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#310 - 'Obsession' Proves You Don't Need a Big Budget for Big Scares · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So you all got to go check out the movie Obsession. It is a very good thriller.
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  I'm going to give my rating at the end of this video.
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  And something was weird. Me and my wife will usually rate movies after we see them.
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  And we came up with the same rating, the exact same in a weird way when we rated this one.
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  And we had to give a caveat besides the gore, because I don't like seeing the gore.
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  I know my wife doesn't like seeing the gore. We can't even go see a scary movie,
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  really, or that she's not into that, really.
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  At all she doesn't want to but it's not i guess
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  because she loves me she goes with me every now and then but ever since
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  the movie long legs if you've seen that movie that'll
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  mess you up i you come out of there feeling just
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  oh my what did i just see but that
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  ruined her that movie ruined her for for us going
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  to see scary movies together i almost have to go watch them by myself
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  but i'll get my rating at the end so the movie
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  obsession and i'm gonna actually show this so the man who
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  the creator or the the director the writer of
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  this is curry baker and it's so weird
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  because i knew about him i've always just followed him on tiktok
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  him and his friend i didn't even know he had
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  this in him i didn't know i did not know he had this ability
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  to be a director a writer and put together this like interesting movie i'm not
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  and there's not going to be any spoilers in this movie at all for this movie
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  that i i cannot deal with that i would not put that upon you i i don't even
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  like to see a trailer of a movie because I don't want to know anything about
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  it. I like to go in fresh going in fresh is awesome.
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  But the movie Obsession, this is from film, did something at the box office
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  no horror movie has ever done before.
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  Director Curry Barker's obsession is in the midst of making history at the box office.
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  Despite the fact that a new Star Wars movie hit theaters over Memorial Weekend,
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  one could argue that Barker's low-budget horror sensation is the bigger story.
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  On its second weekend in theaters the young
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  filmmakers movie did something no other horror flick
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  has done before released by focus features
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  obsession earned 23.9 million
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  over the weekend with that number growing to north north
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  of 30 million when accounting for the monday holiday that
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  is just it i would just say like we're going
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  to dive in a little bit further but like the simplicity of
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  the movie it's it has a very simple premise
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  i'm not going to give anything away but it's it just
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  shows that like an idea can spring from something just a normal person could
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  put something like this together and like to me like curry baker just seems
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  like a normal guy you see there's there's people that are celebrities out there
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  and they just seem normal they just seem like regular guys i go to like seth
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  rogan like you wouldn't think that he would be like a,
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  a high profile celebrity,
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  uh, you know, but he is, but he just seems like a down to earth regular normal guy.
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  And, uh, Curry Barker, I keep saying Baker. I didn't even know his name.
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  I didn't, I just, these are two funny guys.
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  Him and his friend is in the movie as well. I don't know his name.
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  I know I should do a little bit of research. I like to come in fresh.
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  I mean, anybody can find out those details if they want.
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  I just know these two were two regular guys and, but they, I found out that
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  they met each other in like in California, going to acting classes.
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  And then they just started creating this, uh, the content that they put on TikTok
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  and YouTube and all that.
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  But what they do about their videos that they always make, they're,
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  they're not just random, like iPhone videos.
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  They do actual good quality of every video they make and has a good script and good.
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  Plot or whatever the point of the story they're driving, you could see early
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  on and just like, but watching him, I never realized this, but now going back,
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  it's like you see it through a different lens of the stuff that he's making.
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  Obsession climbing to the number two spot is wildly impressive.
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  For one, that 23.9 million figure represents a 39% increase from the movie's opening weekend.
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  See, I saw it this weekend. We didn't go see it, though. I wanted to probably
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  go see it, like, where I'm at.
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  It wasn't, it was the very late, late showings that it was in,
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  like, the very good theaters.
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  And I couldn't make it. But we got to go see it this weekend. And it was packed.
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  Where I was at, like, the whole, the theater was filled out.
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  It was packed. So it's a good, like, you could tell it's a little bit low budget.
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  The acting, like, is still good, good quality. you can
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  tell that they're not like like they haven't been doing
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  it forever but i mean acting in itself is i think all of the people in there
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  i think that some of the scenes like like i'm not going to give anything away
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  but like you could tell it's not as great as as it could be but i think just
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  that just the general like it almost speaks more to to regular life because i think.
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  Even when people aren't acting like they don't seem like they're acting
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  the best sometimes it can be even greater because it's like it
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  seems more like real life you can tell
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  that like this is just a normal person doing this
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  role and there was just some crying scenes that
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  it just like that didn't seem like it was like my wife
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  will always look at me and we call like low low budget films we'll like
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  oh this is an lb and we don't really like to watch this
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  didn't feel like a low budget film and i said it
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  was but it like had like some good studios like bloom
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  house and a number of other ones that
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  like put this all together it was i think i don't know
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  how he got this all rolling but it just shows you like that
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  a normal person can just put something together and
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  you never know what's what's going on behind behind their eyes you know you
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  never know what what they have in them and i i just think like i did not know
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  this at all like about this guy which was i'm just i'm thinking about curry
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  and i i really i don't know much about him i just know that a lot of the things
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  is that he just has that intangible factor.
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  He seems like a normal guy, and I think he's in the movie itself.
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  I'm not gonna say anything.
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  I'm not gonna give anything away. I wouldn't even dare give anything away.
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  I would feel sick with myself if I did. So.
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  I'm going to go down a little bit further. To date, Curry Barker's buzzy horror
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  flick has earned more than $80 million worldwide.
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  What's downright remarkable is that Barker made the movie for a reported budget of $750,000.
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  While Focus Features pays $14 million to acquire it, the minimal resources makes
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  the return on investment all the more impressive.
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  As such, it's become the latest low-budget horror film to make millions,
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  joining the likes of the Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity and the
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  Annals of Cinema History.
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  I would highly recommend it. So the rating that me and my wife gave exactly,
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  and we don't usually do like point whatever, we just do out of 10, we each said 7.5.
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  My wife asked me and I said, she said apart from the gruesome or gore or whatever,
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  because I don't like seeing that.
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  I don't know anybody why you would like to see that.
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  I've never, but I've always, always liked scary movies
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  ever since like i was young like i liked scream i was into
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  screaming in those movies and the movie it and
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  i i thought i i always liked it but i never i watched probably the movie scream
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  like i don't even know hundreds of times but i never i always did not i always
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  turned away closed my eyes about like the when somebody was like you know getting
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  cut up or what i did i never wanted to see i just like almost like the the scariness the suspense the,
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  storyline. You know, I love all that. It's.
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  And it's like, I could never get into the movie saws or anything or all those.
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  And I'll even sometimes watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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  But like, I can never, I always have to like, I start it and I get out of there because I can't.
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  It's like, I like the idea of watching it sometimes, but it's like when it gets
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  disgusting, I don't want to see that at all.
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  I like, I just like the story, the plot, the theme, the idea of it,
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  as opposed to getting into the gruesome details.
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  I don't want to see, I don't even want to think about that kind of stuff,
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  but just, but I do like being scared.
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  And there is such a major difference between just
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  a normal like a serial killer a regular guy that's
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  just like coming after people as opposed to something
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  that's evil the the evil things like
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  with demons or like i think of the movie smile like those mess me up i don't
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  know about you those mess me up because it's not like it's the difference between
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  like if i was walking through my house and i saw a guy a regular person down
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  there that would be scary and all i mean i guess But a demon or a ghost or something
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  like that, that will mess you up.
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  Those are the things that I think that just like get inside your brain.
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  And like they it's like they flicker. They just like they almost seem like they're
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  right there. It's like and maybe they kind of are.
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  Maybe it is kind of getting into that, you know, that that demonic realm.
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  I don't know. It just feels like that sometimes.
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  But I love, I do love these movies. I do. I really liked Obsession. I gave it a 7.5.
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  And that's, I'm a pretty rough grader. I'm not like, I'm not going to give anyone
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  just a nine or a 10. I don't know if I've ever given a movie a 10.
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  I just like, how can you get like, that's like, there's nowhere to go up.
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  And it's like that exactly perfect.
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  Overall, it was a very good, very good movie. Very good movie.
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  I would, I would recommend it. It's scary.
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  You, it's got twists. And so I'll leave it at that. Let me know what you think
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  about the movie. You go check it out.
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  I'm excited to see where this man's career and his friend, you know,
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  who was in the movie as well,
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  where it goes, because if he was able to do this with just a simple idea and
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  a low budget and new up and coming actors and actresses, like,
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  I mean, I excited to see where he takes this, where he goes next.
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  I bet he's going to have a, an illustrious career along with his friends.
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  All right. We'll leave it at that.
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  Hope you have a good week. I'll see you on the next one. See ya.