Obsession movie review **spoilers**

18 May 2026

(this post is from my letterboxd)

Initial thoughts upon walking out of the theater:

Ok, more seriously:

This film has stuck with me for the last four days because this movie punches down harder than any other horror movie I've seen since Hereditary. It's mean, it's disturbing, and it's exhilarating. Especially if you go in blind like me.

Most intriguing to me was the real Nikki. I wanted to know more about her experience being trapped in her hellish prison while our main character doesn't seem to wonder that at all which, tragically, leads us to only get small glimpses. The film left me with a lot of questions.

I love not seeing what's behind the curtain in a film like this because it invites so much speculation about this world in which the proverbial Monkey's Paw is real. I imagine it resembles the real-life power of the Ouija Board and the polarizing way in which people take sides over its legitimacy. Some swear it's real and it invited a demon into their house, while some dismiss it as a toy for children. A world where things like a "One Wish Willow" are actually real is incredibly disturbing to me by itself.

Also, I have to mention that the sound in this movie really got me at some points. I was filled with anxiety in the theater. I'm nearing 170 horror movies watched at this point which I'm sure to many horror fans is not that many, but I tend to go for gnarly ones and this one tops them all in terms of how freaked out I was.