THE GALLOWS | 07.10.15 | Warner Brothers | final domestic gross: $22,764,410

[Maxmoser3]

WB/NL are trying to repeat The Conjuring(marketing wise) it's lucky if it's going to earn as much as The Conjuring did Opening Day.

[Maxmoser3]

Bloody Disgusting said it was the most effective found footage film since The Blair Witch Project http://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3351441/review-gallows-revives-found-footage-horror/

[Krissykins]

Yeh seems reviews from horror sites are good at the moment.

Other sources, not so much.

[Krissykins]

15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

So much for this having a great audience test scores.

The consensus on RT is brutal:

"Critic Consensus: Narratively contrived and visually a mess, The Gallows sends viewers on a shaky tumble to the bottom of the found-footage horror barrel."

[SchumacherFTW]

Bloody Disgusting said it was the most effective found footage film since The Blair Witch Project http://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3351441/review-gallows-revives-found-footage-horror/

Pretty sure every single found footage movie gets that from Bloody Disgusting

[Maxmoser3]

Pretty sure every single found footage movie gets that from Bloody Disgusting

yeah, isn't creepy Steve Barton apart of that site? I'm pretty sure he gave The Devil Inside a good review so they probably like anything horror.

[Maxmoser3]

15% on Rotten Tomatoes.

So much for this having a great audience test scores.

The consensus on RT is brutal:

"Critic Consensus: Narratively contrived and visually a mess, The Gallows sends viewers on a shaky tumble to the bottom of the found-footage horror barrel."

not surprising, this may be more in lines of Deliver Us From Evil in terms of OW now.

[Krissykins]

not surprising, this may be more in lines of Deliver Us From Evil in terms of OW now.

Looks that way no, apparently it's previews were too low to bother reporting early.

It didn't cost $30m like Deliver Us From Evil though.

God that film was terrible.

[Taylor]

I saw it. 

 

It's... not horrible. But not especially good, either. If I had stumbled upon it on Netflix I would have been pleasantly surprised by it, but I don't think it's worth the price of a ticket. Oh, and the ending is positively absurd.

Edited July 10, 2015 by Taylor

[Boxofficerules]

I saw it. 

 

It's... not horrible. But not especially good, either. If I had stumbled upon it on Netflix I would have been pleasantly surprised by it, but I don't think it's worth the price of a ticket. Oh, and the ending is positively absurd.

Was I right about those clips not being in the movie?

[Taylor]

Was I right about those clips not being in the movie?

I had to go back and watch them, but yeah, neither of those are in the movie. None of the people in them are even in the movie. Guess they were filmed purely for promotion.

Edited July 10, 2015 by Taylor

[Boxofficerules]

I had to go back and watch them, but yeah, neither of those are in the movie. None of the people in them are even in the movie. Guess they were filmed purely for promotion.

Ha! I knew it, the production value in the clips looks so much better than the production value in the movie.

[Blankments]

Final predict:

 

DOM: 24M

[Boxofficerules]

Wow, this really tanked badly over here. It opened at number 9 even though it had a much more teen friendly rating.

[Krissykins]

Wow, this really tanked badly over here. It opened at number 9 even though it had a much more teen friendly rating.

That's a bad opening.

Still 3 times its budget though.

[baumer]

The first three quarters of the film is awful awful awful.  It gets better when shit goes down but all the stuff before it is horrible.

[PDC1987]

The first three quarters of the film is awful awful awful.  It gets better when shit goes down but all the stuff before it is horrible.

Some truly abysmal acting and dialogue before the shit hits the fan. The first 3/4 plays as if the writers never went to high school.

[Krissykins]

There's a 1st time for everything..

Well not in this case. 3 weeks in.

[Mockingjay Raphael]

Jesus, this movie is a mess, but it actually has two intense scenes, which is already better than almost all horror movies released this year, lol

[kayumanggi]

Date (click to view chart)	Rank	Weekend Gross	% Change	Theaters	Change / Avg.		Gross-to-Date	Week #
Jul 10–12	5	$9,808,463	-	2,720	-	$3,606	$9,808,463	1
Jul 17–19	8	$4,011,094	-59.1%	2,720	-	$1,475	$18,012,685	2
Jul 24–26	-	$1,181,120	-70.6%	1,202	-1,518	$983	$21,355,856	3
Jul 31–Aug 2	-	$352,044	-70.2%	363	-839	$970	$22,202,489	4
Aug 7–9	-	$98,965	-71.9%	135	-228	$733	$22,460,556	5
Aug 14–16	-	$35,525	-64.1%	74	-61	$480	$22,533,986	6