#1 of 3,651 Highest-grossing horror movie ever
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
2022 · Action, Adventure
$955.8M worldwide
$411.3M US & Canada · 43% $544.4M elsewhere · 57%
Horror box office · All time
Highest-Grossing Horror Movies of All Time, Page 73
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) is the highest-grossing horror movie in our database, with $955.8M worldwide, ahead of Venom (2018) at $856.1M and It (2017) at $704.2M. 3,651 horror films in our database report a worldwide gross, $59.7B in all, 48% of it from the US & Canada. 168 films crossed $100 million; none reached $1 billion. By language, English leads with $53.5B across 2,393 horror releases.
- films with a reported gross
- 3,651
- combined worldwide
- $59.7B
- films crossed $100M
- 168
- earned in the US & Canada
- 48%
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All 3,651 Horror Movies, Ranked by Worldwide Gross
Ranks 3,601 to 3,650 of 3,651. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada.
- 3601
May 8, 1981 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $315 - 3602
May 20, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $304 - 3603
Mar 3, 1944 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $300 - 3604
Aug 9, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $297 - 3605
Oct 1, 1981 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $297 - 3606
Apr 24, 1955 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $291 - 3607
Sep 1, 1974 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $289 - 3608
Oct 21, 2015 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $276 - 3609
May 27, 1953 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $270 - 3610
Dec 21, 1985 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $254 - 3611
Mar 19, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $248 - 3612
Sep 25, 2020 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $248 - 3613
Sep 18, 2002 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $241 - 3614
Feb 2, 1974 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $219 - 3615
Aug 22, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $217 - 3616
May 11, 2005 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $217 - 3617
Apr 7, 1989 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $205 - 3618
Nov 1, 1977 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $197 - 3619
May 3, 1934 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $180 - 3620
Feb 5, 1969 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $171 - 3621
Jun 27, 1975 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $163 - 3622
May 16, 1980 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $160 - 3623
Mar 28, 1980 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $147 - 3624
Aug 30, 1972 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $135 - 3625
Jun 22, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $129 - 3626
Jan 13, 1939 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $127 - 3627
Feb 10, 2007 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $124 - 3628
May 13, 1989 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $118 - 3629
Apr 14, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $113 - 3630
Feb 6, 2009 US and Canada: $95 Rest of the world: Worldwide: $95 - 3631
Jun 18, 1960 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $84 - 3632
May 24, 1957 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $77 - 3633
Mar 21, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $73 - 3634
Jan 16, 2026 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $62 - 3635
May 7, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $53 - 3636
May 17, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $43 - 3637
Aug 28, 1963 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $42 - 3638
Oct 6, 2024 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $41 - 3639
Jun 23, 2023 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $39 - 3640
Apr 7, 1971 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $34 - 3641
Aug 28, 2019 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $33 - 3642
Jul 30, 1976 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $30 - 3643
Oct 30, 1942 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $27 - 3644
Sep 5, 2004 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $25 - 3645
Sep 30, 2011 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $24 - 3646
May 6, 1932 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $19 - 3647
Jan 15, 2010 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $17 - 3648
Sep 10, 2014 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $13 - 3649
Oct 17, 2016 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $13 - 3650
Jun 10, 1964 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $11
Archive
Horror Box Office Year by Year
Every year from 1920 to 2026 with its total and its biggest film. 2018 leads with $3.7B, led by Venom (2018).
2020s 7 years · $15.4B
- 2026 so far $2.5B #1 Backrooms (2026)
- 2025 $2.7B #1 The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
- 2024 $2.6B #1 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
- 2023 $2.7B #1 Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
- 2022 $2.6B #1 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
- 2021 $1.6B #1 Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
- 2020 $697.4M #1 The Invisible Man (2020)
2010s 10 years · $22.6B
- 2019 $3.1B #1 It: Chapter Two (2019)
- 2018 $3.7B #1 Venom (2018)
- 2017 $3.5B #1 It (2017)
- 2016 $1.9B #1 The Conjuring 2 (2016)
- 2015 $1.6B #1 Mojin: The Lost Legend (2015)
- 2014 $1.4B #1 Annabelle (2014)
- 2013 $2.2B #1 World War Z (2013)
- 2012 $2.7B #1 Prometheus (2012)
- 2011 $1.1B #1 Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
- 2010 $1.3B #1 Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
2000s 10 years · $12.1B
- 2009 $1.4B #1 The Final Destination (2009)
- 2008 $661.8M #1 Saw V (2008)
- 2007 $1.6B #1 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- 2006 $1.2B #1 Saw III (2006)
- 2005 $1.7B #1 Constantine (2005)
- 2004 $1.3B #1 The Grudge (2004)
- 2003 $970.4M #1 Gothika (2003)
- 2002 $1.1B #1 Signs (2002)
- 2001 $712.3M #1 The Others (2001)
- 2000 $1.3B #1 What Lies Beneath (2000)
1990s 10 years · $5.4B
- 1999 $1.3B #1 The Blair Witch Project (1999)
- 1998 $929.6M #1 Godzilla (1998)
- 1997 $720.6M #1 Scream 2 (1997)
- 1996 $357.9M #1 Scream (1996)
- 1995 $283.3M #1 Species (1995)
- 1994 $368.5M #1 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
- 1993 $165M #1 The Good Son (1993)
- 1992 $571M #1 Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
- 1991 $285.2M #1 Cape Fear (1991)
- 1990 $450.5M #1 Flatliners (1990)
1980s 10 years · $2.5B
- 1989 $214.3M #1 Pet Sematary (1989)
- 1988 $284.7M #1 A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
- 1987 $325.5M #1 The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
- 1986 $262.9M #1 The Fly (1986)
- 1985 $185.9M #1 A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
- 1984 $303.5M #1 Gremlins (1984)
- 1983 $243.8M #1 Jaws 3-D (1983)
- 1982 $289M #1 Poltergeist (1982)
- 1981 $209.9M #1 An American Werewolf in London (1981)
- 1980 $175M #1 The Shining (1980)
1970s 10 years · $1.7B
- 1979 $279.6M #1 Alien (1979)
- 1978 $286.6M #1 Jaws 2 (1978)
- 1977 $45.7M #1 Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
- 1976 $149.4M #1 The Omen (1976)
- 1975 $481.8M #1 Jaws (1975)
- 1974 $32.1M #1 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- 1973 $431.3M #1 The Exorcist (1973)
- 1972 $1.6K #1 Images (1972)
- 1971 $2.7M #1 THX 1138 (1971)
- 1970 $40.6K #1 Multiple Maniacs (1970)
1960s 10 years · $33M
- 1969 $171 #1 Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
- 1968 $242.2K #1 Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- 1967 $240.1K #1 Night of the Big Heat (1967)
- 1966 $5.6K #1 Eye of the Devil (1966)
- 1965 $34.7K #1 Repulsion (1965)
- 1964 $1.2K #1 Onibaba (1964)
- 1963 $55.4K #1 The Birds (1963)
- 1962 $4.5K #1 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- 1961 $30.2K #1 The Innocents (1961)
- 1960 $32.4M #1 Psycho (1960)