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2nd highest grossing film of 1979.

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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I knew this was popular, but I didn't realize it was such a smash hit. I don't see many people discuss this films financial success.

Domestic gross; Horror; adjusted for inflation to 2022
1. Jaws (1975) - $734 million
2. The Exorcist (1973) - $590 million
3. The Sixth Sense (1999) - $521 million
4. It (2017) - $395 million
5. Signs (2002) - $375 million
6. Jaws 2 (1978) - $371 million
7. The Amityville Horror (1979) - $353 million
8. The Mummy Returns (2001) - $338 million
9. Alien (1979) - $334 million
10. Psycho (1960) - $320 million
11. The Omen (1976) - $317 million
12. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - $284 million
13. The Mummy (1999) - $276 million
14. Hannibal (2001) - $276 million
15. The Blair Witch Project (1999) - $249 million
16. It: Chapter Two (2019) - $245 million
17. Poltergeist (1982) - $235 million
18. Aliens (1986) - $230 million
19. A Quiet Place (2018) - $221 million
20. Halloween (1978) - $214 million
21. The Ring (2002) - $212 million
22. Get Out (2017) - $212 million
23. Interview with the Vampire (1994) - $210 million
24. Us (2019) - $202 million
25. Scream (1996) - $194 million
26. Halloween (2018) - $188 million
27. Scream 2 (1997) - $187 million
28. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - $185 million
29. Sleepy Hollow (1999) - $179 million
30. Carrie (1976) - $176 million
31. The Conjuring (2013) - $174 million
32. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - $174 million
33. A Quiet Place Part II (2020) - $174 million

Domestic gross taken from BoxOfficeMojo

[–] [deleted] 8 months ago

I didn't realize it did quite that well either.

The supposedly true story of the haunting did get a huge amount of media attention. The book was on the bestseller list for a long time, too. It was one of those things that turned into a cultural phenomena. I remember seeing stories about it back in the 80s on shows like that's incredible.

[–] DoctorThirteen (11776) 8 months ago

Yes, I remember at the time the book of the 'true story' was huge.

[–] BKB (7421) 8 months ago

Today's Generation will find it incredibly boring and a slow burn, but out of all the houses in the Amityville movies, the house in the 1st movie had that sense of dread to it that the other movies didn't..