Welcome to the Blumhouse: Black as Night, Bingo Hell trailers preview October releases

Amazon and Blumhouse have teamed up for a series of eight films that are being released under the banner of Welcome to the Blumhouse. The first four films – Black Box, The Lie, Evil Eye, and Nocturne – have been available to watch through Amazon Prime since last October, and the next four will be reaching the streaming service this October. First up is the double feature of Black as Night and Bingo Hell, which will be released on October 1st, and you can see the trailers for those films in the embed above.

Black as Night was directed by Maritte Lee Go from a script by Sherman Payne. The film stars Asjha Cooper, Fabrizio Guido, Mason Beauchamp, Abbie Gayle, Craig Tate, and Keith David. Here’s some more information:

Logline
A resourceful teenage girl driven by revenge, alongside her trusted friends, spends her summer battling vampires terrorizing her city of New Orleans.

Short Synopsis
A resourceful teenage girl leaves childhood behind when she battles a group of deadly vampires in Black as Night, an action-horror hybrid with a strong social conscience and a biting sense of humor. Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, a new threat leaves its mark on the Big Easy in the form of puncture wounds on the throats of the city’s vulnerable displaced population. When her drug-addicted mom becomes the latest victim of the undead, 15-year old Shawna (Asjha Cooper) vows to even the score. Along with three trusted friends, Shawna hatches a bold plan to infiltrate the vampire’s mansion in the historic French Quarter, destroy their leader, and turn his fanged disciples back to their human form. But killing monsters is no easy task, and soon Shawna and her crew find themselves caught in a centuries-old conflict between warring vampire factions, each fighting to claim New Orleans as their permanent home.

The film was executive produced by Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Marci Wiseman, Lisa Bruce, Maggie Malina, and Guy Stodel.

Directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero from a screenplay she wrote with Shane McKenzie and Perry Blackshear, Bingo Hell stars Adriana Barraza, L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Brake, and Joshua Caleb Johnson.

Logline
A feisty senior citizen fights to protect her beloved neighborhood from an evil force that’s taken over the local bingo hall and is killing the residents in gruesome ways.

Short Synopsis
When a sinister figure threatens the residents of a low-income community, a feisty senior citizen tries to stop him in Bingo Hell, a wickedly original horror movie with a fiendishly funny twist. After 60-something neighborhood activist Lupita (Adriana Barraza) discovers that her beloved local bingo hall has been taken over by a mysterious businessman named Mr. Big (Richard Brake), she rallies her elderly friends to fight back against the enigmatic entrepreneur. But when her longtime neighbors begin turning up dead under grisly circumstances, Lupita suddenly discovers that gentrification is the least of her problems. Something terrifying has made itself at home in the quiet barrio of Oak Springs, and with each new cry of “Bingo!” another victim falls prey to its diabolical presence. As the cash prizes increase and the body count steadily rises, Lupita must face the frightening realization that this game is truly winner-takes-all.

That one was executive produced by Jason Blum, Lisa Bruce, Jeremy Gold, Marci Wiseman, Raynor Shima, and Lauren Downey.

Black as Night and Bingo Hell both look like a good time to me, so I’ll be checking them out one of these days. I want to catch up on last year’s Welcome to the Blumhouse movies first, though.