“Obsession” (2025) has received good word of mouth since it premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Combined with “Backrooms”, which became part of the “Backsession” phenomenon, both films shared a very interesting behind-the-scenes story of young YouTubers turned feature film directors who made arthouse horror that became the talk of the town in 2026. “Backrooms” came out last week, and now its bloody brother has arrived in Thai cinemas.
The horror hype was real. Last week I went to see Backrooms and the theatre was packed — the kind of crowds usually seen at franchise blockbusters, not indie horror. This week the same happened with its horror sibling.
Curry Barker’s Obsession is a horror story about love. Bear (Michael Johnston) has a crush on his friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) but doesn’t have the courage to tell her. Universally relatable.
