Los Angeles, June 6 : Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg has heaped praise on Hollywoodâ??s new cohort of horror filmmakers after a successful few weekends at the box office.

At a recent screening of his new movie Disclosure Day, the three times Oscar winner expressed his amazement at seeing Obsession and Backrooms do so well in theaters after they were made for â??very little money,â?? reports deadline.com.

â??Iâ??m so happy for them. I think itâ??s so fantastic,â?? said Spielberg in a red carpet interview.

â??I think itâ??s great that they had basically very little money, especially Obsession had under $1 million, and the other film had maybe 10 or nine, and theyâ??re doing so well, and I just applaud them. I havenâ??t seen Backrooms; I am going to see it when all this is over. But I have seen Obsession, and I loved it.â??

Premiering May 15 in theaters, director Curry Barkerâ??s horror breakout Obsession follows Bear, played by Michael Johnston, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants him his wish for his friend Nikki, essayed by Inde Navarrette, to fall in love with him, resulting in horrifying consequences.

It is Barker's second feature-length film, after Milk & Serial in 2024, and his first to be released in theaters.

Making his directorial debut as A24â??s youngest ever at 20, Kane Parsonsâ?? Backrooms, a psychological horror, revolves around an impossibly large, extradimensional labyrinth of empty, identical rooms that can be accidentally accessed by "glitching" or falling out of reality.

Talking about Spielberg, he is a magnanimous figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster.

He is known as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and has been feted with three Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTA Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Grammy Award, as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1995, an honorary knighthood in 2001. He is one of 22 people to achieve EGOT status.

/IANS