You've got to hand it to Jason Blum, founder of Blumhouse Productions which has released the likes of "Get Out," "The Purge," "Insidious," "Split"and "Paranormal Activity." He's just telling it like it is.
The company has been criticized with not really having had female filmmakers direct its horror-centered films. Blum was grilled the other day about this subject in an interview with Polygon. Why doesn't he have more women filmmakers working for him? The answer, according to Blum, is rather simple, there just aren't that many:
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