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Two years after the release of their debut feature Talk to Me, directors Danny and Michael Philippou are back on the big screen with another A24 horror movie, Bring Her Back.
The well-reviewed Bring Her Back opened in the #5 spot on the domestic box office charts over the weekend, scaring up $7 million in 2,449 theaters across the United States.
How does that opening weekend figure compare to Talk to Me‘s debut back in 2023? It’s a tad bit lower, with Talk to Me‘s opening weekend reaching $10.4 million. That movie went on to make $48.2 million in the U.S. and $91.9 million worldwide, a level of box office success that Bring Her Back hopes to match in the coming weeks. Worldwide, it currently sits at $8 million.
Bring Her Back‘s $7 million domestic opening bests the opening weekends of horror films this year including A24’s own films Death of a Unicorn ($5.7 million) and Opus ($1 million), though it’s a touch below films including Until Dawn ($8 million) and Heart Eyes ($8.3 million). This year’s top openings are Final Destination Bloodlines ($51 million) and Sinners ($48 million).
The reported production budget for Bring Her Back is just $15 million, so A24 should have no problem turning a profit on the film in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned for updates.
Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water) stars. In the film, “A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.”
Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, and Mischa Heywood also star in the film directed by Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “The Philippous’ brand of grief horror is as visceral and brutal as you’d expect based on their feature debut Talk to Me, but without any of the vibrancy or hope. Bring Her Back operates on an unwavering and palpable feeling of dread and anguish from start to end.” She calls it “the feel bad movie of the year.”
