{"id":7314,"date":"2026-07-12T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2026-07-12T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:39:23","slug":"obsession-by-curry-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/07\/12\/obsession-by-curry-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Obsession<\/em> by Curry Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Dramatic development, cinematography, blocking, editing, sound design, and Navarrette\u2019s performance are outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 How the movie keeps the viewers trapped in Bear\u2019s perspective cleverly hints at the living hell Nikki is trapped in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Everything\u2019s firmly grounded in the real, actual horrors of cowardice, coercion, and exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>One absolute highlight is Nikki\u2019s recitation of her violent, incestuous, Baudelaire-ish H\u00e4nsel &amp; Gretel sequel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obsession_(2025_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Obsession<\/em><\/a> by Curry Barker, 2025.<br \/>\nWatched at the Cinema theater on July 7, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/07\/12\/obsession-by-curry-barker\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Obsession by Curry Barker\"><p>\ud83c\udfac A highly unsettling variation of the monkey&#8217;s paw motif.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}