Could the home of the Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and recent Halloween, Exorcist and Purge films also start producing new Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street movies?

If Jason Blum has his way, Blumhouse will add those films to the studio’s lineup. In an interview with Variety, Blum, who is also behind the M3GAN, Happy Death Day and Black Phone films, said that the movies he’d kill to make are “Friday the 13th and Freddy Krueger. Those are my white whales.”

Blum says he’s willing to wait to get the rights to those IPs. “We’re always haggling. I make a run at them every day. I will never give up the quest. And if they make one without me, I’ll chase the next movie.”  

Blum recently lost an auction for the rights to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot to indie film kings A24. “We were in the mix. The deal isn’t closed, but we probably won’t get it,” Blum said.

“I like taking IP that people are cynical about and turning expectations on their head,” Blum admitted.

2025 hasn’t exactly been Blum’s year, after a string of underperforming flicks like Night Swim, Imaginary and M3GAN 2.0, but he has more potential hits ready to scare audiences, like the sequels to The Black Phone and Five Nights at Freddy’s, and he recently acquired the rights to Saw, which will be produced by James Wan’s Atomic Monster production house. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster in 2024.

Blumhouse was founded in 2000 by Jason Blum and Amy Israel and has since become one of the biggest names in horror, making films on modest budgets and grossing billions of dollars in box-office revenue among its many projects.

In other Blumhouse news, Blum will be receive the Milestone Award from Producers Guild of America, which always goes to someone who’s made a historic impact on entertainment, and the studio’s book Horror’s New Wave hit the racks last month. Blum called the book “a 15-year yearbook for horror,” containing stories from the sets of fan-favorite films that have never been revealed before.