Obsession (2026)

What earned the score

• Romance Framed as Male Entitlement

  The premise centers on a young man wishing for his crush to fall in love with him, with unnerving consequences. A commenter attributes to the director the description of the film as being about male entitlement, framing the wish as a critique of male romantic control.

• Woman as Violent Aggressor

  A young woman repeatedly drives the film’s violence, smashing another woman’s face against a steering wheel and shooting a young man. Her prominent role as the story’s violent attacker is a female fighter portrayal.

Details

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.

Starring

Michael JohnstonInde NavarretteCooper TomlinsonMegan LawlessAndy Richter

Director

Curry Barker

Writer

Curry BarkerJeff Barker

Genre

HorrorThriller

Release Date

May 13, 2026

Parents Guide

• Sex Moderate

  The graphic onscreen exhibition of an unclothed and explicitly posed female body is shown, highlighting the total loss of absolute bodily autonomy.

  Relatively explicit sex scene between two main characters. No female nudity shown. Only the males rear end.

  An obsessed male offender's naked buttocks are visible during simulated intimate thrusting that occurs while his female victim is under absolute supernatural mind control.

  Scantily Clad Female Imagery: A female victim appears in a bra during an intimate sequence where an obsessed male perpetrator exploits her lack of personal autonomy.

  A female victim appears in increasingly sexually revealing attire after a male perpetrator actively targets her compromised state.

  A graphic sex scene displays nonconsensual male simulated penetration of a female victim, featuring the total reduction of a woman to a powerless object.

• Violence Severe

  A naked and mutilated female corpse is propped up like a shrine.

  A character is repeatedly hit with a brick until their head is smashed in.

  A dead cat is briefly shown.

  A character is tricked into eating a dead cat in a sandwich.

  A character is shot in the head.

  An obsessed male perpetrator remains completely passive while a supernatural curse inflicts forced captivity, blood drenched facial injuries, and forced self-harm on his female victim.

  An innocent female victim is brutalized by another helpless female victim who is controlled by an obsessed male's mind control curse.

• Profanity Severe

  f**k, s**t, and pussy are used alongside lesser profanity like b**ch and ass.

  f**k and s**t is used throughout; as well as some uses of hell, d**n, ass and b**ch.

  Blasphemies: at least one "godd**n"; some "Jesus Christ" and "OMG" as exclamations.

• Drugs Mild

  Alcohol, tobacco, as well as references to MDMA. A character overdoses on prescription medication.

  A character says she takes MDMA.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  Prolonged, upsetting sequences show a female victim supernaturally trapped inside her own mind, displaying absolute terror and confusion as her free will vanishes.

  During a non-consented sexual scene, Bear's mind control wish spell on Nikki slips and the real Nikki surfaces. Realizing she is Bear's prisoner, and forced into intimacy, triggers a severe panic attack, making her scream in terror and fall off his bed.

  On a critical dinner date, Bear confirms the absolute erasure of Nikki's true consciousness and recognizes that she is fundamentally incapacitated and unable to provide valid consent, yet he returns to his residence to resume physical intimacy and sexually violate her anyway.

  A male's obsessive wish forces his helpless female victim to commit a brutal murder where she violently smashes her female friend's head with a brick 20 times, leaving a bloody, mangled corpse that later makes an explicitly naked and grotesque reappearance.

  Bear places a helpline phone call that confirms Nikki's real mind is trapped by his obsessive wish via hearing her scream in horror and agony on the line.

  The entire film features a highly claustrophobic atmosphere focused on a male perpetrator's entitlement, where his female victim is stripped of her identity and personal sovereignty.

  High-intensity psychological horror sequences depict a male perpetrator tracking his female victim and deliberately choosing to watch her life and mind erode rather than intervene and help her.

  The curse permanently breaks during the movie's bloody climax and Nikki wakes up horrified and traumatized to find herself covered in gore and surrounded by three of her friends' dead bodies, realizing she was abused and sexually violated by a male villain and framed for triple homicide.

  An obsessed male seeks not to reverse his female victim's unstable mind control curse, but to selfishly modify the parameters for his own utility.

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