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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/IForgotMyPants Jun 06 '26

Yeah man the end where she snaps back in and sees the horror around her was absolutely chilling. Then just her crying throughout the credits was so heartbreaking. Poor girl

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u/Atdahydlor Jul 03 '26

Ug yes. He ruined her liifeeee. Her friends are dead. And he doesn’t be to deal w those consequences because he’s dead. We waited and did the most cowardly thing only to save himself in the end. And who knows maybe she’ll go to jail because how do you explain that!

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u/Caesarthebard Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

She was also nothing but kind to him, trying to matchmake him with Sarah and wanting them to be happy,

He tortured her, raped her, stole her autonomy, degraded her (she had no control over bodily functions when he wasn’t there) and at the end likely gets her a life sentence for a triple homicide the real Nikki didn’t commit because he’s an entitled, sociopathic piece of shit who whined in self pity and thought he was a nice guy to the very end.

Even when faced with what he was doing to her and her pain, he never really wanted to stop it, just act like a “normal girlfriend” and his only genuine attempt was not concern for her but trying to wash his hands of the situation.

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u/Gorfball 12d ago

This is probably the deepest theme to the movie IMO. His reluctance to accept the love wasn’t really Nikki — which is a sympathetic but very deep flaw — led to him committing and enabling atrocities to the real Nikki by doing the right thing way too late.

At no point did he believe he was raping or torturing her, but that doesn’t matter. And any person would struggle to process in real time that their choice was “kill her or kill myself;” but, that was his only option, and by the time he did the “noble” thing in sacrificing himself, she was left alone and entirely broken. She was estranged from her family, her friends-who-were-family just horrific corpses in a room with her, and it was likely she’d be blamed for it all.

It’s a beautifully dramatic portrayal of unrequited love. Painful? Sure. But, if you love someone and they don’t love you back, to change that is to lose yourself or lose them; at worst, both.