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Released
2001 · FILM

The Forsaken

The night... has an appetite.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
91 min
ActionFantasyHorror

Synopsis

A young man races against time to find a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually transform him into a blood-sucking vampire.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Norman BuckleyShot by Steven BernsteinScored by Tim JonesDesigned by Martina Buckley

Box Office

2001 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.7M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$8.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $7.3M 84% of worldwide · International: $1.4M (16%)

Opening weekend: $3.0M 41% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.9M53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,514 theaters

Also known as

  • Forsaken - Die Nacht ist gierigde
  • The Forsakende
  • Les Vampires du désertfr
  • Desert Vampiresit

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