Why Low-Budget Horror Is Thriving This Summer
These dirt-cheap productions are making money, finding eager audiences, and garnering critical praise during a largely dead box-office season.
Only during a global pandemic would the biggest film in the U.S. be not a superhero blockbuster or a sequel, but a low-budget horror movie about a teenage boy in the suburbs doing battle with a witch living next door. Thanks to the coronavirus disrupting the usual summer release schedule, now belongs to a that have topped the U.S. box office for five weekends in a row, including and . Yes, those massive movies made a little more money ( pulled in a healthy $1.7 million at drive-in theaters) and faced slightly tougher competition. But it’s still surreal to on its poster.
