Paul Greengrass and Blumhouse might seem like an odd mix, the former perhaps best known for his meticulous, sensitive docudramas, the latter most famous for low-budget, high-yield genre movies. But though it has its roots in the real world, The Lost Bus — the director’s first film since his 2020 Western News of the World — is arguably his first horror movie, made all the more frightening after the wildfires that swept California earlier this year. Based on real events, it’s a true story of heroism that took place in Northern California just six years earlier during what’s now known as the Camp David fire.

The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground. The blaze star

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