#1 of 169 #1 horror movie of 2018
2018 · Action, Sci-Fi
$856.1M worldwide · 23% of the chart's total
$213.5M US & Canada · 25% $642.6M elsewhere · 75%
Horror box office · 2018
Horror Box Office 2018: Highest-Grossing Horror Movies, Page 2
Venom (2018) is the highest-grossing horror movie released in 2018, with $856.1M worldwide, ahead of The Meg (2018) at $529.3M and The Nun (2018) at $366.1M. 169 horror films released in 2018 report a worldwide gross, $3.7B in all, 37% of it from the US & Canada. 9 films crossed $100 million; none reached $1 billion. That is up 4% on 2017, whose releases took $3.5B. By language, English leads with $3.4B across 113 horror releases.
- 2018 releases with a gross
- 169
- combined worldwide
- $3.7B
- films crossed $100M
- 9
- vs 2017
- +4%
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Every Horror Release of 2018, Ranked by Worldwide Gross
Ranks 51 to 100 of 169. Lifetime worldwide grosses in US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; domestic means the US & Canada. Films are grouped by their release date in 2018.
- 51
Feb 23, 2018 US and Canada: $7.4K Rest of the world: $909.4K Worldwide: $916.7K - 52
Jun 7, 2018 US and Canada: $55.6K Rest of the world: $753.8K Worldwide: $809.4K - 53
Oct 5, 2018 US and Canada: $772K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $772K - 54
Jun 14, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $737.9K - 55
Sep 7, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $737.5K - 56
Nov 23, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $680.6K - 57
Nov 30, 2018 US and Canada: $545.6K Rest of the world: $127.9K Worldwide: $673.5K - 58
Sep 7, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $666.4K - 59
Sep 7, 2018 US and Canada: $538.2K Rest of the world: $8.2K Worldwide: $546.4K - 60
Jul 13, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $516.7K - 61
Apr 13, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $504.7K - 62
Nov 29, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $470.6K - 63
Oct 12, 2018 US and Canada: $401.5K Rest of the world: $2.4K Worldwide: $403.9K - 64
Jan 20, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $370.3K - 65
Oct 11, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $367.2K - 66
Mar 15, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $367.2K - 67
Dec 8, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $355.3K - 68
Feb 23, 2018 US and Canada: $26.6K Rest of the world: $297.1K Worldwide: $323.8K - 69
Nov 2, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $289.8K - 70
Feb 14, 2018 US and Canada: $285.2K Rest of the world: Worldwide: $285.2K - 71
Jan 5, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $277.9K - 72
Jan 2, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $273.6K - 73
May 12, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $273.6K - 74
Mar 2, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $243K - 75
Jul 27, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $218.2K - 76
Nov 29, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $213K - 77
Oct 13, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $193K - 78
Jul 17, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $172.2K - 79
Nov 16, 2018 US and Canada: $8.2K Rest of the world: $159.8K Worldwide: $168K - 80
Mar 23, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $166.6K - 81
Feb 23, 2018 US and Canada: $86.4K Rest of the world: $79.8K Worldwide: $166.2K - 82
Jan 19, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $166K - 83
Jun 19, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $165.6K - 84
Jan 26, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $165K - 85
Aug 10, 2018 US and Canada: $20.7K Rest of the world: $133.2K Worldwide: $153.9K - 86
Nov 23, 2018 US and Canada: $20.7K Rest of the world: $133.2K Worldwide: $153.9K - 87
Dec 21, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $145.9K - 88
Apr 5, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $137.8K - 89
Dec 14, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $123.6K - 90
Aug 31, 2018 US and Canada: $82.8K Rest of the world: $40.1K Worldwide: $122.8K - 91
Jun 1, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $106.1K - 92
May 5, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $104K - 93
May 29, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $98.3K - 94
Jul 13, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $95.2K - 95
Apr 12, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $81.2K - 96
Jul 27, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $80.7K - 97
Jun 1, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $80.5K - 98
Sep 7, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $76.2K - 99
Jul 31, 2018 US and Canada: $21.5K Rest of the world: $51.9K Worldwide: $73.4K - 100
Oct 5, 2018 US and Canada: – Rest of the world: – Worldwide: $72.6K
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)