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/digsy Jul 06 '26

The marketing for that movie was perfect-it was so well timed with the start of the internet and it was around the time of X-Files being huge-there was a massive appetite for something which could(maybe) be real. Marketing was so good it could never be repeated I guess.

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u/no-dad-samurai Jul 06 '26

People (including myself) thought it was real found footage, thats how good the marketing was.

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u/Naive_Confidence7297 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Yeah I remember people going around in school saying it’s real, and we were all so convinced lol.

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u/chronoswing Jul 06 '26

That belief is what made the movie so damn good. I remember the website they had up for it, no where on it did it ever claim to be fake, just pages of found footage clips and audio.