Obsession. Who hasn't seen it at this point?
Curry Barker's $750K horror film has made over $400 million, minted a star in Inde Navarrette, and started a fight about what to even call this genre.
This week we dig into the BTS trivia, the scenes we can't stop thinking about, and the Indian censor board's missing 36 seconds. Then we get into nice guy horror itself: the worst Pokémon evolution you've ever heard, Bollywood's hypermasculine inverse, and the Indian remake of Obsession that lives in our heads. (It involves IIT coaching.)
Caution:
⚠️ Full spoilers for Obsession, light spoilers for Barbarian and Companion.
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Chapters:
00:00 – The biggest hit of the year
01:29 – Blumhouse's biggest surprise
02:44 – Breakout stars & the YouTube-to-horror pipeline
05:14 – First impressions (three viewings deep)
07:24 – Synopsis, spoiler warning & the allegory read
12:02 – The censor board's missing 36 seconds
16:17 – Duct tape, the helpline call & the spider crawl
20:03 – Ian's billion dollars
22:09 – The Infamous Brick scene
23:43 – The final sequence hits different on rewatch
25:04 – Trivia: Get Out & Hereditary homages
26:54 – The rise of Nice Guy horror
27:32 – The worst Pokémon evolution
31:22 – It's not entitlement, it's control
34:20 – Narcissism & missing your own red flags
37:06 – Barbarian, Companion & the genre canon
39:43 – Bollywood's hypermasculine inverse
43:20 – Take a stand, cowards
45:43 – Media literacy & the Indian audience
46:30 – The scene that had to stay
47:54 – Obsession, made in India (the IIT version)
50:01 – Final ranking: Obsession vs Barbarian vs Companion
53:42 – Wrap-up
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