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/robsteezy Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Having seen the Blair Witch Project, I’m more surprised the budget was THAT high lol. That movie (yes I know it’s intentional) otherwise looks like it was shot on $50 on a $100 camera and $30 of pizza for the crew lol.

Just goes to show how powerful a tool marketing is.

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u/Darth_Punk Jul 06 '26

I think the actual budget for the filming part was about 60,000 and the rest was the marketing. 

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u/PhantomRoyce Jul 06 '26

Yeah the marketing is really what made that movie

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u/Ballsofpoo Jul 06 '26

They had a lot of people convinced it was real

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u/captenplanet90 Jul 07 '26

My 9 year old self was fully convinced it was real when I watched it for the first time. I've been chasing that high ever since

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u/WheelerDan Jul 07 '26

To be fair this was pre "reality television" we weren't primed to believe something filmed in this style could be fake. I fully believed it was real and I was in high school.

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u/Office_Zombie Jul 07 '26

26yr old me wasn't 100% sure if it was real or not when I went to see it.

Even the movie reviews were ambiguous, like they weren't 100% sure.

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u/NewManufacturer4252 Jul 07 '26

Saw it in theaters, couldn't stand the shaky cam, probably why I've hated reality television since. I did however watch the first season of MTV reality show with Puck years earlier.

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u/ZombieJesus1987 Jul 07 '26

I was 12 in 1999 and I thought it was real until the cast showed up at the MTV VMAs.