Hollywood gave a frightfully poor showing this Halloween weekend at the box office.
Pushing through that crowd of new films, the suspense thriller "Nightcrawler" topped the sluggish North American charts by a slim margin, bringing in less than 11 million dollars.
It stars Jake Gyllenhaal playing a nocturnal photographer in Los Angeles who shoots video of gory events for a local TV station.
The Detroit News calls "'Nightcrawler' a scathing look at "ambition and journalistic sensationalism" but says the film still delivers as a dark thriller.
Just in time too for Halloween, the original "Saw" horror film was re-released for its tenth anniversary.
The franchise introduced audiences to "Jigsaw", one of cinema's most infamous serial killers, but the movie's re-release took was expected to rake in less than 6 million.
For more suspense this weekend, audiences also checked out Nicole Kidman in "Before I Go to Sleep", where she plays a woman who can't form n
