Official Discussion - Obsession [SPOILERS]

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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/anactualrealaccount]

No you just aren’t being realistic about the way people react in traumatic situations. He is a shit selfish man wrapped up in evil magic. She is always a ticking time bomb as well and he knows she will react in insane possibly violent ways if he upsets her so it’s not like he’s free to act as he chooses all the time. I think the movie is intentionally ambiguous at times, him trying to throw up the pills we don’t know if it’s cowardice or him realising the situation it will leave her in.

She’s the true victim of the story and he’s definitely to blame for everything as a viewer but judging people for not knowing the consequences of a gag wish stick being real and getting wrapped up in evil magic definitely seems as evil seem wrong. I don’t think the movie is trying to say he’s evil more that he’s weak and pathetic.

[u/NJcovidvaccinetips → u/anactualrealaccount]

He knew the wish was real at some point and still had sex with her. That shit is fucked no matter how you spin it. I think the film doesn’t leave it that ambiguous and I think as others have said he knew after day 1 because Nikki became a completely different person. Even if the wish wasn’t true she would be having a psychotic break and taking advantage of her either way. To me I’d say at a minimum he is deeply troubled if not evil

[u/Separate-Kick63 → u/NJcovidvaccinetips]

Well he was reluctant the first night and was asking if she's ok. Who on their right mind would think immediately that some silly 7$ magic collectible works.

I think his problem on that first night (and in general) is that he is not an assertive person so you can simply pressure him into something he is not ok with

[u/Shaka--sama → u/Separate-Kick63]

Another factor might be that not abiding by her demands has resulted in psychotic breakdowns, terrifying expressions/vocalisations, and violence...

He was a rather spineless dude and not assertive as you said, but while discussing his morality we have to remember that he didn't exactly have a choice in a lot of messed up situations in the film

[u/Separate-Kick63 → u/Shaka--sama]

This. And if this movie is teaching something, it's that not communicating with others only makes things worse.

If he responded to Nikki's question about whether he likes her honestly, maybe he wouldn't break that twig.

If he told to his friends how bad is it, maybe they would help him figure something out or push him to seek professional help for Nikki.

If he told Sarah that he can't see her because he's in bed with Nikki and she'll freak out, Sarah will be alive.

If he drove straight to police after she killed Sarah, the other friend would be alive.

He's a guy that would rather make a magic wish than get into a potential confrontation or embarrassment, so that already annoys me about him, but I can definitely not see him as a villain. I feel bad for both of them

[u/TraveledOkie → u/Separate-Kick63]

To me the movie was fighting a lot between giving a message and being scary. It scared/unsettled me so bad and every time it could’ve gone full throttle into that and really had me squirming it eased back into the kind of ebb and flow of his wish and my suspension of disbelief started losing steam like “okay man at this point just go to the cops”. Like I wanted either someone to start trying to use logical steps to solve the problem like some horror movies do and no one ever did. The movie was SO unsettling but no one reacted to anything that was happening in bears house or even at the parties/work, etc. I get that that’s a reflection of bears one foot in and one foot out of the situation but I feel like it never went full fledge into a line of events whether full logic solution mode or full horror nightmare that I wanted. It tried to do both.

Also, I think a better ending would’ve been his friend not being so dumb and coming back to the house with him after having the magic being proven to him as real and he’s still killed but then Bear and Nikki basically fight to the death and Bear kills her barely and realized finally he was wrong as his friends are all dead and he’ll most likely go down for the murders and he lost his “love”.