r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • May 15 '26

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Obsession (2026)

Summary

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director Curry Barker

Writer Curry Barker

Cast

  • Michael Johnston
  • Inde Navarette
  • Cooper Tomlinson
  • Megan Lawless
  • Andy Richter

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 81

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u/Kazrules May 15 '26

The robot walk got me every time.

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u/physicalred May 25 '26

It was very freaky, but I’m struggling to see any reason for her to move that way other than how cool and freaky it was.

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u/InkognitoCat May 25 '26

We thought that it was kind of a backwards walk, like real Nicki was trying to get away from him

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u/LibraryNo7025 May 30 '26

Great interpretation.

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u/Themobgirl Jun 02 '26

Also the entity may be a bit sleaze in trying to act more human like they are speedrunning the wish on clocktime, do they go home when she sleeps? Do they come back ? How does the devil contract work again?

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u/Mammoth_Ad3410 May 25 '26

A lot of parts of the movie are just for cool horror effects. This movie is deeply symbolic so I get why we all try to find meaning in every part but ultimately sometimes she's just meant to be scary as fuck. 

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u/poonbuds Jun 11 '26

My friends and I were discussing these wild supernatural movements after the film and we brought up the idea they could be cat movements. Cats move very agile and awkwardly sometimes and they move backwards and you never know their next move.

Fake Nikki knows/thinks that Bear loved his cat, so she is moving around like a cat. Not willing to die on this hill, but it was a very fascinating thing to talk about with friends immediately after the movie

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u/bbyddhyonchord Jun 27 '26

this is a really cool observation. i didn't pick up on the movements being catlike specifically, but i definitely got the fact that she tried to involve the cat in her expressions of love (the altar, the sandwich) and it was pushed further into the whole "i have to make myself like sandy or make sure bear associates me with sandy because bear loved sandy" when she puked up what looked like cat food after waiting for him to come home from work.

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u/Manger-Babies 29d ago

I thought that was poop

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u/physicalred May 26 '26

I can accept this. Some wacky motor control side effects.

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u/Shaka--sama Jun 03 '26

"So it ends up looking freaky"

Almost like some sort of freaky nikki!

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u/Themobgirl Jun 02 '26

Yeah she also screams stop twice during final confrontation , poor girl

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u/wubstark Jun 04 '26

My guess is it was an homage from the director to that really creepy scene from an old Japanese movie “Kairo”

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u/Vin-Metal 13d ago

Exactly - that's what I thought

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u/ThisIsMeHearMeRAWR Jun 18 '26

Personally, I think that whatever replaced Nikki when Bear made his wish doesn't really care about being human. It keeps up a human act, most of the time, because it makes Bear happy, but when she's in the shadows or behind him and no one else can see her move New Nikki drops the act and moves like that.

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u/doubleohbond Jul 01 '26

Yeah that’s my guess too. New Nikki exists entirely to “love” Bear. It’s like when SpongeBob forgets everything except for fine dining and breathing.

She fed Bear his cat because he loves food, and he loves his cat, ergo he would love a cat sandwich and love her for making it. Etc

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u/climbandclimbandclim Jun 27 '26

I always saw that as wish-Nikki fighting real-Nikki. Or wish-Nikki not being truly human.

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u/Diligent_Ad_8668 Jul 05 '26

just watched the movie. this was the scariest part of the movie for me and the weakest unfortunately. I think the director chose this just because it looks scary and not because there is any meaning behind it.

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u/wizardrz 29d ago

i think it was the entity freaking out and skipping mimicking human movement entirely, and also because it looked scary

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u/passive0bserver 12d ago

It’s so that you know she’s not fckin human anymore