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#7,687 All-time worldwide
#65 1983 releases

Movie profile

The Hunger

1983 · 97 min · Metro Goldwyn Mayer

Horror Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $10.2M
Budget $10.0M
Gross minus budget $200,000
ROI 1.02x

Domestic gross

$4.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Hunger 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 #7,687 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1983 releases #65 Release-year chart position of 150 titles Ranked against movies released in 1983. Studio / company #74 Metro Goldwyn Mayer of 281 titles Position inside the mapped Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie set. Primary genre #745 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.

#7,684 In The Mix 2005 · $10.2M #7,685 Brainstorm 1983 · $10.2M #7,686 Rollover 1981 · $10.2M #7,691 Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel 2005 · $10.2M #7,692 Love and the City 2 2010 · $10.2M #7,693 Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa 2005 · $10.2M

Quick answer

How did The Hunger (1983) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Hunger (1983) earned a reported $10.2M worldwide against a reported $10.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $200.0K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.02x. In this database it currently ranks #7,687 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #65 among 1983 releases.

Worldwide gross
$10,200,000
Budget
$10,000,000
Gross minus budget
$200,000
ROI
1.02x
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

Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 29, 1983
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Richard Shepherd Company
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1983, The Hunger is positioned in this dataset as a Horror, Drama title from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $10.2M, reported production budget is $10.0M, gross-minus-budget is $200,000, ROI is 1.02x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,687 all-time in the current chart set and #65 among 1983 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.