Last Updated on March 24, 2025 by Angel Melanson
As Jaume Collet-Serra comes off the high of his success with the Netflix thriller Carry On, he’s teamed up with Blumhouse for a more traditional horror film this spring. The Woman in the Yard starring Danielle Deadwyler hits theaters next week, adding to horror’s catalogue of “unexplained poltergeist” movies, and now, the studio behind Five Nights at Freddy’s and M3GAN has released a new behind-the-scenes look at the film.
The new featurette highlights Deadwyler talking about the “disruptive” influence of the titular woman who haunts her protagonist and her family, calling it a “pipeline to something terrifying,” while her on-screen children describe it as best they can — and a child’s fear is ten times worse than anything an adult can muster.
The Woman in the Yard is one of Blumhouse’s many offerings to hit theaters this year, starring Deadwyler alongside Okwui Okpokwasili, Russell Hornsby, Peyton Jackson, and Estella Kahiha. The film’s logline is as follows:
A lone, spectral woman shrouded entirely in black appears on a family’s front lawn without explanation and warns them “today’s the day.” Where did she come from? What does she want? When will she leave? Only The Woman in the Yard knows.
From Blumhouse, the most successful global brand in horror, comes a new original chiller starring BAFTA and SAG nominee Danielle Deadwyler (Till, The Harder They Fall, The Piano Lesson) as Ramona, a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband (Russell Hornsby; BMF, Fences). Seriously injured, Ramona now must care for their 14-year-old son (Peyton Jackson; Respect, American Refugee) and 6-year-old-daughter (Estella Kahiha; Will Trent, BMF), alone in her rural farmhouse.
Then one day the woman takes form in their yard. Ramona assumes the woman (Okwui Okpokwasili; The Exorcist: Believer, Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) is lost or demented, but as the woman creeps nearer and nearer to the house, it becomes clear she is no ordinary figure and her intentions are anything but peaceful. Now Ramona must rally to protect herself and her children from the grasp of the woman who simply won’t leave them alone.
The Woman in the Yard premieres in theaters on March 28. Check out the new featurette below:
