Filmmaker Curry Barker earned some viral success thanks to his found-footage horror movie Milk & Serial, which he released in full on YouTube. Outside of the movie itself’s merits, many appreciated how the filmmaker made the entire movie available for free, highlighting his devotion to getting the film seen as opposed to prioritizing profits.
The movie caught the attention of Blumhouse Productions, resulting in their partnership on Obsession. It’s difficult to overstate the impact the movie has had on all of pop culture this year, as it first made waves on the festival circuit last year and earned rave reviews, with its release in theaters earlier this year resulting in major financial wins. Amplifying the film’s notoriety is what Barker accomplished so early in his career, yet it sounds like he’s only getting started.
In a recent profile on Barker for Time magazine’s Time 100 package, filmmaker Seth Rogen wrote about Barker and his new film Anything But Ghosts. In the piece, he confirmed, “I’ve seen Curry’s next film, Anything But Ghosts — and for those of you who, like me, are uncomfortable with this amount of talent in a person so young, I have bad news … it’s even better, and, to add insult to injury, he’s just as good an actor as he is a director.”
While the new movie is described as being superior to Obsession, it’s also taking on a slightly different tone, so you shouldn’t expect the movie to merely replicate what worked about that project. Barker co-wrote the movie with Cooper Tomlinson and the pair star as wannabe ghost hunters who must face real ghosts while dealing with the deception of their own fraudulent business.
“It’s all going to feel like the same brand,” Curry Barker previously told Bloody Disgusting about how the two movies compare. “It’s slightly different. It’s so different than Obsession, because the idea itself just lends itself better to comedy, because it’s literally about two ghost hunter con artists.”
He added, “It’s Cooper and me doing our thing, so it lends itself better to comedy, but it’s still set in this super grounded world. It’s ghosts being real in a world where ghosts are not real. Just like [Obsession] is a wish going wrong in a movie where magic doesn’t exist or in a world where magic doesn’t exist, right? That’s kind of what I try to do.”
Anything But Ghosts also stars Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”), Bryce Dallas Howard (Jurassic World), Chris Reinacher (“Superstore”), and Violet McGraw (M3GAN).
Anything But Ghosts is currently slated to hit theaters on May 7, 2027.
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