{"id":466881,"date":"2026-06-08T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466881\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:54:11","slug":"backrooms-and-obsession-how-two-low-budget-horror-films-caused-a-hollywood-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/466881\/","title":{"rendered":"Backrooms and Obsession: How two low-budget horror films caused a Hollywood earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">What else do Gen-Z audiences want from the cinema? Judging by the discourse on social media, teenage and twentysomething viewers want a film they can discuss and dissect. Take, for example, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20260330-the-dramas-horrifying-twist-is-set-to-divide-audiences\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Drama<\/a>, which is reported to have cost $28m (\u00a321m) and raked in about $100m (\u00a375m) more than that. It&#8217;s a comedy rather than a horror film, and it has two popular stars \u2013 Zendaya and Robert Pattinson \u2013 but, like Obsession, it stretches a romantic relationship issue to an uncomfortable extreme. It feels as if it&#8217;s actually about something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What else do Gen-Z audiences want from the cinema? Judging by the discourse on social media, teenage and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-466881","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\/466881","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=466881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}