While 2018 was a great year for horror overall, it wasn’t all good news. One of the biggest box office bombs of the year was Amazon Studios’ Suspiria remake, which is surprising considering this was the next film from Luca Guadagnino, a filmmaker who just a year ago was front and center in the Oscar race with Call Me by Your Name. But divisive reviews and the film’s artfulness didn’t seem to help matters, as the movie opened terrifically in limited release on its first weekend, but positively bombed when it eventually expanded wider. How badly did Suspiria do, you ask? The film’s worldwide total is a paltry $4.4 million. That’s it.

It’s a shame too, as Suspiria is also one of the year’s most interesting films, packed with terrific performances and some really ambitious filmmaking. But alas, the film opened in the wake of the more traditional horror film Halloween and audiences just were not at all interested. Like, at all.

Amazon certainly tried its best with a robust and arresting marketing strategy, but the same can’t be said of another horror film from an Oscar-nominated filmmaker: The Little Stranger. This ghost story was the next film from Room director Lenny Abrahamson, but for whatever reason, it was pretty much completely buried by Focus Features. Reviews were embargoed until the day before the movie hit theaters, which is usually a sign that it’s a stinker. But the reviews weren’t terrible, simply a bit mixed, and the late embargo drained any potential buzz that could have led people to see this thing. Indeed, this one fared even worse than Suspiria, as The Little Stranger grossed only $1.8 million worldwide, with a domestic haul of just $713,143. It was in theaters domestically for just three weeks before being pulled. Now that’s ghosting.