The Top 80s Horror Movies Ranked by Box Office

10. The Shining (1980)

Total Gross Worldwide: $47,548,413 (The source for all box office numbers in this story is BoxOfficeMojo.com.)

This horror classic is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, it stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance and Shelley Duvall as his wife, Wendy Torrance. When Jack accepts a position as a winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel, things seem okay — until they get snowed in and meet the hotel’s many ghosts.

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