{"id":2000299,"date":"2025-09-05T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2000299"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:12:24","slug":"after-his-microbudget-debut-haunted-2-million-people-on-youtube-curry-barker-brings-crazy-horror-to-tiff-with-twisted-love-story-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/after-his-microbudget-debut-haunted-2-million-people-on-youtube-curry-barker-brings-crazy-horror-to-tiff-with-twisted-love-story-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"After His Microbudget Debut Haunted 2 Million People on YouTube, Curry Barker Brings \u2018Crazy Horror\u2019 to TIFF With Twisted Love Story \u2018Obsession\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10533874\/\">Curry Barker<\/a> made headlines at this very publication by making a feature length slasher called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22075376\/\">Milk &amp; Serial<\/a>\u201d for $800, posting it to watch for free on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0202446\/\">YouTube<\/a> and watching it become a viral sensation. A year later, a lot has changed. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1013753\/\">Milk<\/a>\u201d never slowed in momentum, with over two million views in the year since it debuted. Meanwhile, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14739077\/\">Barker<\/a> is opening his newest film at this year\u2019s Toronto Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt18831118\/\">Obsession<\/a>,\u201d in which a lovelorn guy named Bear (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5076257\/\">Michael Johnston<\/a>) messes with the supernatural to get romantic attention from his friend Nikki (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9984699\/\">Inde Navarrette<\/a>), is set to debut on Friday as part of the fest\u2019s Midnight Madness section. As can be expected, things don\u2019t go as planned, and a new spin on the classic monkey\u2019s paw \/ \u201cbe careful what you wish for\u201d tale is born.<\/p>\n<p>Barker admits that inspiration struck from an unlikely time and place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curry Barker made headlines at this very publication by making a feature length slasher called \u201cMilk &amp; Serial\u201d for $800, posting it to watch for free on YouTube and watching it become a viral sensation. A year later, a lot has changed. \u201cMilk\u201d never slowed in momentum, with over two million views in the year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2000299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/After-His-Microbudget-Debut-Haunted-2-Million-People-on-YouTube.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}