This is just not a good summer for horror and scifi films at The Box Office. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark debuts better than I figured it would. Fright Night is still doing just barely ok. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in its third month of release is selling better than Final Destination 5 in its third week. Womp Womp. Besides those stats, all the bottom half of the horror and scifi films on The Box Office chart moved up spots despite lower sales.
4 Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark $11,440,000
10 6 Fright Night $4,583,000 (Total: $15,762,000)
11 11 Harry Potter/Hallows 2 $3,914,000 (Total: $372,155,000)
13 7 Final Destination 5 $3,687,000 (Total: $39,047,000)
16 13 Cowboys & Aliens $3,234,000 (Total: $94,381,000)
21 18 Transformers/Moon $942,000 (Total: $349,759,000)
24 40 Super 8 $431,000 (Total: $126,176,000)
30 29 Pirates/Tides $273,000 (Total: $240,541,000)
32 35 X-Men: First Class $159,000 (Total: $146,169,000)
38 41 Attack The Block $91,000 (Total: $746,000)
62 83 Insidious $5,000 (Total: $53,992,000)
71 94 Trollhunter $2,000 (Total: $245,000)
Dexter and Priest debut to good numbers. Insidious still holding in there.
1 Dexter: Season Five $9,547,000
3 Priest $3,480,000
21 N/A Insidious $312,000 (Total: $8,423,000)
25 19 Harry Potter/Hallows Part 1 $291,000 (Total: $80,874,000)
28 N/A Sucker Punch $209,000 (Total: $8,159,000)
True Blood… bla bla… Death Valley, the supernatural COPS horror-comedy from MTV, debuts to modest numbers.
True Blood – 5,312,000
Warehouse 13 – 2,292,000
Eureka – 2,130,000
Haven – 1,912,000
Death Valley – 1,816,000
Alphas – 1,789,000
Ancient Aliens – 1,552,000
Ghost Hunters – 1,274,000
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 1,070,000
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