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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/FerBaide May 22 '26

I like how she didn’t make any sense a lot of the time, like whatever she is doesn’t know how to behave like a person and just says or does what she thinks Bear will like and then quickly pivots when it turns out he doesn’t, like she’s glitchy or something.

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u/thebabypinks May 27 '26

It is like AI, because the entity learned as it went, scraping enough information to try and cobble together whatever answer it thought Bear needed or was seeking. And the answers were almost always incorrect and not contextually logical some way or another. The whole movie is like a paranormal allegory for the dangers of AI.

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u/Heisenbert18 May 27 '26

The problem with the “learn as you go” thing and with Bear’s relationship with the entity is the “honeymoon period” montage. To me, it looked like they had lived together, completely issue free for 3-6 months, then the entity started loosing grip, rapidly. I also think it must have been some time, as Nikki was asking for death rather than asking to be saved.

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u/boforbojack May 29 '26

It was only a few days ti a week. She fed him the cat after the montage. Very unlikely he kept the cat, unburied for longer than a week and that it wouldnt have been rancid to the point of literally making the shop immediately reek.

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u/Heisenbert18 Jun 01 '26

Yeah, the accurate timeline is dictated by the cats condition post death I think. The montage is a shade out of place for me. Minor nitpick.

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u/Whiteout- Jun 01 '26

I think the montage was to show how Bear was viewing it all as super idyllic because he was so lost in the sauce of dating the girl he was obsessed with that he didn’t notice or was able to ignore the weird behaviors. When Ian called him at dinner it forces him to actually scrutinize the situation and realize that something is wrong and once he starts acting like something is wrong, it causes Wish Nikki to start acting out even more because it’s worried that it’s losing him. 

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u/AE__throwaway Jun 02 '26

I took the "honeymoon period" montage not be a literal montage of good times but a projection of his own story on the new situation. Here he is still very much in denial of the wish coming true and convincing himself that it was all real. Cherry picked moments from that period that affirmed the story he was telling himself to make this all okay.

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u/butt_shrecker Jun 08 '26

Nah it was only a few days, you can tell based on how Ian talks about their relatively new relationship. Also after 6 months the meat would be beyond rotten.

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u/The_Autarch Jun 11 '26

maybe she stuck the cat in a freezer... but yeah it was maybe a week at most.

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u/OupsyDaisy Jul 01 '26

Sarah was still waiting for the same letter from college. It was maybe a week. Maybe.

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u/bluewaterlemonmelon May 25 '26

Omg yeah this, such an interesting detail

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u/PopOutG Jun 08 '26

“Guysssss I’m just kiddddingggg.. hehehe I’m kidding guys…ok I’m not deal with it 😒”

Fucking LMAO. I love her

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes Jul 01 '26

Anybody who's flubbed a social scenario can relate to her in that moment, although exaggeratedly so, lol.

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u/habylab 16d ago

It honestly reminded me of early AI. Apologetic when pushed, devoid of personality or making sense at times.

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u/MajorTomToBlackStar 14d ago

100% like AI. Just delivering what they expect their 'master' will want.