In a year full of exciting debuts, Obsession is one of the buzziest. It’s a huge leap for its writer-director, Curry Barker: After cofounding the sketch-comedy duo “that’s a bad idea” — currently at 1.12 million subscribers on YouTube — Barker made his first feature, the found-footage horror movie Milk & Serial, and self-released it in the summer of 2024. A little over a year later, Obsession sold for an estimated $15 million after its midnight premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Now Barker and his collaborator Cooper Tomlinson are working on another horror film for Blumhouse, and Barker is writing and directing a “reimagining” of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for A24. Not bad for a director whose first movie had a budget of $800.
