'Obsession' is crowned the highest-grossing original horror film in history

It all started with a wish.

At the end of its seventh weekend in theaters, the horror sensation of 2026, Obsessionadded another important record to his great list.

The independent horror film from the writer and director Curry Barker and the study Focus Featureswas crowned as the highest GROSSING ORIGINAL HORROR movie in HISTORYwhen collecting in global box office $371.1 million on Monday, June 29.

Obsession surpassed the record holder until today, Sinners (2025) Ryan Cooglerwhich raised a global box office of $370.3 millionand subsequently went on to win four Oscars – at this year's ceremony – for best actor (Michael B. Jordan), best original screenplay (Coogler), best soundtrack (Ludgwig Göransson) and best cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw).

Important to note that we talk about the highest-grossing ORIGINAL horror film in history, not belonging a a franchise or IP o biopic.

Right now, the national box office of Obsession is $233.8 mdd, while internationally it collects $137.3 mdd, for a global total of $371.1 mdd.

With a micro production budget of just $750,000 dollars, It already collects more than 400 times the production cost. Complete madness.

In addition to being the highest-grossing original horror film in history, and the highest-grossing horror film of 2026, in recent days, 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. We add to that, that, 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.

The indie project's other impressive achievements include posting consecutive box office increases over its first three weekends ($17.1 million in its first weekend, $23.9 million in its second weekend, $26.4 million in its third weekend).

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.

Obsessioncontinues to be available in theaters.