Lindsay Lohan flops alongside Charlie Sheen and Ashley Tisdale as Scary Movie 5 shows poor opening figures

Fifth installment of parody franchise attracted just $5.8m on first Friday

Lindsay Lohan stars alongside Charlie Sheen and Ashley Tisdale in the latest Scary Movie instalment (Dimension Films)

Lindsay Lohan appears to have racked up yet another film flop after Scary Movie 5 debuted to disappointing numbers at the US box office on Friday.

The troubled actress stars alongside Charlie Sheen and Ashley Tisdale in the latest instalment of the poorly-reviewed horror parody franchise. It attracted just $5.8m on its opening Friday, with industry experts at Deadline projecting a three-day gross of $13.4m. Baseball biopic 42 is expected to top this week’s chart with $25m.

The previous film in the fading franchise, 2006’s Scary Movie 4, managed a much healthier $40.2m opening weekend in the US and a global total of $178.3m.

The substantial drop in box office receipts suggests audiences are becoming tired of the parody genre. The first Scary Movie made $278m in 2000, but more recent spoofs Meet The Spartans and Vampires Suck barely crawled above $80m despite being based on blockbuster films. In 2008, Disaster Movie earned just $34.8m.

Scary Movie 5’s saving grace is that with a budget of just $20m, it stands a fair chance of making its money back.

But it continues a run of dud Lindsay Lohan films. Last Month, Inappropriate Comedy earned a dismal $172,000 over one weekend, while her portrayal of Elizabeth Taylor in TV movie Liz & Dick drew more laughs from critics than Scary Movie 5.

In her analysis of the film, Stephanie Merry of the Washington Post wrote: “Perhaps the filmmakers sat in a lab, rubbing their temples while wondering aloud how awful they could make a movie and still score at the box office.”

Not quite this awful, it seems.