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OBSESSION UNLEASHED – Take the obsession further by going behind the scenes with filmmaker Curry Barker and the cast, Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson and Megan Lawless, to see them create a wild horror story out of intense performances and shocking scares. Hear the cast reflect on their most memorable scenes, get a peek at Michael and Inde’s chemistry test that sparked the film’s emotional core, and see how their collaboration shaped the film’s most unsettling moments.
FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR CURRY BARKER
FILMMAKERS:
Cast: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter
Casting by: Skyler Zurn
Costume Designer: Blair James
Original Music By: Rock Burwell
Edited By: Curry Barker
Production Designer: Vivian Gray
Director of Photography: Taylor Clemons
Executive Producers: Jason Blum, Leonora Darby, Mark Lane, David Haring, Ruzanna Kegeyan
Produced By: James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, Roman Viaris
Written and Directed By: Curry Barker
TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4K Ultra HD:
Street Date: July 14, 2026
UPC Number: 191329290507 US / 191329290750 CDN
Disc Size: BD 66
Aspect Ratio: 16×9 1.50:1 Side Matted
Rating: R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, sexual content, pervasive language, and brief graphic nudity.
Languages/Subtitles: English, French Canadian, Latin American Spanish
Sound: English (Dolby Atmos for Feature, Dolby Digital 2.0 for Bonus), French Canadian (Dolby Digital 5.1), Latin American Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Run Time: 01:48:37
Bonus Run Time: 00:19:10
TECHNICAL INFORMATION BLU-RAY™:
Street Date: July 14, 2026
UPC Number: 191329291832 US / 191329291580 CDN
Disc Size: BD 50
Aspect Ratio: 16×9 1.50:1 Side Matted
Rating: R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, sexual content, pervasive language, and brief graphic nudity.
Languages/Subtitles: English, French Canadian, Latin American Spanish
Sound: English (Dolby Atmos for Feature, Dolby Digital 2.0 for Bonus), French Canadian (Dolby Digital 5.1), Latin American Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Run Time: 01:48:37
Bonus Run Time: 00:19:10
TECHNICAL INFORMATION DVD:
Street Date: July 14, 2026
UPC Number: 191329290408 US / 191329290569 CDN
Disc Size: DVD 9
Aspect Ratio: 16×9 1.50:1 Side Matted
Rating: R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, sexual content, pervasive language, and brief graphic nudity.
Languages/Subtitles: English, French Canadian, Latin American Spanish
Sound: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 for Feature, Dolby Digital 2.0 for Bonus), French Canadian (Dolby Digital 5.1), Latin American Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Run Time: 01:48:30
Bonus Run Time: 00:19:10
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(Photo/video credit: Universal Pictures Canada/Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)
By David Baldwin
Bear (Michael Johnston) has been pining for Nikki (Inde Navarrette) for a long time. He is unsure if she has similar feelings and is too nervous and indecisive to tell her how he really feels. So, with the help of a mysterious wooden trinket, Bear wishes that Nikki would fall madly in love with him. Rather suddenly, his wish comes true and the two become the couple Bear always wished they would be. But weird things start happening and Bear quickly realizes that he might not want what he wished for.
What follows is something I can only properly describe as batshit crazy and certifiably deranged. I had heard some insane things going into my screening of Editor/Writer/Director Curry Barker’s feature-length directorial debut OBSESSION earlier this week and shrugged them off as festival hyperbole. What a wild surprise it was for me to realize the hyperbole was actually downplaying how unpredictable and bonkers this film becomes after it puts our two lead characters in place for the madness and viciously gnarly violence to come. I do not want to spoil the fun, but this is a movie tailor made for the Midnight Madness crowd and it should shock absolutely no one that it got picked up for distribution so quickly.
While the scares and cringe humour are plentiful – as are the nasty gross-out moments and the at least partial deconstruction of toxic co-dependent relationships – the real joy of OBSESSION is watching Navarrette’s star-making breakout performance as Nikki, or Freaky Nikki as she loathes being called. It is multi-faceted and for lack of better terminology, almost bi-polar in nature. She switches tones and emotions on the fly, often within the same breath, and goes to some positively haunting and downright devastating places over the course of this journey through Hell. The physicality Navarrette brings to the performance is intense, and the way she captivates even in the freakiest of circumstances is a thing of beauty. Johnston is very good too, but his work here is not what is going to have you keeping the lights on after experiencing OBSESSION.
OBSESSION screens at TIFF ‘25:
Fri. Sept 5 at 11:59 PM at Royal Alexandra Theatre
Sat. Sept 6 at 6:15 PM at Scotiabank Theatre Toronto
Thurs. Sept 11 at 6:00 PM at Scotiabank Theatre Toronto
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