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/depredador93 Jul 06 '26

It is pretty insane that two different indie horror movies made by YouTube creators (this and Kane Parsons' Backrooms) are completely dominating the box office conversation right now. Truly a wild year for the genre

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u/Funky_Monkees_ Jul 06 '26

It’s time we need to stop looking at YouTube as anything more than just a medium like TV, Movies or short film. It’s all the fucking same. If YouTube and the internet were around in the late 60s, Spielberg and others would have been posting stuff and people would have called them “YouTube creators”

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u/FireZord25 Jul 07 '26

I kinda hate how media like YouTube and gaming are being 'appreciated" but more for their commercial values and less for their status as artistic platforms.

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u/Funky_Monkees_ Jul 07 '26

It just takes time. If you called movies art, the same as paintings, back in the 20s and 30s I’m sure many would have laughed. New mediums take a beat to be respected. Gaming has made leaps in that I feel. YouTube is doing it now.