Blumhouse
Production company · United StatesClosed to unsolicited work
The genre studio that made contained horror a business model. Unsolicited submissions are deleted unread.
The door
Closed to unsolicited work
They state unsolicited submissions are not reviewed and are deleted. The same policy appears on their contact page and in their terms.
They say a submission already sent was not reviewed and has been deleted.
Door state checked against their official pages 25 Aug 2026.
What they're looking for
- Formats
- Feature
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Takes approaches from
- Worldwide
Genre horror and thriller, characteristically made at contained budgets. Read from their published slate rather than from a stated submissions brief.
Read from their recent slate, not stated by them.
How to approach
Do not send it, and do not send it twice. Their contact page states that unsolicited submissions are not accepted and that anything already sent was not reviewed and has been deleted, and their terms repeat the exclusion across screenplays, story ideas, concepts, pitch decks and treatments.
For horror writers this is worth taking as directional rather than final. Blumhouse built its reputation on low-budget genre film made by people who were unknown shortly beforehand, and those writers and directors arrived with representation, festival films or contest placements behind them. The route exists, it just does not start at their inbox.
The PreList verdict
Who this is for: represented genre writers. For them Blumhouse is one of the most reachable studio-level buyers in horror, which is exactly why the cold door has to stay shut.
Who should skip it: everyone approaching directly, including the many people who read a story about an unknown filmmaker breaking through here and reasonably concluded the door was open. It was open to that person through an agent or a festival, not through the contact form.
The consistency is worth noting: the policy appears on two of their own pages and they agree, which is more than most companies manage.
Dylian Salvatore, Founder of The PreList · Updated 7 Sept 2026
Frequently asked questions
Does Blumhouse accept unsolicited scripts?
No. Their contact page states they do not accept unsolicited submissions and that anything sent was not reviewed and has been deleted.
How do horror writers reach them?
Through representation, or with a festival film or contest placement that produces an introduction. Their own material is submitted by agents.
Getting ready to approach Blumhouse?
Every door here reads to reject. The PreList gives your script a full read first: coverage across 11 metrics, formatting and completeness checks, and a rewrite room to act on the notes before anything reaches a submissions inbox.
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