10 Most Expensive Horror Movies Ever Produced

10. It Chapter 2 - $79 Million

2017's It became the highest grossing horror film of all time when it surpassed The Sixth Sense with a box office of $700,000,000, so naturally the hyped sequel was given all the budget it could have ever hoped for.

Picking up with Derry's original Loser's Club, It Chapter Two follows the lore of the original Stephen King novel and sees the group come together as Pennywise the Dancing Clown returns after twenty-seven years to feed on the town's fears (and children) once again.

The bulk of this improved budget went mainly on the hiring of a more experienced and expensive set of adult actors, the need to shoot for longer (It Chapter Two has a runtime of over three hours in comparison to It's two hours fifteen minutes), and the CGI needed to process all of the different forms Pennywise takes over the course of the film.

It Chapter Two made $473 million against its budget, a healthy profit for sure but nowhere near the success of the original. Reception to the film was also a lot more mixed than the original too, with plenty of people commenting on the extended runtime and noticeable drop in how scary the movie actually was.