Obsession

Obsession will be playing this week at the Sea View Theatre. Before it became one of the year’s biggest breakouts, OBSESSION exploded out of the Toronto International Film Festival, where it premiered in the legendary Midnight Madness section and immediately became a festival sensation. Now audiences are proving the festival buzz was real. OBSESSION has shocked the industry with a massive audience response, an A- CinemaScore exit-poll grade, and a huge Rotten Tomatoes audience score — the kind of word-of-mouth that turns a low-budget discovery into a box-office phenomenon. What started as a genre sleeper has become a full-blown theatrical hit, growing week after week as audiences tell their friends: you have to see this with a crowd. Written and directed by rising filmmaker Curry Barker, OBSESSION takes a classic “be careful what you wish for” idea and twists it into something creepy, funny, bloody, and deeply unsettling. After a shy music-store employee makes a wish for his longtime crush to love him back, he gets exactly what he asked for — and quickly discovers that forced love comes with a horrifying price. Critics have called the film “a fairy tale from hell,” “deeply unsettling,” and “one of those movies” that gets under your skin and stays there. RogerEbert.com praised it as “consistently” twisted, noting that Barker “pulls nothing,” while other reviews have singled out Inde Navarrette’s terrifying, star-making performance and Barker’s ability to balance dread, dark humor, and shocking horror. Showings – select to order tickets: Fri, Jun 19th, 7pm@ Sea View Theatre (https://seaviewtheatre.eventive.org/schedule/6a2adabbe5410d327ea72d82) Sat, Jun 20th, 7pm @ Sea View Theatre (https://seaviewtheatre.eventive.org/schedule/6a2adafe379c8dfc82456dff) Tue, Jun 23rd, 7pm @ Sea View Theatre (https://seaviewtheatre.eventive.org/schedule/6a2adbb4b27ffc5f4ae976d2)