The production company Blumhouse has continued a 2025 streak of negative reviews with its newest horror movie. After making a smash hit out of the 2009 found footage release Paranormal Activity, which spawned a mᴀssive film franchise, Blumhouse became notable for crafting low-budget horror and thriller movies that usually had sizable returns on investment, including the Purge franchise, the Insidious movies, Sinister, Ouija, The Gallows, and more. They have also found critical success with movies like Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which has a Certified Fresh 98% Rotten Tomatoes score and won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
However, Blumhouse movies struggled to connect with critics or audiences in 2024 after the company scored major box office hits with M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Insidious: The Red Door in 2023. While their 2024 movies largely turned profits (with the notable exception of AfrAId, 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, while three earned especially dismal scores below 25%, namely Imaginary (24%), Night Swim (19%), and AfrAID (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 is 2025’s The Woman in the Yard. The movie, which was helmed by Orphan and House of Wax director Jaume Collet-Serra, stars Danielle ᴅᴇᴀᴅwyler 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, including Non-Stop and The Commuter.
Now, Rotten Tomatoes has calculated an official Tomatometer score for The 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 movie a 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’s Wolf 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
While the Woman in the Yard release is continuing a negative streak for the company, Blumhouse still has multiple opportunities to earn one or more Fresh scores before the end of the year. Their upcoming slate includes M3GAN 2.0 (a sequel to a movie that earned 93%) and The Black Phone 2 (which follows an 81% movie), which could both win over critics. Additionally, their upcoming thriller Drop was directed by Christopher Landon, who has previously helmed three Fresh тιтles for the company, namely Freaky, Happy Death Day, and Happy Death Day 2U.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
