The director of Obsession put a new horror short on YouTube
You can watch Curry Barker’s ‘Mama Bear’ on YouTube right now.
You can watch Curry Barker’s ‘Mama Bear’ on YouTube right now.
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Jay Peters
Oct 29, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC
Jay Peters
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror filmObsession, just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short,titled “Mama Bear,”is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a little graphic, but it’s a fun one to watch if you’re looking for something scary ahead of Halloween on Saturday.
Barker wrote, directed, and edited “Mama Bear,” according to the description for the video, which was published on histhat’s a bad idea YouTube channel. The description also has a note thanking Windows for “sponsoring this short film,” and Barker was featured in an Instagram video earlier this weekwith a Surface laptop.
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Barker will followObsessionwithAnything but Ghosts, which debuts in May 2027.Horror is big business right now, with the filmBackrooms, directed by YouTuber Kane Parsons, also proving to bea big box office success this year. Parsons debuted a newBackroomsYouTube episodein August.
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