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Drive-In Box Office: ‘The Wretched’ Hits $1 Million and ‘Becky’ Debuts With Nearly $200,000

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IFC Midnight’s creature feature The Wretched has been at the top of the drive-in box office charts for a month, but it’s finally got some competition now that Becky is part of the picture.

Quiver Distribution’s Kevin James and Lulu Wilson-starring home invasion film debuted at 42 drive-in locations this weekend and pulled in $178,186, Variety is reporting today.

The Wretched, meanwhile, made another $162,000 at 95 total drive-in locations over the weekend, carrying the horror movie to an impressive $1 million milestone at the box office.

Variety notes that “a total of 554 of the nation’s 5,400 movie locations are open, including 243 drive-ins,” with IFC and Quiver currently the only distributors actually reporting their box office numbers on a weekly basis. As Deadline clarifies, movies like Trolls World Tour and The Invisible Man had been out-grossing The Wretched throughout May, contrary to what we had believed to be the case; because the numbers for those films weren’t being reported, it appeared that drive-in releases were topping the charts when that wasn’t quite the full picture.

Regardless, both The Wretched and Becky have proven to be successful on the reinvigorated drive-in scene, and Becky has now overtaken The Wretched to become number one on those drive-in charts. Both genre films, in addition to expanding into more drive-in theaters in the weeks to come, are also available for digital rental through all major VOD outlets.

Meagan reviewed both The Wretched and Becky for us.

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‘Longlegs’ – Part Two of New Teaser Video for NEON Horror Movie Gets Even Weirder and Creepier

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The marketing campaign for NEON’s upcoming horror movie Longlegs isn’t getting any less strange, with the second part of last week’s cryptic teaser video and poster arriving today.

Longlegs heads to theaters on July 12, 2024.

The upcoming serial killer horror movie marks the return of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.

Longlegs is said to be “in the vein of classic Hollywood psychological thrillers.”

The poster is dubbed “Dirty: Part One” while the video is labeled “Dirty: Part Two,” and the latter features some new clips from the film along with a cryptic poem of sorts…

Listen loud the serpents

See the darkness slithering

Tell me what good is that body

If not for hiding shiny red parts

This mysterious teaser features Nicolas Cage, breathing and wheezing creepily over unsettling horror imagery. It refers to him as “the man downstairs.”

In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.”

Alicia Witt (“The Walking Dead”) and Blair Underwood (“American Crime Story”) also star.

The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.”

Producers are Nicolas Cage along with his production company Saturn Films (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Pig), Dan Kagan (Significant Other), Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious), Dave Caplan (The End We Start From) and Chris Ferguson (Child’s Play).

Both halves of the cryptic Longlegs teaser played ahead of Abigail in theaters this weekend.

You’ll also find the aforementioned poster art and teaser video below.

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