‘Obsession’ Is Officially One of the Highest-Grossing Horror Movies Ever!!

The summer box office is starting to hit its stride ahead of the mammoth arrivals of Christopher Nolan’s profound adaptation of Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, and the latest big MCU entry, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with both movies starring husband-and-wife duo Zendaya and Tom Holland. But last weekend, the last blockbuster, Minions & Monsters, debuted to disappointing figures, earning the lowest opening in the Despicable Me franchise yet on its seventh attempt.

Toy Story 5‘s Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), and Jessie (Joan Cusack) took home second place at the box office last weekend, as Young Washington impressed with a near-$21 million opening U.S. haul, and Milly Alcock’s Supergirl, the second entry of James Gunn and Peter Safran‘s DC Universe, dropped by a disastrous 74%. But still, after nearly two months, we find ourselves talking about the decade’s most impressive horror sensation: Focus Features’ Obsession. Officially, thanks to another strong weekend that included a $5.3 million domestic haul, Obsession has now surpassed the $400 million mark worldwide.

At this rate, the movie is almost on track to enter the list of the ten highest-grossing horror movies of all time, which would be one of countless records Curry Barker‘s breakout masterpiece has broken. Not only is Obsession the first film with a sub-million production budget to earn over $200 million this century, but it has now become the highest-grossing non-animated original film of the past decade, as well as the only genre film in cinema’s illustrious history to stay in the box office top ten for over 40 days in a row, according to reports. Truly, there has been no more impressive feat at the box office for many, many years.

Could ‘Obsession’ Win Any Academy Awards?

Not just a box office sensation, Obsession is also one of the most impressive horror debuts of this century. Barker‘s expansion of a simple idea using relevant themes into horror gold isn’t groundbreaking, but by perfecting each of these ingredients, he makes an almost faultless start to feature film directorial life. But it is Inde Navarrette‘s star-making performance that has the best chance of threatening at the Academy Awards, with Collider‘s Hannah Hunt calling it “one of the year’s best” performances in her review.