SMC Pod #227: Obsession, Backrooms, and Gen Z and Gen Alpha returning to movie theaters

Stop us if you've heard this one before. . .Curry Barker's dark horror comedy Obsession and Kane Parsons' sci-fi horror mindbender Backrooms are scrambling narratives about the decline of movie theater attendance. These two low budget horror features combined have made almost $800 million box office.  More than that, teens and twenty somethings are attending these movies in massive numbers. So what can we learn? What can we do about it to keep this sudden energy going? Secret Movie Club founder.programmer Craig Hammill takes a look at how these two movies in 2026 have, at the very least, made everyone reconsider. Movies may just have another great era yet again...