Obsession (2025)
Premise: So our dude is a guy who doesn’t know how to wash his hair and who has an (understatement of the millenium) unrequited crush on his friend Nikki. Instead of just, like, being an adult and getting over it, he decides he still might have a chance. Specifically, he decides to WISH for her to love him. What could possibly go wrong?
Under 90 minutes? A tiny bit over that
Do they say the title? Nope!
First thing I thought of: I’m sorry for being obvious, but…
Okay, more: This one is by the guy behind Milk & Serial, a movie the whole Impeccable-Taste HQ liked a lot, and good lord he doesn’t disappoint this time around. Bear (the main guy) is such an enormous, absolutely irredeemable piece of shit that can’t even think of a single positive thing about His Crush other than “gosh you’re pretty”. The kind of guy you clock on the (literal) first scene as an absolute waste of oxygen. I was watching the movie with a friend and we couldn’t help laughing at times at how UNLIKEABLE he was! So good job there, I suppose. Not as good as Inde Navarrete’s Nikki, she absolutely steals the show in every single scene, she nails the tone the movie is going for where things go from funny-awkward and cringy to horrifying without skipping a beat… Dunno, what a fun movie.
A simple way to improve it: I wish this movie featured the Wishmaster from Wishmaster and his delighted glee when people wish for stuff, but I suppose he’d also consider the main guy to be too stupid. Like, at that point it can’t even be fun for him.
Trivia about the IMDb trivia:
In an interview with Collider, Curry Barker revealed that incorporating the “wish” plotline came about after he caught a re-run of an episode of The Simpsons, “Treehouse of Horror II”.
Great minds. By the way, if you feel like this is kind of a weak Trivia about the IMDb trivia entry, let me tell you that there’s a spoilerific thing on the goofs section where someone is basically complaining about how they could tell they used a prop instead of the real thing for one character’s death. Are you telling me they didn’t kill that person!?
