Obsession

“Barker taps right into Gen Z's au courant crisis and places Obsession in the irresolute territory where love is an all-consuming but never-consummate emotion. The problem is that Barker doesn't know how to flesh this out into a feature length. Once the premise is established, the group of Bear and Nikki, and their friends Ian and Sarah, seem to go over the same lines and scenarios again and again.”

“To say that Obsession will go down in history as one of the seminal horror films is no exaggeration. Curry Barker's feature film debut is everything horror needs to be - dark, tragic, scary, and discomforting. It shines a mirror onto our society's most privileged and ubiquitous monster - the nice guys.”

“Curry Barker's psychological horror is impossible to shake off. The film uses that premise to explore loneliness, entitlement and the horror of treating love like possession.”

“This blackly funny, gory take on W.W. Jacobs' 1902 short story 'The Monkey's Paw' is obviously far from an original idea. But the way in which it twists and warps the dusty material into a startling meditation on unhealthy infatuations is hugely impressive. Obsession is so fresh and exhilarating, one can forgive its familiar origins.”

“Obsession is the absolute, near-perfect example of an Indie horror film getting the sense of surprise, bang on. Inde Navarrette's masterful performance is so good that it literally becomes the force and impact of the film, creating a nerve-wracking fear that will unnerve even the bravest viewers with its gruesome emotions and manic devotion.”

“Obsession, as the title suggests, is ultimately about love pushed beyond its natural boundaries. A terrifying Indie horror that turns love into a nightmare.”

“Curry Barker's horror 'Obsession' gets maximal results from a minimal budget, and ought to make a star of its remarkable leading lady Inde Navarrette.”

“Curry Barker's horror flick, Obsession, takes the toxicity of obsession in a relationship to a whole new level, with Inde Navarette clearly stealing the show. The film makes one actually believe in the age-old warning, 'Be careful what you wish for'.”

“Obsession is satisfyingly slick proof that he knows just what to do when levelling up to a different platform. Barker treats unconditional, and creepily non-consensual, love like a demonic curse, and Navarrette is astonishingly, chillingly good at the intricacies of such a transformation.”

“There's probably a smart, chilling film to be made about the terrors of smothering and relentless adoration — one imagines what Rod Serling would have done with something like this — but this isn't really that film. No, this is the somewhat dumber one where Nikki's obsession quickly morphs into familiar horror-movie-psycho stuff.”