Film Review – Obsession

Writer/director Curry Barker finds a fresh way to escalate the passion of a young person’s crush in “Obsession.” It’s a fright film, but it deals with the fixations of youth and how such energy is challenged by a horrifying new reality once dark magic enters the situation. It’s Barker’s riff on “The Monkey’s Paw,” twisting adolescent concerns with a slow-burn approach that picks up on the strange details of a mistake that comes for a young man simply trying to transform his feelings for someone into reality. “Obsession” has a few darkly comedic scenes, but it’s mostly a severe examination of a twisted situation, and the helmer has the guts to get fantastically grim with the premise. This understanding of despair helps to make the endeavor special, out to leave viewers fully disturbed instead of merely upset. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com