Given the season and all, perhaps it’s fitting that a horror movie won a truly terrifying weekend—at least terrifying as far as Hollywood bean counters are concerned.
Jigsaw, a resurrection of the Saw franchise, took the top spot with a woeful $16.3 million (estimated, of course). Its victory simultaneously confirmed the horror genre’s power this year and suggested that the meat-and-blood-obsessed Saw franchise has definitely spoiled over time. Still, a win’s a win, and despite a slew of new movies out, it was the only newcomer to hit the top five.
Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween finished second with $10 million, followed by Geostorm ($5.7 million), Happy Death Day ($5.1 million) and Blade Runner 2049 ($4 million).
Most of the freshman entrants bombed out of the gate. Thank You for Your Service proved to be the most durable of the bunch, banking $3.7 million to finish sixth, just outside the top five. Meanwhile, Suburbicon collected a truly miserable $2.8 million for eighth. Let There be Light, a Christian flick, garnered $1.9 million—not too bad for the genre.
And, of course, all of these newcomers can take solace that they finished well above All I See is You—a movie that, apparently, was seen by only I and the immediate family of star Blake Lively. It earned just a touch over $135,000, which means the only thing this film will ever see again is the bottom of a DVD bargain bin.
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