Blumhouse’s New Hit Horror Movie Removed From 500 Theaters Before Halloween

Published Oct 25, 2026, 11:25 AM EDT

Brennan Klein (he/him) is a senior news writer at Screen Rant, host of the Attack of the Queerwolf podcast, and contributor at Alternate Ending and Horror Press. He has been writing and podcasting about pop culture (especially horror movies) for over a decade at platforms including Blumhouse, Fangoria, Dread Central, The Backlot, and Arrow in the Head.

Other Mommy is being scared away from theaters.

The new Blumhouse-Atomic Monster horror movie, which stars Jessica Chastain in a dual role as working mother Ursula and her evil doppelganger, was directed by Rob Savage and written by Nathan Elston, adapting the Josh Malerman novel Incidents Around the House. Although 2026's Other Mommy, which opened on October 9, had Blumhouse's best domestic debut of the year (though not Atomic Monster's, as that honor belongs to Backrooms), the movie earned a dismal Rotten Tomatoes score of 19% from critics and a perilously low CinemaScore of D+, after which point it crashed with a sophomore drop of 70.5%.

Per The Numbers, Other Mommy is playing in 2,798 theaters during its third weekend at the domestic box office, which sees it losing 572 screens after debuting on 3,365 and adding five more during its sophomore weekend. However, as of Sunday morning, it is projected to earn a 3-day total of $3.8 million, which sees it dropping a less severe 53% from its sophomore weekend.

After the movie's per-screen average crashed between its debut ($8,263) and its sophomore weekend ($2,434), it hasn't dropped as severely this weekend, as it is expected to hit $1,376. This could be the influence of Halloween, which is a holiday that typically encourages horror movie screenings and which is approaching swiftly, taking place next Saturday.

Other Mommy has most likely lost the majority of its theaters to its most direct competitor. That would be DC Studios' R-rated body horror movie Clayface, which follows the origins of the Batman villain of the same name. The movie, which debuted this weekend in 3,458 theaters, is expected to take No. 1 at the domestic box office over the weekend.

Other new releases that debuted this weekend include the Olivia Colman period piece sex comedy Wicker and Laika's stop-motion fantasy epic Wildwood.

Even as it loses theaters and accordingly slips out of the domestic Top 5 (falling from No. 3 to No. 6), Other Mommy is expected to surpass the $50 million milestone at the domestic box office alone by the end of the weekend. The movie's reported budget is roughly $18 million, which means that its estimated break-even point is most likely no higher than $45 million.

In addition to passing that benchmark at the domestic box office, it had already hit a cumulative $85 million worldwide by Friday, so the movie can very securely be considered a box office success in spite of the fact that Other Mommy reviews have been overwhelmingly negative (including verified user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which have earned it a score of 48% on the Popcornmeter).

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Even as Other Mommy slips away from theaters, it could receive an additional boost over Halloween weekend before its theatrical run draws to a close. Other than Clayface, it is still one of the most recent theatrical horror movies, so it could drive a lot of business next weekend, especially considering the fact that no new major horror titles are set to debut on October 30, a quiet weekend when the biggest genre release is the holiday horror-comedy Christmas at the Kringles, which is an indie title being distributed by Briarcliff Entertainment.

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