10 highest grossing horror films of all time

9. What Lies Beneath (2000, $259.9 million)

Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) worries about his wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer). A car accident has left gaps in her memory, their daughter has gone off to college, and she is convinced that her neighbor Mary (Miranda Otto) was killed by her husband Warren (James Remar). On top of that, strange, inexplicable things are happening in the house right now. Logically, it should be the neighbor haunting their house… only it turns out that Mary isn’t really dead. So who’s chasing? Norman’s former student named Madison (Amber Valletta), with whom Norman admits that he had a brief affair before he realized the fallacy of his behavior and broke up with her. According to Norman, she took it badly, threatened to kill Claire, and died of an overdose. Without spoilers, let’s just say that Norman’s pants can burn.

8. Alien (1979, $286.4 million)

commercial spacecraft Nostromo is on his way back to Earth when a transmission, possibly a distress signal, leads them to investigate its source on a nearby moon. Three crew members are sent to check it out and in doing so lose contact with the ship. Damn cell phone. Now Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) cannot alert them that the signal is actually a warning. They become aware of themselves when the egg-shaped object on the alien ship the warning is coming from opens, releasing a face-hugging creature that clings to Kane (John Hurt). Everyone returns to the ship, the creature falls and dies, no harm, end of the movie. Wait, hurt is done when a small alien creature bursts out of Kane’s chest and escapes to the ship. Now the creature is growing rapidly and taking the crew away one by one.

7 The Amityville Horror (1979, $310.3 million)

Based on true eventscough, cough) George (James Brolin) and Kathy (Margot Kidder) The Lutz experience at their infamous Amityville home. Shortly after moving in, the Lutzes invite Father Delaney (Rod Steiger) to come and bless the house, where a room full of flies and a severe stomach ailment force the priest to leave. And from there, everything goes downhill: slime coming out of the walls, a hidden red room in the basement, a vomiting nun, and George falling out of character as he slowly approaches being subdued by the evil in the house. In the end, the family leaves the house without their possessions, never to return. Lesson learned: If your realtor reports that a doofus shot his entire family in the house, perhaps think twice about that down payment.

6. Jaws 2 (1978, $312.8 million)

Sequel to 1975. Steven Spielberg there is no Spielberg in the classics, but there is Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and another shark terrorizing Amity Island again. The death of a water skier, two scuba divers, and a killer whale convinces Brody that a shark lives nearby. He reports to the mayor and the Amity City Council with a close-up photo of a shark in his hand taken from one of the dive cameras. Of course, there can’t be a second shark, and Brody is fired as police chief. Naturally, Brody is right, and when he discovers his sons and a group of teenagers are setting sail, it’s up to him to save them from the shark. An impressive shark, no less, independently took out the helicopter.

5. It (2017, $328.9 million)

In the summer of 1989, Derry, Maine continues to lose children. This has not happened for 27 years. And 27 years before that. 27, 27, 27. There may be a pattern, and there definitely is. Every 27 years, a werewolf monster wakes up to prey on Derry’s children, one of them as Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), evil clown. Only this time, Pennywise killed the wrong little brother, prompting Bill Denbrough (Jayden Lieberer) team up with a group of friends, the Losers Club, to destroy the monster for what he did to poor Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott).

4 Gremlins (1984, $409.8 million)

Billy PeltzerZach Galligan) passes into the possession of Gizmo (Howie Mandel), a small, cute and fluffy creature called mogwai. There are three rules to follow with the Mogwai: don’t expose the Mogwai to light (sunlight is strictly forbidden), don’t wet the Mogwai, and never feed them after midnight (yes, yes, we’ve all heard that doesn’t make sense - deal with it. , dude). Rule #1, no problem. But water falls on little Gizmo, causing five Mogwais to emerge from his back. Oops. Well, rule #3 shouldn’t be a problem, as long as the clock runs correctly, which it does, but only twice a day, as one of the restless Mogwais broke the power cord. Their snack after midnight ends with the new Mogwais being enveloped in a green cocoon, and when the cocoon opens, green, reptilian, and vicious creatures called gremlins break out and wreak havoc on the city of Kingston Falls.

3. The Sixth Sense (1999, $518.8 million)

Director M. Night Shyamalan went gold with his third film, Sixth SenseWith Bruce Willis as Malcolm Crow, a child psychologist who starts working with 9-year-old Cole (Hayley Joel Osment). The boy frighteningly admits to Malcolm that he “sees dead people”, which Malcolm passes off as delusion, but soon realizes that Cole can actually see ghosts, dead people unaware that they are dead or have unfinished business in the world of the living. With the help of Malcolm, Cole overcomes his fear and begins to help the ghosts pass on to the afterlife. The stunning twist at the end was legitimately unexpected at the time, and plot twists have subsequently become a staple of Shyamalan’s films with varying degrees of success.

2 The Exorcist (1973, $996.5 million)

Exorcist made history by becoming the first horror film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, and moviegoers eager to see a film filled with characters so terrifying that they caused fainting, vomiting, heart attacks and even miscarriage reports ensured that Exorcist became one of the highest grossing horror films of all time. In fact, his worldwide grosses to date rank him second on this list (and yes, that pun was completely intentional). In the film, we see a young 12-year-old Regan (Linda Blairin a stunning performance that earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination) becomes possessed by the demon Pazuzu and details the efforts of a pair of Catholic priests to perform an exorcism to free Regan from the demon’s grip.

1. Jaws (1975, $1.154 billion)

Were there any doubts? Jaws film that launched Steven Spielbergcareer, became the starting point for a summer blockbuster and instilled the fear of sharks into the hearts of millions. all with the shark visible on screen for only four minutes. It’s easy for the best money (and should have been easy for the best movie). When a great white shark roams the waters around Amity Island, it falls to the lot of three people - Chief Brody, marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and the cool professional shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw in perhaps his greatest role) - to stop the deadly fish.