‘Obsession’ Producers Tea Shop on Finding Curry Barker, Why YouTube Creators Shouldn’t Immediately ‘Move On to $20 Million Studio Movies’ and Sequel Talks

By Alex Ritman

Alex Ritman

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In a story likely to have been excitedly retold and forwarded many thousands of times among budding filmmakers over the last few weeks, before he made “Obsession,” Curry Barker was doing his thing on YouTube, where in 2023 his 22-minute horror short “The Chair” was spotted by LA-based Brit producer James Harris.

Impressed by what he saw, Harris showed “The Chair” to his fellow Brits running Tea Shop Productions, co-founder Mark Lane (based in the U.K) and Leonara Darby, another expat in LA who first joined the company as an assistant but was soon elevated to producer.

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