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The following page lists the highest-grossing horror films, highest-grossing horror film franchises at the box office and the biggest opening weekends for many horror films. The figures have not been adjusted for inflation.
This chart contains the top 100 Horror movies based on the cumulative worldwide box office. See our Horror Theatrical Market Charts for more overviews regarding the domestic theatrical box office performance of Horror movies.
- 15 Annabelle: Creation (2017) - $306,515,884
- 14 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) - $312,242,626
- 13 The Conjuring (2013) - $319,494,638
- 12 The Conjuring 2 (2016) - $320,392,818
- 11 A Quiet Place (2018) - $340,952,971
- 10 Hannibal (2001) - $351,692,268
- 9 The Nun (2018) - $365,550,119
- 8 Prometheus (2012) - $403,354,469
- 7 Signs (2002) - $408,247,917
- 6 The Exorcist (1973) - $441,306,145
Bringing up the rear is 2017's Annabelle: Creation, the fourth film installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. A prequel to 2014's Annabelle, the film tells the story of a doll-maker and his wife who, after losing their daughter in a tragic car accident, become the targets of one of the doll-maker's possessed creations. Related: Every Movie i...
At number fourteen is the sixth entry in a film franchise that has been going from over twenty years. 2016's Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the last installment in the original Resident Evil series before it was rebooted in 2021 withResident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon Cityand, like its predecessors, is based on the video game series of the same ...
The original The Conjuring film not only became one of the highest-grossing horror films of all time when it was released in 2013 but also kick-started a cinematic universethat has made over $2 billion and counting. Starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, the film is inspired by the supposedly true encounters of paranormal investigators Ed and Lo...
Having made marginally more than its predecessor and coming in at number twelve is The Conjuring 2. This time, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to England to assist a single mother whose council house is being haunted by an evil poltergeist. Loosely based on the supposedly real Enfield poltergeist that plagued the house of the...
Just missing out on the top ten is A Quiet Place, one of the most original horror films of the twenty-first century. Directed by John Krasinski, and starring Krasinski himself alongside his real-life wife, Emily Blunt, the film is set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind creatures who possess an enhanced sense of hearing. The story center...
Tenth on this list is Hannibal, the sequel to the 1991 sensation Silence of the Lambs. Premiering on February 9th, 2001, the film follows the further exploits of FBI agent Clarice Starling as she tries to capture the elusive Hannibal Lecter before one of his surviving victims can. This time around, Julianne Moore was in the role of Starling, replac...
At number nine on the list, we have the fifth installment in The Conjuring Universe, The Nun, which debuted on September 7th, 2018. This spin-off of The Conjuring 2had Taissa Farmiga in the lead role, as she played a nun in her novitiate trying to get to the bottom of an unholy secret in 1952 Romania. While criticized for its weak plot, The Nun gar...
Number eight on the list is the sci-fi horror blockbuster Prometheus, which was directed by Ridley Scott and hit theaters on June 8, 2012. A somewhat quasi-prequel to the 1979 hit Alien, Prometheuscarved its own path and story, separating itself from those that came before it despite being set in the same universe. Related: Prometheus: Does the Ali...
Coming in at number seven on the list is the M. Night Shyamalan movie Signs, which hit theaters on August 2, 2002. Starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, the film follows a former priest and his family as they discover a series of crop circles leading up to an alien invasion of Earth. Expertly paced, peppered with humor, and filled with enough su...
Our number sixth entry is the very first horror film to ever be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, The Exorcist. Directed by the late great William Friedkin and based on the book by William Peter Blatty (who also penned the screenplay), The Exorcisttells the terrifying tale of a little girl possessed by demons and her subsequent exor...
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Oct 30, 2023 · We visualized the world's 15 highest-grossing horror movies, based on inflation-adjusted box office revenues.
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Dec 10, 2023 · The highest-grossing horror movie of all time, before inflation, is It. The Stephen King adaptation earned $701,842,551 globally and drew huge crowds of terrified moviegoers.
Apr 1, 2020 · Here are the ten highest-grossing horror films of all time. Halloween (2018) - $255.5 million The eleventh installment in the Halloween franchise, the 2018 film retconned all the previous films in the series and acted as a direct sequel to the original Halloween directed by John Carpenter and released in 1978.
Feb 27, 2024 · The highest-grossing horror film series at the global box office is The Conjuring Universe (USA), with a total gross of $2,250,924,388 (£1,774,268,640) across its eight instalments as of 27 February 2024, according to The Numbers.
