Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Obsession is a supernatural horror film about a music store employee who uses a mysterious toy to make his friend Nikki fall in love with him — only to find that the wish carries horrifying consequences. It speaks to a taste for stories where desire itself becomes the monster: the gap between wanting someone and truly knowing them, and what fills that gap when shortcuts are taken. If you're drawn to romantic fixation crossing into dread, these picks echo it across every medium.
Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants his wish for his friend Nikki to fall in love with him, resulting in horrific consequences. Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter appear in supporting roles, and Barker has a voice role.
From the Wikipedia article Obsession_(2025_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Obsession
An affair between a surgeon and his son's fiancée becomes an all-consuming infatuation with permanent consequences.
Series
Doctor Foster
Suspicion of a cheating husband unravels into something far uglier, including a hidden capacity for violence.
Series
Tempted
A calculated seduction bet turns real when the pursuer finds himself genuinely falling for the person he meant to use.
Series
Innocent Love
A tragedy destroys one woman's life and leaves her defined by its aftermath, shunned for a crime she didn't commit.
Series
Brand New Cherry Flavor
A filmmaker's pursuit of revenge in Hollywood slides into a hallucinatory world where magic and horror blur together.
Series
You
A charming man's obsessive need to insert himself into women's lives escalates into genuinely dangerous extremes.
Book
Savage Obsession
Beth stays in a marriage she regrets, convinced the man she wed loves someone else entirely.
Book
Obsession
Tiffany is trapped by a man whose love curdled into abuse, unable to find a way out.
Book
Blind obsession
Autumn returns to a man she loves despite knowing he hates her, driven by a need she can't reason away.
Book
Irresistible Attraction
A chance encounter rewires someone's world completely, before a single word is even exchanged.
Book
Elusive Obsession
Diana's long-nursed hatred for Reece Falcon finally finds its outlet, but obsession and revenge share uneasy ground.
Book
Magic Obsession
Two people stranded together in Brazil lock into a battle of wills neither is willing to lose.
Film
Obsession
A reporter drawn into a powerful man's emotional maze finds passion entangled with something she didn't bargain for.
Film
Obsession
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
Film
Obsession
A single chance encounter sends someone spiraling where the line between obsession and real danger dissolves.
Film
Obsession
Intense jealousy turns a woman's involvement with a man into something darker and more violent.
Film
Obsession
Dreams of a fresh start in France unravel as the pace of rebuilding begins pulling Simone in unexpected directions.
Film
Secret Obsession
A woman with no memory is at the mercy of a husband whose eagerness to keep her isolated grows increasingly unsettling.
The TV series You (2018) captures the same dangerously obsessive mindset, while Brand New Cherry Flavor matches the supernatural horror tone — both are strong next watches if you liked the dark, sinister turn the film takes.
Obsession (2023) is the most direct companion — a psychological drama about an infatuation that spirals into chaos — and Doctor Foster delivers a similarly tense slow-burn about desire and betrayal.
Elusive Obsession and Blind Obsession both center on people consumed by a fixation that grows dangerous, making them fitting reads if the film's theme of desire turning sinister resonated with you.