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#10,533 All-time worldwide
#61 1979 releases

Movie profile

Zombie Flesh Eaters

1979 · 91 min · Variety Film Production

Horror
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.9M
Budget $497,000
Gross minus budget $1.4M
ROI 3.87x

Domestic gross

$924,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$397,320

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Zombie Flesh Eaters 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 #10,533 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1979 releases #61 Release-year chart position of 94 titles Ranked against movies released in 1979. Primary genre #1,001 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.

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Quick answer

How did Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) earned a reported $1.9M worldwide against a reported $497.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.87x. In this database it currently ranks #10,533 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #61 among 1979 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,925,000
Budget
$497,000
Gross minus budget
$1,428,000
ROI
3.87x
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

After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 25, 1979
Production
Variety Film Production
Countries
IT

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyVariety Film Production FranchiseZombi Release year chart1979 box office Genre chartHorror

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1979, Zombie Flesh Eaters is positioned in this dataset as a Horror title from Variety Film Production. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.9M, reported production budget is $497,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.4M, ROI is 3.87x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,533 all-time in the current chart set and #61 among 1979 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.