WiHM, Box Office Retrospective: 2012

Back again, with another retrospective! Today, I'm doing 2012, and it's getting both same-old, same-old, and kind of interesting. There's a reinvention of the wheel happening here, both with old franchises getting a fresh spin in Prometheus; and tired tropes getting a new and unexpected twist with Cabin in the Woods. Also, all four of those box-office breaking franchise machines had something in the queue this year, one with an ending that's become infamous and kind of amazing.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 - $287.7 million
Prometheus - $126.5 million
(Underworld: Awakening - $62.3 million)
Paranormal Activity 4 - $53.9 million
(The Devil Inside - $53.3 million)
The Possession - $49.1 million
(Resident Evil: Retribution - $42.3 million)
The Cabin in the Woods - $42.1 million
The House at the End of the Street - $31.6 million
Honorable mention: Silent Hill: Revelation - $17.5 million

For the record, the high-grossing horror movie this year was actually World War Z. Sometimes, I just don't understand people.

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