Obsession (Curry Barker, 2025)

I'd do anything for love(Warning: story and plot twists discussed in explicit detail)Curry Barker Obsession (2025) is basically W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," and "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" meet Fatal Attraction and Misery-- nothing startling new, only he's leaned into the sneaky comic spin of the premise, has a terrific cast to inhabit the roles, and the visual chops to tell the story with snap and zing.Part of the fun of watching this in the theaters is how keyed up the audience gets, the film provoking either startled gasps or uncomfortable laughs, sometimes both at the same time. Barker as I've just learned is part of an internet sketch comedy duo 'that's a bad idea' on YouTube, and he joins filmmakers like Danny and Michael Philippou, who also graduated from YouTube to make 2023's Talk to Me; Dan Trachtenberg, who directed the mostly terrific 10 Cloverfield Lane; Bo Burnham, who did the funny Eight Grade-- young turks emerging from the tumult of the web to make longform…