User blog:XD1/The Devil Inside surprises at the box-office

In case you haven't seen the numbers yet, Paramount's low-budget supernatural horror The Devil Inside obliterated all expectations by grossing 34.5 times its production budget on its opening weekend alone! Of course, I should mention that its budget was only $1 million... Hard to imagine that $1,000,000 could be "low budget" for anything, but as films go these days, that's mere pocket change. When you compare this sum to the budget of today's "blockbuster" action flicks, an example being Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol at $145 million, or to a recent "high budget" film such as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End at $300 million, it becomes clear how little the producers of The Devil Inside were working with. Now let's compare opening weekends with an incredibly high-profile film such as the aforementioned MI: Ghost Protocol, which is part of an existing successful franchise and enjoyed a massive publicity campaign. Ghost Protocol - considered a huge success - raked in $29.5 million on opening weekend, which falls short of 'Devil Inside, and accounts for only about 20% of its production budget.

So far, this film has received wildly mixed reviews, ranging from gushing praise to condemning it as an early contender for "Worst Film of 2012." It definitely seems to be one of those "love it, or hate it" offerings, but some of these types of films end up being timeless classics. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner for instance did rather poorly at the box office, as well as taking a beating from the pens and fingertips of many a critic, but is now recognized on several notable "Top Sci-fi Films of All Time" lists as #1 - or close to it.

Will you take a chance, and see what all the buzz is about?

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Will you be checking out The Devil Inside while it's in theaters? Yes No Not sure I'll wait for video I don't like horror movies