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Released
2015 · FILM

The Gallows

A group of high‑school students stage a long‑cursed school play to honor its tragic anniversary, only to unleash the vengeful spirit that killed the original cast and must survive its deadly wrath.

Every school has its spirit.

Runtime
81 min
HorrorMysteryThriller

Synopsis

Twenty years after a tragic accident occurred during a school play in a small town, the students decide to revive the failed production as a way to commemorate the anniversary of the incident. However, they soon realize that certain events are best left undisturbed.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Chris LofingShot by Edd LukasScored by Richard BreakspearDesigned by Stephanie Hamilton

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 430× 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

$43.0M

Budget$100K
Worldwide gross$43.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $22.8M 53% of worldwide · International: $20.2M (47%)

Opening weekend: $9.8M 43% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $14.0M62% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,720 theaters

Also known as

  • Gallows - Jede Schule hat ein Geheimnisde
  • Gallowsfr
  • The Gallows - L'esecuzioneit

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