Blumhouse Productions presented attendees at Saturday's WonderCon with looks at four upcoming horror releases: Unfriended, The Gallows, Insidious: Chapter 3 , and Sinister 2.

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Producer Jason Blum was on hand to promote all three films along with Blumhouse director of development Ryan Turek. Writer-director-cast member Leigh Whannell was joined by stars Dermot Mulroney, Lin Shaye, Stefanie Scott and Hayley Kiyoko to tout the third chapter in the Insidious franchise. Unfriended writer-producer Nelson Greaves was joined by cast members Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, and Courtney Halverson. Directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing joined Blum to tout The Gallows.Insidious: Chapter 3 promises "a twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further." The panel showed two clips, the first of which you can see below.The second Insidious: Chapter 3 scene shows Quinn (Stefanie Scott) later on in the film and now confined to a wheelchair with broken legs, a fractured arm, and wearing a neck brace. While she is waiting for elevator in hotel or apt building a demonic being -- dubbed The Man Who Can't Breathe -- appears behind her and takes control of her wheelchair. The evil entity races her into a room and dumps her out of the chair. Then Quinn sees a handless, footless and faceless woman crawling towards her. Whannell described the Man Who Can't Breathe as the personification of cancer who symbolizes all pain and misfortune what one can experience in life.Distributed by Universal Pictures, Unfriended "unfolds over a teenager’s computer screen as she and her friends are stalked by an unseen figure who seeks vengeance for a shaming video that led a vicious bully to kill herself a year earlier." The movie was developed and conceived by Wanted filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, directed by Levan Gabriadze, written by Nelson Greaves and produced by Bekmambetov and Greaves, as well as Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions.The Unfriended panel revealed that Bekmambetov had always wanted to make a movie that takes place entirely on a computer desktop. The film's actors were left alone in rooms with computers to perform all their scenes. They once did one long take -- performing the entire movie as if it were a play -- and that part ended up being used as the last part of the movie. The Unfriended filmmakers invented a special camera system just to shoot the movie, while its editors said they'd never worked on something this complicated before.Here's the official synopsis on The Gallows: “Twenty years after an accident caused the death of the lead actor during a high school play, students at the same small town school resurrect the failed stage production in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy — but ultimately find out that some things are better left alone.”The footage screened from The Gallows was bathed in red light and showed a young woman sobbing on the floor of a room. We begin to make out a shape of a creepy person in the dark nearby. She looks into the lens as if it were a mirror and sees bloodied marks on her neck. She then looks over her shoulder into the dark. She whips her head back around and suddenly finds a noose around her neck where the marks were. It starts to tighten and then -- BOOM! -- she's quickly yanked away into the dark.At the very end of their panel, Blumhouse presented this oh-so-brief look at the upcoming trailer for Sinister 2. (UPDATE: Full trailer now released and can be viewed below.)Unfriended opens April 17 in the US, April 30 in Australia, and May 1 in the UK. Insidious: Chapter 3 opens May 28 in Australia and June 5 in the US and UK. The Gallows opens July 10 in the US and September 4 in the UK; there is no AU release date yet. Sinister 2 opens Aug. 21 in the US and UK; no AU date for it yet.