Obsession — who hasn't seen it at this point?

Curry Barker's $750K horror film has made over $400 million, minted a star in Inde Navarrette, and started a fight about what to even call this genre.

This week we dig into the BTS trivia, the scenes we can't stop thinking about, and the Indian censor board's missing 36 seconds. Then we get into nice guy horror itself: the worst Pokémon evolution you've ever heard, Bollywood's hypermasculine inverse, and the Indian remake of Obsession that lives in our heads. (It involves IIT coaching.)

Caution: ⚠️ Full spoilers for Obsession, light spoilers for Barbarian and Companion.

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Chapters:

00:00 – The biggest hit of the year

01:29 – Blumhouse's biggest surprise

02:44 – Breakout stars & the YouTube-to-horror pipeline

05:14 – First impressions (three viewings deep)

07:24 – Synopsis, spoiler warning & the allegory read

12:02 – The censor board's missing 36 seconds

16:17 – Duct tape, the helpline call & the spider crawl

20:03 – Ian's billion dollars

22:09 – The Infamous Brick scene

23:43 – The final sequence hits different on rewatch

25:04 – Trivia: Get Out & Hereditary homages

26:54 – The rise of Nice Guy horror

27:32 – The worst Pokémon evolution

31:22 – It's not entitlement, it's control

34:20 – Narcissism & missing your own red flags

37:06 – Barbarian, Companion & the genre canon

39:43 – Bollywood's hypermasculine inverse

43:20 – Take a stand, cowards

45:43 – Media literacy & the Indian audience

46:30 – The scene that had to stay

47:54 – Obsession, made in India (the IIT version)

50:01 – Final ranking: Obsession vs Barbarian vs Companion

53:42 – Wrap-up