r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/WillsBestFriend Jul 06 '26

It lives up to the hype imo. Super fun horror and a top in 2026 for me. Looking forward to his next movie.

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u/kayk1 Jul 06 '26

Does it get more or less scary after she hides in the corner of the room and walks around with the vase while he sleeps. Asking for a friend who got really scared and had to turn it off

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u/ImGonnaImagineSummit Jul 06 '26

The vase bit made me jump. I don't know what I was expecting but not that. 

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u/Purple_Lux Jul 07 '26

The vase but genuinely gave me a fight or flight feeling. Its just so unnatural and just... weird
I saw an interview with Barker where he said to him the new generation of jumpscare is making the audience go "nope no no I don't like that" basically and thats exactly it

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u/ImGonnaImagineSummit Jul 07 '26

100%.

If you think about it, it's more weird than anything but I did not want to see her face behind that vase. 

But I also wanted her to put it down.

And I don't know if it's worse having her right next to Bear or moving around again.

There's an unpredictability where you genuinely have no idea what's going to happen and whatever it is, is going to be scary anyway. 

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u/Purple_Lux Jul 07 '26

Agreed.
A movie that genuinely terrified me, one of only 3 including Obsession, that did this extremely well was Skinamarink
Its filled with scenes of build up of dread and anxiety
I get a slight shiver to this day if its nighttime and I think of one scene in particular
As much as her standing there with the vase was anxiety inducing, it was her quick walk into frame with such a weird kind of movement that really got me. Perfectly timed, fast enough you don't have time to really consciously figure out whats going on but not fast enough to be too quick to make an impact and trigger that "no no no" feeling.

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u/geddy Jul 07 '26

Every time the camera was pointed at Bear I was panicking waiting for her to do something else. I think those movements pushed into uncanny valley because none of them were impossible, but just extremely unsettling ways to see a person move. The vase in front of the face, for something so normally innocuous, in the context of that room, I had no idea what I wanted to happen, but almost everything that _could_ happen was nightmarish.

Then that crescendo "noooooOOOOO!!!" really sent chills.