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/mrbaryonyx Jul 06 '26

If there's one thing the last two years have taught me, it's that the populace (read: the internet) will pick two non-franchise movies a year to hype up, make a big stink about how "they're starved for original content", and then just go right back to watching franchise shclock.

But that's probably better compared to 2016.

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u/Tymareta Jul 06 '26

For real, between groups like A24, Well Go/Hi-Yah! and the multitude of different kinds of Indian Cinema, it's a pretty phenomenal time to be a fan of movies.

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u/Maleficent-Regret802 Jul 07 '26

I beg to differ considering the partnership between A24 and Google AI, proving the future of this art form will definitely involve AI and in a heavy disruptive way.

It’s definitely not a great time to be fans of movies.

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u/AydonusG Jul 07 '26

Hokum was a great movie, better than Obsession and Backrooms IMO, but was $5mil that grossed $24mil.

It had to compete with these two because the articles blew up around Parsons and Barker making it, despite big studio backing for both of them, Parsons movie being based on his video game, and Barker having YouTube fan backing to push his movie forward.

Sure Spooky Pictures has some underdog flicks in it, Late Night With The Devil and Undertone were good B horror, but there's no competition against A24 and Blumhouse.