Curry Barker has had a quick ascension to stardom following the debut of his hit horror flick Obsession, and continuing that pathway, the director just sat front row at Thom Browne.
Thom Browne’s Spring 2027 ready-to-wear show took place on Monday in Milan, where the director sat amongst the likes of Charlie Hall, Jamie Campbell Bower, Joe Burrow and Olivia Cooke.
Barker celebrated the show on Instagram, where he shared a photo of himself in an all-white ensemble and a second shot of him sitting front row at the show. He wrote, “48 hrs in Milan. Congrats on an incredible show @thombrowne!”
His attendance came just a few mere days after The Hollywood Reporter exclusively revealed that his next film has landed at Universal Film Group and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, in what is described as an eight-figure deal. Barker already has already shot his second feature, Anything But Ghosts, which he wrote, directed and stars in, with his third upcoming film serving as the first project in his orbit following the success of Obsession.
The movie became Focus Features’ highest-grossing release of all time; Obsession also notably became the first movie since 1982’s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial to increase in its second and third weekends after releasing. It was made independently for $750,000 as Focus acquired the project out of Toronto International Film Festival for around $15 million.
Barker reflected on the film’s triumphs and what it’s done for his career in a digital cover for THR. He said said fellow filmmakers “really started to reach out” after Obsession‘s box office numbers went up following its third week out, matching E.T.‘s record.
“Nathan Fielder reached out. Tim Robinson, who I freaking love. Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson publicly said things. I was becoming numb because it was so unbelievable, my brain couldn’t really process it,” he said.
“The opportunities were just unbelievable. I realized I can do whatever I want now,” Barker said of his post-Obsession successes. “My whole career, I’ve had to come up with crazy ideas and pitch them and if it didn’t go over well, I’d have to come up with something else. They were like, ‘If you could do any movie you wanted, what would it be?’ I was like, ‘Whoa. Let me think about that for a second.'”
Extending into his horror expertise, Barker will also next write and direct A24’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot. Of offering his take on the story, he told THR he wants his version to “capture the rawness and the grounded-ness of the original” while still making something that “feels fresh and new.”
“The canon itself is all over the place, so there’s not much to stay loyal to other than the original,” he said. “I want to make a new generation of people scared and give them this feeling of: ‘What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?’”
