‘Obsession’ Just Became the Highest-Grossing Horror Film of 2026, and Its Journey to $200M Is Remarkable

Horror has always had a complicated relationship with the mainstream box office. The genre tends to spike on opening weekends driven by curiosity and then drop off sharply as the jump-scare crowd moves on. That makes what Curry Barker’s debut feature ‘Obsession’ has been doing in theaters nothing short of extraordinary, given that horror films...