Focus Features has submitted Curry Barker’s horror hit Obsession in the Golden Globes musical or comedy categories, not drama. The Hollywood Reporter says the choice tracks how the film plays: audiences laugh at Inde Navarrette’s wish-gone-wrong version of Nikki, much of which has become meme material, and Globes voters have indicated they see it as a comedy.
The studio is also following a lane that already took Get Out, The Substance, Poor Things, and Bugonia. Co-star Megan Lawless said a TIFF crowd cheered when her character Sarah was killed. She had expected people to cry.
The film, about a One Willow Wish that makes Nikki obsess over her friend Bear (Michael Johnston), has reportedly grossed more than $500 million worldwide on a $750,000 budget.
