Curry Barker's debut feature film opens with a fantasy almost anyone who's ever had a hopeless crush can understand: what if you could make the person you want most — suddenly want you back?

What happens when that fantasy comes true — and traps you inside of it?

Obsession is a cautionary tale of a lovesick fool who blindly trusts in an impossible shortcut.

CORONER’S REPORT

CAUSE OF DEATH

Careless meddling with supernatural forces, bypassing free will — unleashing a cosmic monkey’s-paw transaction which compromises human morality and condemns an unrequited crush to synthetic, unbreakable romantic compliance.

UNDERLYING CONDITION

Chronic insecurity and loneliness complicated by compulsive infatuation, emotional cowardice and an increasingly possessive sense of entitlement.

Diagnosed: Desperatus Entitlementum.

PRIMARY TRAUMA

An all-consuming romantic obsession given supernatural agency, destroying anything or anyone that stands in its way.

SECONDARY COMPLICATIONS

As a ‘wish-come-true’ mutates into something increasingly violent and inhuman, its creator becomes its accomplice — choosing to preserve a delusion, rather than protect those trapped inside it.

MANIFESTATION

A parasitic imitation that imprisons its host while wearing its flesh to maintain the illusion of unconditional love.

SEVERITY

Terminal systemic failure: Overwhelmed by the threat of loss and rejection, a malevolent clone abandons all restraint and eliminates anything threatening its obsession, leaving complete physical decimation in its wake.

As the nightmare finally releases its grip, its blameless victim is reunited with their stolen autonomy — only to inherit the aftermath of a malignant parasite.

WHO SHOULD RUN AWAY SCREAMING

If personal space is precious to you, prepare to be triggered as jealousy and paranoia erupt into a panic attack, starving you of oxygen.

If your worst nightmare is a Stage 5 Clinger on steroids, brace yourself for a front-row seat to the horrors of Stage 6.

If you've ever dated someone who felt slightly unhinged, Obsession may bring some dark memories back to the surface.

For those who have narrowly escaped a controlling relationship, Curry Barker's cautionary tale may cut a little close to the bone.

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