Obsession's Original Ending Would Have Completely Changed The Film

This article contains spoilers for Obsession.

As word of mouth continues to spread, Obsession remains one of the most talked-about films of the year right now.

The latest big-screen offering from former YouTuber Curry Barker centres around close friends Bear and Nikki, whose worlds are turned upside down when the former makes a wish for the latter to love him “more than anyone in the fucking world” – only for it to come true, with disastrous and tragic circumstances.

By the end of the film, almost all of the main characters are dead, aside from Nikki, whose realisation about what has transpired comes only after Bear has taken his own life and the wish’s hold is released.

However, it turns out this wasn’t the original ending that Curry had in mind.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly around the film’s release, the filmmaker revealed it had originally been his intention for Nikki to kill herself too, drawing comparisons between a Shakespearean tragedy.

“I was really obsessed with this Romeo and Juliet ending, actually,” he claimed, revealing that he was originally adamant that Nikki should die, and even filmed this conclusion to the film.

Curry recalled: “We had shot a ton of different versions of the official ending, the one that’s in the script, the one that I was excited about, and I was like, ‘Okay, we’ll do one ending where [Nikki] survives, but we’ll just do one take of it, and then we’ll move on’.”

However, in the end, actor Inde Navarette’s “performance was so good” that everyone who saw the ending where Nikki survives convinced Curry that this was the one he should go for.

“I just remember my dad and multiple people around me being like, ‘Dude, I think it’s way more disturbing if she just survives this thing’,” he revealed. “I was like, ‘Ah, you’re right’. And so we switched it.”

Obsession has so far been a hit with critics and cinemagoers, with an enviable critical score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.2 stars from fans on Letterboxd.

Curry has also addressed the possibility of another film set in Obsession’s in-universe, albeit with new characters, while Inde has made it clear she’d be up for playing Nikki again if the opportunity arose.

Obsession is in cinemas now.