You may not have realized it, but there was a record for movie box-office money set over the weekend.

No, New Moon didn’t shatter records for vampire movies. This was a much more undesirable record.

A horror comedy called Transylmania has been found to have grossed the least amount of money ever for a film playing at least 1,000 screens, according to Box Office Mojo.

Transylmania, which has no big name stars – though it does have several cast members continuing roles from a pair of National Lampoon movies called Dorm Daze and Dorm Daze 2 (yeah, I don’t remember them either) – pulled in $263,941 at 1,007 screens this past weekend.

For some perspective, Cinema Blend’s Will LeBlanc did the math: “Some simple division tells us that each screen pulled in all of $263.94 over the weekends. Divide that by the average current ticket price, $10, and you find out that per screen, over a three-day stretch, Transylmania was seen by 27 people if I round up. Divide by the three-day weekend, and you’ll conclude that nine people per day per screen saw this movie.”

(If you’re curious, the record was held for 18 years by the 1991 movie Rich Girl. It was a coming-of-age comedy starring Jill Schoelen and Don Michael Paul. Don’t worry, the link is to its iMDB page so you don’t have to sweat that detail.)

Nine people. Nine unfortunate people, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

The review aggregator, which takes positive and negative reviews and computes a score from them, reported that Transylmania scored a 0 percent rating. That’s as bad as it gets: Basically, every critic that reviewed the film didn’t like it. Considering that some critic somewhere is going to enjoy almost any given movie, that’s saying something.

So, is it the worst movie ever made? Only those who have seen this, Plan 9 From Outer Space and Manos, Hands of Fate, will know for sure.

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