{"id":649916,"date":"2026-06-21T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649916\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:52:09","slug":"universal-orders-third-movie-from-obsessions-curry-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649916\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal orders third movie from Obsession’s Curry Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026 is turning out to be a phenomenally good year for horror directors who got their start on YouTube, as Curry Barker\u2019s\u00a0Obsession<\/a>\u00a0joins Kane Parsons\u2019\u00a0Backrooms<\/a>\u00a0in cheerfully kicking the shit out of more established franchises and filmmakers at the box office. (Both movies have managed to beat The Mandalorian And Grogu<\/a>\u00a0with their domestic takes, for instance, while Barker\u2019s film will be running neck-and-neck with Steven Spielberg\u2019s Disclosure Day<\/a>\u00a0to see who comes in second to\u00a0Toy Story 5\u00a0this weekend.) None of which has missed the notice of Barker\u2019s partners at Universal, who have now tossed a reported eight-figure deal at the 26-year-old director for his next film.<\/p>\n

To be clear, this deal is in connection to Barker\u2019s third\u00a0studio film; he already worked with Universal-owned Focus Features to make his second studio movie, Anything But Ghosts, back before Obsession\u00a0started delivering its \u201cOh shit, that\u2019s a better than 300-to-1\u201d return on investment. (Barker also previously released a feature-length found footage movie, Milk And Serial, on YouTube in 2024, after struggling to find distribution for the movie; the fevered fan reception to the movie helped secure independent funding for Obsession, with Focus buying in on after the film had a strong opening at TIFF in 2025.)<\/p>\n

As with his previous films, Barker will be making the untitled movie in association with Blumhouse, releasing a (slightly vague) statement this weekend in which he praised the horror studio. \u201cThis film is something I\u2019ve been excited to make for a while,\u201d Barker noted, \u201cAnd I\u2019m thrilled to be reteaming with Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal Film Group for it. They\u2019ve built the kind of home for bold, original storytelling that every filmmaker dreams of, and I couldn\u2019t imagine better collaborators for this film.\u201d No plot details for the movie are being even vaguely hinted at, beyond it being an \u201coriginal horror idea\u201d disconnected from Barker\u2019s earlier work. (Meanwhile, he\u2019s also supposedly on the hook<\/a> to make a new\u00a0Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0movie for A24, although it\u2019s currently unclear how that\u2019s going to fit into Barker\u2019s increasingly busy schedule.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 is turning out to be a phenomenally good year for horror directors who got their start on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}