Australia is having a genre success! Truly ruley, with a film that cost around $55m to make and has nearly matched that figure in box office, which means it has a long way to go before US production company Atomic Monster Productions makes the bank happy. Our muticultural hero here is James Wan, an Australian of Malaysian Chinese descent, as every horror film lover knows. He and Leigh Whannell created the Saw and Insidious franchises, which makes him a major planetary Fright God. [All figures in AU$]
Released in the US on September 10, Malignant has made $27 million in the US and the same amount round the world, led mostly by Spain, France, Russia and Mexico though the South Koreans got the sulks. UK audiences took to it as well, perhaps desperate for an unexpected ending, given that British politics is now deep in the ‘This is exactly what we told you would happen’ phase of social collapse.
