Low-Budget Horror Film 'Obsession' Draws Inspiration from 'The Simpsons,' Poised for $300M Box Office
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Curry Barker's low-budget horror film 'Obsession' (budgeted at $750,000) is projected to earn $300 million worldwide, making it a surprise blockbuster of the summer. The film, about a wish-gone-wrong involving a young man who wishes for his crush to love him, was inspired in part by an old episode of 'The Simpsons.' Barker revealed this unusual origin at the Toronto Film Festival last fall.
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· 3 pulledObsession is shaping up to be one of the biggest hits of the summer and maybe the most surprising blockbuster of the year
a $750,000-budgeted, star-free horror movie about a wish that goes wrong, now projected to make as much as $300 million worldwide
writer-director Curry Barker mentioned another unusual aspect of its origin: He was inspired in part by an old Simpsons episode
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