2025 has seen the release of two enormously popular original horror films in the form of Ryan Coogler's jazz-era vampire music movie, "Sinners," and Zach Cregger's witchcraft-in-the-suburbs flick "Weapons." Between the pair, "Sinners" was the more expensive, costing $100 million to produce compared to a more modest $38 million for "Weapons." All the same, they were both astonishingly successful at the box office, especially for horror films not based on any established intellectual properties. Another notable horror success from this year was Michael Chaves' "The Conjuring: Last Rites," which brought in nearly half a billion dollars. However, that film was both the fourth mainline entry in the "Conjuring" franchise and but one of the many movies in the broader, interconnected "Conjuring"

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