Blumhouse is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, and today brings a new book that goes behind the scenes of the horror studio ‘s meteoric and entertainingly gory rise.

Its full title is Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse , and it’s full of details about its biggest hits ( Five Nights at Freddy’s , Get Out, M3GAN) and hitmakers (James Wan, M. Night Shyamalan, Mike Flanagan), styled in part as an oral history with photos, storyboards, and other insider-y mementos.

io9 has an exclusive excerpt to share from the book’s section on found footage—specificially its importance in 2012’s Sinister , directed by Scott Derrickson and co-written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. It stars Ethan Hawke as a struggling author who decides he’ll find inspiration by moving his fam

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