2020-05-26

Horror Movie Tops Box Office for Third Straight Week

The total gross is less than $400,000 though...

EW: How low-budget horror movie The Wretched became America's No. 1 film
The most successful new film, according to Box Office Mojo, has been a supernatural indie-horror movie called The Wretched, which has dominated the website's daily chart since it was released on May 1. As of Thursday, The Wretched — about a teenager who discovers that a malevolent witch is living next door to his father — had been the No. 1 film in America for three weeks.

"It’s actually been a complete shock and kind of insane," says the Detroit-raised Brett Pierce, who directed the film with his brother Drew. "We were a little movie from Michigan. We always aimed for the moon, but with an independent film you think, Yeah, we’ll come out in a few theaters, and we’ll play for like a week, and maybe ten people will see it. Most people are going to see it when we land on a streaming service at some point. Each week it just kept on getting bigger, it was one of those things where you just don’t believe it as it’s happening. We’re going to be a Jeopardy question one day, because we’re going to be the lowest-grossing most successful film."

2 comments:

  1. Melt up market. See you in 2021 for the crash?

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  2. Starting to look that way, but then it looked like that in February too when the market ignored the coronavirus. It will depend on the economy now, but still might be too much fear around the virus that will fuel relief rallies even if the economy deteriorates.

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