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Obsession
2026 · R · 1h 48m
Be careful who you wish for…
A tale as old as time — be careful what you wish for.
Bear Bailey is a shy music-store clerk quietly in love with his childhood friend Nikki — a feeling she's never returned. After he stumbles on a strange occult novelty called a One Wish Willow and impulsively snaps the branch on a wish made in heartbreak, Nikki turns up at his car window the same night, looking at him in a way she never has before. From writer-director Curry Barker, a supernatural horror about what reciprocation costs when you take it instead of earn it.
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Bear Bailey is a shy twenty-something who works at a music store and has been quietly in love with his childhood friend Nikki Freeman for years, but she clearly treats him as just a friend. One day he stops by an occult/witchy gift shop intending to replace Nikki's lost crystal necklace, but instead becomes fascinated by a strange novelty item called a "One Wish Willow," a branch in a box that supposedly grants a single wish when snapped.
Later that night, after a hangout with Nikki and their friends Ian and Sarah, Bear drives Nikki home and she straightforwardly asks if he has feelings for her; he chickens out and denies it, then spirals afterward, furious with himself for blowing the chance. Alone in his car, outside her place, he impulsively opens the One Wish Willow, snaps the branch, and wishes that Nikki would "love him more than anyone else in the whole world."
The effect is immediate: Nikki suddenly appears at his car window, intensely affectionate, clingy, and suddenly laser-focused on Bear in a way she never was before. At first Bear thinks it's a weird but lucky turn of events and tries to convince himself this is just Nikki finally admitting her feelings.
Over the next days, Nikki's behavior grows increasingly strange and suffocating. She waits for hours by Bear's door, barely eating or sleeping, and seems to have no interests or priorities left except being as close to him as physically possible. Whenever he tries to leave or even suggests they spend any time apart, she has breakdowns — screaming, sobbing, raging, and pleading. Bear's friends are unnerved: Ian, always the skeptic, is unsettled by how Nikki's personality seems to have flipped overnight, while Sarah worries both that Nikki might be in some kind of mental health crisis and that Bear might be taking advantage of the situation. Bear, still desperate to believe this is just love, tries to integrate Nikki into normal life, but her behavior keeps escalating into darker territory.
One of the clearest signs that something supernatural is wrong comes when Bear casually mentions his dream of being a food critic. Trying to "support" him, Nikki makes him a sandwich — then later reveals that the meat is from Bear's recently deceased cat, presented proudly as if this is a grand romantic gesture. The act horrifies Bear and confirms that Nikki's devotion is not only obsessive but completely divorced from normal morality or empathy.
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Bear starts to suspect that the One Wish Willow actually worked and that he has cursed Nikki. The more her obsession grows, the more lifeless and hollow she seems behind the eyes, like something else is driving her body. He finally confronts the reality that this love is not real reciprocity — it is an imposed condition that has overwritten who Nikki actually is. One night, when Nikki seems briefly lucid, she tells Bear that she feels like she is "asleep inside herself," trapped behind this obsessive persona that is using her body. She begs him to end it, implying that killing her might be the only way to free her from whatever the wish has turned her into. Bear is horrified and refuses to kill her, but he is now convinced this is no normal situation.
Desperate, Bear calls the One Wish Willow company, hoping there is some kind of reversal clause. The customer-service rep calmly explains that a One Wish Willow can't be undone: there is only one wish per person, and the magic is permanent — unless the person who made the wish dies. Bear realizes that as long as he is alive, Nikki will remain trapped in this monstrous, possessive state, and the obsession will likely escalate into more violence.
Nikki's behavior indeed becomes more dangerous, especially toward anyone she sees as a threat to her "perfect" relationship with Bear. When she sees Bear in a car with Sarah, she snaps: she smashes the driver's side window with a brick, drags Sarah's head against the car, and brutally kills her, turning jealousy into homicidal rage.
Bear, now fully terrified, tries various ways to outsmart the curse, including buying more One Wish Willows and attempting to use them to counteract his original wish, but he discovers he physically can't break another branch. The "one wish" rule is literal and absolute for the wisher. As things spiral, Bear turns to Ian for help and comes up with a new plan: since he cannot make another wish, maybe Ian can use his own One Wish Willow to wish away Nikki's murderous obsession. However, when the moment comes, Ian caves to temptation and instead wishes for a billion dollars. Instantly, money appears and begins pouring into the scene, proving beyond doubt that the Willows are real and unimaginably powerful.
Nikki, now fully consumed by the entity and viewing literally everything as a threat to her bond with Bear — including Ian's new wealth and his influence over Bear — shoots Ian dead as soon as he arrives at Bear's house. The killings form a grim pattern: anyone who might help Bear escape, or might distract him from Nikki, is eliminated.
With Sarah and Ian both dead, Bear is trapped in the house with a version of Nikki that is increasingly volatile and homicidal. Realizing that appealing to her humanity isn't working and that the curse won't allow an easy workaround, he finally accepts the customer-service rep's explanation: the only way to free Nikki and stop the deaths is for him to die. Bear barricades himself in the bathroom and puts together a desperate plan to kill himself using his grandmother's pills, intending to sacrifice his life to break the wish. He swallows a large handful, fully expecting this to be the end of both his nightmare and Nikki's possession.
But while he's in the bathroom, Nikki finds another One Wish Willow — this time hers, not his — and breaks it, making her own wish. Although the film doesn't spell out her exact words, it is heavily implied (and confirmed in post-release explanations) that she wishes for Bear to love her just as completely and obsessively as she loves him. The Willow's familiar jingle plays, signaling the wish is granted. Bear then stumbles back into the living room, now magically obsessed with Nikki in the same suffocating way she was with him. The two embrace and collapse together on the couch, finally, genuinely obsessed with each other in equal measure — a twisted fulfillment of both wishes. For a brief moment, they appear blissfully happy, wrapped up in each other with total mutual devotion.
The romantic illusion doesn't last. The pills Bear swallowed begin to take effect, and he dies in Nikki's arms, still clinging to her and professing his love. As soon as his heart stops, the original curse breaks: the entity that had been riding Nikki's body and mind dissolves, and she snaps back into herself, finally free of the imposed obsession. Nikki is left cradling Bear's corpse, surrounded by the consequences of wishes granted: multiple dead friends, blood everywhere, and the knowledge that while she was under the influence of the entity, she killed people and terrorized the man she actually cared about. The film leaves her alive but emotionally shattered, staring down the legal and moral aftermath of everything that happened while she was possessed by the wish.
The final implication is that the One Wish Willow is not a romantic shortcut but a monkey's-paw curse: Bear's yearning for unconditional love destroys Nikki's agency, their friendship circle, and ultimately his own life, and even the supposed "happy ending" of mutual obsession lasts only long enough for him to die.
