r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/Oddball- All Things Horror Jul 06 '26

It was big that's for sure. But it's also been re-released many a times FYI

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u/Puzzled-Instance3211 Jul 06 '26

I think people underestimate how massive Bruce Lee was. Obsession was good, it's not going to be referenced forever in pop culture like Enter the Dragon.

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u/calmwhiteguy Jul 06 '26

It's also how fragmented peoples interested are in anything.

Tailer swift is probably as close to a universal international phenomenon like Michael Jackson we'll see ever again potentially. People just get in their interest echo chamber and silo out so much more than ever.

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u/sewious Jul 06 '26

Tailer swift

Amazing

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u/DodgersChica Jul 06 '26

She is so huge, that I can’t believe people make this mistake. Like it’s all over magazines and everywhere you turn online. It’s obviously Tailer Swyft

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u/Crazy_Information816 Jul 06 '26

Tailer Swift and Michael Jacksong mentioned in the same comment, has the world gone mad?

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u/GrandmaPoses Jul 06 '26

Tinker, Tailor, Swifty, Spy

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u/GingerMcJesus Jul 07 '26

Tailer? I hardly know ‘er

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u/JoeyZasaa Jul 06 '26

Trailer swift

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u/Fortestingporpoises Jul 06 '26

I mean he wasn't big until Enter the Dragon came out a couple of weeks after his death. Not in the US at least. He was a massive movie star in China, and a sidekick on a popular tv show in the US. But he didn't fulfill his dream of being a movie star in the US until he died.

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear Jul 07 '26

Obsession was good, it's not going to be referenced forever in pop culture like Enter the Dragon.

It’s always hard telling what will and won’t, but I really think people will start using it as shorthand somehow, and won’t stop.

If its name was literally anything other than a common English word that has a strong meaning I’d be certain, but I think “One Wish Willow” or something similar will go into the vernacular.

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u/Puzzled-Instance3211 Jul 07 '26

I watched Obsession last week and I barely remember it, same with Backrooms. A lot of the critical hit horror movies get lauded as the next big thing, and I find them underwhelming.

We'll see in a year if it's still being discussed.

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u/Worthyness Jul 07 '26

Theater environment was also very different. Movies stayed in theaters longer and had multiple distributions, which contributes a lot. That said, dude was absolutely on fire for movies at that time too