6/25/2023 0 Comments Ghosts vs stupid zombies![]() ![]() And even though Twilight technically stars a shape-shifting werewolf-like teenager, let’s be honest: It’s a vampire movie. In 20 years, there were only three major movies that featured the creatures prominently, and none of them really made all that much money. 7) Werewolves: $118,939,362 A still from Benicio Del Toro’s 2010 film The Wolfman. The following numbers are made up of a film’s domestic gross only, are not adjusted for inflation, and were pulled from the IMDb-owned Box Office Mojo. (Plus, those are relatively lighthearted anyway, and it’s Halloween!)Īnother important asterisk is that the differences between categories, like ghosts and demons, can sometimes be nebulous, and so if you are particularly riled up about any of these categorizations, please remind yourself that, once again, it’s Halloween. An important asterisk here is that films in which multiple kinds of beings play major roles will not be included, which is why you won’t find Harry Potter, Hotel Transylvania, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Dark Shadows, and the like. So without further ado, here’s each of the most popular supernatural creatures, ranked by how much money the movies about them made. The Mummy, The Blair Witch Project, and The Sixth Sense all premiered that year, providing major wins for mummies, witches, and ghosts, respectively. There is also the fact that 1999 happened to be a pretty major year for movies and franchises involving otherworldly beings. It also has the benefit of freeing me from comparing the cultural importance of the films from Universal’s genre-defining Classic Monsters era (the original Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, et al) with, say, Nicolas Cage’s witch movie from 2011. Why 1999? First of all, it’s almost exactly 20 years ago, which means that it encompasses nearly an entire generation’s worth of taste in film. To do so, I calculated how much money every major movie about Halloween-y creatures made between 1999 and the present. What we can do, however, is attempt to determine how much power each of them wield in our cultural consciousness. They can do literal magic, and even if the calculations weren’t in their favor they could just like, put a spell on the person doing the math.īut unfortunately, there is no actual way to “do the math” on supernatural beings, because they are not real. If somebody attempted to do an actual power ranking of all the most popular supernatural creatures, well, that would be stupid, because obviously witches would win.
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