
- be Curry Barker
- grow up making YouTube videos
- nobody in Hollywood knows your name
- write, direct, and edit a horror film called Obsession
- budget: $750,000
- premiere it at TIFF's Midnight Madness section in September 2025
- Focus Features beats out A24 and Neon to buy it for $15 million
- they paid 20x your entire budget just for the rights
- release it May 15 2026
- open to $17.2 million modest
- weekend two: jump. biggest second weekend spike in horror history.
- weekend three: grow again
- weekend four: -7% drop. biggest fourth weekend ever for a horror film.
- pass Get Out, Us, The Conjuring: Last Rites in a single weekend
- become Focus Features' highest grossing film ever domestically and worldwide
- beat Downton Abbey's $194.7M. beat Five Nights At Freddy's $291.6M worldwide.
- cross $300 million worldwide
- 400x your production budget
- CinemaScore: A-
- Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
- still in theaters
Curry Barker made a $750,000 horror film and Hollywood spent $300 million to watch it.
That's not a box office story. That's a mandate.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
‘OBSESSION’ has passed $300M worldwide. Earned over 400X its production budget of $750K.
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