Obsession director Curry Barker has pointed out a plot hole in his hit film, that even he doesn’t have a solution to.
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The horror movie follows a young man with an unrequited crush on his coworker. He purchases the One Wish Willow, which allows the user to make one wish when they snap it, and he uses it to make his coworker fall in love with him. However, the wish takes a dark turn as she becomes dangerously obsessed with him.
Speaking at a Q&A shared by Total Film, Barker was asked about a scene where the person selling the willow says that other people have complained about the results of their wishes, and what he thinks other people’s wishes might have been.
“It’s kind of a plot hole,” he replied. “Like, it’s something I don’t like to think about too much. Because it totally doesn’t make sense if there’s a world of people just making wishes, it really doesn’t make any sense at all. Like, if the One Wish Willow actually works, which in this lore, then people are just making wishes left and right. There would be some crazy [stuff], like dragons would exist, and the world is pretty normal from what we see in this movie. So, it doesn’t really make sense.”
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He then offered a potential explanation: “Here’s my take: every time someone makes a wish, they enter into an alternate reality where their wish comes true. So, you’re not experiencing everybody’s wish at the same time. But then, that doesn’t make sense, because [of a scene where] the money falls from the ceiling. Yeah, it’s broken!”
As for the film becoming a franchise, Barker discussed his preferred continuation of the story. “What really is exciting to me is maybe an anthology,” he said. “Like a one hour episode. Each episode is a different wish that goes completely off the rails. Maybe I’ll direct the pilot with the same DP [Director of Photography] and then you could invite other filmmakers to kind of give their spin at it, and that would be really cool.”
NME’s review called Obsession “the year’s most terrifying horror film so far”, with critic Alex Flood writing: “Curry Barker has been equally open about his creepy, quirky chiller’s influences. And there are many. From Hitchcockian suspense thriller Hereditary to Elisabeth Moss’ The Invisible Man reboot by way of classics Misery and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this is genre geekdom at its nerdiest.”
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