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#10,424 All-time worldwide
#129 1985 releases

Movie profile

Re-Animator

1985 · 86 min · Empire Pictures

Science Fiction Comedy Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.0M
Budget $900,000
Gross minus budget $1.1M
ROI 2.25x

Domestic gross

$971,239

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$417,633

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Re-Animator 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 #10,424 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #129 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #4 Empire Pictures of 8 titles Position inside the mapped Empire Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,087 Science Fiction of 1,234 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 Re-Animator (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Re-Animator (1985) earned a reported $2.0M worldwide against a reported $900.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.25x. In this database it currently ranks #10,424 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #129 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,023,414
Budget
$900,000
Gross minus budget
$1,123,414
ROI
2.25x
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

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 18, 1985
Production
Empire Pictures
Countries
US

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, Re-Animator is positioned in this dataset as a Science Fiction, Comedy, Horror title from Empire Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.0M, reported production budget is $900,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.1M, ROI is 2.25x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,424 all-time in the current chart set and #129 among 1985 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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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.