Viral horror movie Skinamarink has earned 67x its budget at the box office. The film, which cost $15,000 to make, has now earned $1 million.
Skinamarink, the indie horror film that received a wide release after going viral on TikTok, has achieved an impressive box office result at the end of its first week in theaters. The experimental horror film is the feature directorial debut of Canadian filmmaker Kyle Edward Ball.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Per Bloody Disgusting, Skinamarink has now earned $1 million in the North American box office. While that number can't exactly compete with the weekend's big blockbusters like Avatar: The Way of Water and M3GAN, Skinmarink only cost $15,000, meaning that this total has already multiplied the film's budget 67 times.
However, despite horror proving itself as one of the sturdiest box office genres in the modern age, it dominated the indie sphere as well. Last year, the slasher sequel Terrifier 2, which followed the continued exploits of the serial killer Art the Clown, opened in 770 theaters, eventually expanding to 1,550 screens on its way to raking in a total of $13.5 million worldwide.
While it is incredibly difficult to predict what future indie horror feature could possibly be the next Terrifier 2, the box office is certainly showing that the film market is still hungry for scrappy and compelling fright flicks, no matter what they cost or where they come from. Not every feature has the capacity to capture this kind of audience, as the 2022 license-dodging Grinch horror film The Mean One proved with its disappointing take in December.
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