17 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Probably Didn't Know About The Making Of Obsession

The Simpsons, Hansel And Gretel and a whole lot of duct tape helped make the horror film everyone's talking about.

Obsession has very quickly become the horror movie the whole world is talking about.

The second feature-length offering from YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Curry Barker, Obsession centres around two friends who enter a nightmare scenario when one of them makes a life-changing wish for the other to fall in love with him “more than anyone in the fucking world”.

A modern-day “be careful what you wish for” cautionary tale, the film has received rave reviews, including an enviable 96% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.2 stars on Letterboxd, with particular praise for its break-out star Inde Navarrette.

But despite dominating the pop culture conversation right now, how much do we really know about what went into Obsession’s creation?

Here are 17 behind-the-scenes secrets you’d probably never heard about how the film of the moment came together (and be warned – there are plenty of spoilers ahead)…

Interestingly enough, the idea for Obsession was inspired by a classic episode of The Simpsons

The story goes that Curry Barker first had the idea for Obsession after inviting his friends over to watch an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia that he had a small role in.

“Before the episode [aired] there was a Simpsons episode where [Bart] has a monkey paw, and he’s making wishes and stuff,” he recalled to Triple J, referring to The Simpsons’ second Halloween special Treehouse Of Horror II.

In the episode – based on WW Jacobs’ short story The Monkey’s Paw – the family travels to Morocco and buys a cursed monkey’s paw at a market, which grants their wishes with sinister consequences.

Curry admitted: “I was just excited to see my Always Sunny episode, but it hit me right then and there on the couch that Obsession idea that I had would be perfect if it was a wish movie.

“And so I actually remember the moment, I remember being on the couch, and being like, ‘oh my god’ and writing. It down. And after that, I just kept developing and developing that idea.”

He also told Variety: “I was thinking that I’ve never seen a straight crazy horror [based on that idea]. We’ve seen ‘be careful what you wish for’ tons of times. But we’ve never seen my version of it. I instantly started thinking about what I could do with that…”

Once he had the idea that Obsession would be about a ‘wish come true’ gone awry, Curry Barker had to decide what form the wish would actually take

“I didn’t want to use the Monkeypaw because it was too recognisable,” he told IndieWire. “And so then I went down this rabbit hole of trying to find things that you could make a wish off of.

“You’ve got the wishing well, you have shooting stars, a wishbone you break in half, but nothing really worked well for the movie.”

In the end, he reasoned: “Screw it. I’m going to make something up.”

And so, the One Wish Willow came to be – with Curry Barker’s designer mum helping him bring it to life

He told Moveable Fest: “My mum actually helped me design that. She’s a graphic art designer, and I told her I wanted it to look kind of timeless, like it’s from the ’50s or the ’80s, and I wanted it to have this very retro feel, like it’s been around forever and you can’t really pinpoint when it was made.

“I also wanted it to look inviting, and almost creepy in the way that it looks so friendly, like it couldn’t hurt anything.”

That’s not the only way that Obsession was a family affair for director Curry Barker, though

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