A few months after the impressive success ofObsession, curry thief find the format that made it known. The filmmaker has just put online for free mama beara short horror film of approximately five minutes published on the YouTube channel That’s a Bad Idea, a channel he presents with Cooper Tomlinson.
Barker himself wrote the script, directed and edited this production, made in collaboration with Windows. Jon Lee Richardson plays Floyd, an employee responsible for cleaning a house who wakes up after falling asleep there. A disturbing phone call quickly interrupts this seemingly mundane situation.
Five minutes to turn reality upside down
Floyd then discovers in his email a recording composed of incomprehensible screams. His phone stops working and several increasingly disturbing elements appear around him, including trails of blood and a presence whose identity slowly calls into question what he thinks he understands.
Katie Sarife plays Lacey, while Ericka Kreuz plays Mrs. Wilson. Joshua Snyder is credited with being Floyd’s double. Instead of explaining the events precisely, mama bear favors mystery, strangeness and a very rapid increase in tension. The short directly evokes Barker’s early short films, in particular the chairbefore its transition to long format.
A director now in high demand in Hollywood
In addition to this “parenthesis” from YouTube, Curry Barker is already preparing several important projects. His horror comedy Everything but ghostsstarring Bryce Dallas Howard, Aaron Paul, Violet McGraw and Cooper Tomlinson, will be released in the United States on May 7, 2027. The director is also associated with a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the A24.
