Critics hated it.
People still bought tickets.
Other Mommy opened at number one at the North American box office, pulling in around $27.5 million over the weekend despite getting absolutely dragged by reviewers.
The Jessica Chastain horror film currently sits at around 17 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with audiences also giving it a pretty rough CinemaScore.
And somehow, none of that stopped it.
The movie follows a young girl who encounters a sinister entity that looks and sounds exactly like her mother.
Simple. Creepy. Very easy to sell in a trailer.
And apparently that was enough.
The film also completely overshadowed The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network, which opened with only around $5.5 million.
So a badly reviewed horror movie about an evil fake mother just beat a prestige drama about one of the biggest technology stories of our generation.
Cinema is beautiful.
The result also proves something horror fans have known forever.
This genre does not always need critics on its side.
Give audiences a creepy trailer, a good concept and enough jump scares, and people will still show up because sometimes the entire point is sitting in a dark room waiting to scream.
Other Mommy reportedly cost around $18 million, meaning its opening already puts it in a decent financial position.
The reviews might be brutal.
But box office numbers do not read reviews.
And right now, this “terrible” horror movie is the one everyone else is chasing.
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