This weekend, Insidious: Out of the Furthermakes its box office debut, hoping to follow in the footsteps of both its franchise predecessors and other horror entries from the past eight months in proving financially fruitful. But even the very best possibility for the sixth entry in the franchise won’t come close to the biggest horror success of the year, which is arguably the most impressive of its kind in the past 26 years.
That title goes to Focus Features’ Obsession, director Curry Barker‘s breakout masterpiece that turned him from popular YouTuber into a respected filmmaker overnight. The film boasts a career-defining performance from breakout star Inde Navarrette, who is earning plenty of awards buzz and has even landed herself a role in the new X-Men reboot as a result. The film smashed all expectations and became the highest-grossing film with a sub-million-dollar budget ever, as well as the top-grossing festival acquisition title of all time, with a total haul of $495 million worldwide.
Due to Obsession‘s undeniable dominance of the horror headlines, other quieter box office successes have gone under the radar. One of which is Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, a sequel to the 2019 slasher favorite directed by Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Modern-day scream queen Samara Weavingreturned to her blood-soaked wedding dress, ready to be chased by a new batch of characters, including performances from The Lord of the Rings icon Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, and evenDavid Cronenberg. At the box office, the movie turned a budget of just $14 million into a small success, scoring a global haul of $43 million.
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Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
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🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
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Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
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Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
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He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
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But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
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You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
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The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
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You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
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‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Is a Streaming Success
Similar to its box office fate, Ready or Not 2 has gone under the radar in its streaming success. At the time of writing, the movie is one of the most-watched on Hulu in the U.S., fighting competition from the likes of The Avengers, the disaster feature 2012, and another 2026 sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2. With its quiet success both in theaters and from home, fans hope that Ready or Not might return for a third installment, but nothing has yet been confirmed.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Release Date
March 20, 2026
Runtime
108 Minutes
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Director
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
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Writers
Guy Busick, R. Christopher Murphy
Producers
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James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Bradley J. Fischer, Tripp Vinson
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