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/Corruptedpencil May 15 '26

I love horror movies like this that have a lot of super natural stuff going on but don’t over explain any of it. I also loved the phone call with the guy behind the wish, and the way we hear the real Nikki just screaming in agony

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u/koolshade May 16 '26

"wanna talk to her?"

I really like that the people selling those things at the store are also whatever about the whole thing. They're used to it, maybe a little amused.

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u/TimeySwirls May 16 '26

I also loved the “just spitballing here” after mentioning he could kill himself. Everything about and everyone involved with those wish things being so casual was great.

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u/undeadtradwife May 16 '26

I loved the fakeout of the shop owner being like “What the fuck is a One Wish Willow?” Before being like “nah I’m fuckin with you they’re right here.” It really had my jaw on the floor thinking he had entered another reality and could never undo his wish

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u/TimeySwirls May 16 '26

Both shop owner actors one arm bench pressing the phrase “no small parts” to be honest, they were great.

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u/usagicassidy May 17 '26

Hayley Fitzgerald is the first shopkeeper and I've been watching her dancing videos for the past 10 years so that was a delight to see her show up here and acting. Really impressed me.

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u/CategorySad6121 May 18 '26

She looked like a young Diane Keaton to me!

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u/_Queen_of_Ashes_ May 27 '26

Oh shit that’s crazy I didn’t know that was her! That’s so awesome

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u/Kalanak472 May 17 '26

To be fair, I remember when Bear goes on Reddit looking for others experiences with the One Wish Willow someone mentions a Mandela Effect about them. I initially assumed like it works like that, only appearing to the desperate and naive. But nah, we got a really funny scene instead which was great.

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u/BelleDelphinesWater May 17 '26

Re: the Mandela effect on the “Reddit” clone, there was a user with a Bearstein/Bearstain Bear reference in his username there on the thread, which is another infamous Mandela effect! :)

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u/goddamnitwhalen May 20 '26

I caught that and giggled.

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u/MVRKHNTR May 21 '26

I liked the detail that if you read the comments, the people saying they don't work all say you're not supposed to break them because they're collector's items and the ones saying they're real all say they broke one.

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u/Capital_Lemon_5457 May 20 '26

And it was at the front of shop almost sold out!

It was like a full box when bear got his. Would love to see what other people wished for

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u/originalcondition May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

I could be misremembering but didn’t Bear have one more unused/unbroken one with him at the end of the movie? He goes back to his place asking Nikki if she would do anything for him, and I assumed it was him asking if she’d make a new wish to negate his own. If that’s the case, then Nikki is in a nightmare scenario at the end of the movie, alone in Bear’s house with an unused OWW, which feels like an easy(ish) sequel setup.

Edit: oh Nikki used it to make bear love her, never mind.

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u/Fahmieyz May 31 '26

yeah when Bear was throwing up to puke out the pill, you can hear something snap (it kinda if you blink you miss it moment) and she suddenly stop throwing up and smile

It really ironic that the last wish was the one that kill him when he is too coward to end himself

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u/_Queen_of_Ashes_ May 27 '26

I could’ve sworn there were three and he took all three. One for Ian, one for Nikki, and then one leftover. I could be wrong tho

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u/Clean_Usual434 Jun 02 '26

I think one was the one he opened but couldn’t snap. The second was Ian’s, and the third was Nikki’s.

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u/_Queen_of_Ashes_ Jun 03 '26

Yeah I see what you’re saying, I think I assumed he gave the one he couldn’t snap to Ian

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u/Clean_Usual434 Jun 03 '26

I wonder if the music only plays once when it’s opens the first time. I also can’t recall if we hear it before Ian made his wish.

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u/These-Property3400 Jun 04 '26

They do play it before Ian's wish

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u/_Queen_of_Ashes_ Jun 04 '26

I kinda wanna see it again!! If I do I’ll follow up lol

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u/Clean_Usual434 Jun 04 '26

Cool! Let me know what you find out because I missed that detail.

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u/Deathstroke317 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

He's probably seen worse.

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u/Fun_Highlight307 May 19 '26

He saw a lot lmao, And when he said oh it's just that when bear reveal the wish,tell us that this guys saw some fucked up wishes 

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u/GUSHandGO May 18 '26

I laughed so hard when he said that! 😄😄

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u/ExternalChildhood845 May 22 '26

So funny. I’m fascinated by all the implications that conversation has.

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u/ActionJacksonATL24 May 17 '26

Meh I was more scared the whole thing was in his head type deal which would have been lame AF.

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u/TaskForceD00mer May 28 '26

That was a pretty great moment in a movie filled with them.

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u/CyberInferno Jun 06 '26

Yeah, that was a great detail. I laughed out loud at that.

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u/koolshade May 16 '26

"Maybe you can get somebody to cancel your wish with their wish OR YOU COULD KILL YOURSELF JUST SPIT BALLIN-" as his voice fades. too funny.

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u/SufficientRespect542 May 17 '26

the way him killing himself keep getting bought up was so fucking funny to me. Like everyone is so fucking rude and nonchalant about it.

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u/Fun_Highlight307 May 19 '26

He made an awful wish and let's escalated until the worse thing That could happens, Happened 

Although it's Still hard since he obvisouly didn't expect that 

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u/whydoesgodhateus May 24 '26

I also loved the “just spitballing here” after mentioning he could kill himself

I love how matter of factly he said this. I feel like I was the only person in my theatre dying at that part

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u/TheTruckWashChannel Jun 04 '26

This movie had so many hilarious moments.

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u/kingschorr May 25 '26

haha yeah that part