10 iconic movies that shockingly lost money at the box office – This will shock you!

6. Trick ‘R Treat – Lost $5.2 million

via:Warner Premiere

Iconic Halloween movies are hard to come by these days. Since the days of John Carpenter’s 1978 offering Halloween, only a few of that movie’s sequels have come to close to being as synonymous with the 31st of October as the original movie, but 2007’s Trick ‘r Treat certainly comes close.

The anthology movie – which stars the likes of Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker and Brian Cox – explores four different Halloween tales with one thing in common – the little enigmatic trick-or-treater known as Sam, who shows up to punish those who go against Halloween tradition. It has a cult following and is definitely a modern classic, but a delayed and limited theatrical release meant that, in spite of costing $12 million to produce, it only recouped $6.8 million of that at the box office.