the newer film received mixed critical reviews and failed financially with an estimated $154,418 in streaming sales. For their next slasher film, Blumhouse recruited director David Gordon Green and writer Danny McBride to reunite producer/composer John Carpenter and star Jamie Lee Curtis for Halloween (2018). As a direct sequel to Carpenter's 1978 original film that ignored all other films in the franchise, 2018's Halloween opened to record-breaking numbers, including the largest debut for a slasher film and the largest debut of a female-led horror film. The film was a massive success and would go on to sell 17.4 million tickets at the domestic box office, second only to the 1978 original and the first two Scream films in terms of audience attendance for a slasher film. The film's success spawned two sequels, Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022), though they were struck with diminishing returns by selling a respective 9 million and 6.1 million tickets during their domestic runs. Blumhouse and Universal Pictures re-teamed to release a second remake of Black Christmas in 2019, which was poorly received and bombed at the box office.
the newer film received mixed critical reviews and failed financially with an estimated $154,418 in streaming sales. For their next slasher film, Blumhouse recruited director David Gordon Green and writer Danny McB.ride to reunite producer/composer John Carpenter and star Jamie Lee Curtis for Halloween (2018) As a direct sequel to Carpenter's 1978 original film that ignored all other films in the franchise, 2018's Halloween opened to record-breaking numbers, including the largest debut for a slasher film and the largest debut of a female-led horror film. The film was a massive success and would go on to sell 17.4 million tickets at the domestic box office, second only to the 1978 original and the first two Scream films in terms of audience attendance for a slasher film. The film's success spawned two sequels, Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022), though they were struck with diminishing returns by selling a respective 9 million and 6.1 million tickets during their domestic runs. Blumhouse and Universal Pictures re-teamed to release a second remake of Black Christmas in 2019, which was poorly received and bombed at the box office.