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  1. Obsession: Dread Overload in Smash Hit Horror Thing 🙂

    Obsession is the surprise smash hit of 2026, a small indie supernatural horror film by YouTuber Curry Barker that’s already raked in £500+ million worldwide.

    A genuinely frightening and unnerving film, it follows the obsessive behaviour of one young man as he tries to make his love interest fall head over heels for him. Boy, does that go wrong…

    The Toxic Masculinity of Obsession

    Where Obsession excels is with its sense of dread, delivered largely by the phenomenal performance of newcomer Inde Navarrette.

    Modern themes of masculinity in crisis, incels, and the dating crisis abound. The lead character is Bear (Michael Johnston, also very good here) who is awkward and shy. He’s in love with his colleague Nikki (Navarrette), but is too petrified to ask her out on a date. Instead, he visits an occult crystal store and buys a novelty toy called One Wish Willow.

    His wish? To have Nikki love him more than anything else in the world.

    Once he makes the wish Nikki starts behaving in a bizarre, some could say obsessive, manner towards Bear. They become a couple and it all seems to go well for a few days, until her behaviour becomes more and more unusual. As if it’s not Nikki at all and she’s possessed by something else entirely (referred to by fans of the film as Wish Nikki).

    As the narrative develops, it’s as if she’s possessed by a demon (themes of The Exorcist are what struck us). Her behaviour becomes increasingly insane and unsettling.

    From the “SSTAAYYYY!!!!” moment onward, the sense of dread in Obsession is almost overwhelming. It’s genuinely a very uncomfortable viewing experience, which is the whole point of horror (if you’d forgotten).

    What we found terrifying is, essentially, it’s a heightened depiction of a domestic abuse situation. One entirely of the guy’s making, but as the narrative unfolds he’s so insecure and toxic in his masculinity he’s unwilling to leave Nikki or try to help her. This isn’t a “oh, she’s a crazy chick!” narrative, it’s Bear who’s done this and he is clearly the villain of Obsession. Things get remarkably bleak, although there are some occasional bits of dark humour.

    But then you get things like the film’s most disturbing moment, when the real Nikki is briefly able to speak to Bear from her possessed state and it reveals the horror of what Bear is responsible for.

    Inde Navarrette is incredible (echoes of Mia Goth in 2022’s Pearl aplenty). It’s a performance where it’s almost more frightening when she’s not onscreen, as you’re terrified of what she might be getting up to next.

    Great film, then, and a huge hit with the younger generations.

    Although we’ve seen some online reviewers saying it’s the “best film in many years”, but coming across as the types who only watch superhero films. So, yes, this will seem like a breath of fresh air if all you do is watch the most mainstream Hollywood releases.

    Obsession isn’t quite as original as some film fans have made out. It’s more a merger of Big (1988), Pearl (2022), the goddamn terrifying Get Out (2017), and The Exorcist (1973) into one hellish time of it.

    Plus, we felt the ending trailed off over the final 20 minutes, but there’s one incredible solid 60 minute central run of astonishing dread that carries the whole thing. We’re very impressed by it, just don’t watch the film shortly before going to bed (otherwise no sleep shall be had).

    STTTAAYYYYY!!! And Read About the Production of Obsession

    This is one of those great success stories we get in film from time to time. Jaws is a classic example, plus the Mad Max series, but here it is again! The budget for Obsession was $750,000 and yet it’s already made $512.6 million at the global box office (and it’s still in cinemas earning).

    Curry Barker wrote and directed the film. He’s a YouTube creator who normally focusses on comedy sketches, but uploaded a horror short called The Chair in 2023. That opened some doors for him and the film was adapted into this full feature.

    Barker wrote the script whilst working in a tea shop. He cited Ti West’s cult classic Pearl (2022) as a big influence and even made the cast and crew watch the film before production began.

    Casting proved difficult until producer Christian Mercuri highly recommended Inde Navarrette, who’d gained experience in the 2020 film Wander Darkly and some other short films. She cited some scenes from Get Out as an influence.

    On a limited budget, the cast and crew worked closely together to overcome difficulties. It’s a classic example of creative thinking helping to bolster the film’s full potential, the result being it makes many $200 million blockbusters look a bit stupid in comparison.

    How many superhero films have we had over the last 16 years that have been bang average? Then Obsession, not even on a $1 million budget, floors then. It is a message to Hollywood in its mainstream guise… take more risks! Stuff like this happens.

    Obsession was shot from late October 2024 and ran for 26 days.

    Once launched in mid-2026 in the US (August 2026 in the UK), critical acclaim and word of mouth led to audiences flocking to cinemas to see it. Now it’s the 10th highest grossing film of 2026! An incredible achievement. It’s already the fifth highest grossing horror film ever.

    Why? Simply as it’s goddamn scary. Very good.

    #Cinema #CurryBarker #Film #Horror #IndeNavarrette #Lifestyle #Love #MichaelJohnston #Movies #obsession #Scary #supernatural #toxicMasculinity
  2. Obsession: Dread Overload in Smash Hit Horror Thing 🙂

    Obsession is the surprise smash hit of 2026, a small indie supernatural horror film by YouTuber Curry Barker that’s already raked in £500+ million worldwide.

    A genuinely frightening and unnerving film, it follows the obsessive behaviour of one young man as he tries to make his love interest fall head over heels for him. Boy, does that go wrong…

    The Toxic Masculinity of Obsession

    Where Obsession excels is with its sense of dread, delivered largely by the phenomenal performance of newcomer Inde Navarrette.

    Modern themes of masculinity in crisis, incels, and the dating crisis abound. The lead character is Bear (Michael Johnston, also very good here) who is awkward and shy. He’s in love with his colleague Nikki (Navarrette), but is too petrified to ask her out on a date. Instead, he visits an occult crystal store and buys a novelty toy called One Wish Willow.

    His wish? To have Nikki love him more than anything else in the world.

    Once he makes the wish Nikki starts behaving in a bizarre, some could say obsessive, manner towards Bear. They become a couple and it all seems to go well for a few days, until her behaviour becomes more and more unusual. As if it’s not Nikki at all and she’s possessed by something else entirely (referred to by fans of the film as Wish Nikki).

    As the narrative develops, it’s as if she’s possessed by a demon (themes of The Exorcist are what struck us). Her behaviour becomes increasingly insane and unsettling.

    From the “SSTAAYYYY!!!!” moment onward, the sense of dread in Obsession is almost overwhelming. It’s genuinely a very uncomfortable viewing experience, which is the whole point of horror (if you’d forgotten).

    What we found terrifying is, essentially, it’s a heightened depiction of a domestic abuse situation. One entirely of the guy’s making, but as the narrative unfolds he’s so insecure and toxic in his masculinity he’s unwilling to leave Nikki or try to help her. This isn’t a “oh, she’s a crazy chick!” narrative, it’s Bear who’s done this and he is clearly the villain of Obsession. Things get remarkably bleak, although there are some occasional bits of dark humour.

    But then you get things like the film’s most disturbing moment, when the real Nikki is briefly able to speak to Bear from her possessed state and it reveals the horror of what Bear is responsible for.

    Inde Navarrette is incredible (echoes of Mia Goth in 2022’s Pearl aplenty). It’s a performance where it’s almost more frightening when she’s not onscreen, as you’re terrified of what she might be getting up to next.

    Great film, then, and a huge hit with the younger generations.

    Although we’ve seen some online reviewers saying it’s the “best film in many years”, but coming across as the types who only watch superhero films. So, yes, this will seem like a breath of fresh air if all you do is watch the most mainstream Hollywood releases.

    Obsession isn’t quite as original as some film fans have made out. It’s more a merger of Big (1988), Pearl (2022), the goddamn terrifying Get Out (2017), and The Exorcist (1973) into one hellish time of it.

    Plus, we felt the ending trailed off over the final 20 minutes, but there’s one incredible solid 60 minute central run of astonishing dread that carries the whole thing. We’re very impressed by it, just don’t watch the film shortly before going to bed (otherwise no sleep shall be had).

    STTTAAYYYYY!!! And Read About the Production of Obsession

    This is one of those great success stories we get in film from time to time. Jaws is a classic example, plus the Mad Max series, but here it is again! The budget for Obsession was $750,000 and yet it’s already made $512.6 million at the global box office (and it’s still in cinemas earning).

    Curry Barker wrote and directed the film. He’s a YouTube creator who normally focusses on comedy sketches, but uploaded a horror short called The Chair in 2023. That opened some doors for him and the film was adapted into this full feature.

    Barker wrote the script whilst working in a tea shop. He cited Ti West’s cult classic Pearl (2022) as a big influence and even made the cast and crew watch the film before production began.

    Casting proved difficult until producer Christian Mercuri highly recommended Inde Navarrette, who’d gained experience in the 2020 film Wander Darkly and some other short films. She cited some scenes from Get Out as an influence.

    On a limited budget, the cast and crew worked closely together to overcome difficulties. It’s a classic example of creative thinking helping to bolster the film’s full potential, the result being it makes many $200 million blockbusters look a bit stupid in comparison.

    How many superhero films have we had over the last 16 years that have been bang average? Then Obsession, not even on a $1 million budget, floors then. It is a message to Hollywood in its mainstream guise… take more risks! Stuff like this happens.

    Obsession was shot from late October 2024 and ran for 26 days.

    Once launched in mid-2026 in the US (August 2026 in the UK), critical acclaim and word of mouth led to audiences flocking to cinemas to see it. Now it’s the 10th highest grossing film of 2026! An incredible achievement. It’s already the fifth highest grossing horror film ever.

    Why? Simply as it’s goddamn scary. Very good.

    #Cinema #CurryBarker #Film #Horror #IndeNavarrette #Lifestyle #Love #MichaelJohnston #Movies #obsession #Scary #supernatural #toxicMasculinity
  3. Obsession: Dread Overload in Smash Hit Horror Thing 🙂

    Obsession is the surprise smash hit of 2026, a small indie supernatural horror film by YouTuber Curry Barker that’s already raked in £500+ million worldwide.

    A genuinely frightening and unnerving film, it follows the obsessive behaviour of one young man as he tries to make his love interest fall head over heels for him. Boy, does that go wrong…

    The Toxic Masculinity of Obsession

    Where Obsession excels is with its sense of dread, delivered largely by the phenomenal performance of newcomer Inde Navarrette.

    Modern themes of masculinity in crisis, incels, and the dating crisis abound. The lead character is Bear (Michael Johnston, also very good here) who is awkward and shy. He’s in love with his colleague Nikki (Navarrette), but is too petrified to ask her out on a date. Instead, he visits an occult crystal store and buys a novelty toy called One Wish Willow.

    His wish? To have Nikki love him more than anything else in the world.

    Once he makes the wish Nikki starts behaving in a bizarre, some could say obsessive, manner towards Bear. They become a couple and it all seems to go well for a few days, until her behaviour becomes more and more unusual. As if it’s not Nikki at all and she’s possessed by something else entirely (referred to by fans of the film as Wish Nikki).

    As the narrative develops, it’s as if she’s possessed by a demon (themes of The Exorcist are what struck us). Her behaviour becomes increasingly insane and unsettling.

    From the “SSTAAYYYY!!!!” moment onward, the sense of dread in Obsession is almost overwhelming. It’s genuinely a very uncomfortable viewing experience, which is the whole point of horror (if you’d forgotten).

    What we found terrifying is, essentially, it’s a heightened depiction of a domestic abuse situation. One entirely of the guy’s making, but as the narrative unfolds he’s so insecure and toxic in his masculinity he’s unwilling to leave Nikki or try to help her. This isn’t a “oh, she’s a crazy chick!” narrative, it’s Bear who’s done this and he is clearly the villain of Obsession. Things get remarkably bleak, although there are some occasional bits of dark humour.

    But then you get things like the film’s most disturbing moment, when the real Nikki is briefly able to speak to Bear from her possessed state and it reveals the horror of what Bear is responsible for.

    Inde Navarrette is incredible (echoes of Mia Goth in 2022’s Pearl aplenty). It’s a performance where it’s almost more frightening when she’s not onscreen, as you’re terrified of what she might be getting up to next.

    Great film, then, and a huge hit with the younger generations.

    Although we’ve seen some online reviewers saying it’s the “best film in many years”, but coming across as the types who only watch superhero films. So, yes, this will seem like a breath of fresh air if all you do is watch the most mainstream Hollywood releases.

    Obsession isn’t quite as original as some film fans have made out. It’s more a merger of Big (1988), Pearl (2022), the goddamn terrifying Get Out (2017), and The Exorcist (1973) into one hellish time of it.

    Plus, we felt the ending trailed off over the final 20 minutes, but there’s one incredible solid 60 minute central run of astonishing dread that carries the whole thing. We’re very impressed by it, just don’t watch the film shortly before going to bed (otherwise no sleep shall be had).

    STTTAAYYYYY!!! And Read About the Production of Obsession

    This is one of those great success stories we get in film from time to time. Jaws is a classic example, plus the Mad Max series, but here it is again! The budget for Obsession was $750,000 and yet it’s already made $512.6 million at the global box office (and it’s still in cinemas earning).

    Curry Barker wrote and directed the film. He’s a YouTube creator who normally focusses on comedy sketches, but uploaded a horror short called The Chair in 2023. That opened some doors for him and the film was adapted into this full feature.

    Barker wrote the script whilst working in a tea shop. He cited Ti West’s cult classic Pearl (2022) as a big influence and even made the cast and crew watch the film before production began.

    Casting proved difficult until producer Christian Mercuri highly recommended Inde Navarrette, who’d gained experience in the 2020 film Wander Darkly and some other short films. She cited some scenes from Get Out as an influence.

    On a limited budget, the cast and crew worked closely together to overcome difficulties. It’s a classic example of creative thinking helping to bolster the film’s full potential, the result being it makes many $200 million blockbusters look a bit stupid in comparison.

    How many superhero films have we had over the last 16 years that have been bang average? Then Obsession, not even on a $1 million budget, floors then. It is a message to Hollywood in its mainstream guise… take more risks! Stuff like this happens.

    Obsession was shot from late October 2024 and ran for 26 days.

    Once launched in mid-2026 in the US (August 2026 in the UK), critical acclaim and word of mouth led to audiences flocking to cinemas to see it. Now it’s the 10th highest grossing film of 2026! An incredible achievement. It’s already the fifth highest grossing horror film ever.

    Why? Simply as it’s goddamn scary. Very good.

    #Cinema #CurryBarker #Film #Horror #IndeNavarrette #Lifestyle #Love #MichaelJohnston #Movies #obsession #Scary #supernatural #toxicMasculinity
  4. City streets, vampires, and werewolves. Ashai hunts down the arsonist to her blood bar, willing to do whatever it takes, until a local gang brings the city into an all-out war.

    books2read.com/ug
    azaleaforrest.itch.io/the-unde
    💙📚 #books #supernatural #urbanfantasy #writing

  5. "Smooth" is a song performed by American #rock band #Santana and #RobThomas of #MatchboxTwenty, who sings the lead vocals. It was released to radio on June 15, 1999, as the #leadSingle from Santana's 1999 studio album, #Supernatural, and was physically released as a single in August. It was written by #ItaalShur and Thomas, who re-wrote Shur's original melody and lyrics, and produced by #MattSerletic. The song was an international success.
    youtube.com/watch?v=6Whgn_iE5uc

  6. Mulder & Scully Are Back! The X-Files Returns to Comics at Dynamite This Winter
    August...
    comiccrusaders.com/comics/3631
    #The X-Files #X-Files Comics #The X-Files Dynamite #Dynamite Entertainment #Mulder and Scully #Fox Mulder #Dana Scully #Joe Harris #Riley Brown #Disney Publishing Worldwide #20th Century #X-Files Season 10 #X-Files Season 11 #Science Fiction Comics #Horror Comics #Supernatural Comics #Mystery Comics #Comic Book News #New Comics 2026 #Dynamite Comics #Comic Crusaders

  7. I just watched this video which, to me, makes complete sense as to what the Backrooms does: Creates uncanny valley simulacra of our lives.

    I've never read the philosopher (a major source for ideas of The Matrix series), but this brief essay makes a good argument:

    youtu.be/GAHfhMcHOAs

    When did Clark (Mary? Phil?) forget their original lives before Backrooms?

    #Backrooms #horror #movie #movies #film #cinema #supernatural #SciFi #ScienceFiction #liminal #simulation #simulacra #UncannyValley

  8. Berkley Street: Supernatural Horror with Scary Ghosts & Haunted Houses

    "An abandoned house. A forgotten evil. Home sweet home…"

    Sale: $7.99 to FREE

    by Ron Ripley
    Rating: 4.4/5 (6,138 Reviews)

    #horror #ghosts #haunted #supernatural #occult #fiction #books #booksky

    Berkley Street: Supernatural H...

  9. It's been 2 years since released! It's still 5-star!

    It's available to order in most bookstores globally! I have had sales in 12 countries on 5 continents!

    The story is based in the Canadian Rockies, near where I live.

    story.adamwebster.ca

    #Bookstodon #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #ContemporaryFantasy #ParanormalFantasy #Supernatural #FantasyBooks #Werewolf #CanadianAuthor #CanLit #CanadianFiction #RockyMountains

  10. “The Captain of the Polestar”, by Arthur Conan Doyle
    [Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, student of medicine]

    As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries are heard & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…

    13/

    youtube.com/watch?v=EvcA7uYtv6U

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #horror #supernatural #ArthurConanDoyle

  11. Colossians 3:23 tells us to do all things as though we were doing it for the Lord. Welcome Hetti to #martyria who is doing just that with her #rockmusic Look out for her episode 03/24! #testimony #supernatural #christian

  12. I may be here a bit for the next 48 hours since I'm doing a tumblr blackout to protest the shitty new update. Anyway, follow me if you like Good Omens, David Tennant and Michael Sheen in general, Hitchhiker's Guide, TJ Klune, Doctor Who or Supernatural


    #Good-Omens #doctor-who #David-Tennant #Michael-sheen #h2g2 #Hitchhiker's-Guide-to-the-galaxy #spn #Supernatural #tj-klune
  13. “In WITCH WOOD, the Scottish Church looks for the devil everywhere but amongst its own”

    Kate Armond leads us into the shadowy world of kirk & coven in Buchan’s favourite novel, WITCH WOOD

    6/8

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/wi

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #HistoricalFiction #supernatural #witchcraft

  14. “Identifying the supernatural as a consistent theme of Buchan’s fiction… reinforces Buchan’s status as a pre-eminent exponent of the supernatural tale and helps us to understand his wider oeuvre”

    James Machin on Buchan as a writer of the weird

    2/8

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/jo

    #Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #supernatural #weird #weirdfiction

  15. In the next printing of Sapiens its author may want to reconsider the claim that #relativity isn't a #religion. There are many #science #gods that #physics venerates as #animist #supernatural phenomena: #darkmatter, #darkenergy, #antimatter, #muon and #higgsboson #particles; a #blackhole, the #bigbang, #multiverse and #quantumphysics* are all effectively a #belief #system.

    As someone once replied to me, dismissively: "I only believe in the Standard Model"

    (*Note I said quantum "physics")

  16. Nosferatu (2024) Movie Review | Eggers’ Nosferatu Balances Beauty and Terror

    Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a masterclass in gothic atmosphere, with visuals so hauntingly beautiful they could be paintings from another century. But does its mesmerizing aesthetic make up for inconsistent performances? This reimagining of the vampire classic both dazzles and stumbles in its quest to unearth timeless terror.

    wornoutspines.com/2024/12/22/n

  17. I’m a fan of Gothic literature and Penny Dreadfuls. I sometimes see myself as Frankenstein’s monster, and I think Frankenstein is very relevant to ethical conversations about AI. The specifics of that are too personal for me to go into at the moment; however, I would say there is something especially abhorrent about creating life just for it to suffer or creating life, calling it monstrous, and disregarding it. The original Frankenstein story started with an epigraph from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” which is especially relevant today. My mother is a narcissist and admitted that I was allowed to be born to satisfy her narcissism. So, there is something that disturbs me about something being created in the image and glorification of its creator. While I have a reputation for being a narcissist, I have nothing on my mother.

    Although I am known as a vampire, vampiric archetypes and tropes tie more into existential themes and nihilistic views. If people want insight into who I am as a person, why I behave the way that I do, and my philosophies, I recommend:

    The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
    The Black Cat

    The older I get, the more blunted my antisocial and hedonistic edge becomes. Humanity is a social species where we evolved to be cooperative, so selfish hedonism leads to perdition and self-destruction. The more I come face to face with what true evil looks like, the less I idealize it, I suppose.

    Penny dreadful: Dorian gray

    This was posted on my other blog. The paranormal bits were redacted from this post.

    #AI #ChatGPT #Christianity #Frankenstein #gothic #gothicLiterature #hedonism #hedonist #LGBTQ #literature #pennyDreadful #pennyDreadfuls #Philosophy #supernatural #vampire #vampires #YouTube

  18. Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)

    A 👿 🧵 …

    #Scottish #literature #supernatural #RobertLouisStevenson

    1/8

  19. This thread 1/? is dealing with the partially written #supernatural #vampiric #powers for my alternate #vampires. It covers the third #potentia alphabetically.
    Celenity: the opposite of brooding instead of forethought it deals with reparations, and cleaning up after the fact. More than a nurse or janitor this power taps into speed, efficiency and eventually teamwork.

  20. This thread (1/?) is about the partially written #supernatural #vampiric #powers for my alternate #vampires. It covers the second #potentia alphabetically. Brood Sorcery A deeply meditative magic with time spent brooding generates a pool of power that can be spent on planning, negating penalties or bringing in previously hidden resources depending upon the value of the time spent. Pool maximum is 10x the level of Brood Sorcery. (#Broodsorcery #Sorcery #RPG #ttrpg )

  21. Penultimate stream for #BOOKWEEK, and we'll be sad to see it go! Tonight Sam's back with another #haunting, #supernatural short story, with #WilliamHopeHodgson's tale: The Hog
    Come over to twitch.tv/chilliteracy for a chill background to your evening.
    @bookstodon
    #BedtimeStory #ReadingAloud #AudioBook #GhostStory #PublicDomain

  22. This thread (1/?) is about the partially written #supernatural #vampiric #powers for my alternate #vampires. It covers the first #potentia alphabetically. Animality: this is the power of the connection between the drinker and drinkee of blood. So long as the individual the vampire drew the blood from is alive and well the cost for purchasing Vitalism abilities with Shock is reduced by half (round down) their current levels of Animality.