{"id":18975,"date":"2026-08-27T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18975"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T13:13:14","slug":"obsession-2025-curry-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18975","title":{"rendered":"Obsession (2025, Curry Barker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18751\">the Spielberg<\/a> and now this: the summer movies love to reference <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17678\">The Rehearsal<\/a><\/em>.  It&#8217;s never subtle either &#8211; our guy is delivering his romantic confession to a stranger, practicing to unleash the real thing on his bar trivia friend.  The point is to set up how hopelessly awkward he is, so terribly bad at verbal communication (and decisions in general) that he can barely make a phone call or talk to his actual friends, so when things get uncomfortably supernaturally murdery, he&#8217;s even worse.  The movie gets in a couple of good jokes about this, but unfortunately it&#8217;s a pretty dialogue-heavy story and we&#8217;re stuck with him for the endurance.  Hopefully the kids will get over their love of terrible awkwardness and we can swing back to coherence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Should Obsession 2 be Stick-and-Stacks or ChromaScope?<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/obsession1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Great performance by Inde Navarrette, the bar trivia friend who becomes a horrifyingly clingy girlfriend after Bar Trivia Bear makes a wish that she&#8217;d love him.  Apparently the real Inde is locked away in some hell dimension, replaced by the singlemindedly obsessed Girlfriend Inde until one of them dies.  I noted the early setup of &#8220;I&#8217;ve got pills that&#8217;ll kill you&#8221; and &#8220;I know where dad keeps his gun&#8221; sidelined for 80 minutes, until they become Bear&#8217;s prime suicide options.  The wishing thing is great, folding the supernatural into the everyday as smoothly as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17839\">Weapons<\/a><\/em> did.  Best friends\/casualties include the cute smart girl who actually likes him, and his doofy bestie Cooper &#8211; fortunately only young people get butchered, so Andy Richter is left alone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/obsession2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Apparently there was much discourse, and most people (<a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/msicism\/film\/obsession-2025\/1\/\">Sicinski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/calum_marsh\/film\/obsession-2025\/\">Marsh<\/a>) disliked it, but my most trustworthy horror guy Adam Nayman said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/brofromanother\/film\/obsession-2025\/1\/\">pretty good<\/a>, so I watched it on the exercise bike, and it was pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the Spielberg and now this: the summer movies love to reference The Rehearsal. It&#8217;s never subtle either &#8211; our guy is delivering his romantic confession to a stranger, practicing to unleash the real thing on his bar trivia friend. The point is to set up how hopelessly awkward he is, so terribly bad at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,3540,54,3539],"class_list":["post-18975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-curry-barker","tag-horror","tag-wish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18992,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions\/18992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}