Kalshi traders forecast Obsession's Rotten Tomatoes score at 93.6%

Traders forecast director Curry Barker's supernatural horror-thriller Obsession to earn a 93.6% rating on the Tomatometer, putting it firmly in "Fresh" territory. As of Wednesday, the film has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Blumhouse Productions' newest film stars Michael Johnston as a hopeless romantic named Bear who works at a music store and pines for the affection of his longtime friend and co-worker Nikki, played by Inde Navarrette.

Bear finds a magic object in a new age shop that allows him to make a single wish. He decides to use the charmed object to make Nikki fall desperately in love with him.

The wish works, but not in the way Bear intended. Nikki becomes obsessed with Bear to the point of madness, and every time Bear tries to distance himself from her, she becomes even more infatuated, and violent, with their relationship.

Positive reviews for Obsession have been widespread among major film critics.

The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck calls the film "fun" for the way "it takes typical aspects of dysfunctional romantic relationships to initially comic and then horrific extremes. The film provides further complexity by not making Bear a sympathetic victim but rather complicit by initially enjoying Nikki's affections despite their artificial provenance. Until, of course, they get out of hand."

RogerEbert.com's Brian Tallerico caught the film at the Toronto International Film Festival's Fantastic Fest North and calls it "consistently f—ed up, and I mean that as a compliment."

The Guardian's Benjamin Lee gave the horror movie four-out-of-five stars. He says Obsession is "a more serious film than one might expect given the silliness of the setup but Barker still avoids losing himself in the tiresome dirge of po-faced trauma horror." He even compared it to the 2025 Oscar-nominated body-horror flick The Substance.

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