12 Huge Movies That IT Destroyed At The Box Office

5. Both Fifty Shades Movies

Box Office: Fifty Shades Darker ($380.9 million) and Fifty Shades of Grey ($571 million)

If human history has proven anything, and it's certainly true within the film industry, it's that sex sells, especially when you don't actually show any sexual organs and pander to the repressed housewife market with glorified softcore porn.

2015's Fifty Shades of Grey surpassed most sensible expectations with its astonishing near-$600 million final total, and while the sequel released earlier this year cracked almost $200 million less, it's still a damn fine return on a movie that, comparatively, cost peanuts to make (much like It, which was made for just $35 million).

The idea of violence being more successful at the box office than sex initially seems pretty baffling, but with the world having far sexier material available a few clicks away for free, it makes sense that paying customers would be more keen to shell out for a quality, gory scaring.