Highest-Grossing Horror Films of All Time
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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It (2017) leads in Worldwide Box Office (Million USD) with 701 in 2019.
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2017 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2019: It (2017) is 2.7× larger than Get Out (2017).
About This Dataset
Highest-Grossing Horror Films of All Time
Horror films ranked by total worldwide box office gross, measured in millions of USD. It (2017) became the highest-grossing horror film in history at the time of its release, grossing $701 million worldwide from a $35 million budget — a return of 20x that demonstrated the genre's extraordinary commercial efficiency and the power of nostalgia-driven IP based on Stephen King's most beloved novel, which had already been a cultural touchstone through its 1990 TV miniseries.
Analysis
It (2017) (701), The Sixth Sense (1999) (672) and War of the Worlds (2005) (591) take the top three in Worldwide Box Office (Million USD) in 2019. Values run from 701 at the top to 255 at the bottom, a spread of 446. First and second are separated by 29, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 591 down to 255.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 1999–2019 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Worldwide Box Office (Million USD)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2019.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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