Be careful what you wish for.

A cynical and twisted love story that dives head deep into the horror of what being with someone by any means necessary could do to you.

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush Nikki's (Inde Navarrette) heart, Bear (Michael Johnston) a young hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for.

When Nikki quickly becomes increasingly obsessed with him to a frightening and violent degree, Bear soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

With a standout, chaotic and unnerving lead performance from Navarette and an ingenious skewering of relationship dynamics, OBSESSION is a sharp, unnerving, and surprisingly funny descent into the dangers of wanting to be loved a little too much.

Jordan Peele's debut film is a brilliantly inventive horror that skewers the insecurities and injustices of modern America.

Ever since the days of Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre it’s been a critical truism that the horror genre offers its own running commentary on the distressed state of modern America. With levels of onscreen carnage escalating over the years, however, it’s heartening to see a filmmaker opt not to deliver even more of the same, but instead return to the fantasy-inflected unease that made TV’s The Twilight Zone a pop-cultural barometer for the anxieties of an earlier American generation. Writer-director Jordan Peele’s remarkable debut feature is very much a product of our own Black Lives Matter era – provocatively so indeed – but one that purposefully uses Serling-esque surrealism as a fantastical container for a whole array of hot-button issues.

Screening as part of our PARANOIA AT THE RIVERSIDE season of films