# You’ve hit your session limit · resets 7:50pm (Europe/London)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/obsession-sets-peacock-streaming-release-date/
- Published: 2026-07-11T04:32:25+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-11T10:47:32+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/obsession-peacock-release-date-streaming-how-to-watch-1236798622/
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Film, TV

## Summary

Curry Barker's low-budget horror hit "Obsession" will begin streaming on Peacock on 17 July, following an unusually strong theatrical run that prompted its distributor to delay the digital release. Barker's debut feature — in which a lovelorn man named Bear (Michael Johnston) wishes for his co-worker Nikki (Inde Navarrette) to love him, only for her to become dangerously and fatally obsessed — has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon and the highest-grossing release in Focus Features' history.

Made on a budget of less than $1 million and acquired by Focus for $14 million out of last year's Toronto International Film Festival, the film has grossed $370 million worldwide to date. It earned an "A-" CinemaScore and a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and posted rare week-on-week box-office growth, rising from a $17.2 million domestic opening to $23.9 million and then $27.4 million in its second and third weekends. The success has fuelled awards-season talk, with Variety's Clayton Davis likening its trajectory to Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning "Get Out," while Barker's next projects include "Anything but Ghosts," starring Aaron Paul and Bryce Dallas Howard, and a "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" reboot for A24.

## Coverage

- [Variety: You’ve hit your session limit · resets 7:50pm (Europe/London)](https://variety.com/2026/film/news/obsession-peacock-release-date-streaming-how-to-watch-1236798622/)
- [Deadline: u2018Obsessionu2019 Sets Mid-July Streaming Date On Peacock](https://deadline.com/2026/07/obsession-peacock-date-1236979194/)

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