Hollywood.com Calculates Box Office Performance to Reveal Top 25
Scary Flicks- 1970's Films and Modern Sequels Rank Prominently;
Spooky Comedies also High Earners SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 28
/PRNewswire/ -- Just in time for Halloween, Hollywood.com has
released the list of the top 25 most popular domestic horror movies
of all time, and the only post millennium films to rank in the top
10 are The Mummy Returns and What Lies Beneath. By tallying total
box office receipts and then adjusting the thrillers' performances
to current U.S. average ticket prices, Hollywood.com was able to
deliver accurate results. Jaws and The Exorcist still outrank any
recent film, as 1970's classic horror films accounted for six of
the top 10 highest earners. However, film franchises released after
1995 including The Mummy and Scream movies fared well, while
Halloween creepily only ranked 18. Below is Hollywood.com's Top 25
Highest Grossing Domestic Horror Films of All Time: Rank Title
Studio Adjusted Gross Gross Domestic Domestic Box Office(1) Box
Office 1 Jaws (1975) UNIVERSAL $795,369,426 $260,000,000 2 The
Exorcist (1973) WARNER BROS $686,631,452 $232,671,011 3 The Sixth
Sense (1999) BUENA VISTA $357,566,366 $293,506,292 4 The Mummy
Returns (2001) UNIVERSAL $221,650,716 $202,019,785 5 Jaws 2 (1978)
UNIVERSAL $215,603,340 $81,766,007 6 The Amityville Horror (1979)
AMERICAN INT. $213,841,738 $86,432,000 7 Alien (1979) FOX
$200,233,659 $80,931,801 8 The Mummy (1999) UNIVERSAL $189,949,583
$155,385,488 9 What Lies Beneath (2000) DREAMWORKS $179,115,699
$155,464,351 10 The Omen (1976) FOX $177,620,519 $60,922,980 11 The
Blair Witch Project (1999) ARTISAN $171,800,749 $140,539,099 12
Interview with the Vampire (1994) WARNER $155,538,215 $104,694,000
13 Scream (1996) MIRAMAX $144,714,476 $103,001,286 14 Seven (1995)
NEW LINE $142,937,987 $100,125,643 15 Aliens (1986) FOX
$142,545,860 $85,160,248 16 The Ring (2002) DREAMWORKS $137,432,001
$128,579,698 17 Scream 2 (1997) MIRAMAX $137,017,261 $101,273,628
18 Halloween (1978) COMPASS $124,730,769 $47,000,000 19 Bram
Stoker's Dracula (1992) SONY $123,601,446 $82,600,000 20 Sleepy
Hollow (1999) PARAMOUNT $123,550,077 $101,068,340 21 Van Helsing
(2005) UNIVERSAL $120,177,084 $120,177,084 22 Haunting (1999)
DREAMWORKS $111,473,051 $91,188,905 23 The Grudge (2004) SONY
$110,175,871 $110,175,871 24 The Others (2001) DIMENSION
$105,846,318 $96,471,845 25 Scream 3 (2000) DIMENSION $102,704,845
$89,143,175 TOTALS $5,191,828,508 $3,110,298,537 Additionally,
Hollywood.com conducted a search of the highest grossing films that
bridged the horror and comedy genres. The results revealed that
these comedic scary films, including Ghostbusters and the 1975
classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, often earned more than
traditional horror movies. Below are the top six films in this
hybrid category: Title Studio Adjusted Gross Gross Domestic
Domestic Box Office(1) Box Office Ghostbusters (1984) SONY
$439,237,084 $238,632,124 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) FOX
$341,981,110 $112,892,319 Young Frankenstein (1974) FOX
$283,469,520 $86,273,333 Scary Movie (2000) MIRAMAX $180,907,751
$157,019,771 Ghostbusters II (1989) SONY $175,967,840 $112,494,738
Scary Movie 3 (2003) DIMENSION $113,286,895 $110,003,217 TOTALS
$1,534,850,200 $817,315,502 (1) Adjusted Gross Domestic Box Office
figures are derived based on the total domestic gross of the film,
divided by average ticket price in the year of release, multiplied
by 2004 average ticket price ($6.21). Average annual ticket prices
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