Box Office Mojo
Top Ten Grossing Slasher Movies
Note: Many slasher movies from the '70s and '80s have no box office records and, hence, do not appear on this list. This may skew the validity of the results drawn form list due many of the slasher genre's seminal and defining movies came out during these decades. D.S
Number 1: Scream (1996)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$103,046,6631,994
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$103,046,6631,994
Number 2: Scream 2 (1997)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$101,363,3012,688
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$101,363,3012,688
Number 3: Scream 3 (2000)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$89,143,1753,467
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$89,143,1753,467
Number 4: Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$82,622,6553,014
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$82,622,6553,014
Number 5: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$80,571,6553,018
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$80,571,6553,018
Number 6: I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$72,586,134 2,524
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$72,586,134 2,524
Number 7: Friday the 13th (2009)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$65,002,0193,105
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$65,002,0193,105
Number 8: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$63,075,0113,332
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$63,075,0113,332
Number 9: Halloween (2007)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$58,272,0293,475
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$58,272,0293,475
Number 10: Halloween: H20 (1998)
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$55,041,7382,669
Lifetime Gross/ Theaters:$55,041,7382,669
A few interesting conclusions can be drawn from the results on this list and applied to our horror feature to increase it's chances of financial success; the most prominent of these conclusions being that every movie on this list contains a serial killer element in a slasher style setting. We have attempted to emulate this common feature shared by these box office giants by basing our horror around a serial killing butcher; a premise that shares strong similarities with these financial successes but retains its own identity. Another conclusion that we can draw from these results is the longevity of the genre with huge box office successes from as early as 1996 with SCREAM( 1996) to as recent as 2010 with A NIGHTMARE ON ELMS STREET (2010) suggesting the genre is a ever popular source of financial success. On a more specific point it is worth noting that the top three spots on this list are all filled movies from the SCREAM franchise; this may suggest that the SCREAM franchise is doing something more or more adeptly then their competitors.This will need to be looked into further to isolate what this factor is and how we may use it for our own benefit.
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