About
Curry Barker
Curry Barker is an American film director and screenwriter from Alabama, and one of the defining Gen Z voices in modern horror. He came up entirely on the open internet — making short sketches and horror pieces on YouTube before any studio knew his name — and turned that audience into a career with a discipline that surprised even his early supporters.
His 2024 found-footage feature Milk & Serial, released directly to YouTube, went viral and put him on Hollywood's radar overnight. Two years later Obsession (2026) marked his studio debut for Blumhouse and Focus Features, opening to $16M and confirming that the audience he built online would follow him into the multiplex.
He is now developing a Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot for A24 and the horror-comedy Anything But Ghosts for Blumhouse with producer Roy Lee — an unusually ambitious dual-track slate for a filmmaker still at the beginning of his studio career.
Editor's Pick
The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson
Horror Novel
The blueprint for the modern haunted-house story, and a masterclass in ambiguous dread.
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Career Timeline
Early 2020s
YouTube Sketches & Shorts
Alabama-born Barker builds an audience with short horror and comedy pieces on YouTube.
2024
Milk & Serial
His viral found-footage debut feature lands on YouTube and triggers a flood of industry interest.
2026
Obsession
Studio breakout for Blumhouse / Focus Features. Opens to $16M.
Upcoming
Anything But Ghosts
Horror-comedy with Blumhouse and producer Roy Lee.
Upcoming
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reboot
A24 hands Barker one of horror's most iconic franchises.
Influences
Barker has cited a generation of contemporary horror filmmakers as central influences — Ari Aster for his patience and dread, Jordan Peele for elevated genre storytelling, and Zach Cregger for the ability to twist tone without losing the audience.