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0:00Welcome back to New Rockstars. I'm Eric
0:02Boss, and this is a breakdown of
0:03Obsession, the new horror film by
0:05director Curry Barker. Yes, one of two
0:07YouTubers currently revolutionizing
0:09Hollywood. Barker made this wonderfully
0:11haunting film about toxic love that's
0:13layered and deeper meaning and
0:14incredible attention to detail in the
0:16visuals. So, in this video, I'm going to
0:18go through this film scene by scene for
0:20all the little details that you might
0:21have missed. Now, if you are new to this
0:23New Rockstars channel, we might be
0:24better known for covering big nerdy
0:26franchises like Marvel, DC, and Star
0:28Wars, but we also try to analyze films
0:29like this that you might be even more
0:31passionate about. So, I highly recommend
0:32you check out our breakdowns of
0:34Backrooms, Project Hail Mary, One Battle
0:36After Another, Weapons and Sinners.
0:38Obsession begins with this monologue by
0:40Bear, short for Baron Bailey, played by
0:42Michael Johnston. He's in a diner
0:44rehearsing his love confession that he
0:46wants to share with his friend and
0:47coworker Nikki, testing it on this very
0:49polite waitress. There has been much
0:51discourse about how Obsession is a story
0:53about toxic male loneliness or even
0:55perhaps part of an incel horror trend
0:57akin to The Menu and Don't Worry
0:59Darling. But, director Curry Barker said
1:01that he started with an idea of what
1:02happens when two people are obsessed
1:04with each other and what horrifying,
1:05destructive, and self-destructive
1:07lengths they would go to in order to
1:08feed that hunger. Bear's affection for
1:10Nikki, though, is one-sided, an
1:12obsession seen from afar and not an
1:14organic affection born out of mutual
1:16chemistry. So, you'll notice this film
1:17opens with sappy romantic dialogue,
1:19romantic music, warm vibes and lighting,
1:22and even this pleasant setting to make
1:24us think we're watching some kind of
1:25mumblecore romance, starting us off with
1:27a false sense of sap and security. When
1:29in reality, the behavior we are
1:31witnessing is actually pretty
1:32troublesome. Like, what he literally
1:33says is, "I feel like I'm coming apart.
1:36I think about you all the time, Nikki. I
1:37try not to. You're in every song I
1:39listen to." I mean, yikes. Curry Barker
1:42told Collider's Perry Nemiroff that this
1:44whole diner scene was actually a reshot
1:46opening. The film's original opening
1:47shot was going to mirror the closing
1:49shot.
1:50>> The opening shot of this movie was um
1:53was on Bear
1:55and then we tilt the camera down and we
1:57see the dead cat and then we keep
1:59tilting and we see that he's watching a
2:01a romance movie on the TV. So that was
2:04the opening shot which obviously mirrors
2:06the very very last shot of the movie. So
2:09I It took me a long time to give that
2:11up. I was like, "No, like this is the
2:13This is the you know, it's it's a a
2:15bookend, you know, it's first shot of
2:17the movie, last shot of the movie." But
2:18ultimately um
2:20we discovered that having him kind of
2:23giving that monologue at the beginning
2:25at the diner and kind of getting a
2:26little note about his character was
2:28better.
2:28>> Bear says, "I would choose you over
2:30everything." And when the waitress kind
2:32of melts at that, Ian cuts it off and
2:33calls it cringe. It's the one kind of
2:35romantic thing that Bear said and Ian
2:37wants to make him feel bad about it so
2:39that he doesn't actually use it on
2:41Nikki, whom Ian is secretly sleeping
2:42with. Ian is also the one to bring up
2:44the idea of being playfully mean to
2:46flirt with Nikki, to call her freaky
2:47Nikki, the teasing nickname that Nikki
2:49hates because Ian actually knows it
2:51would sabotage Bear to ever say that.
2:53That's why he also pushes so hard for
2:55Bear to wait until the right time to
2:56tell his feelings to Nikki, knowing that
2:58the right time will probably never come.
3:00Bear comes home to find his poor cat
3:02Sandy has died from ingesting a bottle
3:04of Oxy that he wrote do not eat on the
3:06bottom of, a bottle that was prescribed
3:08to his deceased grandmother Barbara, and
3:10a bottle that will come back at the end
3:11of the movie. In his bedroom, photo
3:12booth photos of this trivia team, the
3:14Base Clef Bandits since they all work at
3:16the music store, shows a blurry one with
3:18Bear looking like he's dragging Nikki in
3:20with him, and then another one of Bear
3:21smiling while Nikki just kind of frowns
3:23and flips the finger, and then another
3:24one with Bear frowning as Nikki is
3:26dragged in Ian and she's smiling again.
3:28Bear totally fails to see that Nikki
3:30does not see him the way he sees her,
3:32and she really just wants to have fun
3:33with her friends and with Ian. Bear
3:35ogles Nikki's Instagram where she
3:36self-deprecates that her selfie looks
3:38like it was shot on a flip phone, and of
3:39course he liked the post, but it's also
3:41liked by Cooper Tomlinson, the actor who
3:43plays Ian. Nikki's full name is Nikki
3:45Freeman, an ironic nod to the fact that
3:47she spends most of this movie not at all
3:49free, but rather trapped in a kind of
3:51purgatory state. To replace the crystal
3:53necklace that Nikki dropped down the
3:54drain, Bear goes to an occult shop where
3:56he finds the One Wish Willow. Curry
3:58Barker said that he was inspired by The
3:59Simpsons season 3 Treehouse of Horror
4:01episode. Remember with the Monkey's Paw,
4:03based on the W.W. Jacobs short story
4:05about a severed monkey's paw that grants
4:06wishes with unintended consequences.
4:08Barker said that the One Wish Willow was
4:10inspired by a prank pin that he used to
4:11play with as a kid. And production
4:12designer Vivian Gray and prop master
4:14Luke Cole tracked down one of those pins
4:16and incorporated a piece of its snapping
4:17mechanism into the willow twig. For the
4:19twig, Cole used dried cactus skeletons.
4:21But the wood of a willow tree is said to
4:23be associated with enchantment or just
4:25the occult, but really its meaning
4:26changes culture to culture. But the
4:28snapping of a twig is also a gesture
4:29associated with witchcraft as we saw in
4:31the 2025 film Weapons. Now, the trivia
4:34night is hosted at Barker's pub, but not
4:36to writer-director Curry Barker. And the
4:38voice of the trivia host is Curry's
4:39father, Jeff Barker, a successful
4:41playwright who helped him write this
4:42movie. At the bar, as Nikki teases Bear
4:44about his pina colada order and she pays
4:46for all the drinks, it's much easier for
4:48us to see it's on rewatch that it's
4:49really not at all flirting by Nikki.
4:51It's the kind of teasing a sister would
4:53do to a brother. But also notice that
4:55she calls everyone, including the
4:56bartender, babe. So, you can really see
4:58how Bear might have just completely
4:59misread that in the past as an
5:01affectionate term that was just
5:02exclusively for him. Ian interrupts Bear
5:04as he tries to tell Nikki his feelings.
5:06Yeah, Ian is really the world's worst
5:07wingman because yeah, he has something
5:09to lose here. When Bear says that they
5:10should drink to Sandy, only Sarah senses
5:13Bear's sadness and comforts him about
5:15his dead cat. In fact, I wonder if it
5:16might have actually been Sarah who was
5:18the only one of these friends to comfort
5:20Bear about his dead grandmother, not
5:21Nikki. But Bear's fixation and obsession
5:23on Nikki caused him to reassign that
5:25memory to Nikki. Even in the parking lot
5:27outside, you can see everyone's true
5:29affections when you rewatch it. Nikki
5:30does flirtatiously tease Ian here, but
5:32then she stares a little too long at
5:34Bear when he just laughs too hard at her
5:35flirt and it puts Bear in the headspace
5:37of, wait, how does she feel about me?
5:40That kind of uncertainty is something
5:41that Curry Barker tried to place this
5:43whole movie in because that kind of
5:44uncertainty of how other people see you
5:46is what puts you in that state of
5:48anxiety. Meanwhile, Bear doesn't even
5:49notice when Sarah's freaking begging him
5:52to come along with them. And when Sarah
5:53hugs him good night, notice her hand
5:55lingers on his arm and she gives him a
5:56little pick-me smile. But the
5:58cinematography is so obsessed with Nikki
6:00that's hard for us to even notice it
6:01first. Ian says, "Get your girl home
6:03safe." And Nikki says, "Ew, don't say it
6:04like that." Like Ian would be talking
6:06about her brother. In fact, later in the
6:07car, she'll say "Ew" again later. But
6:09Bear doesn't pick up on any of those
6:11signals. Nikki tells Bear that she's
6:13quitting the job because she needs a
6:14life change love into her writing and
6:16Bear assumes her story that she's
6:17writing is a romance and she responds,
6:19"It's not a romance, it's a love story."
6:21Bear assumes that those are the same
6:22thing, but this false assumption is
6:24really the theme of the whole film. What
6:25we consider love is not always a
6:27positive romantic force. Love also has a
6:30dark toxic flip side that's really
6:32obsession, obsession that is ultimately
6:34destructive. Bear just keeps fumbling
6:36and he tries to say good night to Nikki
6:37by saying, "Night, freaking Nikki."
6:40Yeah, trying Ian's move and it
6:41immediately backfires as Nikki is truly
6:43offended. He can't bring himself to tell
6:45her his real feelings even when she
6:46gives an opportunity to do so. And with
6:48his plans completely foiled, he pulls
6:50out the one wish willow which emits a
6:51little chime and he says, "I wish Nikki
6:54Freeman loved me more than anyone in the
6:55[ __ ] world." and snaps the willow
6:57branch. Now, the exact wording really
6:59mattered here. More than anyone in the
7:01[ __ ] world applied a level of
7:03intensity to this love that makes it way
7:05more than what it might have been, just
7:07sweet affection that never ever ended.
7:09Now, when Bear looks over at Nikki, even
7:10though we had heard the door close, we
7:12didn't hear it open again and she's just
7:14suddenly on the porch silhouetted dark
7:16in the light. She's basically a menacing
7:17spectral presence that he jumps at, kind
7:19of like the way shadowy demons often
7:21appear in horror films. Though, Curry
7:22Barker, an actress Indiana Varet, went
7:25to great lengths to make Nikki not come
7:27off as demonically possessed as this is
7:29not a possession story, but rather she
7:31comes off as more of a whiny,
7:33possessive, jealous girlfriend. And
7:35right away, Nikki seems off. There is no
7:37glimpse of any of her former self here.
7:39She seems over obsessed with Bear's cat
7:41and she thinks it was her cat for a
7:43second, and then she just starts
7:44glitching saying, "I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm
7:47sorry. Yeah." Yeah, Novaret is just so
7:50nuanced and controlled here. It is
7:51terrifying. Now, I'm going to refer to
7:53this new presence as wish corrupted
7:55Nikki. It's not a demon, it's a new
7:57presence created by the wish that has
7:58taken over Nikki's full body and mind,
8:00singularly focused on an obsession on
8:02Bear, forcing real Nikki into the
8:04backseat in a kind of purgatory state
8:06where she can see, feel, and experience
8:08everything that's happening to her, but
8:10do nothing to stop it. But, real Nikki
8:11briefly surfaces again here saying,
8:13"What the fuck?" But then, wish
8:15corrupted Nikki regains control and then
8:16starts pouting teasingly as she lies
8:18about her dad dying to manipulate Bear
8:20into spending the night with her. Wish
8:22corrupted Nikki gets Bear to sleep in
8:23bed with her, and as she makes out with
8:24him, real Nikki resurfaces again. But,
8:26wish controlled Nikki regains control
8:28and apologizes and calls her reaction a
8:30panic attack, and then just starts
8:31sobbing. As she sleeps, Bear researches
8:33the One Wish Willow, where the search
8:34results say it's a vintage toy from the
8:36'80s whose effects are debated as the
8:38Mandela effect on a Reddit alternative
8:40called Threadit. The comments all
8:42alternate yes and no on whether it
8:43actually works. Actually, there's a
8:45comment by Berenstain Bear Facts,
8:47referring to that Mandela effect
8:48conspiracy theory, claiming that this
8:50poster's mom was ugly her entire life,
8:52but is gorgeous now and doesn't even
8:53look old. After he goes back into the
8:55bedroom, wish corrupted Nikki is once
8:57again silhouetted in shadow by
8:59backlights staring right at him. The
9:00next morning, he finds that she's made
9:02breakfast for him, and as he walks into
9:03the kitchen and looks at the floor,
9:05there is a very quick creepy shot where
9:06Nikki quickly darts across the doorway
9:08behind him, but then the camera tilts
9:10down to see Nikki had taken Sandy the
9:11cat's corpse out as a kind of memorial.
9:13Yes, because obsession is not real love,
9:16obsession has no empathy. Obsession is
9:18what drives the characters in Stephen
9:19King's Pet Sematary to grotesquely
9:21unearth dead things that should have
9:22stayed buried, just like this. [music]
9:24As Bear tells Ian at work what happened,
9:26literally the moment wish corrupted
9:27Nikki gets to the register, out of focus
9:29in the background, she slowly turns to
9:31stare at the back of Bear's head, and
9:32every time we cut back to Bear for the
9:34next 3 minutes, we still see the blurry
9:36shape of her face just staring and
9:38frozen. She doesn't move the entire
9:40time. Later, when looking at the side
9:41effects of MDMA, we see that Bear's
9:43recent searches include yesterday,
9:45classic romance movies, how to play
9:47Green Day's "Basket Case" on marimba,
9:49last 7 days, how to woo a girl, how to
9:52impress a girl, how to flirt, how to
9:53know you've been friend-zoned, back in
9:55July, oxycodone, and in June, nursing
9:58homes, old people homes. Yeah, it's a
10:00reverse history of Bear finding a home
10:01for his grandmother and then researching
10:03the effects of oxy, and then at that
10:05point becoming infatuated with Nikki at
10:06work. Yeah, his infatuation seems like a
10:08very recent thing, kind of a resurfaced
10:107 years too late prom-posal, as he had
10:12described it. Now, in his profile shot,
10:14Wish Granted Nikki is hidden in the
10:15background, as we see her shadow shift
10:17in a motion in the curtains to the front
10:18door. She's now wearing a flirty red
10:20dress, and in the close-up on the front
10:22doorstep, there's an odd light reflected
10:24in her eyes. At this point, she
10:25manipulates Bear's anxieties over
10:27possibly taking advantage of a woman who
10:28was under the influence of drugs, but
10:30all it really takes is Wish Granted
10:32Nikki saying she might like him, saying,
10:34"Would it freak you out if I did?" Yes,
10:36suddenly embracing the freaky Nikki
10:38nomenclature, and then bam, they're off
10:40to the races. Curry Barker hilariously
10:42shoots this as kind of a rom-com date
10:44montage set to sweet music, but it's all
10:46very creepy knowing what Nikki has
10:48already done. They giggle over a meme
10:50that says, "I want to wear your skin as
10:52a sweater." Ugh. And you'll notice here
10:54that Wish Granted Nikki starts wearing a
10:56headband, just like that easily
10:58impressed waitress in the opening scene.
11:00There's a few shots of them watching a
11:01movie together, and Wish Granted Nikki
11:02keeps staring at him and Bear as if he's
11:05do this a bunch of times, moves her chin
11:07back to face the TV. Like he's still
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13:07dinner, when Bear asks about her dad,
13:09Wish Granted Nikki picks up a knife,
13:11it's just a butter knife, but still a
13:12knife, and changes the subject. Bear
13:14jokes that he wants to become a food
13:15critic called Three Bite Bailey, and of
13:17course she's going to remember this
13:18tidbit. Ian calls Bear to say Nikki lied
13:20about her dad's cancer, and Bear takes
13:22this call under this tree design in the
13:24wall that visually reminds us this is
13:25all the result of the willow branch that
13:27he broke. It's so creepy to see Wish
13:28corrupted Nikki in the background just
13:30stepping out to watch Bear and then step
13:32behind the wall, freaking us out
13:34thinking that she's going to suddenly
13:35pop around the corner. But he goes back
13:36to the table and confronts Nikki about
13:38her dad.
13:38>> No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
13:42No. No. No. No. No. No. NO. NO. NO.
13:44I THOUGHT WE WERE HAVING A NICE DAY.
13:47>> YES, that manic repeated no no no no no
13:49no no no no no no no no reminds me of
13:51Georgina's moment in Jordan Peele's Get
13:53Out when Chris confronts her.
13:55>> No.
13:56No.
13:58No.
13:59No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
14:02No. No. No.
14:03>> After sex, we get the creepiest scene of
14:05the movie. Bear looks for Nikki in his
14:06dark bedroom and at first we don't see
14:08her, but kind of like the iconic shot in
14:10Ari Aster's Hereditary that allowed the
14:12viewer's eye to gradually adjust to the
14:14darkness, we now see Wish corrupted
14:16Nikki in plain sight slinking out of the
14:18shadow in the corner at an unnatural
14:20speed and fluidity. And then after way
14:22too calmly talking to him, she retreats
14:24with the same odd fluidity back into the
14:26darkness that corner. And it looks like
14:27Ari Barker actually used some reverse
14:29photography for many of the movements
14:31here. She says, "I don't like my
14:33dreams." And then her voice distorts and
14:35says, "I feel like you don't love me as
14:37much as I do. Like it's not mutual."
14:42And her full face distorts as well so
14:44that she doesn't even look like herself,
14:46but it's kind of like a trick on our
14:47eyes because it's so dark we can't even
14:49make out her facial features and her
14:51lips certainly do not match her words
14:53here. Now, of course she doesn't like
14:54her dreams because in her dream she has
14:56to share a subconscious with the real
14:57Nikki. The next morning Bear notices
14:59Wish corrupted Nikki had cut some of his
15:01hair and confronts her about it. But
15:02notice that she's reading a book upside
15:04down here. She clearly was just staring
15:06at it blankly trying to look cute when
15:08Bear walked in. Nikki blames the
15:09behavior on just a bad dream and smiles
15:11extra tight. Ari Barker said that he
15:13watched the movie Pearl with the cast
15:15and this smile looks a lot like Mia
15:16Goth's iconic forced smile at the end of
15:18that film. Somehow this whole scene Bear
15:20missed the fact that Wish corrupted
15:22Nikki duct taped the door shut. I love
15:24the gag of him just gradually prying the
15:26door open in the lunch that she packed
15:28for Bear. She put two Polaroids, the
15:30second of which is a selfie of her
15:31smiling while he was sleeping labeled it
15:33not me. Maybe that was a subconscious
15:35cry for help from the real Nikki. Bear
15:37calls out Sarah for what Ian had said
15:38saying that she and Nikki were talking
15:40[ __ ] about Bear being friend-zoned, a
15:42brother figure to Nikki. And Sarah says,
15:44"Look, if Ian is spreading my [ __ ] then
15:45you should know." Before her dad cuts
15:47her off with an art school rejection
15:49letter. Yeah, she's about to tell Bear
15:51that Ian had been hooking up with Nikki.
15:52Unfortunately, Sarah doesn't get to tell
15:54him that until the final scene of her
15:56life. Had Bear found that out sooner, he
15:58may not have gone through the next
15:59couple things he goes through. Now here
16:01Sarah says, "Your lunch smells weird."
16:03And this is after he took a big bite of
16:05that sandwich where like a piece of the
16:06meat definitely dangled from his mouth.
16:08And she reads the back of the note that
16:10says, "What's the verdict, cat?" As Bear
16:12realizes that Nikki had made him a
16:14literal sandy witch. Ian accuses Bear of
16:17taking advantage of Nikki during her
16:18mental episode that he thinks she's
16:20going through. Well, interestingly,
16:21Sarah tells Bear that she thinks Nikki's
16:23taking advantage of him depending on his
16:25puppy love instead of going to therapy.
16:26It's kind of an interesting dichotomy
16:28between the relationships there. Bear
16:29calls the Tommy Cat customer support
16:31line.
16:31>> I I I just want to know if I can like
16:35alter it a little.
16:37>> I'm sorry, we don't really do that.
16:40>> This is the voice of director Curry
16:41Barker himself. This whole idea of the
16:42company refusing to alter wishes or even
16:44cancel wishes kind of comes from Barker
16:46just refusing to develop any lore or
16:48backstory for the one wish Willow has
16:49over this movie. He considers that not
16:51his job as a director and wants to leave
16:52it open for interpretation. And I kind
16:53of love that. But the operator does say
16:55that only death can break the spell over
16:57Nikki and that Bear has a moral
16:59obligation to be there for her. Then the
17:00operator allows Bear to hear the real
17:02Nikki who just screams in agony. Yes, I
17:05love the horrifying implication that
17:07this company somehow has access to
17:08whatever mental suffering may result
17:10from its customers' wishes. At Ian's
17:12party, Wish Granted Nikki laughs way too
17:14hard at a simple joke.
17:16>> [laughter]
17:21[laughter]
17:22>> Yeah, another red flag that you brought
17:24the wrong person to a party. Drawing a
17:26Jenga brick that apparently required her
17:27to embarrass herself or say some secret,
17:29Wish Scripted Nikki recites this passage
17:31from her story. And forgive me, but I'm
17:33now going to say the whole thing. The
17:35air was charged by the distant call of
17:37the night bird. His face was obscured,
17:39but I knew he was looking at my chest.
17:41Each side stretching recently matured to
17:43different sizes.
17:44>> Hansel, come be with me like the old
17:46woman taught us when we were children.
17:48>> I said. He closed the door and leaned
17:49against it.
17:50>> You're not my wife, Gretel.
17:52>> He said.
17:53>> I'm not only your wife, I'm your sister.
17:55>> Hansel flinched and reached for the door
17:57handle. I knew he would not leave this
17:58place. He would relent and choose to be
18:00inside me like he had many nights
18:01before. If not, I would fillet his meaty
18:03forearm, roll it like a stick of
18:05licorice, and insert the flesh between
18:06my legs. Hansel is my soul. Love only
18:09the branch of a willow tree could
18:10conjure. Brother, you will be inside me
18:12tonight.
18:12>> Hey, this movie stole MY WEDDING VOWS.
18:15>> [laughter]
18:19>> SO, OKAY. THIS disgusting incestuous
18:22Hansel and Gretel monologue was written
18:24by Curry's playwright Father Jeff
18:25Barker. And it really does speak to the
18:27way real Nikki said that she saw Bear as
18:29a brother mixed with the way Wish
18:31Scripted Nikki desires him sexually.
18:32Wish Scripted Nikki is really trying to
18:34do some of the creative writing that
18:35real Nikki was struggling with due to
18:37writer's block. And it all comes out in
18:39this grotesque way that she thinks will
18:40turn Bear on. Bear draws a block to kiss
18:43the person on his left, who meaning
18:44Sarah, and Wish Scripted Nikki hits us
18:46with this iconic pouty frown and drags
18:49Sarah out of the way and then puckers
18:50for a smooch. Real Nikki surfaces here
18:52and smashes a bottle to stab herself in
18:54the base twice before Wish Scripted
18:55Nikki regains control. I love Bear's
18:58reaction in this moment. He's horrified
19:00at first, but then he just kind of
19:01resigns and shuts down as he fully knows
19:04what he is committed to. Curry Barker
19:05revealed something interesting about
19:06this house. They shot this movie in fall
19:08of 2024 in the Burbank area. And then in
19:10January of 2025, the house where they
19:12shot this scene burned down in the LA
19:15fires, making this movie kind of part of
19:17the cursed history when it comes to
19:18iconic horror films and real life fires
19:20that consume the sets. During the
19:22filming of The Exorcist, a bird flew
19:24into a circuit box and burned down the
19:25MacNeil family home set, but Reagan's
19:28bedroom was untouched by the flames.
19:30Ooh. Back home, Bear asks Wish Corrupted
19:33Nikki, "Does Nikki like me? Is Nikki
19:35happy?" Yeah, he's trying to break
19:36through, and he knows for sure it's not
19:38really her when she embraces the
19:40nickname.
19:40>> I'm your freaky Nikki.
19:42>> Now there is a moment when Bear is
19:43almost swayed by Wish Corrupted Nikki
19:45saying, "I love you in every reality."
19:47But then she freaks him out again by
19:48reversing back into the shadows of the
19:50doorway. Yes, more reverse photography
19:52used there, and threatens to harm
19:53herself if he leaves. So he stays that
19:55night, but then after slipping out of
19:56bed to meet Sarah, the real Nikki calls
19:58to him while Wish Corrupted Nikki
20:00sleeps, begging Bear to kill her. But
20:03Bear responds, "What would be so bad
20:05about being with me?" Yeah, at this
20:06point we know Bear deserves everything
20:08bad that's coming his way. But there is
20:10a sweet moment of false victory with
20:12Bear and Sarah that just gets ruined
20:15when Wish Corrupted Nikki smashes
20:16through the glass and smashes Sarah's
20:18face against a brick. God, this is
20:21awful. It's hard to tell from the shock
20:23of this moment, but on each of the hits,
20:24if you listen closely, the brick presses
20:26against the steering wheel in a slight
20:28way that emits a little honk from the
20:30car. Oh God. Wish Corrupted Nikki tells
20:32a shocked Bear, "Sarah, it's all your
20:34fault. You wanted this. You wished for
20:36this." So this point we know Wish
20:38Corrupted Nikki is aware of her very
20:39existence coming solely from Bear's
20:41wish. And she knows how these one wish
20:43willows really work. They dispose the
20:45body at the music shop. Since Bear
20:46cannot break another willow twig, he
20:48brings a new one to Ian, but [ __ ] Ian
20:50wishes for a billion dollars, and money
20:52just rains from above. For a second I
20:54thought we were going to see Ian get
20:55crushed, because even in $100 bill
20:57denominations, a billion dollars weighs
21:0010 metric tons and takes up the space of
21:0210 industrial pallets. Yeah, it would
21:04easily fill Ian's living room. I guess
21:05there was an interview where Curry
21:07Barker said that even after Ian died,
21:09that money did not vanish, it still
21:10stayed in the house. So, I guess the
21:12death rule only really breaks the spell
21:14in cases of romantic obsession. Bear
21:15comes home to find another shrine to him
21:17made by Wish Granted Nikki that includes
21:19it looks like some pump lotion, maybe
21:21the kind Bear would have used to, you
21:24know, Nikki has further desecrated
21:26Sarah's corpse and we see that Nikki is
21:28now wearing Sarah's dress and she has
21:30drawn Sarah's tattoos on her body and
21:32since her hair has changed, she might be
21:34wearing Sarah's scalp here. Yeah, she's
21:36trying to make herself Sarah because
21:37Wish Granted Nikki is insane and she
21:39thinks that's what Bear wants. Ian
21:40barges in and Wish Granted Nikki shoots
21:42him. This would be from the loaded gun
21:44that Sarah's dad kept in the music store
21:46safe that they talked about earlier in
21:47the movie. Wish Granted Nikki got it
21:49when she stayed behind to deal with
21:50Sarah's body. Wish Granted Nikki vomits
21:52on Bear and finally he just screams,
21:54>> I love you.
21:56I love you.
21:56>> I LOVE YOU, BEAR.
21:57>> I LOVE [screaming] YOU.
21:59>> HE CALMS HER DOWN AND HE ENDS UP LOCKING
22:00himself in the bathroom. Through the
22:02door, a completely deranged Wish Granted
22:03Nikki says calmly,
22:04>> I think we should break up.
22:06>> Yeah, one last emotional manipulation.
22:08Bear cannot bring himself to pull the
22:09trigger, but he remembers his
22:10grandmother's oxy in the medicine
22:12cabinet that had killed the cat. So, he
22:13ingests the pills and before he
22:15instinctively moves to purge, we hear a
22:17chime of a one-wish willow in the other
22:18room and a snap and we now have a Wish
22:20Granted Bear willed into existence by
22:23Wish Granted Nikki to love her back.
22:24But, the oxy kicks in as the camera
22:26moves down past the snap twig. Wish
22:28Granted Nikki sobs and grabs the gun and
22:30just before she Juliets herself, Bear's
22:32death brings real Nikki back to the
22:34surface. Poor real Nikki completely
22:36loses it to realize her three best
22:37friends are all dead in the house with
22:39her. Or rather, her two best friends and
22:41the one guy who ruined her life. Curry
22:43Barker planned for an alternate ending
22:44where Nikki would have died as well, but
22:46they went with this option of Nikki
22:47screaming in shock. It's arguably even
22:49darker because she was the one to steal
22:51the gun from that music store that
22:52probably had security cameras. So, any
22:54police investigating this are going to
22:56pin all three deaths on her. Yes, a
22:58woman who committed the only crime of
22:59flashing a fleeting smile at a friend.
23:02Bravo to fellow YouTuber Curry Barker
23:04for shooting this movie for less than a
23:06million dollars, getting it picked up by
23:08Focus Features and Blumhouse for 15
23:09million dollars, and then being the
23:11first movie since E.T. Yes, Steven
23:14Spielberg's E.T. in 1982 to open wide
23:17and increase its box office weekend over
23:19weekend, when normally it's the
23:20opposite. Big opening and dropping off
23:22weekend over weekend. It's so successful
23:24that it convinced Universal to drop a
23:26planned June 2nd streaming date and
23:28extend its theatrical window. It's
23:30tracking to make nearly 300 million
23:32dollars worldwide, if not more than
23:34that. It's beating The Mandalorian and
23:35Grogu. That is insane success, and it
23:38speaks to the power of a simple story
23:40executed perfectly with great writing
23:42and performances that are really
23:43connecting with viewers. Comment down
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23:47Underground subscribers, Paolo Bianca,
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