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#5,772 All-time worldwide
#51 1986 releases

Movie profile

Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI

1986 · 86 min · Paramount Pictures

Horror Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $19.5M
Budget $3.0M
Gross minus budget $16.5M
ROI 6.49x

Domestic gross

$9.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$4.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI 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 #5,772 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1986 releases #51 Release-year chart position of 206 titles Ranked against movies released in 1986. Studio / company #248 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Franchise #7 Friday The 13Th of 11 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #549 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.

#5,769 Margin Call 2011 · $19.5M #5,770 In This Corner of the World 2016 · $19.5M #5,771 The House of No Man 2023 · $19.5M #5,773 It Takes Two 1995 · $19.5M #5,774 Attraction 2017 · $19.5M #5,775 Eega 2012 · $19.5M

Quick answer

How did Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986) earned a reported $19.5M worldwide against a reported $3.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $16.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 6.49x. In this database it currently ranks #5,772 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #51 among 1986 releases.

Worldwide gross
$19,476,736
Budget
$3,000,000
Gross minus budget
$16,476,736
ROI
6.49x
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

Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 1, 1986
Production
Paramount Pictures, Sean S. Cunningham Films, Terror, Inc.
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures FranchiseFriday The 13Th Release year chart1986 box office Genre chartHorror Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1986, Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Thriller title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $19.5M, reported production budget is $3.0M, gross-minus-budget is $16.5M, ROI is 6.49x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,772 all-time in the current chart set and #51 among 1986 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.