Greg McLean

off our storage space category.

Another director who's made multiple films for Blumhouse is Greg McLean, who broke out with 2005's Wolf Creek and directed two Blumhouse films released in 2016, with differing results.

The first is The Darkness, a poltergeist-type horror movie that has one of the most laughable and potentially problematic premises of any movie on this list.

Kevin Bacon plays a dad who brings his family, including his autistic son Mikey, back from vacation at the Grand Canyon only to find ghosts plaguing his home.

There is a little found footage in the film, but not enough to qualify for the checklist.

But we do get a creepy attic scene and multiple spooky light fixtures, so we can check off two of our three categories.

In 2016, Blumhouse acquired another Greg McLean film called The Belko Experiment, which it released in 2017.

This movie was written by none other than Mr. DC Studios himself, James Gunn.

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uh but the writer director george uh greg mclean wrote the film largely inspired by australian serial killers bradley john murdoch who really wasn't a serial killer he only killed you know had one murder uh and then ivan millet i believe i'm pronouncing correctly m-i-l-a-t So he was known in the media as the backpack murderer and was convicted of the abduction, assault, robbery, and murder of two men and five women in New South Wales between 89 and 92.

Ivan would approach backpackers under the guise of providing them a ride, then taking the victims to a state force where he would incapacitate them.

Incapacitate them? Thank you.

And

there's one point during the shooting of a scene where Mick is torturing Christy while Liz looks through the window of that building.

Director Greg McLean wanted to get a shot of Cassandra's POV, so he cleared the crew out of the shed in which the scene was being shot, leaving only the two actors inside while they're filming from the outside.

So when he called action, they began playing the scene.

Well, I'd love to know where the inception come from because I don't understand quite how Glenn McLean... went from writing very, very well to slapping this thing together.

Greg McLean.

Sorry, Greg McLean.

I apologize, Greg McLean, if you listen to these episodes, which I'm sure you don't.

I'm not quite sure how this got slapped together after the first one being so good and then the first season of the show being very good.

There's not that much difference in the budget.

It's now, like, 10 p.m., and it's instantly nighttime.

Yeah, see, I would say that you could have done the whole movie without in this homestead, in this setting, big storm raging behind.

I think it was on Criterion in their, in their 2000s horror section.

I hadn't seen that Greg McLean alligator movie.

Yeah.

Didn't lo- I mean, it was fine.