Overview
- The indie horror-romance Obsession has reportedly crossed $400 million worldwide on a production budget of about $750,000, a return industry outlets say ranks it among the most profitable films ever.
- Critics and audiences have embraced the film, which holds roughly a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and social-media buzz around its makers helped drive sustained box-office gains.
- Director Curry Barker has publicly described ideas for both a direct sequel and an anthology TV series built around the film’s central cursed object, the One Wish Willow, though no project is officially greenlit.
- Focus Features acquired Obsession at the Toronto Film Festival for about $14 million, a festival buy that distributors and analysts now view as a high-return gamble on creator-driven, low-cost filmmaking.
- The film’s success is accelerating a wider industry pattern where viral creators and offbeat horror premises attract big theatrical audiences and could push studios to chase more low-budget, high-upside projects.