Horror box office statistics

Horror box office Statistics

Horror- slasher

Highest grossing- scream $103,046,663

Total at box office - $2,346,513,638

Horror-Supernatural

Highest grossing sixth sense $293,506,292

Total at box office- $4,130,975,121

Horror- underwater

Highest grossing jaws $260,000,000

Total at box office- $839,393,599

Horror- torture

Highest grossing saw II $87,039,965

Total at box office- $854,153,765

Horror- anthology

 Highest grossing Twilight zone $29,450,919

Total at box office - $145,545,342

Horror- comedy

Highest grossing Ghostbusters $238,632,124

Total at box office- $1,911,399,084

Total of horrors at box office- $12,748,816,047

Rom-com

Highest grossing my big fat Greek wedding $241,438,208

Total of rom-coms at box office-$12,035,592,132

Super hero

Highest grossing the avengers $623,357,910

Total of superhero films at box office- $9,975,959,898                              (source-boxofficemojo)

The statistics I have gathered is a good tool for differentiating between each genre of film to see which has made the best and worst at box office.  The data suggests that horrors have made the highest amount of money at the box office making $12,748,816,047. This is evidence to suggest to me and my group that making a horror is a good idea as it’s the highest grossing genre out of rom-coms and superhero film, indicating there is a big market for them. The data I gathered for the subgenres of horror indicate that supernatural has made the most at box office grossing $4,130,975,121 compared to anthology making the least grossing $145,545,342. This suggests that I should maybe make a supernatural as opposed to anthology as it has seen to be more successful at box office with its highest grossing supernatural horror sixth sense making $293,506,292. Anthology however isn’t as common as other genres such as slasher or comedy horrors so less films were made hence why the money made isn’t as much, one of their most famous films made is Ghostbusters.