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

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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.

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Inde Navarrette stars as Nikki and Michael Johnston as Bear in OBSESSION, a Focus Features release.
Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2026 FOCUS FEATURES LLC

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has two awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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Art Meets Leslie – David Howard Thornton Joins ‘Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon’

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Leslie Vernon will be back in the upcoming Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon, and Variety reports that David Howard Thornton (Terrifier) has joined the cast.

David Howard Thornton is said to be featured in a “key role.” Stay tuned for more.

“David is one of the defining faces of the modern slasher era,” returning director Scott Glosserman said in a statement to Variety. “If Behind the Mask was about deconstructing the classic rules, then a sequel 20 years later has to reckon with what the genre has become.”

Glosserman adds, “Bringing David into Leslie’s world lets us put the old guard and the new blood in direct conversation, which is exactly where this movie should live.”

The upcoming slasher sequel picks up in a horror landscape that has changed dramatically since Leslie first emerged, as the old rules of the genre collide with a new wave of modern slashers, viral killers, legacy sequels and blood-soaked icons built for the internet age.

It look less than 10 minutes for the Kickstarter campaign for the recently announced Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon to smash through its goal earlier this year.

The stars of the 2006 movie Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon will reunite for the upcoming sequel, with Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals and Robert Englund confirmed to return as Leslie Vernon, Taylor Gentry, and Doc Halloran, respectively. Scott Glosserman is also back to direct Behind the Mask II, with David J. Stieve back to write the film.

Glosserman previews, “For twenty years, people have asked if Leslie would ever come back. Fans kept this movie alive by sharing it, quoting it, introducing it to their friends, and treating it like something worth holding onto. This sequel is happening because of them.”

In the 2006 meta-slasher, aspiring slasher icon Leslie Vernon gives a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo. What’s Leslie Vernon been up to in the past 20 years? And what’s next for the character?

Paper Street Pictures, led by Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns, produces the sequel. Adam F. Goldberg (The Goldbergs, Shelby Oaks) will also serve as an executive producer.

Expect Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon in 2027.

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