Obsession (2025): Movie review

Just came out of watching Obsession and honestly…. what a film.
It feels fresh, intense and properly unsettling. Curry Barker has made a supernatural horror that doesn’t just rely on jump scares, but slowly gets under your skin and stays there. The kind of film that makes you leave the theatre a bit quieter than you walked in.

Obsession is a brilliantly uncomfortable supernatural horror about loneliness, desire and the dangerous places they can take us. It plays with the idea of wanting something so badly that you slowly lose sight of yourself, and that makes the horror feel strangely human before it becomes properly disturbing.

There’s something really sharp and uncomfortable in the way the film looks at obsession, loneliness and desire. It’s creepy, emotional and genuinely thrilling.I left the cinema genuinely creeped out, I mean, we went for a few drinks in Soho afterwards, and I still couldn’t shake that horrible, creepy feeling. It just sat with me. That’s when you know a horror film has properly done its job.

I saw it with my best mate Eddie, who also loved the film… but somehow, while I was walking out feeling disturbed, traumatised and wanting to watch a Disney film to clear the mind, Eddie was like, “Yeah, but she’s fit though.”
Mate.
After that film?
Who in their right mind watches Obsession and comes out fancying her?
Only Eddie. 😅

I watched the film at Cineworld Leicester Square, which sounds like it should be a proper cinema experience, until you pay nearly £19 for one ticket and get taken to one of the smaller screens and Half the time I could see the pixels on the screen. Honestly, my 72-inch TV at home has better resolution and better seats.

But the film itself? Loved it.

Properly creepy, beautifully made, and the first horror in a while that genuinely followed me out of the cinema.