Top Grossing Horror Film of all time:

1 Jaws (1975)

Domestic: $260,000,000 55.2%
+ Foreign: $210,653,000 44.8%

= Worldwide: $470,653,000 (before inflation); Around $1,600,000,000 (after inflation)

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Horror’s Top Grossing Horror/Thriller Films -- From the 80’s on up…

1980 - The Shining
1981 - Halloween 2
1982 - Poltergeist
1983 - Jaws 3-D
1984 - Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1985 - Nightmare on Elm Street 2
1986 - Aliens
1987 - Fatal Attraction
1988 - Nightmare on Elm Street 4
1989 - Pet Semetary
1990 - Misery
1991 - Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Basic Instinct
1993 - Malice
1994 - Interview with the Vampire
1995 - Seven
1996 - Scream
1997 - Scream 2
1998 - Halloween: H20
1999 - The Sixth Sense
2000 - Scream 3
2001 - Hannibal
2002 - Signs
2003 - Freddy vs. Jason
2004 - The Grudge
2005 - Saw 2
2006 - Saw 3
2007 - ?

Runners up (by year): Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th 2, Friday the 13th 3, Psycho 2, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th 5, Poltergeist 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Child’s Play, Nightmare on Elm Street 5, Child’s Play 2, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Good Son, Wolf, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Blair Witch Project, Hollow Man, Jeepers Creepers, The Ring, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ‘03, Alien vs. Predator, The Ring 2, The Omen ‘06

1995, 1996, 1998 are unaccounted for in runners up: No secondary films reached the top 50 for these years.

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Added: some 70's

1973 - The Exorcist
1975 - Jaws
1976 - The Omen
1978 - Jaws 2
1979 - Amityville

Runners up: Halloween ('78), Alien ('79)

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Wow, I've seen every one of those movies. And 21 of the yearly champs during the theatrical releases.

Cool. I've seen and own them all but Jaws 3-D. Some pretty good flicks on that list.

The only one I havent seen is Signs...

Seen all except maybe Malice, is that with Alec Baldwin? I'm not sure if I've seen it or not... all those one-word post-Basic Instinct thrillers (Malice, Sliver, Disclosure) sort of blur together for me.

I've seen 16 of them. Just watched Malice again last weekend, great flick.

Rob

Yep, also with Nicole Kidman

I've seen 3

(Poltergeist, Scream, 6th sense)

I've seen all but 3 of them. (Malice, Fatal Attraction, and Basic Instinct)

Wait a minute. Jaws 3-D made more than Blair Witch?

No. The "runner up" list is the 1 runner up for each year, in order.

Oh, gotcha. I'm so used looking at titles in lists that I refuse to read what's sitting to the left of them

Slim fucking pickings for 1983 and 1998.