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#9,229 All-time worldwide
#79 1980 releases

Movie profile

He Knows You're Alone

1980 · 94 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $4.9M
Budget $300,000
Gross minus budget $4.6M
ROI 16.33x

Domestic gross

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where He Knows You're Alone 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 #9,229 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1980 releases #79 Release-year chart position of 126 titles Ranked against movies released in 1980. Studio / company #114 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #879 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.

#9,225 The Magnificent Seven 1960 · $4.9M #9,227 A Dog's Will 2000 · $4.9M #9,228 A Great Awakening 2026 · $4.9M #9,238 The Seduction 1982 · $4.9M #9,239 Invaders from Mars 1986 · $4.9M #9,240 Absolutely Fabulous 2001 · $4.9M

Quick answer

How did He Knows You're Alone (1980) perform at the box office?

High confidence

He Knows You're Alone (1980) earned a reported $4.9M worldwide against a reported $300.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $4.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 16.33x. In this database it currently ranks #9,229 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #79 among 1980 releases.

Worldwide gross
$4,900,000
Budget
$300,000
Gross minus budget
$4,600,000
ROI
16.33x
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

A reluctant bride-to-be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard-boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt the killer down before it is too late.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 29, 1980
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lansbury/Beruh Productions
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyMetro Goldwyn Mayer Release year chart1980 box office Genre chartHorror

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1980, He Knows You're Alone is positioned in this dataset as a Horror title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $4.9M, reported production budget is $300,000, gross-minus-budget is $4.6M, ROI is 16.33x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,229 all-time in the current chart set and #79 among 1980 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.