A new thriller has become the only 2025 release from Blumhouse to earn a fresh Rotten Tomatoes audience score. The production company behind many celebrated horror movies, including Paranormal Activity and Get Out, has developed a somewhat unreliable track record in recent years. The Black Phone and M3GAN were major commercial hits for Blumhouse, receiving upcoming sequels and holding RT audience scores of 88% and 78%, respectively. However, efforts to complete or continue successful genre franchises, through the releases of Halloween Ends and The Exorcist: Believer, brought underwhelming responses.
Following the Five Nights at Freddy’s adaptation, which garnered an impressive 86% audience score, Blumhouse became riddled with a number of disappointing projects. Night Swim, Imaginary, and Afraid all blundered commercially, and earned Popcornmeter ratings of 53% or lower. The James McAvoy and Mackenzie Davis remake of Speak No Evil was perhaps a bright spot for Blumhouse, ending the 2024 slate and holding scores of 83% from both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
Drop Nabs A Strong Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
It Is Blumhouse’s First Fresh Popcornmeter Of 2025
Drop is the latest movie from Blumhouse, but is already proving to be among the most well-received. The thriller, directed by Christopher Landon of Happy Death Day and Freaky, tracks Violet (played by Meghann Fahy) as anonymous and dismaying messages are sent to her phone during a date. Along with Fahy, the cast of Drop includes Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, and Jeffery Self. Released on April 11, the film is garnering praise from critics and presently boasts a Tomatometer score of 83%.
Drop has also earned a fresh audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the first Blumhouse movie in 2025 to do so. The Popcornmeter currently stands at 80%, which is significantly higher than the 56% Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man received after premiering in January. The only other film Blumhouse has released so far this year, The Woman in the Yard, earned just 46%.
Our Take On Drop’s Fresh RT Audience Score
It’s A Big Win For Blumhouse
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After a lackluster start to 2025, the positive reception towards Drop makes the mystery thriller a win for Blumhouse and could indicate a stronger box office performance than Wolf Man and The Woman in the Yard, which currently stand at $34 million and $19 million, respectively. Given how many projects the studio produces — including sequels to some favorably received genre movies, notably Landon’s Happy Death Day — fresh audience scores on RT could also play a part in any success down the line on streaming, or in a potential follow-up movie.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
