A new day, a new record for Obsessionthe absolute horror sensation of 2026.
The hit horror thriller Focus Featuresstarring Inside Navarrette y Michael Johnstonhit another major box office milestone over the weekend. By the way, its eighth weekend in theaters.
The one written and directed by Curry Barker, exceeded $400 million at the global box officeand ranks as the highest-grossing film – before adjustment for inflation – with a maximum production budget of 1 million dollars. Additionally, it becomes the tenth horror film in history to reach this milestone.
The 10 films that have reached this milestone are:
- IT (2017): $719.7 mdd
- The Sixth Sense (1999): $672.8 mdd
- I Am Legend (2007): $585.4 mdd
- World War Z (2013): $540.4 mdd
- The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025): $499.2 mdd
- Jaws (1975): $490.7 mdd
- IT: Chapter Two (2019): $473.1 mdd
- The Exorcist (1973): $430.8 million ($441 million with adjustments for inflation)
- Signs (2002): $408 mdd
- Obsession (2026): $403.3 mdd
The micro budget of Obsession It was $750,000 dollars.y already collects more than 400 times the production cost. It was acquired by Focus Features for $15 million at last year's Toronto Film Festival, thus becoming a highly profitable phenomenon. It is the studio's highest-grossing film of all time, and the biggest film acquisition for a film festival.
The daily box office is as follows:
- Domestic box office: $245.2 mdd
- International box office: $158.1 mdd
- World box office: $403.3 million
Important to note that, Obsession adds this new achievement five days after its premiere on premium digital video-on-demand platforms (PVOD). By the way, in its first week of release on PVOD, Obsession has already led three playlists in the United States on three major digital platforms: Apple TV, Fandango at Home and Prime Video, solidifying its success as a horror hit, now at home.
In recent weeks, Obsession was crowned the highest-grossing original horror film in history, and the highest-grossing horror film of 2026, and officially surpassed the global gross of another independent horror film phenomenon, the iconic 1999 found footage film, The Blair Witch Projectwhich collected 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).
In addition to a highly effective marketing campaignhe Word of mouth has been extremely positive. to Obsession.
The plot centers on a boy's desperate romantic longing for his platonic love, which triggers a sinister spell with the use of the “Willow of a Wish,” with which Niki (Navarrete) becomes irrationally obsessive until she becomes the shadow of Bear (Johnston). A seemingly harmless fantasy that turns into a disturbing nightmare.
In addition to Navarrete and Johnston, the main cast includes 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 in its final days.
Source: https://cine3.com/obsession-supera-400-millones-de-dolares-taquilla-mundial/
