Posted on 05/30/2026 9:17:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Disney's newest Star Wars movie, 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' just opened in theaters. It cost millions upon millions to make the film and it is absolutely getting its butt kicked by a small, independent horror movie called 'Obsession' which was made for a paltry $750,000.
Of course, $750K is a lot of money, but not by the standards of a Hollywood movie. That's chump change.
Even so, people are flocking to theaters to see 'Obsession' instead of Disney's newest expensive flick.
Star Wars fans have just been burned too many times. Disney basically broke the franchise by using it to push DEI and other woke concepts.
FOX News reports:
Low-budget horror flick 'Obsession' shatters box office expectations as new Star Wars film comes up short
A low-budget horror flick is defying gravity at the box office while the latest big-budget "Star Wars" movie had a rough launch compared to its predecessors.
Focus Features' "Obsession" was made with a microbudget of under $1 million. Initial projections showed it making less than $10 million in its opening weekend. It ended up making over $17 million.
This past weekend, it made roughly $24 million — $30 million when including Memorial Day — a whopping 30% increase from its opening weekend, outpacing much bigger films like "The Devil Wears Prada 2" and the Michael Jackson biopic "Michael." It even outgrossed "The Mandalorian and Grogu" on Wednesday.
Such a bump for a film in its second weekend is nearly unheard of. It has already grossed over $70 million worldwide and is now projected to make more than $100 million during its theatrical run, making it one of the most profitable films of the year.
What’s remarkable about the success of “Obsession” is that it proves that Hollywood star power isn’t always needed to get butts in seats. The director is a 26-year-old content creator named Curry Barker, who is part of the sketch comedy duo “That’s a Bad Idea,” which has over 1 million followers on YouTube and TikTok. Jason Blum, creator of BlumHouse Productions and producer of horror hits like “Get Out,” “Paranormal Activity” and “M3GAN,” only boarded “Obsession” as an executive producer after the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
John Nolte of Breitbart News is a longtime critic of Disney. Here’s what he had to say about this:
To be fair, because I don’t want to take anything away from Obsession, that movie is a legitimate phenomenon, the rarest of rarities where word-of-mouth is driving it to increase its box office over time, and is doing so after launching wide. This has only happened a handful of times in the 50-year-old history of wide releases. Obsession is making box office history, and that accomplishment deserves to be recognized and not plowed under as we gloat over the failure of the groomers at Disney.
Nevertheless, Obsession’s astonishing success is its own thing, as is The Mandalorian and Grogu’s deeply satisfying failure.
If the man-hating bigots at Disney hadn’t alienated, insulted, and dismissed Star Wars fans, the piece you are reading right now could’ve been about how both movies are breaking the bank.
Disney just burned too many bridges with movie audiences. They’re reaping what they’ve sown.
Your gloat was about not seeing any. Not just this particular one. So how do you know about the quality of them all without seeing any? Duh.
Put “Paranormal, “ I think that was the whole name,in the same category.
Probably why they are the dullest people on the planet.
The Road was good, and I had thought it would be impossible to turn that book into a movie, but they did.
I thought I was going to die from terminal boredom in the movie “The Road.” It was one of those movies where I kept thinking “This has to get going soon....[ten minutes later]...It just HAS to get going...[ten more minutes]...Please Dear God, get this thing going”. Then the credits were rolling. Ugh.
I can see that, you should read the book, it is dismal, but a good read.
Mind reading my gloat may not be your thingy.
The gloat was about today’s audience confirming my “boycott”.
Current paying customers seem to be doing what I’ve been doing for nearly half a century.
I have no clue if ANY Star Wars film is any good or not.
I know I had no interest in contributing to its box office then or now.
Just saw Obsession last weekend...a wicked good scary movie. Totally loved it.
The Road as a film was terrible. Viggo Mortensen is a phenomenal actor, but the kid who played his son was just awful.
The Road is an excellent novel, though.
ansel12 also said the book is excellent. Thanks to both of you!
Your boycott has no basis because you have no experience with the movies one way or the other. A conclusion drawn with zero data has zero relevance. You’re talking out your ass.
The book was a big deal when it came out, but man is it dismal.
It may not be your cup of tea, it reminds me a little of ‘Johnny Got His Gun’, in its fatalistic feel.
As a survivalist I kept thinking, ‘come on man, give me something here, something, anything to work with as a survivalist’, it was only a week or so later after I had finished it that I came up with a spark of hope in the book.
Looking for a spark of hope? Well, I certainly hope you next read “One Second After” and followed up with “Five Years After.” They are both uplifting and full of hope.
😏
One Second After I liked a lot but the second one is always too expensive to buy.
Is the Baby Green thing supposed to be Yoda as a young boy?
Plus, they flash the barely legible title so fast - less than one second - I still have no idea what the title is!
“Plus, they flash the barely legible title so fast - less than one second - I still have no idea what the title is!”
LOL...that is SO common on all videos on the net. I have to hit “Pause” to be able to read anything they flash up. 1/10 second just isn’t enough time!
Great recommendation! It’s been many years since I read Johhny Got His Gone and I should read it again.
I’m a big Cormac McCarthy fan. I really enjoyed All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian as well. His stories were often so bleak, but I found the underlying humanity to be incredibly moving.
Blair witch was very scary..perhaps because I grew up in an are with lots of ea st tetn woods and spooky it was late wintertowards dusk.
Not really
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