Deadly and Digital: How Early Internet Horror Paved The Way For YouTube’s Hollywood Takeover
With "BACKROOMS" and "OBSESSION" raking in millions, we look back at how the early days of the web changed the genre forever.
YouTuber horror films take over the box office as “BACKROOMS” and “OBSESSION” knock out “MANDALORIAN” *UPDATED*
Online content creators are delivering a horrific one-two punch this weekend.
Special Report: The new breed of YouTubers turned fright filmmakers
OBSESSION's Curry Barker is just one of the terror talents making the leap from viral videos to features.
Obsession Turns Deadly in “Rue Morgue #230”, in Stores May 1
Inside RUE MORGUE #230: Curry Barker’s OBSESSION, and MILK & SERIAL; Maya Annik Bedward’s BLACK ZOMBIE documentary; Wes Craven's THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW into one of horror’s most conflicted misfires; the music of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Season Three; the rise of ANOMALY HORROR and lots more.
BUFF ’26 Movie Review: Here’s your new “OBSESSION” for the year
This despairing yet gripping study of misapplied ardor and manipulation also works like gangbusters as a horror film.
