Why is EVERYONE talking about OBSESSION?

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]This lowbudget R-rated horror movie actually overtook Mandalorian and Grou at the daily box office this week. Suck it, losers.

[00:00:12]>> White folks are dead. WE'RE GETTING THE [ __ ] OUT OF HERE. LET'S GO DOWN.

[00:00:16]LET'S GO, [ __ ] >> OKAY, LISTEN. Before we even get into this video, listen to me very carefully.

[00:00:24]I have not seen Obsession yet, okay? I'm just putting it out there. So, when you guys talk about this in the comments, please try not to ruin it for me, okay?

[00:00:33]Like you can say like you can say certain things like, you know, oh, this there's this one scene that's really really crazy. Get excited for that. Or you can generally tell me what you think. But if you go out of your way to ruin this movie for me in the comments, I mean, I'm not going to do anything about it. I'm just going to be really sad.

[00:00:51]>> My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. So, just if you guys aren't aware or are not that into horror, Obsession is this this supernatural horror about this guy named Bear. And uh he's been friend-zoned by his childhood friend Nikki. And uh he makes a wish for Nikki to fall in love with him. And then he gets his wish, but I think it spirals out of control and becomes uh some type of, you know, horror movie ending. This movie is already starting to like turn heads, generate so much word of mouth, and it has grossed so much money in relation to its budget, guys. It was made for like less than a million dollars. Some people are saying it was around 750,000. Some people are saying a little bit closer to a million. So, somewhere in there between 750 and a million. It has already made almost $und00 million at the box office. So, it has 100xed its entire budget and it has also had a massive second weekend spike. Usually horror movies, they come out big and then they like decline week over week over week. But this movie actually has gone up in terms of revenue for its second weekend at the box office. And guys, this next bit is so juicy. You're going to love this. Listen to this.

[00:02:06]Obsession. This lowbudget R-rated horror movie actually overtook Mandalorian and Grou at the daily box office this week.

[00:02:18]The Mandalorian and Grou fell to number two on Wednesday as Obsession reclaimed the number one spot with 5.6 million.

[00:02:26]The Star Wars movie brought in 4.1 million for the day. I mean, doesn't it just give you a little bit of like a what what's the German word for it? The shot and frea, right? where you like you take glee in someone else's misery.

[00:02:41]>> Hey Nelson, he's really hurt. I think he broke his leg.

[00:02:45]>> I said ha.

[00:02:47]>> Not to completely beat a dead horse, but to beat it a little bit when you have a studio this big with this many resources holding on to a global billion dollar IP, holding the key to millions of people's imaginations.

[00:03:03]And you just take all of that and you shove it in the trash. You deserve to lose.

[00:03:10]I'm not wrong here. Am I wrong? I'm not wrong. They deserve to lose. This this part, guys, this is the best part of this article. Listen to this. It also makes The Mandalorian and Grou look even worse. Obsession is R-rated horror.

[00:03:24]Mando is a familyfriendly Star Wars movie with Grou. The fact that Obsession passed it on Wednesday says a lot. Oh my god, does it ever. Anyways, I'm moving on. I'm moving on. I just, you know, suck it, losers. Now for the big question. Do I think I'm going to like obsession? I'm always skeptical whenever I see something that has so much hype as this. when something is getting this much hype, this many accolades, this much conversation, clearly a lot of influencer marketing.

[00:03:56]You know, there are a couple of things that I tend to look at to figure out if I think I'm going to like it or if I think that it's going to be good. Um, part of this is the backstory to obsession. So, I think as I talked about, Curry Barker was on YouTube. He's produced a lot of short films, a lot of horror films, some sketch comedy, all of that sort of stuff. So, I watched a little bit of Curry's stuff from YouTube just to kind of get a sense of his production directing style, the kind of movies he's made in the past. The one thing that I think has really catapulted him to this this role that he's got now is the short film he did, which is called The Chair. Uh, and that is on his YouTube channel right now. You can go and you can watch it. So, The Chair is about this guy who finds a chair on the curb. he takes it home and then just like these weird and increasingly more terrifying paranormal things start to happen to him. It's sort of like the chair possesses him. So it was interesting. Um I think because from so from this video that he put out this short film that he put out on his YouTube there was a film producer he basically had reached out to Barker about adapting that into a featurelength film and that's when Curry Barker pitched him Obsession instead.

[00:05:08]And so that has gone through some rounds of edits and shoots and and got produced into what it is today. So that to me was like a really big indicator of his directing style, the content that he's capable of, the creativity in that. So I went and I watched the chair. I'm just going to be totally honest with you guys. It was it was fine. It didn't blow my mind. It didn't scare me really in any sense of the word. There was no point at which I was on the screen and I was like, "Oh my god, >> THIS IS WHY MOM DOESN'T [ __ ] LOVE YOU." I will say that there were some really creative elements to it um just in the cinematography and the pacing. I think he did a really really good job with that. But I do think that there were some elements that were missing from it. I think that the dialogue sucked. It sounded like a student film, like very very basic dialogue. That is not that does not seem to be his strong suit whatsoever. And I also got that vibe from the much shorter horror film that I watched of his Heavy Eyes, which is also on his YouTube. That one's only like five or six minutes. But neither of these short films had very good dialogue whatsoever.

[00:06:18]>> It's [ __ ] I did not hit her.

[00:06:20]>> Acting was just okay. The over-the-top horror acting that was pretty good, but the acting between the characters and the dynamic between themselves and like realistic scenes was not good. This guy Curry Barker seems to like psychological thriller stuff. Like he tries to pair paranormal stuff into psychological thriller stuff. And that's fine.

[00:06:42]The psychological thriller element to me is one of my least favorite storytelling devices of any movie. I don't like it.

[00:06:52]For one thing, I don't like movies that end up with it was in his head the whole time or, you know, they went back in time and nothing ever really happened. I I don't like that. I don't like that feeling of like I just went on this entire journey that never happened to begin with. I cannot stand that.

[00:07:08]Additionally, I kind of feel like psychological thrillers, they just they feel cheap to me in a couple of ways.

[00:07:14]The first one being that it can be kind of like a band-aid or it kind of like gloss it's kind of used as a tool to gloss over not filling up a narrative story line.

[00:07:27]You know what I mean? like instead of being like A happened, then B happened, then simultaneously C was happening and then D came in with a twist. It was like no, we're just going to make it a really creative disscent and you don't know like what scenes are real and what scenes are not and we can cut things out and and move things around and nothing has to happen in a chronological order because we want to mess with the audience and they don't know what's real anymore. And I'm just like, you know, you could do that with anything. You could just do that. you I could just, you know, film a day in my life and cut up the footage and edit it in a certain way and put some music behind it and you'll feel like you're insane by the end of it.

[00:08:06]>> Is the WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY? AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE GIVES A [ __ ] ABOUT THE RULES?

[00:08:11]>> TO ME, THAT doesn't require a lot of skill to get the audience to that feeling. You know what I mean? Like, it's just it's it's a very weak storytelling device. The other part of that too is a lot of people whenever you have these psychological thrillers is the reveal that he was crazy the whole time tends to be the punchline. It tends to be the big twist at the end of the movie. And if you figure it out before the end of the movie, then you're like, "Yeah, I saw that coming." Or, like I said, if you don't see it coming, then you get that whole kind of like deflating twist at the end of like, "Oh, okay. It was just in his head the whole time."

[00:08:49]It's not my favorite. We'll see. I'm I'm very very curious. I think I will just give it no matter what I will give it a very objective review. I will let you guys know what I think about it. But um I'm very very excited and very curious to see how this turns out. Here's the here's the big reason why I just I love this story and why I want to talk about it even before I've seen the movie.

[00:09:10]Okay? Because I I just I love that this kid Curry Barker was basically discovered through YouTube. I love when people get discovered through YouTube. I love when stories and content gets discovered through fanfiction, through social media. There is so much good content out there. There is so much amazing content that is just coming from people putting like t-shirts on their heads to play different characters. Like it is amazing what people can come up with with their ingenuity and their creativity. And I love seeing the power of that. The power of seeing crowdsourced imagination essentially.

[00:09:48]And so I'll tell you guys a little bit about this. So his channel, Curry Barker's channel that he has with at least one other guy, maybe a couple other people. Um his channel, That's a Bad Idea, has about 1.2 million subs. So this is that's a big channel. That's like a really very decentsized channel.

[00:10:04]um certainly big enough to get the attention of a bigger producer or some people in the industry, especially if he's like running this YouTube channel and also doing all of the networking stuff that he should be doing if he wants to make his way in Hollywood. If you are not a Nepo baby, you have to grind it out. You have to constantly be meeting people, working with people, doing stuff for free in order to get your foot in the door. So I think this kid was doing that at the same time he was running and building and growing this really pretty successful YouTube channel. So good for him. Like that is that is how you have to do it in this industry. There is no just like knocking on doors and like signing up for auditions and waiting for someone to call you. Like you figure out the hustle and you go hustle and you will work for free for years until you get a payday.

[00:10:58]That's just how that happens. So, this guy is doing all the right things. Good for him and good for good for creators who are making their way through new avenues. Good for creators who are finding that path through and using social media as their resume, as their portfolio, and demonstrating that they are able to build an audience off of their own content. Ultimately, what I think everybody wants to do is is push Hollywood to acknowledge what we want to see, the kind of content that we're interested in, the kind of content that we want to watch on the screen, and reward that kind of content.

[00:11:41]Just one other thing I wanted to say about this movie and what really excites me and just, you know, when we talk about the horror genre in general, um, is that this movie was picked up and produced partially by Blumhouse Productions. And Blumhouse is a production company that I like to follow very closely because I actually interned at Blumhouse right after graduation when I was fresh out of college. And um I've got to meet Jason Blum, got to pick his brain a little bit and just learn the business model behind what he does. And it is so incredibly fascinating, you guys. So before he started Blumhouse, Jason Blum was a buyer for the Weinstein Company. And without getting into, you know, how gross the Weinstein are, just to give you guys a little bit of background, like they wouldn't just make a film from scratch. They would go to film festivals, watch all these independent films, they would acquire the distribution rights to these movies, and then a lot of times because it was the Weinstein's doing it, they would recut, they would reposition these films, and they would aggressively market them. That's really what they were known for in the movie industry.

[00:12:51]And so a lot of these films that were like nothing independent little flicks they made into Oscarinning movies. Like there's like The King's Speech, Sex Lies and Videotape, Shakespeare and Love. They repackaged, they recut, and they repackaged movies that they found. They didn't make them from the ground up. and Jason developed this very special skill of identifying movies that could be made for micro budgets and that had huge upside audience potential. And really where he got his foot in the door was with Paranormal Activity. He discovered that movie that Orin Py made for like $12,000, you guys, in his own house. That movie needs to be taught in business school.

[00:13:38]Like what Jason Blum does needs to be taught in business school because Paranormal Activity grossed $194 million at the box office.

[00:13:48]Incredible. And Jason Blum has gone on to produce uh or or do this business model over and over again with so many of these other movies that are incredibly famous. You're talking about Insidious. You're talking about The Purge. Get Out won an Oscar for best original screenplay. Like when you think about somebody who is looking outside the box for what is unique, what is out there, what is going to have the best mass market appeal, that is Jason Blum.

[00:14:15]If you're seeing another Cinderella story of a low-budget horror movie that's making it big, chances are Jason Blum is behind it. So please guys, if you've seen Obsession, tell me what you think about it in the comments. Give me your best guess as to whether you think I'm going to like it, whether you liked it. Please try to be vague. Save your very specific comments for when I put out my review video. And if you like this video, please like, hype, and subscribe so you can get more of my content. Thank you so much you guys. I'll see you in the next one.