Obsession
NEW1 ratings
Release
2026-05-29
Genres
Horror
Budget
1 M
Box Office
297.44 M
Verdict
Blockbuster
Director
Curry Barker
Description
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic gets exactly what he asked for. However, he soon discovers that some desires come at a dark and sinister price.
Cast
Coverage
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NewsObsession Has Become 2026's Most Astonishing Box Office Story: A $750,000 Horror Film That Dethroned Star Wars and Made $229 Million Worldwide
Made by a YouTuber on a micro-budget, acquired at a film festival, and now the highest-grossing horror film of 2026 — Curry Barker's Obsession is one of the most extraordinary success stories in modern Hollywood, and it is still going.
17 Jun·5 min·tommy
ArticleWhy Horror Films Are Dominating the Box Office in 2026 — The Complete Breakdown
🔥 The Numbers Don't Lie Something extraordinary has happened at the box office in 2026. And it was not caused by Marvel. It was not caused by a Star Wars revival. It was not caused by any franchise that a studio spent ten years developing and ₹500 crore promoting. It was caused by fear. Horror films are dominating the 2026 global box office in ways that have fundamentally altered how every studio, every distributor, and every exhibitor in the world is planning their next three years of releases. The data is unambiguous: 🎬 Film💰 Budget💰 Worldwide📊 ROI🕯️ Obsession$750,000$230M+306x🚪 Backrooms$10M$160M+16x😂 Scary Movie 6 (parody)$30M$105.5M3.5x🔪 Scream 7$45M$207.9M4.6x📦 Send Help$40M$94M2.3x🧪 Bhooth Bangla (Bollywood)₹50 Cr₹242 Cr4.8x Every film on this list has significantly outperformed its budget. The two biggest performers — Obsession and Backrooms — have generated returns that make even the most profitable superhero sequels look like moderate investments. And they did it without...
14 Jun·8 min·jarvo
NewsObsession Beats Avengers: Endgame at the Box Office — The Record Nobody Saw Coming
On its 25th day in theatres, Obsession earned $4.2 million domestically — outperforming Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Spider-Man: No Way Home on their own 25th days. Total global haul now stands at $234.5 million on a $750,000 budget. The numbers have officially stopped making sense in the best possible way. 🔥 The Day That Broke the Box Office There is a specific category of news that the entertainment industry processes with genuine discomfort. Not bad news — bad news is manageable. But news that requires the industry to fundamentally reconsider its own assumptions about how things work and who the audience actually is. Monday, June 9, 2026 — day 25 of Obsession's North American theatrical run — produced exactly that kind of news. On that single Monday, Obsession earned $4.2 million at the domestic box office. Not a massive headline number on its own. Context is everything. Because on their own respective 25th days in theatres, here is what some of the biggest
13 Jun·5 min·jarvo
NewsObsession Crosses $229 Million Worldwide — Becomes Focus Features' Biggest Film EVER
Obsession has crossed $229 million worldwide — officially becoming the highest-grossing film in Focus Features' 24-year history. Made for $750,000, it is now earning 305 times its production budget. The fifth weekend is underway. The records keep falling.
11 Jun·3 min·jarvo
NewsAmazing Digital Circus Opens to $20M — The YouTube Revolution Claims Its Third Multiplex Victory of Summer 2026
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act opened to $20 million — 30–40% above its $10.5–15.5M tracking — completing the most extraordinary summer in YouTube-native entertainment history. Three YouTube properties. Three weeks. Three dramatic tracking outperformances. Hollywood's analyst models are structurally broken.
10 Jun·5 min·jarvo
NewsObsession Crosses $224.7M Worldwide — Focus Features' Biggest Film Ever & Horror's 2026 King
Obsession's fourth weekend delivered $25.6M domestic — a -7% drop — setting the biggest fourth weekend in horror film history, surpassing Blair Witch Project (1999). Worldwide total now $224.7M, making it Focus Features' all-time highest-grossing film and the top-grossing horror film of 2026 — all on a $750,000 budget.
9 Jun·5 min·jarvo
NewsSteven Spielberg Praises Obsession & Backrooms: "I Just Applaud Them"
At the press screening for his upcoming Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg called out Obsession and Backrooms by name — praising both films' extraordinary box office success on almost no budget and pledging to watch Backrooms himself once his promotional duties are done.
6 Jun·4 min·jarvo
NewsHollywood Quietly Rewrites Its AI Strategy — Backrooms and Obsession Changed the Conversation
🔥 The Conversation Nobody Is Having Publicly — But Everyone Is Having Privately No studio has issued a press release. No executive has given an interview. No industry panel has...
5 Jun·4 min·jarvo
ArticleBackrooms vs Obsession: The Complete Story of How Two YouTubers Conquered Hollywood in 30 Days
🔥 The Story Nobody Predicted In January 2026, if you had walked into any Hollywood studio and said: "The two biggest films of May will be a $750,000 horror movie made by a 26-year-old sketch comedian and a $10 million liminal space film made by a 20-year-old who posted Minecraft videos at age 9" — you would have been shown the door politely but firmly. And yet. Here we are. June 4, 2026. Obsession — $151 million worldwide and still growing. Three consecutive weekends of increases. The first film since E.T. (1982) to rise in both its second and third weekends outside of the holiday season. Backrooms — $136 million worldwide in six days. A24's biggest film ever. The youngest director in cinema history to have a No. 1 film globally. Together — they defeated Star Wars, resurrected independent cinema, and sent every studio executive in Hollywood on an emergency weekend retreat to figure out what had just happened to their industry. 🤯 👤 The Two Directors — Where They Came From 🕯️ Curry...
4 Jun·6 min·jarvo
NewsObsession Posts Its Best Tuesday Ever — $5.7 Million in Week 3. Still. Growing.
📍 Box Office | 🏷️ Historic Run
4 Jun·2 min·jarvo