10 Horror Movies That Flopped Hard In 2025

5. The Woman in the Yard

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Blumhouse has had a wildly mixed bag of a 2025, defined by unexpected flops and a few bread-and-butter hits like Black Phone 2 and Five Nights at Freddy's 2.

One of the studio's more surprising duds this year was The Woman in the Yard, a $12 million psychological horror film with an easy-to-market premise, made by a director with a string of genre hits to his name, Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown, Non-Stop, The Shallows). Even so, it grossed just $23.3 million globally, falling a tad shy of the 2x multiplier needed to fully cover its costs.

Mixed-to-negative reviews didn't help, nor a not-great "C-" CinemaScore, and it probably further hurt the movie that cinema is arguably wildly oversaturated with horror movies about grief at the moment. This was less the "fun" B-movie folk might expect from the title and trailers, and instead a more earnest, serious-minded horror that many likely decided to catch on streaming instead - if at all.

 
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