Obsession

Obsession's plot, just like the One Wish WIllow, is simple to follow, nothing really innovative, but it sets it's limits and rules well and play around them to offer a scary and fun to watch experience.

The story follows Baron "Bear" Bailey who is in love with Nikki but isn't brave enough to act on his feelings and try something real with her. Instead, he uses a One Wish Willow, a fictional product that is told to conceed a wish, to make her love him more than anything in the world. The wish goes through and the consequences of it are slowly presented to us, sometimes in a lighthearted and funny way, more often as a scary and unsettling experience.

Michael Johnston's and Inde Navarrette's performances work really well and add a lot to the experience. Michael plays the timid, and at times, coward, Bear, nicely, making the character believable, not going to any extreme of too shy or too self centered. But it's Inde's performance that really shine, due to her having to show a big mixture of emotions and even act almost inhumanly at times.

The other big thing that the film uses to achieve it's unsettling ambience, is the meticulous use of shadows. Shadows are used here to hide fully or partially characters faces and emotions, making some scenes unsettling to see due to character's faces behind them looking a bit uncanny.