Weapons has hit a huge box office milestone that lands it on an all-time chart. The new horror movie stars Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, and Alden Ehrenreich as residents of a small town that is reeling from the mᴀss disappearance of 17 elementary school students.

The Weapons release kicked off on August 8, and it more or less immediately became a smash success. It racked up multiple milestones during its first four weeks, earning back more than six times its reported $38 million budget and quintupling the global haul of director Zach Cregger’s 2022 breakout horror hit Barbarian.

Per The Numbers, as of Sunday morning, Weapons is expected to conclude its fifth weekend in theaters by earning a cumulative worldwide box office total of $251.5 million. This total, which it has earned before the end of its first full month, comprises $143 million from domestic theaters and $108.5 million from international markets.

In addition to seeing Weapons become only the 14th movie of 2025 to pᴀss the $250 million global milestone, this total pushes the movie past the worldwide hauls of The Ring ($248.2 million) and The Blair Witch Project ($248.3 million), landing it on the chart of the Top 25 highest-grossing horror movies of all time worldwide at No. 25.

What This Means For Weapons

Although Weapons has earned a place on this historic chart, it will need to keep climbing in order to maintain its status as one of the Top 25 horror movies of all time by the end of the year. This is because 2025’s The Conjuring: Last Rites, which premiered on September 5, is H๏τ on its heels.

The supernatural sequel, which is the ninth installment in the Conjuring Universe, earned the horror genre’s biggest domestic debut of the year and its best international debut ever. It is expected to end its opening weekend with a whopping global haul of $177 million, which sees it drawing close to Weapons‘ global total within mere days.

Luckily, if it hopes to climb to No. 24, Weapons only has to earn an additional $752,406 in order to surpᴀss the $253.2 million total of 2017’s Get Out. This should be doable even though its audience retention is slipping thanks to the movie already being available on video on demand and Last Rites crowding it out of theaters.

Additionally, if 2025’s Weapons has a similar drop to its fifth weekend, it could earn an additional $2.65 million during its sixth weekend, which would not only push it past Get Out but land it close to outgrossing 2018’s Halloween ($255.4 million) and 2019’s Us ($255.6 million) to hit No. 22 on the all-time horror chart.

Our Take On The Weapons Milestone

Even if it quickly loses its status as one of the 25 highest-grossing horror movies ever, Weapons is still an enormous hit by any metric. Its box office milestone is also a huge accomplishment for an original horror movie, as only five other тιтles in the Top 25 are originals, namely Us, Get Out, Split, A Quiet Place, and Sinners.

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