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#10,876 All-time worldwide
#37 1971 releases

Movie profile

Night of Dark Shadows

1971 · 95 min · Dan Curtis Productions

Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.4M
Budget $900,000
Gross minus budget $500,000
ROI 1.56x

Domestic gross

$672,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$728,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$288,960

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Night of Dark Shadows 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 #10,876 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1971 releases #37 Release-year chart position of 53 titles Ranked against movies released in 1971. Franchise #2 Dark Shadows Movie of 2 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #4,782 Drama of 5,859 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 Night of Dark Shadows (1971) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Night of Dark Shadows (1971) earned a reported $1.4M worldwide against a reported $900.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $500.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.56x. In this database it currently ranks #10,876 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #37 among 1971 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,400,000
Budget
$900,000
Gross minus budget
$500,000
ROI
1.56x
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

Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 4, 1971
Production
Dan Curtis Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyDan Curtis Productions FranchiseDark Shadows Movie Release year chart1971 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartHorror Genre chartMystery Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1971, Night of Dark Shadows is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Horror, Mystery title from Dan Curtis Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.4M, reported production budget is $900,000, gross-minus-budget is $500,000, ROI is 1.56x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,876 all-time in the current chart set and #37 among 1971 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.