Another record for Obsession as it concludes its seventh weekend in theaters.
In addition to becoming the highest-grossing original horror film of all time, writer-director's independent horror film Curry Barker y Focus Featuresdethroned cinema's greatest horror classic, The Exorcistlike the FIFTH highest-grossing horror film in history in the United States box office.
Obsession Currently grossing $233.9 million dollars at the domestic box office. The exorcist For its part, it raised a total domestic box office of $233 million.
At the global box office, it is likely that Obsession ($370 million dollars) is not enough gasoline to exceed the global total of more than $430 million dollars of The Exorcist. We will know very soon, since the horror sensation of 2026 is in its last weeks in theaters.
This is the Top 10 highest-grossing horror movies of all time in the US:
- IT (2017): $328.9 mdd
- The Sixth Sense (1999): $293.5 mdd
- Jaws (1975): $280.1 mdd
- Sinners (2025): $279.9 mdd
- Obsession (2026): $233.9 mdd
- The Exorcist (1973): $233 mdd
- IT: Chapter Two (2019): $211.6 mdd
- A Quiet Place (2018): $188 mdd
- Backrooms (2026): $184.1 mdd
- The Conjuring: The Last Rites (2025): $177.7 mdd
With a micro production budget of just $750,000 dollars, Obsession It already collects more than 400 times the production costis, without a doubt, one of the most incredible box office hits in the history of cinema.
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.
Source: https://cine3.com/obsession-destrona-the-exorcist-record-taquilla-nacional/
