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Quick Answer: Is Obsession or Evil Dead Burn the better 2026 horror?
Obsession leads on Celluloid Score (82% vs 66%). Obsession is the elevated indie breakout; Evil Dead Burn is franchise gore with a narrower critical ceiling. Scores combine verified editorial and independent rating inputs.
The matchup
Obsession is the elevated indie breakout; Evil Dead Burn is franchise gore with a narrower critical ceiling.
These are different jobs. Curry Barker’s Obsession is the monkey’s-paw romance that earned four-quadrant critic/audience heat on a tiny budget. Evil Dead Burn delivers series-faithful carnage with softer composite scores. Pick Obsession for craft and conversation; pick Burn if you want Deadite set pieces over dread.
A Certified Fresh 94%/94% critic–audience hit: Curry Barker's monkey's-paw horror romance is praised as crowd-pleasing, darkly funny, and the rare Blumhouse original that Gen Z word-of-mouth turned into a $400M+ global phenomenon on a $750K budget.
Music-store clerk Bear Bailey breaks a novelty "One Wish Willow" charm to make co-worker Nikki Freeman love him more than anyone in the world. The wish comes true — and warps into a supernatural compulsion that turns desire into violence, trapping Bear inside a nightmare he cannot wish away.
Critics split on the franchise's meanest chapter: a Certified Fresh 72% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 77% Popcornmeter and a B CinemaScore against a cooler 55 Metascore. Reviewers praise Vaniček's ferocious craft and practical gore while faulting thin characters and the near-total absence of Raimi-era mischief.
The sixth film in Sam Raimi's 45-year-old horror franchise, directed by Infested's Sébastien Vaniček and shot in New Zealand. After the loss of her husband, Alice (Souheila Yacoub) seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home — only to watch them transform, one by one, into Deadites, turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell where the vows she took in life live on even in death.
The Backrooms vs Obsession — Obsession is the monkey’s-paw romance breakout; Backrooms is A24 liminal-space spectacle from Kane Parsons.
Obsession vs Leviticus — Obsession is the US theatrical breakout; Leviticus is the Sundance queer-horror prestige lane from Australia.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple vs Obsession — 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is horror from United Kingdom (91% critics); Obsession is horror, romance from United States (94% critics).
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