It's hair-raising to continue watching Obsession. The movie's like walking down a staircase, to a place where no lights are on. When closer to the top, it doesn't feel too fearsome. But after stepping down each tread, it gets more and more chilling, and one reaches a point where one wants to stop walking down. The same is true for the film, as the feature continues playing, it gets more and more chilling, to a point where one wants to stop watching the motion picture because of how terrifying it might be to continue.
Obsession follows Bear, a young man who has a big crush on a young woman in his coworker friend group named Nikki. Trying to ask her out on a date, Bear gets Nikki a present, a dollar store wishbone-like shelf item. Nikki asks for a ride home from a group hangout at a bar, Bear drives her and is about to give her the wishbone as he parks next to her house, but struggles when talking to her, and doesn't. When she enters her house, Bear frustratingly grabs the wishbone and wishes that Nikki would love him more than anything. Then Nikki suddenly appears outside the car window, and asks Bear to come inside her house. From here, Nikki and Bear's friendship becomes a dating relationship that escalates from being somewhat distressful to something else completely.
Start-to-finish escalation comes from the film being unnerving in different ways. Awkwardness in two people interacting is slightly unnerving, and later parts strongly push the terror up to escalate the fear. Every scene of fear pushes boundaries for the characters and audience, every time a new fearful thing in the movie happens an audience member becomes less relaxed to by the conclusion of the movie, no audience member is comfortable.
Fear and terror are what the movie especially excels in, the picture is also good at capturing a sense of wanting something more which is just chained with being stuck in a scary position.
