‘Obsession’ Drops on Digital and Confirms Blu-ray Release Date

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While Obsession’s box office run is still going strong, it’s now available to watch at home on video-on-demand platforms. The horror film became a breakout smash with audiences and critics alike, and it’s now available to rent or buy on digital from platforms like Prime Video, Apple TV, or Fandango at Home. 

According to the listing, the film includes extras when you buy the title, which are not available when renting it. Obsession can be rented for $19.99 or purchased for $24.99. For physical media fans, a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD release is slated for July 14. There is no word yet on a streaming release date; it’s a Focus Features release, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, meaning it’s most likely to end up on Peacock. 

The film was written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker in his debut, and quickly became a box office smash, raking in over $370 million against a reported budget of $750,000. Obsession follows Bear, played by Michael Johnston, who’s hopelessly infatuated with his co-worker Nikki, played by Inde Navarette in a chillingly good performance. Bear stumbles upon a novelty “One Wish Willow” and wishes Nikki would fall in love with him. He gets a little more than he bargained for when Nikki becomes obsessed with him, at the expense of their friendships, her own well-being, and a few more grisly consequences.  

It’s a classic monkey’s paw conceit, but twisted to unsettling new heights, and Barker said he was inspired by a classic Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode. The success of Obsession and Backrooms, both original horror films helmed by under-30 directors with backgrounds on YouTube, kicked off a conversation about what’s driving the Gen-Z horror renaissance: “The question is whether this moment is going to evolve into a bona fide movement,” wrote Rolling Stone’s David Fear. “We’d bet a supply of cursed monkeys’ paws that the answer is yes.”

The director’s next film is Anything But Ghosts and will star Aaron Paul and Bryce Dallas Howard, and Barker teased that his next film will take place in the same universe as Obsession.