13 Movies That Shocked At The Box Office In 2018

9. Halloween

Halloween Michael Myers 2018
Universal Pictures

Box Office: $253.7 million

While few were surprised that the new Halloween managed to recoup its mere $15 million budget many times over, few could've quite anticipated that audiences would be quite this hungry for a new slice of Michael Myers.

Its $253.7 million final take represents a gross that's 16.9x its production budget, making Halloween one of the most commercially efficient films of the year in terms of cost-to-profit ratio.

Not only is it the highest-grossing film in the franchise by a huge margin, but Halloween grossed more than the first eight films in the series combined - without factoring inflation, in fairness - and is currently the highest-grossing slasher film of all time.

A storming result for a franchise that's been on the skids for, oh, only only about 35 years.

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