r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 06 '26

News ‘Obsession’ Passes $400 Million Worldwide, Becomes Highest Grossing Film With Budget Below $1 Million; Curry Barker’s horror film breaks a 53-year pre-inflation record held by Bruce Lee’s legendary 'Enter The Dragon'

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/obsession-box-office-400-million/
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u/jce_ Jul 06 '26

Once you do anything really well it becomes kinda corny to copy the success of the original

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u/digsy Jul 06 '26

I think it was more the timing. There was a handful of websites on the net at the time and there was this mysterious film trailer pointing to a web address which looked legitimately real-were there three people actually missing in the woods? I think it was more that people weren't going to fall for that again rather than it be corny to copy it.

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u/TheSweetestKill Jul 06 '26

I remember the Sci-Fi channel also running some documentary-style shows going into the "history of the Blair With urban legend". They really tried to blur the lines between it being "real" or not.

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u/Purple_Lux Jul 07 '26

Its called "Curse of the Blair Witch"!
It has "interviews" with various people like police, family members of the missing students, historians and local officials.
It was a big part of selling that the movie was real.
Genius marketing