Synergy for Production and Distribution

Through research, I have gathered the institutions that mainly produce horror films. These are the following.

Twisted Pictures is an American independent production company founded in 2004 by the founders of Evolution Entertainment. The company mainly creates films of the horror genre. The most well-known films produced by this company are; the Saw film series (2004), Dead Silence (2007), Catacombs (2007), and Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013). 

Twisted Pictures landed a deal and actually bought the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise from Platinum Dunes in 2009.

Platinum Dunes, created in November 2001, is an American production company. The company specialises in horror films, particularly remakes. Platinum Dunes is recognised for the productions of; Friday the 13th (2009), The Purge film series (2013), the Ouija film series (2014), The Amityville Horror (2005), and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film series (2003).

Hammer Film Productions is a British film production company based in London, founded in 1934. The company is best known for a series of gothic films they dubbed "Hammer Horror", made from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. Hammer dominated the horror film market in its most successful years, being awarded with and praised for worldwide distribution and financial success. The distribution partnerships with major United States studios (e.g. Warner Bros.) allowed this success to occur.

Hammer produced a remake of Dracula in 1958. A legal agreement between Hammer and Universal was completed in this year – after the film had been shot. From this agreement, Hammer's executives were able to pick horror icons from Universal Studies and produce remakes of; The Phantom of the Opera (1962), and The Mummy's Hand (1959). Other famous works are The Witches (1966), and The Abominable Snowman (1957).

Blumhouse Productions, founded in 2000 by Jason Blum, is an American film and television production company. The company produces low-budget horror films, including famous works such as the Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Sinister, Insidious, and Ouija franchises.

 

Dark Castle Entertainment is an American film production label, devised from Silver Pictures - a production house previously associated with Warner Bros., and now affiliated with Universal Studios. When first formed, the label's main goal was to remake horror films created by William Castle. When succeeding this, Dark Castle Entertainment moved on to produce original material, along with remakes of other films. Horror films produced by this company include; House of Wax (2005), Orphan (2009), and The Apparition (2012).

Additionally, I gathered that the main horror film distributors are Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Miramax, Dimension Films, and Lionsgate.

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio founded in 1912. It is currently owned by Comcast through its subsidiary NBCUniversal. Universal is the world's fourth oldest film studio, as well as the oldest surviving in the United States.

When creating classic films like The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Dracula (1931), and Frankenstein (1931), a niche for the studio was created, beginning a series of horror films that extended into the 1940s. This was dubbed as 'Universal Monsters' or 'Universal Horror'.

We are working in synergy with Blumhouse Productions in terms of co-production as this company will supply us with a budget. We are also working in synergy with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. in terms of distribution as they are familiar with the subgenre of our opening - paranormal/psychological (with reference to The Exorcist (1973), The Shining (1980), The Conjuring (2013), and The Gallows (2015)). This will allow us to produce other products like soundtracks, DVDs, advertisement, and merchandise.