#Obsession is my favorite film of the year so far. It's a simple yet well-executed concept that depicts the terror of toxic relationships from the extreme perspective of the horror genre - which is a quite smart concept. Michael Johnston is an engaging leading man, but the movie belongs to Inde Navarrette who's simply iconic and delivers an all-timer for the horror genre. I was thrilled, I laughed, I jumped from my seat and I was never bored (I forgot to eat my popcorn and have my drink actually). A near-perfect horror flick.
R: 9,5/10
Everyone’s missing the real story here.
A 9-week-old kitten did the job of a $30 smoke detector. Fred had been alive for 63 days. He had zero training. He just panicked and scratched.
The fire started from a dehumidifier. By the time VanWormer looked up, flames had already consumed the entire attic. That means the fire had been burning long enough to spread through the roof structure while a grown man slept through it.
Three out of five home fire deaths in the US happen in homes with no smoke alarms or non-functioning ones. Over 1,450 people die every year in exactly this scenario. A working alarm cuts your chance of dying in a house fire by 50%.
Fred didn’t “sacrifice himself.” He was a terrified baby animal trying to wake up the nearest large creature because he didn’t know what else to do. That panic response saved a man’s life because no $30 device on the ceiling was doing it first.
The damage exceeded $1 million. VanWormer’s girlfriend and daughter weren’t home that night. If they had been, and Fred hadn’t been there, this story has a very different ending.
We keep sharing these stories as feel-good animal content. They’re actually the clearest possible indictment of how many people are sleeping in homes without functioning smoke detectors. Every “hero pet saves owner from fire” headline is a system failure wearing a red collar.
Maybe I’m just out of touch because I’ve never once declined to give friends rides to and from airports, like wow that’s prime hangout time on top of being helpful wtf
saw a comment on tiktok from someone who said they decided to not go through with taking their life after they watched this scene and that matters more than all the Santos hate combined
One of the best films in the entire mcu, but it wasn’t a cameo-slop nostalgia bait film so ofc the typical mcu dudebros hated it, but I always understood Zhao’s vision