Obsession · reception & legacy

How Obsession has been received, argued over, and remembered.

The arc

A $750k, 20-day production that pulled $16M its opening weekend on pure word of mouth — the Reddit threads and YouTube comments are wall-to-wall horror fans telling each other to go, and half of them campaigning for an Inde Navarrette Oscar nomination.

What's debated

The fans' favourite fight: people who call the One Wish Willow a monkey's paw get corrected at length — the top AMA-thread comment insists the item isn't cursed at all, the wish itself was the problem, and Bear is the real villain.

Its footprint

It lives online the way it was born there: leaked clips going viral before release (the 'I'm your freaky Nikki' line among them), a director doing a Reddit AMA before his TIFF premiere, and commenters cherishing that Curry Barker has 'no media training, none of that PR crap — just a regular ass 25 year old getting to do his thing.'

Where it stands

A word-of-mouth horror breakout whose fans are already nominating 'freaky Nikki' for the icon shelf next to Hellraiser and Pennywise.