Overview
- The genre’s UK and Irish box-office takings are up 22% year on year to £83.77m, reversing 2024’s lull, according to figures cited by The Guardian.
- Five titles crossed £10m in the territory this year, including Weapons (£11.4m), Sinners (£16.2m), The Conjuring: Last Rites (£14.98m) and 28 Years Later (£15.54m).
- Some 2025 releases posted very large worldwide grosses as reported by ComicBook.com, with Sinners at about $367m, Final Destination: Bloodlines at $314.9m and Weapons at roughly $267m.
- The rebound remains uneven, with ComicBook.com noting high-profile stumbles such as a poorly received Wolf Man reboot and patchy reaction to V/H/S/Beyond.
- A parallel appetite for rougher, curator-led programming is surfacing through venues like London’s Nickel Cinema, as a year-end slate led by Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Dec 5), Silent Night, Deadly Night and Dust Bunny (Dec 12), Shelby Oaks (Oct 24) and Anaconda (Dec 25) is poised to test the momentum.