Curry Barker, the director who went from serving coffee to fund his YouTube shorts to becoming a millionaire with his debut film

Until a few months ago, Curry Barker was a relatively unknown actor and a slightly better-known YouTuber. Now, at 26, the American performer has become one of the youngest and most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation after making his directorial debut with Obsession. The horror film was shot in 26 days, produced for $750,000 and, according to Variety, had already exceeded $400 million in worldwide box office sales by early July after two months in theaters. The film, about a wish granted with dramatic consequences, has unseated The Exorcist (1973) and become the seventh highest-grossing horror movie in history. The runaway success has allowed Barker to focus now on his next project, Anything But Ghosts, in which he will direct and also act.

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