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| Second highest profiting Halloween of all time? Well..are those rates adjusted for inflation? Because paying $10 for a ticket nowadays adds up a lot quicker than the $2 a ticket people paid back in the late 70's. Also..more people go to the movies now than they did 30 years ago. And it opens in more theatres. You really can't compare the two.
My only point was that $30 million or so isn't that much when you consider it's a solid horror series that many people know about. $30 million on an opening weekend isn't all that much to write home about these days. |
None of the profits are adjusted for inflation, however; there has been a Halloween film every five years or so. Obviously, the original has the most unadjusted profits seeing how it was released in 1978. For many years it was the highest profiting indy film up until about 1990. The further we look at the series in terms of years, there's less to adjust. 1981, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1998 and 2002 were all the years of the Halloween sequels. H20 was generally regarded as a huge hit at the time of slashers being the "In" thing because of Scream. In all, H2O saw a gross of 55 million. Total costs for the film was 17 million. So the film made a 38 million dollar profit. Keep in mind this was with Jamie Lee Curtis backing and during a time when all slashers could potentially be a big money maker. RZ's Halloween depended on Zombie's name after an incredibly disappointing Resurrection gross of 30 million. (with the film costing 13 mil, Resurrection only made 17 million.) RZ's Halloween brought in 58 million with a budget of 15 million. That's a 43 million dollar profit.
Now regardless of what anyone thought of the quality of the film, RZ's film recovered from the bomb of Resurrection that was only 5 years before. Not only that, but it brought in 5 million more than H2O. Regardless of inflation, RZ's film was a success.