Obsession arrives on Peacock Premium and Peacock Premium Plus on Wednesday, October 14. Bear, a shop clerk hopelessly in love with his friend Nikki, breaks a strange charm called the One Wish Willow to make her feel the same way about him. The wish works, and then some: Nikki's devotion curdles into something far stranger, and Bear spends the rest of the film learning that some desires come with a dark, sinister price.
The film is the work of Curry Barker, a 26-year-old former barista who built an online following with his sketch group that's a bad idea and the viral short The Chair before writing, directing and editing Obsession himself. He shot it around Los Angeles in under a month on a budget of well under a million dollars, even recording missing dialogue on his phone during the edit because there was no money left for a proper studio pass.
Obsession premiered in the midnight slot at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025 and set off a bidding war that ended with Focus Features paying between $14 million and $15 million for it, the highest price a genre film has ever fetched at the festival. That bet paid off: after its May release, Obsession topped $400 million worldwide and holds a strong 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, an extraordinary return for a film shot on the kind of money most studios spend on catering.
The praise tracks: it is a tight, mean-spirited piece of midnight-movie craft that gets its scale from pacing and discomfort rather than a visual-effects budget it never had. Inde Navarrette makes Nikki's spiraling devotion the most unsettling thing in the film, and Obsession is worth catching on Peacock Premium the moment it lands rather than waiting for word to spread.
