May 22, 2026
The Movie You MUST See This Weekend: “Obsession”
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Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Friday, May twenty second, and we had a guaran teed winner for you this weekend at the movie theater. And we are, as they say, obsessed with that. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. I am digging robes. Being able to give a movie review on a Friday. Going into a holiday weekend, a lot of people are going to be looking for a movie to see. I know a couple of big movies are coming out. This is the first thing everybody should say.
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Speaker 2: I agree. And look, we have gone into movies that have been and this one wasn't and hasn't been necessarily well'll know what has been critically acclaimed.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I've seen some.
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Speaker 2: I've seen some negative reviews, but look with a ninety ninety five and ninety five on Rotten Tomatoes, look when I see those numbers. When we see those numbers, we go into the movies with high expectations, and oftentimes we're disappointed. I do think sometimes when something gets hyped up and talked about so much, you end up thinking this is gonna be great, and then it just isn't what you thought it was going to be. This time, I was even more impressed than I thought I would be. I was entertained, I was scared. I was laughing, I jumped, I made noises that I didn't even know I could make in the movie theater. I was embarrassed. At one point, I was like, I don't even know what guttural yell came out of me, but it was. I started laughing at myself afterwards. It was that good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was embarrassing for everybody sitting there here as well, But this was Robes a unbelievable experience for us and folks. The movie we are talking about is obsession, and even if you're not a horror movie fan, this is one we can highly recommend to everybody for a whole bunch of reasons. And Robe, you just listed so many things. You were in there, laughing, you were scared, you were all these things. You know what else you also did? Probably we were thinking because even the premise will spark conversation.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was engaging, it was entertaining. I never once felt bored or like. This was such a non formulaic movie. I think that's one of the reasons why I liked it so much. I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know where it was headed. I didn't know how they were going to end. It couldn't figure out who necessarily was going to die. And it just kept me so interested and entertained from start to finish. And that's rare in a movie, and especially as tired as we are, with as much as we work. We saw this at the end of the day. We usually do not do that, No, because we get up so early, and to go to a later movie is really dangerous because I say, you got at least a fifty percent chance that one or both of us is going to fall asleep for some part of or all of the movie.
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Speaker 1: Movie better be good in big theater. This is the most comfortable chair in the darkest room I've been.
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Speaker 2: All day, and we've just been working our butts off. But that said, we were engaged. I came out of there fired up. This was definitely the best movie we have seen this year.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and Robes, you said we did it in the evening after a very difficult day. This was our escape, and we did have high expectations of really being taken away from our world.
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Speaker 2: The horrors of our life, and.
00:03:34
Speaker 1: This thing delivered so a lot of folks that this might be familiar. And I didn't pull up the clip period to run for you all to hear. But if you've been to a movie recently, and certainly a horror movie in the past few weeks or a month or so, there's a preview that plays before your movie, and it was promoting this movie Obsession. And the trailer is unique, robes and memorable because it wasn't flashy this and that. It just showed one kid sitting in a car.
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Speaker 2: It's hilarious. So you've got the main character his the character's name is Bear, and you can tell that he's made a wish he wants to take back, and so he looks on the back of this box. He buys this wish maker basically at a magic store, and he makes a wish that he wants to take back. So there's like a customer service number on the back of this this wish fox.
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Speaker 1: I mean, in the trailer, we don't know all that backstory. It just showed you a kid sitting in a car on speaker phone talking to somebody customer service, customer service.
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Speaker 2: And this dude seems like so uninterested and it's really funny. Because it mimics like so many experiences a lot of us have had, and like, yeah, we don't really do that, like can I get the wish? Can I amend my wish?
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Speaker 1: I believe?
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Speaker 2: We say it's like, yeah, we don't really do that, and he's like, well, can I cancel my wish? They don't really do that either, Like so basically, it just it's so it's funny. There's real comedic elements to it, and it's interesting when you're watching the trailer because you're thinking, obviously, this is a horror movie, so it's gonna be scary, but it's funny too, sign me up. And it really was comedic throughout. At the same time it was disturbing. Yeah, and that's pretty brilliant to be able to put those two things together.
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Speaker 1: The movie is great, but that trailer was of me.
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Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
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Speaker 1: Because it didn't hint at horror, but there was intrigue, and like you said, there was a bit of dread that you felt that you pulled that off perfectly. So we were curious about the movie, but we didn't go on opening weekend. But the thing did Gangbusters Robes on opening weekend and a big part of it is what's happening right now. We got so excited that we hopped on and wanted to tell every everybody about it exactly.
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Speaker 2: So word of mouth is really fueling this film because it was up against Juggernauts and it still came in third. And this thing is the little engine that could. And it's really cool to see a YouTuber right turn filmmaker. And this is an indie film. It's as India as it comes. When you have excellent writing and you have great actors, you can kind of make movie magic. And that's exactly what happened here. The script was incredible, The acting was so authentic and natural. You don't need a bunch of you know, effects and I don't know, all the things that cost a lot of money when you make movies, a big said and big effects, and there was none of that. It just was so it was great storytelling.
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Speaker 1: This was as you mentioned, don't need all the effects and whatnot. This movie was made on a budget of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Seven and fifty thousand dollars. It is the lowest budget to make it to the top of the box office since Paranormal Activity almost twenty years ago, and that.
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Speaker 2: Has some of those vibes, but with the comedic through line, there is a similar feel to it. What was the other one where they looked up when they're running through the woods and the light the flashlights up above them, and that was a low budget one as well. No you do? Why can't I think of the name?
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Speaker 1: No, you got me on? The flashlight above them when they're running through the woods.
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Speaker 2: They've got the uplight on their face when they're running through the woods.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, you got me on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I got to hear that one from you. It's not often that you stumped me on a horror movie, but you got me right now, baby. But the actor and the acting, we turned to each other at one point while we were sitting there watching Obsession and said, these two were perfectly cast. And there are I guess three main actors in this movie, but the two the leads are perfectly play off each other. And they're not people who are known entities, if you will, when it comes to big budget movies and Hollywood blockbusters. But they was very cute to see them play off of each other. And now I'm fans and want to look them look them up and see them do more things.
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Speaker 2: Oh I can't wait. Oh yeah, it was the Blair Witch Project is what I was trying to come up with. But I obviously did a horrible way of explaining it. But I was like, you know, the they were lit up like the Blair Witch Project and they're running through the woods. That was a low budget film that was spectacular to watch and very entertaining. It just reminds it had those types of vibes where it really does feel authentic and real. It almost as if I was watching somebody actually going through the experience rather than seeing a Hollywood movie take place.
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Speaker 1: And we should give you the synopsis even of the movie because it's a little don't want to give away too much heroes, And I'm not sure if we were even clear on exactly what did we know.
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Speaker 2: No, we knew it was about a wish I think I had in my head. It was one of those be careful what you wish for movies and that's kind of exactly what it was. I had no idea where it would go and how creepy it would get. But the synopsis is this, after breaking the mysterious one wish, willow to win his CRUSH's heart. A hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for, but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
00:09:41
Speaker 1: It is so simple and brilliant and beautiful, and how this thing is done. Now, I'm sure that movies can go back and things similar to this have been done in one way for more fashion rogues. This was and we spoke about this earlier. There A jumped out of my seat with conjuring and insidious because there's new original stuff that like this is cool. You know when you see a good one Robes this is up there. Immediately for me, this thing was brilliant. Every shot, the way sometimes she was just standing in a syllable, Oh my god, the way they made her move a little weird, every the smallest little thing. This was some brilliant, brilliant horror movie making.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and you know what you said this at the beginning, and I definitely thought this throughout. Look, cat lovers, beware, the opening scene and a couple scenes throughout the movie are really gonna probably distribue. And if that's going to distribute, then this is not the movie for you. Because there are a couple scenes that involve cats that might upset some folks who are animal lovers. But the young woman in this Indy I don't know how to say. Her last name never read Indian Neverette. She carried, so I mean, look, I know that Michael Johnston, the guy who played Bear, was the lead, and he was perfect, like this affable, likable, like big hearted boy next door.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: You want to root for him, You're.
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Speaker 2: Rooting for him. And then Indian Everette is just this cool, just fun girl. But she turns on a dime and is just amazing at suddenly becoming obsessed. And it's basically every I shouldn't say just guys. I think it's every girl's worst nightmare in a sense like, yeah, you love love, but when love turns to obsession, that's a whole other can of worms.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: It brought up a lot of questions about free will, about choice, about morality. It did Rhodes and Wow, there were times where he had choices to make and it did. It brought up It was fascinating some of the things, some of the conversations that it would spark about just human nature.
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Speaker 2: Can't say that often about a horror movie where you're entertained, you're laughing, you're creep the heck out, you're making crazy noises because you're so jarred by what you're seeing. And then when you walk away, it actually is conversation making. There's a lot of what ifs and what did you think about that? This really just was, for me, my favorite movie I have seen in a very, very very long time.
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Speaker 1: It is ROMs and I'm telling you all, it's will this. I was looking at her in particular, going is that an award winning performance?
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Speaker 2: It seemed like it was to me?
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Speaker 1: Is it Will it be dismissed because it's a horror movie perform I don't know. She was incredible. She was incredible robes. Will this get any award attention?
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Speaker 2: I would love to see it happen. But it will be interesting because when we come back. I mentioned the youtwo we're gonna tell you about the filmmaker and this blew my mind. This brilliant piece of entertainment. And you're talking. This is from two people who have seen pretty much every horror movie under the sun. This brilliant piece of filmmaking came from a twenty six year old. We'll tell you all about him when we come back and welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ where we are talking about our obsession for the movie Obsession. It has legs. This movie did well in its opening weekend on a shoe string budget. There were definitely trailers. We definitely saw the trailer for this, but didn't see a ton of promotion for it beyond that. So a shoe string budget. It came in number three in a huge weekend with powerhouse movies. Oh, I don't know, Devil Wears Prada too, and oh what was that other movie, Michael. So for it to come in three is pretty impressive for a horror movie period, but for a small budget, non publicized movie, this is pretty remarkable. And now that we've gone and seen it, we understand why this. I hope this movie does well again this weekend and the one after that, because this is just pure entertainment and it was brought to us by twenty six year old Curry Baker.
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Speaker 1: I did not know this dude has been getting the attention he's been getting. We're not big YouTube folks, we don't keep an eye on it, but he produced a movie on YouTube. They essentially was dismissive of and just threw it up. He said it was some old movie he had. He just threw it up for shits and giggles. It ends up getting Gangbusters, getting so well reviewed and getting him so much attention. Robes, I had no idea.
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Speaker 2: It's called Milk and Cereal. Cereal s sorry, se R. I al like serial Killer, so Milk and Cereal. It was a YouTube it. In fact, it was on Variety's list of best horror movies of twenty twenty four. We have not seen that, but obviously we're going to watch it now. We have to watch Milk and Cereal because obsession. I am so impressed with this young man. He is twenty six. You have to be smart as hell to put that together, because it was just so clever in its concept. But the dialogue, the dialogue was so good.
00:15:42
Speaker 1: She switched back and forth in the way that was disturbing, Like she she freaked out every guy watching who's dating a woman for the past three months? Yes, only right.
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Speaker 2: Because there's a version of her that's trapped in this other version. Again, don't want to give away too much, but she would slip in an out of basically her old self and this base.
00:16:04
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, a person who's under a spell basically. So it was really creepy to watch her be able to do that. I mean it was chilling. And sometimes it would be as you pointed out, like in the back of a room or just right out of the perspective of the center, so you'd have to kind of look for it, and all of a sudden you'd realize she's just standing there. It was loucking. It was so good. Now, this is kind of cool. So Curry Baker had this amazing movie that we're gonna have to check out on YouTube in twenty twenty four. Now he's got obsession and he is now going to write the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a couple other big time gigs lined up. Yeah, he's twenty six and pulling this off. He pulled off something special. Keep your eye on Curry Baker. This is where they come from. And his background is as a come median. He's a comedian. And he actually spoke about, Yeah, the reason we can do this and we're good at this is because we usually come from a pretty dark place, as we talk about this all the time with comedians, and so he was able to weave. What the the comedy, the horror comedy our new genre.
00:17:22
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's our favorite new genre.
00:17:24
Speaker 1: That we love. This is straight horror, but he blended these comedic even romantic sometimes and human elements in this movie. I would never put this one in the category of horror comedy. But I laughed throughout this movie.
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Speaker 2: Oh so we saw it in a New York City movie theater, as we pointed out, and it was what would you say? I mean, this was like a five o'clock five PM movie on a Wednesday, so it wasn't packed, but there were people in the theater and we kept hearing them laughing out loud, which was making me laugh too. And look, most horror comedies, the reason why you're laughing is because they get silly, right, they get physically silly, yes, so you end up lock. This was not that. There was no physical laughter. There's no physical comedy. It was comedic in a dialogue.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of though a joke, right, Horror comedies do crack jokes. This movie I don't remember them cracking a single one, but the dialogue was hilarious.
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Speaker 2: And when she goes into her manic what happens is she becomes obsessed. I don't think that's giving away too much because of the title of the movie. But when the female character gets obsessed, she becomes so crazy that it's so scary that it's funny. It's so scary it's funny.
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Speaker 1: Would you agree? Though there were not jokes, No, it was. This movie's hilarious.
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Speaker 2: So well done.
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Speaker 1: Bravo, bravo, bravo. I cannot wait to see what's next from this young man. And there's gonna be a ton from him.
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Speaker 2: And he's twenty six, so we get to enjoy hopefully his incredible works of art and entertainment for decades to come. Yay, obsession, We're obsessed.
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Speaker 1: Oh I should mention Robes. We talked about the weekend. It came in number three, however was today today?
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Speaker 2: Well, we're recording this just coming into this weekend, the following weekend.
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Speaker 1: Let me get my days right then, because it started they have this box office they do it by the day. It came in number three over the weekend, but the latest numbers from Monday and Tuesday it's number one. Wow, so it's beating Michael and Devilware's Prada Monday and Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: At least, that's kind of awesome.
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Speaker 1: It is awesome.
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Speaker 2: We will we will definitely be following up on our Monday morning run. We'll be able to get the box office results, so maybe hopefully this helps get the word out. Go see Obsession this weekend. You will not regret it. And with that everyone, thank you as always for listening to us. I'm Amy robock On, behalf of TJ. Holmes. We'll we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. It is Friday, May twenty second, and we had a guaran teed winner for you this weekend at the movie theater. And we are, as they say, obsessed with that. Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. I am digging robes. Being able to give a movie review on a Friday. Going into a holiday weekend, a lot of people are going to be looking for a movie to see. I know a couple of big movies are coming out. This is the first thing everybody should say.
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Speaker 2: I agree. And look, we have gone into movies that have been and this one wasn't and hasn't been necessarily well'll know what has been critically acclaimed.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I've seen some.
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Speaker 2: I've seen some negative reviews, but look with a ninety ninety five and ninety five on Rotten Tomatoes, look when I see those numbers. When we see those numbers, we go into the movies with high expectations, and oftentimes we're disappointed. I do think sometimes when something gets hyped up and talked about so much, you end up thinking this is gonna be great, and then it just isn't what you thought it was going to be. This time, I was even more impressed than I thought I would be. I was entertained, I was scared. I was laughing, I jumped, I made noises that I didn't even know I could make in the movie theater. I was embarrassed. At one point, I was like, I don't even know what guttural yell came out of me, but it was. I started laughing at myself afterwards. It was that good.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was embarrassing for everybody sitting there here as well, But this was Robes a unbelievable experience for us and folks. The movie we are talking about is obsession, and even if you're not a horror movie fan, this is one we can highly recommend to everybody for a whole bunch of reasons. And Robe, you just listed so many things. You were in there, laughing, you were scared, you were all these things. You know what else you also did? Probably we were thinking because even the premise will spark conversation.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was engaging, it was entertaining. I never once felt bored or like. This was such a non formulaic movie. I think that's one of the reasons why I liked it so much. I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know where it was headed. I didn't know how they were going to end. It couldn't figure out who necessarily was going to die. And it just kept me so interested and entertained from start to finish. And that's rare in a movie, and especially as tired as we are, with as much as we work. We saw this at the end of the day. We usually do not do that, No, because we get up so early, and to go to a later movie is really dangerous because I say, you got at least a fifty percent chance that one or both of us is going to fall asleep for some part of or all of the movie.
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Speaker 1: Movie better be good in big theater. This is the most comfortable chair in the darkest room I've been.
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Speaker 2: All day, and we've just been working our butts off. But that said, we were engaged. I came out of there fired up. This was definitely the best movie we have seen this year.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and Robes, you said we did it in the evening after a very difficult day. This was our escape, and we did have high expectations of really being taken away from our world.
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Speaker 2: The horrors of our life, and.
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Speaker 1: This thing delivered so a lot of folks that this might be familiar. And I didn't pull up the clip period to run for you all to hear. But if you've been to a movie recently, and certainly a horror movie in the past few weeks or a month or so, there's a preview that plays before your movie, and it was promoting this movie Obsession. And the trailer is unique, robes and memorable because it wasn't flashy this and that. It just showed one kid sitting in a car.
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Speaker 2: It's hilarious. So you've got the main character his the character's name is Bear, and you can tell that he's made a wish he wants to take back, and so he looks on the back of this box. He buys this wish maker basically at a magic store, and he makes a wish that he wants to take back. So there's like a customer service number on the back of this this wish fox.
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Speaker 1: I mean, in the trailer, we don't know all that backstory. It just showed you a kid sitting in a car on speaker phone talking to somebody customer service, customer service.
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Speaker 2: And this dude seems like so uninterested and it's really funny. Because it mimics like so many experiences a lot of us have had, and like, yeah, we don't really do that, like can I get the wish? Can I amend my wish?
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Speaker 1: I believe?
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Speaker 2: We say it's like, yeah, we don't really do that, and he's like, well, can I cancel my wish? They don't really do that either, Like so basically, it just it's so it's funny. There's real comedic elements to it, and it's interesting when you're watching the trailer because you're thinking, obviously, this is a horror movie, so it's gonna be scary, but it's funny too, sign me up. And it really was comedic throughout. At the same time it was disturbing. Yeah, and that's pretty brilliant to be able to put those two things together.
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Speaker 1: The movie is great, but that trailer was of me.
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Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
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Speaker 1: Because it didn't hint at horror, but there was intrigue, and like you said, there was a bit of dread that you felt that you pulled that off perfectly. So we were curious about the movie, but we didn't go on opening weekend. But the thing did Gangbusters Robes on opening weekend and a big part of it is what's happening right now. We got so excited that we hopped on and wanted to tell every everybody about it exactly.
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Speaker 2: So word of mouth is really fueling this film because it was up against Juggernauts and it still came in third. And this thing is the little engine that could. And it's really cool to see a YouTuber right turn filmmaker. And this is an indie film. It's as India as it comes. When you have excellent writing and you have great actors, you can kind of make movie magic. And that's exactly what happened here. The script was incredible, The acting was so authentic and natural. You don't need a bunch of you know, effects and I don't know, all the things that cost a lot of money when you make movies, a big said and big effects, and there was none of that. It just was so it was great storytelling.
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Speaker 1: This was as you mentioned, don't need all the effects and whatnot. This movie was made on a budget of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Seven and fifty thousand dollars. It is the lowest budget to make it to the top of the box office since Paranormal Activity almost twenty years ago, and that.
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Speaker 2: Has some of those vibes, but with the comedic through line, there is a similar feel to it. What was the other one where they looked up when they're running through the woods and the light the flashlights up above them, and that was a low budget one as well. No you do? Why can't I think of the name?
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Speaker 1: No, you got me on? The flashlight above them when they're running through the woods.
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Speaker 2: They've got the uplight on their face when they're running through the woods.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, you got me on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I got to hear that one from you. It's not often that you stumped me on a horror movie, but you got me right now, baby. But the actor and the acting, we turned to each other at one point while we were sitting there watching Obsession and said, these two were perfectly cast. And there are I guess three main actors in this movie, but the two the leads are perfectly play off each other. And they're not people who are known entities, if you will, when it comes to big budget movies and Hollywood blockbusters. But they was very cute to see them play off of each other. And now I'm fans and want to look them look them up and see them do more things.
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Speaker 2: Oh I can't wait. Oh yeah, it was the Blair Witch Project is what I was trying to come up with. But I obviously did a horrible way of explaining it. But I was like, you know, the they were lit up like the Blair Witch Project and they're running through the woods. That was a low budget film that was spectacular to watch and very entertaining. It just reminds it had those types of vibes where it really does feel authentic and real. It almost as if I was watching somebody actually going through the experience rather than seeing a Hollywood movie take place.
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Speaker 1: And we should give you the synopsis even of the movie because it's a little don't want to give away too much heroes, And I'm not sure if we were even clear on exactly what did we know.
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Speaker 2: No, we knew it was about a wish I think I had in my head. It was one of those be careful what you wish for movies and that's kind of exactly what it was. I had no idea where it would go and how creepy it would get. But the synopsis is this, after breaking the mysterious one wish, willow to win his CRUSH's heart. A hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for, but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
00:09:41
Speaker 1: It is so simple and brilliant and beautiful, and how this thing is done. Now, I'm sure that movies can go back and things similar to this have been done in one way for more fashion rogues. This was and we spoke about this earlier. There A jumped out of my seat with conjuring and insidious because there's new original stuff that like this is cool. You know when you see a good one Robes this is up there. Immediately for me, this thing was brilliant. Every shot, the way sometimes she was just standing in a syllable, Oh my god, the way they made her move a little weird, every the smallest little thing. This was some brilliant, brilliant horror movie making.
00:10:33
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know what you said this at the beginning, and I definitely thought this throughout. Look, cat lovers, beware, the opening scene and a couple scenes throughout the movie are really gonna probably distribue. And if that's going to distribute, then this is not the movie for you. Because there are a couple scenes that involve cats that might upset some folks who are animal lovers. But the young woman in this Indy I don't know how to say. Her last name never read Indian Neverette. She carried, so I mean, look, I know that Michael Johnston, the guy who played Bear, was the lead, and he was perfect, like this affable, likable, like big hearted boy next door.
00:11:14
Speaker 1: You want to root for him, You're.
00:11:15
Speaker 2: Rooting for him. And then Indian Everette is just this cool, just fun girl. But she turns on a dime and is just amazing at suddenly becoming obsessed. And it's basically every I shouldn't say just guys. I think it's every girl's worst nightmare in a sense like, yeah, you love love, but when love turns to obsession, that's a whole other can of worms.
00:11:42
Speaker 1: It brought up a lot of questions about free will, about choice, about morality. It did Rhodes and Wow, there were times where he had choices to make and it did. It brought up It was fascinating some of the things, some of the conversations that it would spark about just human nature.
00:12:04
Speaker 2: Can't say that often about a horror movie where you're entertained, you're laughing, you're creep the heck out, you're making crazy noises because you're so jarred by what you're seeing. And then when you walk away, it actually is conversation making. There's a lot of what ifs and what did you think about that? This really just was, for me, my favorite movie I have seen in a very, very very long time.
00:12:29
Speaker 1: It is ROMs and I'm telling you all, it's will this. I was looking at her in particular, going is that an award winning performance?
00:12:39
Speaker 2: It seemed like it was to me?
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Speaker 1: Is it Will it be dismissed because it's a horror movie perform I don't know. She was incredible. She was incredible robes. Will this get any award attention?
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Speaker 2: I would love to see it happen. But it will be interesting because when we come back. I mentioned the youtwo we're gonna tell you about the filmmaker and this blew my mind. This brilliant piece of entertainment. And you're talking. This is from two people who have seen pretty much every horror movie under the sun. This brilliant piece of filmmaking came from a twenty six year old. We'll tell you all about him when we come back and welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ where we are talking about our obsession for the movie Obsession. It has legs. This movie did well in its opening weekend on a shoe string budget. There were definitely trailers. We definitely saw the trailer for this, but didn't see a ton of promotion for it beyond that. So a shoe string budget. It came in number three in a huge weekend with powerhouse movies. Oh, I don't know, Devil Wears Prada too, and oh what was that other movie, Michael. So for it to come in three is pretty impressive for a horror movie period, but for a small budget, non publicized movie, this is pretty remarkable. And now that we've gone and seen it, we understand why this. I hope this movie does well again this weekend and the one after that, because this is just pure entertainment and it was brought to us by twenty six year old Curry Baker.
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Speaker 1: I did not know this dude has been getting the attention he's been getting. We're not big YouTube folks, we don't keep an eye on it, but he produced a movie on YouTube. They essentially was dismissive of and just threw it up. He said it was some old movie he had. He just threw it up for shits and giggles. It ends up getting Gangbusters, getting so well reviewed and getting him so much attention. Robes, I had no idea.
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Speaker 2: It's called Milk and Cereal. Cereal s sorry, se R. I al like serial Killer, so Milk and Cereal. It was a YouTube it. In fact, it was on Variety's list of best horror movies of twenty twenty four. We have not seen that, but obviously we're going to watch it now. We have to watch Milk and Cereal because obsession. I am so impressed with this young man. He is twenty six. You have to be smart as hell to put that together, because it was just so clever in its concept. But the dialogue, the dialogue was so good.
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Speaker 1: She switched back and forth in the way that was disturbing, Like she she freaked out every guy watching who's dating a woman for the past three months? Yes, only right.
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Speaker 2: Because there's a version of her that's trapped in this other version. Again, don't want to give away too much, but she would slip in an out of basically her old self and this base.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, a person who's under a spell basically. So it was really creepy to watch her be able to do that. I mean it was chilling. And sometimes it would be as you pointed out, like in the back of a room or just right out of the perspective of the center, so you'd have to kind of look for it, and all of a sudden you'd realize she's just standing there. It was loucking. It was so good. Now, this is kind of cool. So Curry Baker had this amazing movie that we're gonna have to check out on YouTube in twenty twenty four. Now he's got obsession and he is now going to write the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a couple other big time gigs lined up. Yeah, he's twenty six and pulling this off. He pulled off something special. Keep your eye on Curry Baker. This is where they come from. And his background is as a come median. He's a comedian. And he actually spoke about, Yeah, the reason we can do this and we're good at this is because we usually come from a pretty dark place, as we talk about this all the time with comedians, and so he was able to weave. What the the comedy, the horror comedy our new genre.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's our favorite new genre.
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Speaker 1: That we love. This is straight horror, but he blended these comedic even romantic sometimes and human elements in this movie. I would never put this one in the category of horror comedy. But I laughed throughout this movie.
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Speaker 2: Oh so we saw it in a New York City movie theater, as we pointed out, and it was what would you say? I mean, this was like a five o'clock five PM movie on a Wednesday, so it wasn't packed, but there were people in the theater and we kept hearing them laughing out loud, which was making me laugh too. And look, most horror comedies, the reason why you're laughing is because they get silly, right, they get physically silly, yes, so you end up lock. This was not that. There was no physical laughter. There's no physical comedy. It was comedic in a dialogue.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of though a joke, right, Horror comedies do crack jokes. This movie I don't remember them cracking a single one, but the dialogue was hilarious.
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Speaker 2: And when she goes into her manic what happens is she becomes obsessed. I don't think that's giving away too much because of the title of the movie. But when the female character gets obsessed, she becomes so crazy that it's so scary that it's funny. It's so scary it's funny.
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Speaker 1: Would you agree? Though there were not jokes, No, it was. This movie's hilarious.
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Speaker 2: So well done.
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Speaker 1: Bravo, bravo, bravo. I cannot wait to see what's next from this young man. And there's gonna be a ton from him.
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Speaker 2: And he's twenty six, so we get to enjoy hopefully his incredible works of art and entertainment for decades to come. Yay, obsession, We're obsessed.
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Speaker 1: Oh I should mention Robes. We talked about the weekend. It came in number three, however was today today?
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Speaker 2: Well, we're recording this just coming into this weekend, the following weekend.
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Speaker 1: Let me get my days right then, because it started they have this box office they do it by the day. It came in number three over the weekend, but the latest numbers from Monday and Tuesday it's number one. Wow, so it's beating Michael and Devilware's Prada Monday and Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: At least, that's kind of awesome.
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Speaker 1: It is awesome.
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Speaker 2: We will we will definitely be following up on our Monday morning run. We'll be able to get the box office results, so maybe hopefully this helps get the word out. Go see Obsession this weekend. You will not regret it. And with that everyone, thank you as always for listening to us. I'm Amy robock On, behalf of TJ. Holmes. We'll we'll talk to you soon.