First 4 Welcome to the Blumhouse trailers are anything but inviting – SYFY WIRE

Halloween is almost upon us, and with it comes the perfect season to curl up with a good scary movie or two. Or more.EnterWelcome to the Blumhouse.

The banner is the result of a partnership between Amazon Studios and Blumhouse the production company behind recent horror hits like Jordan Peele'sGet OutandThe Invisible Man. Welcome to the Blumhouse kicks off withtwo separate horror-filled double-bill features in October, followed byfour morefilms in 2021.

The first pairing, featuring the filmsThe LieandBlack Box, will be released on Amazon Prime VideoOct. 6. The second set,Evil EyeandNocturne,will become available to stream on the platformOct. 13.

Check out the trailersbelow:

Kicking open the door to the "Blumhouse"will beThe Lie. Written and directed by Veena Sud (The Stranger), the movie follows two parents (played byThe Killing's Mireille Enos and The Batman's Peter Sarsgaard) as they try and cover up their daughter(The Kissing Booth's Joey King) having suddenly (and unexpectedly) killed her friend.

The second half of the first pairing will beBlack Box, written byEmmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.,making his directorial debut with the feature. The film tells the story of Nolan (Jurassic World: Dominion's Mamoudou Athie), a man struggling to regain his memory after surviving a tragic car accident, so that he can take better care of his young daughter. However, when he starts to undergo an experimental treatment overseen by a doctor(13 Reasons Why's Phylicia Rashad) promising a fix, he's confronted by a past that is too dark to be his own.

Picking up the fright fest a week later is Evil Eye,written by newcomer Madhuri Shekar,directed by twin brothers Elan and Rajeev Dassani (Scandal) and produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico).The movie revolves around Pallavi (GLOW's Sunita Mani) and Sandeep (Better Call Saul's Omar Maskati), a young couple who begin to break apart when Pallavi's mother (Jessica Jones' Sarita Choudhury) starts to insist that Sandeep has sinister ties to her own past.

And finally, rounding out the set isNocturne. Written and directed by Zu Quirke, the movie centers aroundtwin sisters (Jumanji's Madison Iseman andThe Handmaid's Tale's Sydney Sweeney) at a prestigious music academy. When one of them finds a notebook belonging to a dead former student, she sees it as a way to finally get one over on her more successful sister, only to discover that the book may have a dark will of its own.

Welcome to the Blumhouse'sThe LieandBlack Boxboth premiere on Oct. 6.Evil EyeandNocturnedebut Oct. 13.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero