As a quick sidebar: the performance of the Despicable Me franchise is truly legendary. From this list, we have:. Neither of these three films failed to gross less than 11 times their budget. As you may have noticed, people love those dang Minions. Here are the same sets of numbers for the The Conjuring, The Purge, Insidious , and Paranormal Activity franchises, plus three other noteworthy Blumhouse films from the past few years:.
If you had a bunch of M. Churning out low-budget horror movies is not a viable path to Oscar gold, right? In addition to being a critical and zeitgeist-conquering success, Get Out also did gangbusters at the box office:. The Groundhog Day -style slasher film was pretty fun, but not exactly groundbreaking. We decided to include it because, frankly, it was a film that did pretty well. Not great, just pretty well. Blum saw the film at a festival, loved it, and joined up with Peli to get it released.
The worst film in this franchise still had an ROI of almost percent. But the success of Paranormal Activity paved the way for a decade-plus of great scares and scary big profits, with more of both likely to come. As time has gone on, the ROIs for these films have decreased. Paranormal Activity required a bedroom and stationary camera, whereas The Nun needed an entire monastery.
This allows us to see what types and subgenres of films have the highest correlation with profitability. Found Footage films appear to be the most profitable type of horror movies released, with almost four out of five likely to have made a profit. Conversely, Monster movies have the poorest success rate, with just over a third likely to have generated a profit. Amongst the hybrid genres, horror comedies and horror romances have the strongest chance to break even, with horror fantasy and horror action films performing the least well.
Profitability is expressed as a percentage return on the reported production budget. In a study for the American Film Market, Bruce Nash and I showed how the critical reception of a horror film has almost no correlation with the profitability of that film. Although horror still has the weakest correlation of all genres. The Horror Report contains more detail on the types of horror movies screening on television, as well as covering all other aspects of the film life cycle, right from development through to profitability.
These figures are calculated by Nash Information Services using predictive modelling and real-world data. Therefore, these figures should be seen as approximate. Their budgets are so low that minor changes in the data can have a dramatic effect on their final profitability figure. I feel I should add a few notes of caution to all filmmakers and film investors thinking that horror movies present an easy source of money:. Film is rarely a safe career choice or investment opportunity… though in both cases, it can be a fun one!
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The Conjuring. The Conjuring 2: The Enfiel…. A Quiet Place. The original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" terrified audiences with the simple visual of a man with a murderous power tool.
New filmmakers and producers flock to the horror genre to make money and gain a successful reputation. The low production costs of making a film with handheld cameras for a "found footage" type of horror movie can make a cheap film budget even cheaper. While there are plenty of horror films that under-perform, this genre often produces the biggest success stories. The biggest money to be made in the horror business is with material with which audiences are already familiar. A franchise is a series of movies based on an original successful film.
A successful film is a brand name that can be used for sequels, remakes and other profit-making ventures like action figures.
The recognizability of a horror title like "Saw" or "Paranormal Activity," leads to reliable profits.
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