After the enormous success of Obsession, all eyes are on Curry Barker’s next project. Focus Features and Blumhouse-Atomic Monster have announced the release date for Anything But Ghosts, which will hit theaters nationwide on May 7, 2027.
Anything But Ghosts
The film is written and directed by Barker and co-written by his longtime creative collaborator Cooper Tomlinson. The story finds the pair also starring as “wannabe ‘ghosthunters’ who find themselves in over their heads as things spiral wildly and terrifyingly out of control.“
The rest of the cast includes Viole McGraw, Chris Reinacher, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Aaron Paul.
Tomlinson has previously described the film as “if Key and Peele walked into Hereditary. It’s a buddy comedy, you know, about these two guys, and it turns really scary.” Sounds good to me.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
In addition to Anything But Ghosts, it’s also been announced that Barker will be writing and directing the new reimagining of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the works at A24. He commented on his new take, saying, “I’m really excited to do a Texas Chainsaw Massacre that’s not just about a guy chasing some people around with a chainsaw. [One] that has some heart to it, you know? Where you care about these characters, and you want to see them survive, but you know… it is still brutal.“
He added that, with the exception of the “quite good” 2003 remake, he’s had reservations about most of the sequels, remakes, and prequels which followed the original. “I really think that the potential for that series has not been fully realized,” he said. “I actually feel like a lot of the remakes went the complete opposite direction than they should have gone.”
What We Thought of Obsession
Our own Chris Bumbray caught Obsession at SXSW and loved it. “Barker guides the film with a sure hand and doesn’t shy away from hammering home his message about the difference between real love and obsession,” Bumbray wrote. “Many will note the movie’s gallows humor, with gore-heavy moments happening so randomly and brutally that you can’t help but laugh at how demented they are—only to realize moments later that what you’re watching is, in many ways, a classic horror tragedy.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.
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