The movie also topped the domestic box office chart in its debut weekend.
Sony played a huge gamble this week, as it debuted Insidious: The Red Door in over 3,000 domestic theaters, sandwiched between Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One — two tent poles with a combined reported budget of around $600 million. Call it counter-programming or just impeccable insight, but the horror sequel, budgeted at a modest $16 million, has delivered more than the studio could've asked for in its opening weekend of release.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Not only did Insidious 5 top the domestic chart, unseating Dial of Destiny from the top spot with a better-than-expected $32.6 million debut, but it also did remarkably well overseas. The fifth film in the long-running horror franchise added $31 million from overseas markets, delivering the best debut for a horror picture since 2019. The film’s current worldwide haul stands at an excellent $64 million.
Insidious 5 marks series star Patrick Wilson’s feature directorial debut; he also leads the even bigger Conjuring film franchise. Reviews for Insidious 5, as one would expect for a fifth installment in a horror series, have been mixed at best. The movie sits at a “rotten” 37% score on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was able to earn only a disappointing C+ CinemaScore from opening day audiences, which suggests that its commercial performance might be front-loaded.
Horror, unlike most other genres, has continued to attract audiences in the post-pandemic era. Even as they've rejected big-budget superhero movies, viewers have shown up for a series of hits such as Scream VI, Smile, Evil Dead Rise, M3GAN, and more. It remains to be seen if this year’s other big horror releases — The Nun II and David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer — are able to capitalize on this momentum.
Insidious: The Red Door is now playing in theaters. You can watch our interview with Wan and producer Jason Blum here, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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