{"id":9625,"date":"2026-05-21T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9625"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:39:02","slug":"obsession-director-curry-barkers-early-films-are-free-to-watch-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/obsession-director-curry-barkers-early-films-are-free-to-watch-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsession Director Curry Barker\u2019s Early Films Are Free To Watch On YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019ve seen Obsession<\/em>, chances are you\u2019re\u2026 well, obsessed. Curry Barker\u2019s studio debut is a top-notch horror that proves a major new talent has arrived \u2013 no wonder he\u2019s been handed the keys to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by A24 (plus he\u2019s already shot upcoming feature Anything But Ghosts<\/em> for Blumhouse, due in 2027). As you\u2019ve likely heard, Barker rose up via a YouTube channel \u2013 named \u2018that\u2019s a bad idea\u2019 \u2013 alongside collaborator Cooper Tomlinson. The good news is, that means he has plenty of pre-Obsession<\/em> films which are freely available for you to watch online.<\/p>\n

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From an all-out feature to ultra-creepy shorts, it\u2019s worth burrowing down the digital Curry Barker rabbit-hole \u2013 especially if Obsession<\/em> got your blood pumping \u2013 and seeing the formative works that turned him into one of the most exciting new filmmaking talents around. Here are five other Curry Barker films you can watch right now, for free.<\/p>\n

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Milk & Serial (2024)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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It\u2019s on the short side for a full-on feature (roughly 60 minutes), but if you\u2019re looking for a second helping of Curry, then make Milk & Serial<\/em> your first port of call. Made for just $800, this smart, twisty found-footage horror takes the \u2018YouTube prank video\u2019 format and warps it to sinister ends. (Frankly, all<\/em> YouTube pranks are sinister.) Curry stars alongside Tomlinson, playing \u2018Milk\u2019 and \u2018Seven\u2019, respectively \u2013 two roommates who host a prank channel together. The film slyly blurs the boundaries of what is and isn\u2019t a practical joke as the duo attempt to out-do each other, with seriously dark ends. Of all his early work, Milk & Serial<\/em> is the project that most shows what Curry would be capable of with a feature film.<\/p>\n

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The Chair (2023)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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This short \u2013 which runs at about 25 minutes \u2013 is more akin to Obsession<\/em>, since it depicts a relationship torn asunder by supernatural meddling. And it\u2019s also a \u2018cursed object\u2019 film, in which Reese (Anthony Pavone) brings home an old wooden chair he finds in the street, much to his girlfriend Julie\u2019s (Haley Schwartz) disdain. Her creep-factor with the freaky furniture might be justified though: Reese suddenly finds that a week of his life has disappeared from his memory, and his nightmare has only just begun. It\u2019s creepy stuff, packing a lot into a brief runtime \u2013 while Julie switching between sweet and sinister has shades of Obsession<\/em>\u2019s Nikki.<\/p>\n

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Warnings (2023)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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This atmospheric 20-minute chiller has a great hook: Sean (played by Barker) finds an ominous Sharpie-written note \u2013 \u2018I\u2019M BEGGING YOU TO STOP\u2019 \u2013 on his car on Halloween, and soon finds his grip on reality unravelling as he finds other notes appearing elsewhere too. There are some particularly eerie dream sequences in Warnings<\/em>, and it boasts the spookiest on-screen walk since Reese Shearsmith emerged from that tent in A Field In England<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Enigma (2023)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Here\u2019s something much sweeter, albeit with an apocalyptic bent \u2013 billed as a psychological thriller, Enigma<\/em> is more of a bittersweet melancholic character drama, as Adam (Tomlinson, who penned this one too) stews away in his apartment while the days tick down to the end of the world. Despondent and unsure how to spend his final days \u2013 ordering Papa Johns and eating buckets of Ben & Jerry\u2019s isn\u2019t the worst shout, to be fair \u2013 he finds a modicum of hope in the embers of a lost relationship. The result is on a different tonal register to Barker\u2019s other shorts, with a heartfelt core.<\/p>\n

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Heavy Eyes (2022)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Barker\u2019s shortest short takes one of his signature moves \u2013 the uncanny dream sequence \u2013 and lets it play out across five minutes. He plays Seth, applying for jobs at home while his mum works late at the hospital. Except, odd noises in the house suggest he\u2019s not alone, and there are more nightmarish implications at play. While maintaining a strong psychological bent, this is Barker playing at pure horror tropes, and succeeding in short form; proving he can do nuts-and-bolts spookiness in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve seen Obsession, chances are you\u2019re\u2026 well, obsessed. Curry Barker\u2019s studio debut is a top-notch horror that proves a major new talent has arrived \u2013 no wonder he\u2019s been handed the keys to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre by A24 (plus he\u2019s already shot upcoming feature Anything But Ghosts for Blumhouse, due in 2027). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9627,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions\/9627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}