‘Obsession’ Dethroned By The Best Rotten Tomatoes Scored Horror Movie Of 2026

InnovationGaming‘Obsession’ Dethroned By The Best Rotten Tomatoes Scored Horror Movie Of 2026ByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorJun 15, 2026, 10:02am EDTObsessionBlumhouseObsession has set dozens of records at this point, mainly with its earnings, but it also held a critical one as well. It was the highest Rotten Tomatoes-scored horror movie of 2026 and one of the highest-scored mainstream releases of the year, period.While its 94% is still very high, it’s dropped a few points since release, and a new horror movie has passed it. That would be the new horror film Leviticus, which now has a verified 95% Rotten Tomatoes score from critics ahead of its wide release this weekend, starting June 19.Leviticus is similar to Obsession in another way, past its score, namely that it has a mostly unknown cast. The exception there may be Mia Wasikowa of Alice in Wonderland and Crimson Peak. The star of the film is Joe Bird, who was a supporting but key player in another sleeper horror hit, Talk to Me (the kid who bashed his face against things). Its director, Adrian Chiarella, is not a 20-something YouTuber like Obsession’s Curry Barker or Backrooms’ Kane Parsons.Leviticus tells the story of two boys in a relationship who end up facing a violent entity that takes the form of themselves, taunting and haunting the other. You can watch the trailer below for a look at how that plays out in practice:MORE FOR YOUThe film has almost four dozen reviews in from critics, mainly from past festival airings, but the more recent ones are just as positive. As it stands, there is only a single negative review in the lot.Is it likely that Leviticus follows the path of megahits Backrooms and Obsession? It is not. That’s not a dig against the movie itself, but it’s just that those two films have so wildly, unpredictably overperformed and set so many...