Obsession’s success is reflected in audience assumptions that an older, more experienced filmmaker directed it. Box office results rose 39% in the second weekend of its wide release. The film earned $17 million domestically in its opening weekend and $23.9 million over Memorial Day weekend. Including international box office, total earnings reached $75 million. The performance is notable given the film’s $1 million budget. Producer Jason Blum highlighted that it is the only wide-release horror film on record to grow in its second weekend at that scale, with $22.4 million and a 30% increase over opening. The success also stems from Curry Barker’s earlier YouTube short horror film, The Chair. Future competition may come from Kane Parsons’s Backrooms, a younger YouTube creator’s horror film releasing in theaters soon.
"It's also a towering success for Barker, who got his deal based on the success of a short horror film, titled The Chair, that he uploaded to YouTube. If the movie has any worry in the weeks ahead for its box office, it's that it will now compete with another YouTube wunderkind-made horror movie. Kane Parsons's Backrooms, based on his YouTube series of the same name and starring Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, is headed for theaters this weekend."
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