The tale of the tape isn’t pretty.
“Splice,” the flawed but original shocker debuted over the weekend to roughly $7 million.
Compare that to the numbers generated by these horror films on their opening weekends (info courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
- “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (2010) – $32.0 million
- “Friday the 13th” (2009) – $40 million
- “Saw VI” (2009) – $14 million
Now, do you think Hollywood is more or less likely to give us original horror films in the future?
“Splice” isn’t a pure horror film, but it’s darn close enough to serve as a comparison point – and for this horror buff to whine about audiences telling studios to greenlight every lame horror remake they can.
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Not “The Human Centipede” [THANK.GOD] but in the same disturbing and refreshingly creative vein, and yet the (lack of) success of “Splice” so far reminds me of the b.o. failure of Townshend’s “The Five Heartbeats” – an urban-oriented family-friendly film that was crushed by all of the boyz-in-the-hood knockoffs.
Commenters here regularly note that ideology-skewing releases notwithstanding, show business is about business, and thus generally follows the money (exceptions such as “Joe Dirt” I file along with the mystery of the Holy Trinity).
I resonate with your regret that “Splice’s” b.o. return will trump its quality cast and story and instead be leveraged as an argument for unimaginative sequels.
Don’t be hating on ‘Centipede!’