Published Jun 8, 2026, 11:48 AM EDT
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It’s the perfect time to be a horror fan, with the genre dominating the box office. Following other 2026 horror favorites such as 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Send Help, and Radio Silence’s Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, last weekend saw a new horror movie take the top spot in the domestic charts, as the first Scary Movie in 13 years made its debut. With a $55 million haul from U.S. theaters and another $50 million from overseas markets, the horror parody franchise’s fifth chapter officially marked a series record with its highest opening yet.
However, even though Scary Movie topped the charts, the headlines have still been taken by the film everyone can’t stop talking about. Of course, the film in question is Focus Features’ Obsession, which took home a hugely impressive $25.6 million in its fourth weekend, marking just a 7% drop from weekend #3. Directed by Curry Barker, who joins Backrooms’ 20-year-old Kane Parsons as the latest young prodigy to move from YouTube to feature films, Obsession has become an almost overnight phenomenon and shot star Inde Navarrette into superstardom.
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t send The Mandalorian and Grogu plummeting down the box office charts for simply going viral. Obsession is much more than a trend, with this one of the most well-received horror debuts of the decade, both critically and with audiences. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has earned a near-perfect 95%, with Collider’s Hannah Hunt awarding an 8/10 in her review, and calling Navarrette’s central performance “one of the year’s best.” There have even been early predictions of Academy Awards success for Navarrette, perhaps making up for the horror snubs of Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Demi Moore (The Substance).
Obsession is available to watch in theaters now. Stay tuned to Collider for the latest box office updates.
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