{"id":454116,"date":"2026-05-31T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454116\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:33:07","slug":"youtubers-become-hollywoods-new-horror-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454116\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTubers become Hollywood&#8217;s new horror filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SLGFF4IQNFHFDNXDDA4UEOBDW4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Curry Barker had done everything right. As a horror-movie obsessive growing up in Alabama, he founded a film club at his high school, acted in plays and studied up on camera lenses. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles to study acting. By the time he graduated, Barker was working at a coffee shop, devoting his free time to directing short films. He submitted one of them, \u201cThe Chair,\u201d to a few nearby film festivals in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curry Barker had done everything right. As a horror-movie obsessive growing up in Alabama, he founded a film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-454116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}