The guy who directed Obsession made his previous movie for $800 and released it on YouTube for free. Curry Barker spent years making horror for an audience that watches with a thumb on the pause button. YouTube viewers scrub frame by frame, turn up the brightness, screenshot anything strange, and post what they find. So when he got $750,000 to make a real film, he kept composing shots for that audience. Details buried in shadow that only surface when someone goes digging. Traditional…

Sksj002@Sksj00223h ago

In Obsession, the first time Possessed Nikki and Bear are making out, her eyes are completely shrouded in shadow. But if you turn up the brightness, you can actually see that she’s not looking at Bear at all but is instead creepily staring directly at the camera. https://t.co/lA73lgLPYY