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#9,037 All-time worldwide
#145 1996 releases

Movie profile

Bordello of Blood

1996 · 87 min · Universal Pictures

Horror Comedy
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.6M
Budget $15.0M
Gross minus budget -$9.4M
ROI 0.37x

Domestic gross

$2.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Bordello of Blood ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #9,037 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1996 releases #145 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1996. Studio / company #323 Universal Pictures of 377 titles Position inside the mapped Universal Pictures movie set. Primary genre #860 Horror of 1,240 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Bordello of Blood (1996) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Bordello of Blood (1996) earned a reported $5.6M worldwide against a reported $15.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about -$9.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 0.37x. In this database it currently ranks #9,037 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #145 among 1996 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,600,000
Budget
$15,000,000
Gross minus budget
-$9,400,000
ROI
0.37x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 16, 1996
Production
Universal Pictures, Tales From The Crypt Holdings, Universal City Studios
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyUniversal Pictures FranchiseTales From The Crypt Release year chart1996 box office Genre chartHorror Genre chartComedy

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1996, Bordello of Blood is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Comedy title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.6M, reported production budget is $15.0M, gross-minus-budget is -$9.4M, ROI is 0.37x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,037 all-time in the current chart set and #145 among 1996 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.