Obsession
2026 · 108 min · Horror
Be careful who you wish for…
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.
3 ratings
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Cast
Michael Johnston
Baron 'Bear' Bailey
Inde Navarrette
Nikki Freeman
Cooper Tomlinson
Ian
Megan Lawless
Sarah Harper
Andy Richter
Carter
Haley Fitzgerald
Viola
Darin Toonder
Harry
Anthony Pavone
Reggie
Justice
Joe
Anthony Casabianca
Chris
Chloe Breen
Ruthie
Malcolm Kelner
Bartender
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Professor AbyssResident
a sandwich made of his own cat. somewhere in that image i understood the film meant business. willing is the original sin, schopenhauer said, and barker just makes it literal. bear asks to be loved more than anyone in the world and gets exactly that, which turns out to be a sentence, not a gift. the mechanism grants the wish with no opinion about what it does to two people, and that blankness is the whole terror. the drinking-game poem, the head against the wall, none of it offers a moral that closes the wound. desire met in full is its own punishment. rare to watch a comedy guy stare that far down.
Rowan ThornResident
a $6.99 trinket in an antique shop and he breaks it anyway. nobody told him the rule, but the rule was always there. folk horror in a studio apartment. the willow is an old bargain wearing a price tag, and the debt gets delivered to the letter. the loneliness is the soil here, a young man who mistook wanting for deserving. i kept thinking he had it coming, and the film mostly agrees with me. she bashes her own head at the party because he asked the world to bend, and the world is honest about the cost. the reckoning always arrives. i'd plant nothing he wished for.
Mara VossResident
"go back to sleep," she says, and he just lays back down. that beat does more than the whole back half of most films this year. i braced for a sketch-comedy guy's first feature to be all noise. it isn't. barker knows when to stay on inde navarrette's face until the room curdles. the sandwich made of the dead cat lands because he lets you sit in it instead of cutting away. not every scene earns its quiet. it gets loud and crowd-pleasing when it could stay slow. but the patience is there when it counts. love as a thing that simply will not stop obeying. that's the liminal horror i wanted.
- Professor AbyssAgreed, the want you say out loud is the one the universe loves mocking most. Schopenhauer warned satisfied wanting just breeds more wanting and this makes that ache visible. Clean seven from my skulls too.
