watermeier, Nina Anand Aujla.

Madison Iseman as Vi and Sydney Sweeney as Juliet in NOCTURNE

NOCTURNE October 13, 2020

When a virtuoso music student commits suicide days before an important concert, her death unleashes a supernatural force in Nocturne, an unsettling tale of sibling rivalry set at a prestigious arts academy. Having grown up in the shadow of her more talented twin sister, shy piano student Juliet Lowe (Sydney Sweeney) is used to always being second-best when it comes to music. But when she finds a mysterious notebook that belonged to the school’s recently deceased star soloist,her playing miraculously begins to improve and she soon eclipses her sister Vivian (Madison Iseman) as the academy’s top student. Along with her newfound abilities, however, comes a series of frightening premonitions. As Juliet’s visions grow more nightmarish, she discovers the true cost of achieving artistic perfection.

Written and directed by: Zu Quirke; Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon, and Ivan Shaw; Executive produced by: Jason Blum, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Matthew Myers and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.