5 films to watch before Disclosure Day. Quoted by Spielberg as influences, they'll change what you notice in the film:
1. Three Days of the Condor
2. Minority Report
3. Destination Moon
4. The Sugarland Express
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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The first sci-fi film Spielberg ever saw had no aliens in it. Destination Moon, 1950 a rocket that might not have enough fuel to get home. He says it's the first time he ever felt suspense. Disclosure Day is still chasing that fuel gauge.
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Barker's background is sketch comedy editing, he grew up on Key & Peele. The cringe-held beats in Obsession are sketch timing applied to horror.
Deep dive on the influences that shaped the success of the new horror champion: https://t.co/vLIPuMU61J
OBSESSION is back at the #1 spot in America, surpassing SCARY MOVIE this Monday.
This is unprecedented, this century, for a movie heading into its fifth week in peak summer (June/July).
Disclosure Day is around the corner. That’s not Spielberg’s first encounter with alien life.
Here’s a deep dive into his inspirations for the upcoming movie : https://t.co/SOki7sfjsU
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Obsession started with a Simpsons rerun. Curry Barker was watching the Treehouse of Horror II monkey's paw segment when the wish-mechanism finally clicked. The cartoon cracked the script open.
Here’s a full map of @obsessionmovie influences
@CultureCrave He lists several video games as key influences for his feature, Portal but also Silent Hill.
More about that on our deep dive: https://t.co/FKvWLUXG6Z
@FilmUpdates Presales are tracking with Scream 7, which opened at $ 64M. For a liminal-horror film with no franchise history, no IP awareness outside of extremely online circles, that’s rally a breaking box office story.
@GlobalBoxOffice@A24 Three horror films directed by YouTubers have now hit theaters in 2026. Backrooms is projected to be the biggest of the lot and the one with the smallest budget. There seem to be a huge conversion rate for internet-native horror.
Mungiu chose Bicycle Thieves for his Criterion Closet. The structure is the same: one ordinary person, one city, one day, a moral burden nobody around them has time to notice.
Creative influences for « 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days » recap here
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Before directing anything, Mungiu was first AD on 15 features — including Bertrand Tavernier's Capitaine Conan. Tavernier later called him "one of the real finds I made during Conan." The period-without-fetishizing rule in 4 Months came directly from that set.