It's a great indie horror film with incredible acting, cinematography, lighting, sound design, makeup, dialogue, and everything. The people here poo-pooing it are either trying to seem too cool by not agreeing with the mainstream opinion, or they're just straight up pretentious. I love horror films, and Obsession is one of the best ones I've seen in a very long time. It successfully creeped me out multiple times and left me unnerved and horrified long after the credits rolled. The simplicity of the story is one of its strongest aspects, despite the people here whining about it.
Horror movies rarely get me actually freaked out, this was the first one I’ve watched in years that I give a 10/10 but will not watch again because it legitimately scares me lmao.
The car scene is one of the most disturbing things I've ever watched; the sandwich turns my stomach just to think about it; and the backwards walk/rewind moment is very "noooooope, don't like that." Oh, god, and when he makes that call and hears the screaming?! And the ending?!?!?!
I have to stop myself from thinking about it. It's quite the rabbit hole.
Obsession now has the distinction of joining Uncut Gems and Dancer in the Dark on my list of "great movies I don't ever need to see it again".
I agree with most of that but as someone who does lighting professionally, that movie was so goddamn dark (even in non scary, ordinary scenes) it was genuinely difficult to make out what was happening half the time. Artistically every scene was very blue or orange, which is the most basic and formulaic direction for color design in film.
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u/solo_shot1st 8h ago
It's a great indie horror film with incredible acting, cinematography, lighting, sound design, makeup, dialogue, and everything. The people here poo-pooing it are either trying to seem too cool by not agreeing with the mainstream opinion, or they're just straight up pretentious. I love horror films, and Obsession is one of the best ones I've seen in a very long time. It successfully creeped me out multiple times and left me unnerved and horrified long after the credits rolled. The simplicity of the story is one of its strongest aspects, despite the people here whining about it.