When Will ‘Obsession’ Be Available on Digital at Home?

Curry Barker’s Obsession just had a massive second weekend at the box office, with the wish fulfillment horror movie scaring up even more money in its second weekend of release than it made across its impressive debut weekend. The film will pass $70 million at the worldwide box office this week, and it’s likely to keep raking in profits for several weeks to come.

But when will Obsession be available on Digital at home? Rumors have been swirling that Focus Features will bring the movie home to Digital on June 2, which would be one week from today. These rumors are unconfirmed at this time, however, and it’s hard to imagine that Focus Features would want to cut into the film’s box office profits so early in its theatrical release.

With Obsession still generating tens of millions of dollars at the box office and the film on its way to hitting a landmark $100 million worldwide total, why the hell would Focus Features make it available at home in just one week?! It’s a debate that was raging on across social media all weekend, with many fans expressing their frustrations about the foolish decision.

But again, the rumor of Obsession coming home to Digital on June 2 is indeed a rumor, and it’s unconfirmed at this time. But it’s a question Variety posed to Jason Blum in a new chat.

“Blum doesn’t know how long Obsession will play in theaters before landing on digital platforms,” Variety reports. The Obsession producer tells Variety that it’s a “big topic of conversation at the moment,” and he’s a “big believer in a long, consistent theatrical window.”

“It’s great the audience is aware of it. You would think they would say, ‘I want to buy it at home.’ But they’re actually cheering for the movie to stay in theaters longer,” Blum tells Variety.

Jason Blum adds, “People cherish the theatrical experience, and they’re willing to give up the convenience of seeing something at home to keep their local theater alive.”

There have also been rumors of an Uncut version of Obsession being released on home video, which are also unconfirmed at this time. That said, Curry Barker has been open about the fact that one brutal scene in the movie was indeed trimmed back to avoid an NC-17 rating.

Barker explained ahead of the film’s release, “there was about six or seven more [head] smashes” in the scene where Freaky Nikki brutally murders Sarah in her car. “And we were getting an NC-17 rating,” Barker explains. “And so they were like, ‘You’ve got to take out some of the smashes.’ And I was like, ‘I’m not taking out a single bash.’ But I did.”

What else would be included in a so-called “Director’s Cut” of Obsession? Curry Barker recently told the website Popternative, “I would love to do a Director’s Cut of this just because there’s so many things that are not in the movie. That would be really fun. But it would literally be a project for me. I would have to set aside some time to really dive into the footage again.”

Stay tuned for more on the digital release of Obsession as we learn it. In the meantime, the only way to see the movie is to see it in theaters. We highly recommend you do just that.