30
May
Hollywood romance has sold us a familiar narrative: if a guy pursues a woman long enough, his persistence will eventually win her heart. But a chilling new horror film is turning that exact fantasy into a psychological nightmare. Obsession, directed by Curry Barker, takes a scalpel to the classic "nice guy" trope. The film follows Bear, a shy music store employee secretly in love with his childhood best friend, Nikki. When he uses a supernatural object to wish that she would love him "more than anything," he gets exactly what he asked for—with horrifying consequences. Instead of a dream romance,…
