Obsession Review

Review of Obsession (2025) by screenqueeen: 👎 0.5/5

i like mean-spirited horror. but this is intrinsically mean-spirited towards women, and wrapping it up in a minimalistic "wish gone wrong" story attempts to minimalize that which insults further. the absence of sympathy inside the world of these characters is enough to invalidate its central argument yet it pretends to not even notice it's hatefully lashing out at the only subject it has. i have so much more that i would like to say about this but for now i was just so pissed off, not even impressive performances or good kills and effects could ever hope to balance out the evil intent behind this movie.

having a cis man make this from script to screen has the same effect of a man openly criticizing other men for being gross and creepy, hoping they will have (more) trust placed in them based only on the good faith that they themselves are not... mf i barely know you why are you opening with this and expecting me to now blindly follow you because you have a halfway decent point that everyone who isn't a man has been making for countless generations?

there's something better at the center of this movie but to me it's as one-tracked as its pathetic loser villain. as it is this just can't be an effective allegory for anything other than the way men treat women as things interpreted as people.