Curry Barker's long-hyped horror Obsession may have not released in theaters yet, but the YouTuber-turned-filmmaker already has big ideas on how to expand on the movie's mythology.
If you're here, you're presumably aware of what goes down in the movie: shy guy Bear (Michael Johnston) wishes on a retro-looking toy that his big-time crush Nikki (Inde Navarrette) loves him back. Turns out, the One Wish Willow isn't just a novelty trinket... and Bear quickly comes to regret the flippant, morally questionable request.
Early on in the flick, when Bear buys the One Wish Willow, the store clerk jokes that people who've been buying them have frequently come back to complain. "What? Because it doesn't work?" Bear laughs nervously, to which the assistant replies: "Or, because it did? Ruined their lives... made them wish they were dead..."
"I mean, it's kind of a plothole," chuckles Barker, when we ask him whether he ever pinned down the unseen wishes behind the scenes during GamesRadar+'s exclusive Q&A. "It's something I don't like to think about too much, because it totally doesn't make sense. If there's a world of people just making wishes, it really doesn't make any sense at all.
"If the One Wish Willow actually works, which it does in this lore, and people are just making wishes left and right, there would be some crazy… like, dragons would exist, right? There's none of that. The world is pretty normal from what we see in this movie. So it doesn't really make sense. I try not to [think about it], but no one ever says that. Now you said it..."
Barker goes on to say that he suggest that "every time someone makes a wish, they enter into an alternate reality." With that, no one experiences anyone else's wishes but their own. For spoiler-heavy reasons we won't go into here, though, he quickly shuts down his own theory: "Yeah, it's broken!"
"But no, obviously I have a couple more things that I'm excited about next, but I do see Obsession 2 maybe, or even… What really is exciting to me [would be doing] an anthology, like a one-hour episode. Each episode is a different wish that goes completely off the rails. Maybe I'll direct the pilot with the same DP, and then you could invite other filmmakers to give their spin at it. That would be really cool."
We agree, very Twilight Zone-esque. It'd be especially neat if he does a Ryan Murphy or Mike Flanagan, too, and brings back Johnston and Navarrette to play different characters in said premiere. "I would love to work with Curry [again]," Navarrette tells us in a separate interview. "As we grow and as he grows, I would like to see how things evolve and how he finds his pockets and rhythm. I think that would be super cool, because we already got the opportunity to see the beginning. It'd be super cool to work with him [again] down the line."
Obsession releases on May 15. For more, check out our guide to the most exciting upcoming horror movies heading our way.
