'OBSESSION' surpassed $300 million at the global box office

Obsession shows no signs of stopping.

The so-called horror sensation of 2026 continues to fill movie theaters around the world, in its fifth week of exhibition in theaters.

One day before starting its sixth weekend in theaters, the indie project by the writer and director Curry Barker reached $300 million at the global box office. It becomes the sixth horror film to surpass that mark this decade.

The projections estimate that Obsession ends its run in theaters with a global gross between $400 million and $450 million.

With a micro production budget of just $750,000 dollars, Obsession It already collects 400 times the production cost. crazy.

This same week, Barker's film officially surpassed the global gross of another independent horror film phenomenon, the iconic 1999 found footage film, The Blair Witch Projectwhich grossed a global box office of $248.6 million, without adjustments for inflation. By doing this, Obsession became the highest-grossing film made with a budget of less than a million dollars, a record that Blair Witch held for 27 years.

Focus acquired the distribution rights to Obsessionfollowing its screening at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival, in a deal valued at $15 million. It's officially the studio's highest-grossing film of all time, and the biggest film acquisition of a film festival.

In addition to a highly effective marketing campaignhe Word of mouth has been extremely positive. to Obsession.

The film centers on a hopeless romantic who breaks the mysterious “Wishing Willow” to win the heart of the girl he likes. He soon gets exactly what he asked for, but discovers that his wishes will come at a sinister cost.

The main cast includes Inside Navarrette (Superman and Lois), Michael Johnston (Teen Wolf), Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial), Megan Lawless (The Girl from Plainville), y Andy Richter (Conan).

Producers are James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, and Roman Varis, with Teashop Productions, Under the Shell, Capstone Pictures. Executive producers include Jason Blum of BlumhouseLeonora Darby, Mark Lane, David Haring y Ruzanna Kegeyan.

Barker's next film project, titled Anything But Ghostsis already filming completed. It is another production with a home at Blumhouse and Spooky Pictures, with Cooper Tomlinson repeating as part of the cast, and set in the same universe of Obsession. Likewise, the filmmaker was recently chosen by A24 as director of a reimagining of the horror franchise The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Barker is one of the members of a new generation of filmmakers emerging from YouTube.

Obsessionavailable in theaters.