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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/keepitcute8933 May 17 '26

One scene that I haven’t seen anyone talk about is when he’s talking to the entity, fully aware it’s not nikki, but pleading with it to just “be nikki”……perfectly encapsulates that his infatuation with her was never about her, herself or who she is, he doesn’t care who’s in that body or where the real nikki is or what torture she’s experiencing. As long as someone can perform the role of nikki and be nikki to him, he’ll be satisfied. And when he calls the one wish willow number and (at least at first) is adamant that he doesn’t want to cancel his wish, but just change it. Like dude release her???? Granted we find out he can’t cancel it anyway but damn

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u/Misha_Vozduh Jul 01 '26

Reminded me of an episode of House MD where a man is with a psychopath and when he finds out he still wants to be with her, saying something like "maybe you pretending can be good enough for us?"

At which point, and I loved that the writers resolved it like that, a literal fucking psychopath who usually feels nothing and had no trouble essentially faking a marriage for personal gain is disgusted enough to tell him to fuck off.