Horror movies and Scary Tv making a comeback?
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UPDATED: Monday, August 10, 2026 16:55
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The Asian Horror genre became huge the past 20 years
Top 50 Asian Horror Films of All Time
https://www.gamersdecide.com/articles/best-asian-horror-films
it used to be a Japan, HongKong, South Korea thing or now Thailand, India also
https://otakukart.com/461708/50-best-asian-horror-movies-of-all-time-t
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a 2023 Canadian comedy horror, Zombie Town film
Zombie Town - Trailer - Madi Monroe, Dan Akroyd, Marlon Kazadi, Chevy Chase - Amy and Mike unearth a centuries-old curse when they decide to watch an exclusive film reel.
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Let's see...
So far for 2023, Horror has been a big money maker for the studios that produced them, and they tend to be a very low-budget genre. Below are the list of them so far and what place they are on for the 2023 list of Worldwide Gross vs. Production Budget.
1. M3GAN made 1,508% of its production budget of $12 Million.
3. Talk to Me still has gas in the tank and has made 1,311% of its production budget of $4.5 Million.
5. Insidious: The Red Door is just about done in theaters but made 1,163% of its production budget of $16 Million.
8. Evil Dead Rise made 768% of its production budget of $19 Million.
11. Scream IV made 483% of its production budget of $35 Million.
14. The Pope's Exorcist made 406% of its production budget of $18 Million.
I'm not going to count the Disney produced "The Boogeyman" by Steven King on the list of winners though, because with only 234% of its $35 Million production budget made, it probably is actually a loser with the 2.5x Rule of Thumb.
A couple reasons for this failure, IMO...
1. $35 Million is far too high a budget for a Horror flick unless you feel the risk on a franchise like Scream will pay off as it did.
2. Disney turns a lot of people off in current year.
3. Steven King turns a lot of people off in current year. And let's face it... With rare exception, nobody can seem to get Steven King right and most of his movies are pure trash. (I'm not saying this one is, just that everybody knows his movies are usually awful).
Otherwise, yeah... Horror is doing gangbusters right now.
Even though I predicted that the wokified Evil Dead Rise was going to flop in theaters, I was very quick to point out that I was wrong and it was a great idea for the studio to release that one in theaters instead of going direct to streaming. It was clear in 2 or 3 days how much money that decision was going to make them.
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How you do anything is how you do everything.
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No One Will Save You
2023 · Horror/Sci-Fi
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Looks like a Norway-USA production
There’s Something in the Barn
Nordic Folklore Horror Comedy
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the madness of the real world, a subject for real life horror
https://www.screendaily.com/news/israeli-filmmaker-yahav-winner-missin
g-after-defending-wife-and-newborn-baby-during-hamas-attack/5186703.article?referrer=RSS
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Not related.
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Some might even class Sound of Freedom as a real life 'horror' story
Why Horror Films are Hollywood's Best Investment: A Statistical Analysis
https://www.statsignificant.com/p/why-horror-films-are-hollywoods-best
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Not related.
maybe not but sometimes a real life event inspires material and art and film reel for the horrors
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Some might even class Sound of Freedom as a real life 'horror' story
Why Horror Films are Hollywood's Best Investment: A Statistical Analysis
https://www.statsignificant.com/p/why-horror-films-are-hollywoods-best
Thanks for the article. That was an interesting read, and I liked the data they provided.
Having only really started tracking movies this year after dipping my feet into it a few years before, I had convinced myself that Horror movies were just hot now, but it appears that since at least 1971 they always had at least some notable level of heat to them.
The fact that 16 of the top 50 most profitable movies by investment in cinematic history are Horror is pretty amazing (and that's the very metric that I chose to use to weigh a movie's success in 2023).
But yeah... "It's the budget, stupid".
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Why Bad Horror Movies Are Still Good Investments
In his 1981 review of the slasher flick Friday the 13th Part II, Roger Ebert, arguably America's most influential film critic, griped, "About two dozen movies a year feature a mad killer going berserk, and they're all about as bad as this one." Audiences did not care for Ebert's assessment, and the film grossed $22M on a budget of $1.25M.
In a 1980 review of that film's predecessor, Friday the 13th, Gene Siskel, Ebert's collaborator and arguably America's second-most influential film critic, dubbed the horror classic "a truly awful movie." But he didn't stop there. Siskel opened his review by purposefully spoiling the film's ending to dissuade potential viewers from seeing the movie. And if spoiling the finale weren't enough, the disgruntled reviewer ended his write-up by encouraging readers to contact the movie's producers and star to complain about its content (going so far as to provide their contact information, which qualifies as doxing).
Again, audiences did not care for this film critic’s opinion. Friday the 13th grossed $60M against a budget of $0.5M, eventually spawning twelve wildly profitable sequels—all hated by critics.
When it comes to the horror genre, there is little correlation between a film's profitability and its box office performance. Horror devotees do not care about the opinions of film critics, film scholars, film theorists, Letterboxd reviewers, IMDB reviewers, or anyone else. Horror lovers want to see horror movies, plain and simple.
Like I just mentioned in the Hollywood thread at the end of my last post..
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‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ Getting Ready For Second Best Debut At The Fall Box Office With Around $40M
https://deadline.com/2023/10/five-nights-at-freddys-box-office-project
ion-1235577413/
I could see that. There's surprisingly deep lore to this franchise, and the kids love it.
Is it going to be any good? Who knows? Even horror movies that are trash have followings and tend to make money because of their small budgets. (See: Exorcist: Believer)
ETA: BTW... I just looked again at that stat of $60 Million made off of a $500k budget for Friday the 13th. Wow. 12,000% return on investment. I don't imagine we're ever going to see returns like that again. Even Talk To Me's micro-budget was 9 times more than Friday the 13ths.
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Abigail
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Still no budget numbers, would-be criminals kidnap the young ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they try to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. Inside an isolated mansion but unknown to them she is a vampire monster.
Scream directors' new vampire horror Abigail is so bloody, they spent the majority of the shoot apologizing to the actors
https://www.gamesradar.com/abigail-vampire-horror-movie-scream-directo
rs-bloodiest-movie-yet/
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