Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks the amounts of revenue that any movie makes upon its cinematic release. It is currently owned by the company Internet Movie Database, which acquired Box Office Mojo in 2008. Founded in 1998, Box Office Mojo organises data from movie revenues in a simplistic way, and allows for users to search within different genres, as well as individual daily, monthly, yearly, etc. revenues for any film it has stored within its database.
The table to the right shows the highest grossing films for each of eight different horror subgenres that Box Office Mojo has categorised the various horror films under. The second column shows how many films are categorised under each sub genre; whilst the last column shows the amount of money that the highest grossing film has grossed.
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Highest Grossing Horror Movies By Subgenre
Period Horror - The Conjuring (2013) The Conjuring is a period horror film that centres around a family that moves into a house that was cursed in the far past. The house has seen many suicides and murders take place within its halls, so the recently moved in family decides to take action themselves. The film made $41,855,326 on its opening weekend, and went on to make a total of $318,000,141 over its total lifetime (105 days; 15 weeks). |
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Torture Horror - Saw II (2005) Saw II is the sequel to the highly popular Saw, and is part of an eight strong series of films. This instalment of the franchise sees the usual gore and traps that the killer Jigsaw has set up; with this instalment providing a slight reason as to why he sets up these traps. Saw II is the best grossing of all the films in the series, as well as the best grossing Torture Horror film of all time; bringing in $31,725,652 in its opening week and a total of $147,748,505 in the 70 days that it was shown in cinemas. |
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Slasher Horror - Scream (1996) Scream is a horror film that follows the story of a girl at a high school and a series of murders that take place at the school. It features a masked killer who stalks his victims and torments them. In its opening weekend, Scream took $6,354,586, and a total of $173,046,663 in the 19 weeks it was shown in cinemas. |
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