The Strangers: Chapter 3 and Dracula have each scared off a standard horror film curse on the field workplace.
The Strangers: Chapter 3, which was directed by Renny Harlin, the concluding chapter of Harlin’s new trilogy set within the universe of the Strangers motion pictures, although it’s the fifth installment general. Dracula, which was directed by Luc Besson, is a brand new adaptation of the traditional Bram Stoker novel of the identical identify starring Caleb Landry Jones within the title position. Each horror motion pictures debuted on February 6.
Per Field Workplace Mojo, as of Sunday morning, The Strangers: Chapter 3 is projected to earn a 3-day complete of $2.3 million by the tip of its sophomore weekend on the home field workplace, touchdown at No. 11 on the weekend chart and dropping simply 34.5% from its opening weekend. In the meantime, Dracula‘s projected 3-day complete of $3 million sees it touchdown at No. 10 and dropping a good narrower 31.8%.
Whereas neither of the 2026 horror motion pictures is performing significantly impressively when it comes to their uncooked numbers, each of their sophomore drops are practically unprecedented for the horror style, which tends to be frontloaded. Horror motion pictures virtually at all times have drops of greater than 50%, typically touchdown within the brutal 60% to 70% vary.
Actually, whereas there is just one horror film on Field Workplace Mojo‘s chart of the 50 smallest week 2 drops of all time for titles that debuted in additional than 2,000 theaters, there are six horror titles on the chart of the 50 largest week 2 drops of all time.
Each motion pictures have been in a position to accomplish this uncommon achievement concurrently regardless of the truth that each earned splats on the evaluate aggregation platform Rotten Tomatoes. Whereas Dracula earned a mediocre 53%, The Strangers: Chapter 3 critiques roughly eviscerated the film, incomes it a dismal 18% rating.
One doable motive for the 2 motion pictures’ spectacular week 2 drops is the truth that the Valentine’s Day vacation passed off throughout their sophomore weekends. Whereas the extra romantically-themed choices Wuthering Heights and Solo Mio carried out a lot better over the weekend (taking No. 1 and No. 5 respectively), date night time screenings might very properly have supplied each motion pictures with a significant increase.
It stays to be seen how The Strangers: Chapter 3 and Dracula carry out of their third weekends, but when they proceed to indicate an identical degree of viewers retention, they might finally change into sleeper successes on the home field workplace (although the latter’s steep reported price range of roughly $52 million places it at extra of an obstacle).
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- Launch Date
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February 6, 2026
- Runtime
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91 Minutes
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Renny Harlin
- Writers
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Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland
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Courtney Solomon, Alastair Burlingham, Mark Canton, Charlie Dombek, Christopher Milburn, Gary Raskin
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Richard Brake
Sheriff Rotter
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- Launch Date
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February 6, 2026
- Runtime
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129 minutes
- Director
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Luc Besson
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Luc Besson, Bram Stoker
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Virginie Besson-Silla, Luc Besson
