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The Big Picture While the year 2024 has been largely disappointing for studio horror films, a handful of smaller titles have stood out with modest grosses that more than make up for their shoestring budgets. This weekend, director Ti West completed his trilogy of slasher horror movies with MaXXXine, which debuted inside the top five domestically with a franchise-best opening weekend haul.
The trilogy began in 2022 with X, West’s take on Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style horror, which grossed over $11 million domestically and more than $3 million from overseas markets, for a combined global haul of $15 million. He followed it up with Pearl, a Sirk-ian prequel set in the early 20th century, which grossed over $9 million domestically but under $1 million in overseas markets, for a combined global gross of $10 million.
Prior to MaXXXine’s release, the marketplace had seen a host of big-ticket horror misfires from major studios, while smaller-budget films such as Late Night with the Devil and Immaculate performed reasonably well. In a career spanning two decades, West has established himself as one of the most dependably inventive low-budget horror filmmakers around, with early hits such as The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers.
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