The new horror film, Obsession, works as well as it does because of two actors you may not know now, but you’re about to. Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette play Bear and Nikki, characters with so many layers, experiencing such intense emotions, and put in such impossible situations that you both love and fear them in equal doses. The skill level needed to achieve that is almost too hard to fathom. Bear is a seemingly normal, low-key guy who has a massive crush on his best friend and co-worker, Nikki. He wants to tell her how he feels, but he’s too frightened. So, instead, Bear jokingly makes a wish using a “One-Wish Willow” for Nikki to love him more than anything in the world. The wish is then granted. But if Nikki loves Bear more than anything in the world, what will she do to make sure they stay together? Bear is seemingly the protagonist in Obsession, but he’s no hero. When he realizes the wish worked, instead of working to fix it, he rolls with the fantasy, with horrifying results. Nikki is also kind of the antagonist of the film but also its most sympathetic character. She wasn’t given a choice in this matter. She’s forced into this situation, and we can’t help but wish she could get out of it.