The movie of the moment is Obsession, a horror flick about the difficult relationship between the sexes. Made by a 26-year-old YouTuber named Curry Barker, it has made $200 million and counting at the box office. It follows an unhappy music-store clerk who’s crushing on a co-worker and who makes a classic monkey’s-paw wish, asking for her to love him more than anyone in the world. He gets his heart’s desire and also a suitable dose of madness, grisly violence, and despair.
The clerk is Bear (Michael Johnston), a nice romantic type who can’t figure out how to escape the friend zone with the lovely Nikki (Inde Navarrette). The pair share their workplace with the outgoing and mildly boorish Ian (Cooper Tomlinson) and the artsy goth girl Sarah (Megan Lawless), forming a reliable friend group with drinking-and-trivia habits and ambiguous lines of sexual attraction. But crisis looms for Bear because Nikki is giving notice, pushing his unspoken affections toward a now-or-never moment.
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