{"id":85578,"date":"2025-09-25T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85578\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T22:12:07","slug":"deemak-pakistans-highest-grossing-horror-movie-heads-to-theaters-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85578\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deemak&#8217; &#8211; Pakistan\u2019s Highest-Grossing Horror Movie Heads to Theaters Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supernatural film <strong>Deemak <\/strong>is expanding its theatrical rollout globally after becoming Pakistan\u2019s highest-grossing horror movie, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/pakistani-horror-hit-deemak-global-expansion-1236528668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a> reports today.<\/p>\n<p>The film will open in the US, UK, and EU countries and Canada on<strong> October 17, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deemak has become an unprecendented hit in native country Pakistan, amassing PKR17.5 crore ($620,000) at the Pakistani box office and becoming the highest-grossing horror movie.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by <strong>Rafay Rashdi<\/strong> and written by <strong>Ayesha Muzaffar<\/strong>, it follows the \u201crelationship between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law against a backdrop of escalating paranormal disturbances in a family home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faysal Quraishi<\/strong>, <strong>Sonya Hussyn<\/strong>, <strong>Samina Peerzada<\/strong>, <strong>Javed Sheikh<\/strong>, and <strong>Bushra Ansari<\/strong> star in Deemak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a defining moment for Pakistani cinema,\u201d director Rafay Rashdi said. \u201c\u2018Deemak\u2019 has not only broken records at home but also proven that local stories have the power to surpass Hollywood and Bollywood titles in our market. We are excited to now bring this story to international audiences who, we believe, will connect with its emotional and cultural depth as much as its scares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Look for Deemak to arrive next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supernatural film Deemak is expanding its theatrical rollout globally after becoming Pakistan\u2019s highest-grossing horror movie, Variety reports today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[55960,18,117,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-85578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-deemak","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}