YouTube Horror Creators Drive Box-Office Hits as Parsons' Backrooms Reaches $212 Million
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Updated · Rue Morgue · Jul 4
YouTube Horror Creators Drive Box-Office Hits as Parsons' Backrooms Reaches $212 Million
3 articles · Updated · Rue Morgue · Jul 4
Summary
$212 million worldwide has made Kane Parsons' Backrooms A24's highest-grossing film, underscoring how YouTube-born horror creators are breaking through in theaters.
Curry Barker's Obsession adds to that momentum, with both films presented as evidence that online creators have opened a lucrative new path from web audiences to Hollywood horror.
That path builds on internet horror traditions stretching from The Blair Witch Project's viral 1999 web marketing to 2000s creepypasta communities that popularized figures like Slenderman and Jeff the Killer.
Hollywood has increasingly tapped that pipeline, with creators including Parsons, Barker, Markiplier and RackaRacka turning digital-native horror into mainstream film projects.