The production companyBlumhousehas continued a 2025 streak of negative reviews with its newest horror movie. After making a smash hit out of the 2009 found footage releaseParanormal Activity, which spawned a massive film franchise, Blumhouse became notable for crafting low-budget horror and thriller movies that usually had sizable returns on investment, includingthePurgefranchise, theInsidiousmovies,Sinister,Ouija,The Gallows,and more. They have also found critical success with movies like Jordan Peele’sGet Out, which has a Certified Fresh 98% Rotten Tomatoes score and won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
However,Blumhouse moviesstruggled to connect with critics or audiences in 2024 after the company scored major box office hits withM3GAN,Five Nights at Freddy’s, andInsidious: The Red Doorin 2023. While their 2024 movies largely turned profits (with the notable exception ofAfrAId, which grossed $13 million against its $12 million budget), only one of their five 2024 releases,Speak No Evil(83%), earned a Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes, whilethree earned especially dismal scores below 25%, namelyImaginary(24%),Night Swim(19%), andAfrAID(23%).
The Woman In The Yard Has Earned A Rotten Tomatoes Splat
This Begins A Grim Streak For 2025
The latest Blumhouse movie to fail to impress critics is2025’sThe Woman in the Yard. The movie, which washelmed byOrphanandHouse of Waxdirector Jaume Collet-Serra, stars Danielle Deadwyler as Ramona, a widowed mother recovering from an injury in her isolated farmhouse is perturbed when a mysterious woman in black arrives in their yard, sitting quietly and announcing that “today’s the day,” plunging her and her family into chaos and fear. The cast of the new movie also includes Okwui Okpokwasili, Russell Hornsby, Peyton Jackson, and Estella Kahiha.
Jaume Collet-Serra is also known for his action movies starring Liam Neeson, includingNon-StopandThe Commuter.
Now,Rotten Tomatoeshas calculated an official Tomatometer score forThe Woman in the Yard. Although the score could fluctuate as more reviews are added, at the time of writing 18 different critics' reviews have been aggregated to give the moviea 44% score with an average rating of 5 out of 10. This marks Blumhouse’s second Rotten Tomatoes splat of 2025 out of two movies, as their previous theatrical outing, Leigh Whannell’sWolf Man, earned a score of 50% with an average rating of 5.2 out of 10.
What This Means For Blumhouse
The Woman In The Yard Is Not Their Last 2025 Movie
WhiletheWoman in the Yardreleaseis continuing a negative streak for the company,Blumhousestill has multiple opportunities to earn one or more Fresh scores before the end of the year.Their upcoming slate includesM3GAN 2.0(a sequel to a movie that earned 93%) andThe Black Phone 2(which follows an 81% movie), which could both win over critics. Additionally, their upcoming thrillerDropwas directed by Christopher Landon, who has previously helmed three Fresh titles for the company, namelyFreaky,Happy Death Day, andHappy Death Day 2U.
