The Two Unprecedented Horror Movies Upending Hollywood
How Men Think
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🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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We saw both “Backrooms” and “Obsession” over the past two weekends and were blown away by the not only the movies themselves, but by just how many other people turned out to see them. “Obsession” continues to rise in its third week, a never before seen phenomenon. While “Backrooms” blew away the competition, bringing in a record breaking box office number by the youngest director in movie history. Both films cost very little to make, and are likely to change the way we make movies going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey, folks, it is Sunday, May 31st, and Hollywood has a huge hit on its hands. |
| 0:14.8 | And that might be a huge problem for the future of the industry. |
| 0:20.1 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:22.6 | Roeb. This is, sounds like a wonderful thing. A 20-year-old kid has the number one movie at the box office. |
| 0:31.9 | This is an amazing story. I just got chills. That is a crazy thing to think about, especially because I have a 20-year-old and a 23-year-old. |
| 0:41.1 | And it's impressive. It's unheard of. And it's historic. It is. This is the, according to the studio, at least, this is the youngest person to ever direct a number one box office film. That's awesome. And if folks, |
| 0:56.8 | you might not know it, but your kids do. The movie is called backrooms. We're just getting |
| 1:02.2 | the numbers. So we're jumping on here. We're going to explain the phenomenon that because a lot, |
| 1:06.8 | I was not familiar, Robes. I am now, because we just saw the movie. But let's tell you now, |
| 1:12.4 | Robes, tell the folks what's happening at the box office this weekend, which is an absolute |
| 1:16.2 | phenom. It's insane. So yes, backrooms is number one. And it, and it's by leaps and bounds. |
| 1:25.8 | Biggest opening ever for the production company, A24, which we're starting to hear more and more of. |
| 1:31.5 | You'll see that name everywhere now. |
| 1:34.3 | And yes, it is 80% of the audience was under 25. |
| 1:39.1 | That's remarkable. |
| 1:40.7 | And 62% of the audience was men. |
| 1:43.2 | You don't hear those numbers. There's a reason you're hearing those numbers now because the audience was men. You don't hear those numbers. |
| 1:44.3 | There's a reason you're hearing those numbers now |
| 1:45.6 | because this audience literally moved from the internet |
| 1:49.4 | and specifically from YouTube to the movie theater. |
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