Oh, hello, All right, welcome back to Fright Night Flicks.
You're here with Dan and Darren. What's up guys?
What is up, everyone? Today we're reviewing the hit,
The masterpiece, as somebody say, Even I've heard one of the
greatest horror movies. I've heard the greatest movie of
this year you can. Just go ahead and get to it now,
obsession, geez. What?
Congress pulls, you put on. And you're welcome, because I
pushed Daniel to watch this. He was kind of apprehensive, one
might say. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm going to
be honest, the premise of it, I'm like, well, this just sounds
like a movie I've already seen. I had no desire at first to
watch this because honestly like a relationship movie did not
interest me at all. Right.
And exactly. And I'm like, OK, the girl's
going to get really obsessive. She's going to be over the top
and yeah, it's like a Fatal Attraction type deal, right?
Yeah, I get it. Like, how interesting could that
really be? That was my thought.
But no, it is pretty freaking interesting.
Turns out it could be pretty interesting, so let me give you
a brief summary for those of you who don't know what this is
about. After breaking the mysterious
one Wish, Willow to win his crush's heart, a hopeless
romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for, but
soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Yeah. And I would say this, this is
the typical. Be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, and when you do make a wish, just, you know, watch your
verbiage. Yeah, you have to be very
specific with wishes, as we know from many movies in the past.
Now, there's a reason he wasn't as specific.
We'll get into it, but before we do, this film is directed and
written by Curry Barker. Do you know much about Curry
Barker? Yeah, well, I'm the one who told
you. You know, I know a lot about it.
Curry, Barker. Well, I'm throwing it, Yeah,
because I don't. So I'm throwing it to you.
Throwing. Me a noob, yeah, I watched a lot
of his shorts, him and his buddy who's is the main, not the main
character. I think he plays Ian.
Is that the friend's name in that?
Yeah, they're like a comedy team and they have some really funny
skits I've seen on different shorts, like a TikTok or
something. I really liked him doing the
shorts. I thought they were really
funny. So when I found out he did this
movie, and once I heard how much hype it got, I'm like, dude, we
got to watch this thing. And here we are, watching it.
And yeah, here we are. Now he did a spectacular job.
And something to note, this guy supposedly is doing the next
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Well, it's not.
Supposedly he is doing it, which is going to be exciting because
hey, spoiler alert, I like this movie and I think he's going to
do a great job with TCM. And we're obviously huge Texas
Chainsaw Massacre guys. And yeah, I'm actually really
excited about it now. Oh, I can't wait to see what
happens. Let's go to Rotten Tomatoes.
Critics gave it a 95, an audience A-95.
And typically when you see them aligned at a high score, it
means it's probably a good movie.
Yeah, I got to be honest when I see scores that.
Sorry, very insightful there. That's what I bring to the
podcast. Hey, with the scores are high,
it means it's going to be good. Movie good you like?
All right, before we go any further, we have some shout outs
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All right, we had a YouTube comment that I just wanted to
shout out here. It's some guy plays.
I'm going to read it for you. Hey guys, big fan of you.
You saved my life. I don't know if we can take
credit for that. Sure, I'll take it.
I was a 13 year opiate addict and found your channel.
I detox watching your videos. Is there any chance I could get
an autograph from you guys? Thank you.
Well, first of all, congratulations on breaking that
addiction. I'm sure that would be tough.
I think that would be very tough.
So yes, we're happy for you. It sounds like you're doing well
and you're healthy. I don't think we can take credit
for saving your life, but I hopefully made your days a
little better. Yeah, I know.
I'm glad we can help you, man. That's awesome.
Thank you so much. And of course you can have an
autograph. Yeah, I don't know why you'd
want one necessarily, but we could.
No, we appreciate it. We don't have autographs, but I
told him we'd shout him out. Oh, OK, so.
This is the the verbal autograph.
Yeah, here it is. Thank.
You so much. We appreciate having you around
and keep the good fight up. Absolutely.
And by the way, thanks to everyone who leaves comments
like we, there's so many positive comments we got on
YouTube, on Spotify. It's really uplifting because
it's a lot of work to do this and it honestly charges the
spirit when you hear positive things.
Soul Fuel. Yeah, thank you for the Soul
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and Apple reviews. You guys know we have to mention
it real quick. So we are currently at 1:49 on
Spotify. We were at 1:38.
So Spotify always keeps moving. Goal is 160.
We're only 21 away. That's not 21.
It's 11. Oh my gosh, we're only 11 away.
So we're almost there on Spotify.
Hey, keep those coming in. Thank you so much, Apple.
We were at 64. We're now at 63.
No, by the way around, we didn't lose a review.
We. Were at 63, now we're at 64.
There we go. We need.
To get to 80, so like 16 more reviews.
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As soon as we get those numbers, we'll drop a bonus episode.
All right, Speaking of reviews, let's see what the people had to
say about obsession starting with Willis.
Wow, wow, wow. It is impossible to be
comfortable during this. The one time this movie has a
true moment of taking a breath, someone shortly comes back in
the scene. It smashes someone with a brick.
Five stars. That is so true.
That's the one that stuck out with me with this movie.
It is extremely tense the whole time.
Well, I wouldn't say the whole time.
It actually starts off a little slow, kind of like builds you
in, but once it kicks off there's no stopping.
OK, you you know what I mean. Why do you do this?
Well, it's what you said. Next we have Victoria.
Phenomenal acting, lighting and sound.
This movie had a great blend of uncomfortable laughs, unsettling
creepiness, and jump scares. Although I loved it, the person
I went with said it was too scary and they wish they hadn't
seen it. Still, we had a great time
discussing it after and would love to learn more.
More about the Wishing Willow verse 5 stars.
That's funny because I actually didn't think it was that scary.
There's definitely moments and it was very unsettling.
I didn't find it super scary though.
Well, let's be honest, when you watch horror movies, movies,
which we do all the time, the scare kind of takes a backseat
to me. Like it's not like what makes or
breaks a movie. It's more you start looking a
little deeper in the tension, the different scenes, whatever.
Yeah, no, that's definitely true.
We're a little desensitized, yeah.
So if you're a casual horror fan, I'm sure this probably
would be very scary. Next we have Dave.
After reading all the reviews I can say I don't get it.
I like horror movies. This one was not apparently a
horror movie, just said not. It started out slow and stayed
slow. The background music was too
loud and sometimes was hard to hear the dialogue when they
whispered. It was unnatural for people act
the way they did. Well, it's because the spell was
involved. Very predictable, not close to
scary at all. I couldn't wait for the movie to
be over. Save your money one star.
Wow OK I mean it's not for everyone I guess but it you know
I will agree there were slow parts and it is a slow tension
filled build. You're an idiot.
Why? You just said like how this
movie, like it just goes the whole movie, there's no
stopping. And now you're like, you know,
it is a slow movie. No, no.
I mean like it is tension filled, but it is slow.
Like the pacing is slow. It's not like a ton of stuff is
happening. It's like these little things
keep happening throughout the movie.
Does that make sense? No.
I not really, not really. Let's move to Julie.
Wasted two hours of my life, One star.
I'll hard disagree. Follow that up with John G Very
depressing. I would have never watched it
based on mental health. I almost walked out with the cat
passing from ingesting drugs. One star.
We have a cat lover here. Yeah, I mean a.
Spoiler alert, by the way. It is a depressing movie, but I
mean. I don't know, It's not sad
though, right? Like I didn't feel sad watching
it. It is, I guess, overall.
Oh, we don't want to give it away, but we're going to be
spoiler free, by the way, until we get into the.
Movie. I mean, we're here in a minute.
We're going to do our initial impressions then.
Hey, spoilers are on, Yeah. Let's just get into it.
OK, before we jump into the initial impressions, there's
some things we're going to answer throughout this because
I've I did a lot of research and I saw what are the questions
people are having one and we'll talk about the slot in the
review was Nikki into Bear because that's something people
argue about and I think you can almost argue it either way.
What does the ending really mean?
Some of the stuff I'm like, why are they people question too
much? Like you can kind of figure it
out. Yeah, I kind of know what it
means. I'm not really sure what you
mean by that, but we'll get there eventually.
Who was the villain of the movie?
OK, we can argue about that. I think you're giving questions,
but we can't go into it. So I guess I'll just let you go.
Did you know there is something in the opening of the movie that
actually kind of gives away the whole movie?
I can maybe see what you're saying.
There's a film strip. Oh no, I did not see that.
We'll break that down too. Last but not least, we are going
to break down everything about The One Wish Willow because
there's actually a website that you can check out for The One
Wish Willow. Oh, just be careful I guess.
Yeah, I was calling phone numbers.
Did you? I did.
Oh, OK. All right, let's jump into our
initial impressions. All that stuff we're going to
talk about throughout this and at the end.
So I guess I'll start. Sure.
Yeah, I went in with pretty high expectations.
I watched that Dead Meat podcast and that, what is it, James?
I forget how to say his name. Van Venice, or I'm sure I'm
butchering. You know what I'm talking about.
You can just say Dead Meat podcast.
Yeah, I listened to James and he he they had watched at one of
those film festivals and he said this is like the movie of the
year. So I went into this with high
expectations. Again, like I said before, the
premise, the whole idea of a guy making a wish and then putting
the girl under the spell, I wasn't that into the idea of it.
But man, I got to say the way they did this movie was great.
The amount of tension was insane.
Like the whole time I feel like my body was tensile, my muscles.
I think I was like actually like squeezing my hands or something.
I was exhausted, lost it by the end of it.
Did you know there was like a whole wish thing going on?
What do you mean? Well before you watched it.
Oh yeah, I knew there was a 11 wish Willow thing.
I did know that, yeah. OK, I had no idea.
Like I seriously didn't know anything about this movie.
You told me we're going to do it.
I watched the trailer. Oh well, see, you knew even
less. I had done a little bit more
research into it, but man, I got to say the tension, the way the
girl. OK, well actually let's get into
the acting. I thought they both crushed it
the main characters. Oh yeah, Bear.
And then Nikki, or I mean Nikki like kind of stole the show, but
they both did really good. Oh man, she plays that crazy so
well. And then the way she'd flip in
and out was so disturbing. Well, there's a specific scene
I'm thinking of, but man, it's just she did great.
Also the cinematography. I love the setting, like even
going to the the house party, the the house itself, the times
when you'd see the girl but she's in the darkness.
I thought it was really creepy and just disturbing.
Yeah, they do a thing with her when at certain points you can't
see her face. Like she gets like blacked out
and it's really interesting. I like the way they did that.
Yeah, it's, it's just unsettled. You're looking at her.
You don't even know what kind of face she's making.
And you're kind of like, well, when she comes out of the
darkness, what is she even going to look like?
It was great. And then also the way they mixed
humor into it. There's just some scenes which I
was laughing with Dad afterwards.
I feel like us, we was, we were in the very back of the theater
with a group of four girls. And I feel like we got the humor
that was mixed in, but I don't know that the whole theater got
it sometimes. It's real dark humor, and some
of it is like awkward humor where the situation is so absurd
and awkward that it's just funny.
Yeah, it'll be sometimes. Like for example, when she
smiles. It was disturbing, but it was
also really funny and it just creepy.
It just worked. Yeah, totally agree with that.
I, I thought it, you know, honestly it surpassed my
expectations. I thought it was really good.
My only negative I guess is that I didn't find it all that scary
and I did find it it was a little slower paced at times.
Go back to slow. Does your pacing take is wild.
It's all over the place. I feel like towards the end I
got a little bit like, I don't know about this, but then it
picked it right back up so. All right, Well, really this
kind of comes down to like, be careful what you wish for.
Like I said, I didn't even know this was a wish involved movie.
Like there was some. Well, that's the thing.
It's like, is it witchcraft? Is there like a possession?
We don't really know. And I think they kind of left it
a little vague. I like that they have this.
Well, we know that it's a one wish Willow thing and they don't
really even try to explain it. It's just like, hey, in this
world this thing exists and just kind of go with it.
Do you know what I really liked is the whole crystal shop and
all the employees and everyone who's tied to this Willow are
like, I don't know, I love their characters.
Well, 'cause they have a great attitude, it's just like very
nonchalant. Just, is it nonchalant?
Nonchalant, a very chill, very chill attitude about the whole
thing. It's like, hey man, is something
bad happening? Oh, that sucks.
Well, you know, here's kind of your options, kind of figure it
out. Yeah, you kind of got yourself
in this spot. I mean, did you not read the
warning labels? Yeah, there's some really funny
parts within that too. Something else they do, I think
that is pretty good is all the characters end up, they kind of
end up getting like a little bit intertwined and they don't
totally like flush it out to where you understand exactly
what was going on. They leave.
Some questions to be answered, yeah.
Or I guess leave it up to the viewer to kind of decide what
was going on. Yeah, 'cause there's these other
relationships you learn as you go through the movie and then
you start questioning what you heard earlier, and they're like,
wait, was that true or was somebody just saying that?
Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
We'll get into it. Anyways, that's our initial
impressions. Hey, guess what?
Spoilers are on. From here on out, we're going to
break it down. Well, did you?
Did it surpass your expectations or meet them?
What would you think? I really didn't have a ton of
expectations. So as a 0 so it's better.
I didn't know this was like supposed to be that.
I mean, I knew it was supposed to be good and you were kind of
glazing all over it. So I was like, OK, we'll check
it out. But.
And honestly, when sometimes the movies are like really hyped, I
tend to like go in kind of negative to where I'm like, I
almost want this to be bad. I just believe sometimes the
hype isn't real. This one, I would say it's well
deserved. There's also definitely people
who do reviews where it's like they just follow the like what
people are saying like oh everyone loves it.
This is the best movie I've ever seen.
Well, I think people do that not even knowing.
You know, some people just like to agree with the herd.
We're not herd agreers. I would say you might be.
I'm a herd. Animal for sure.
You're just a little sheep running around.
So no, it was a good movie. I'll break it down.
Maybe there's a couple things I didn't really love about it, but
we'll find out. The film begins with one of the
most awkward scenes ever. You see, Bear is opening up his
soul, confessing his love to the girl of his dreams.
Yeah, and it seems, well, it seems that way.
The girl sitting across from him, they have a pretty deep
relationship. They're staring into each other.
Mother's eyes as he's just confessing his love and then you
find out this is all practice round.
Yes, he is in love with a different girl.
He's just working on his material with his friend and the
waitress. Yeah, his friend Ian decided he
needed some practice. And dude, there would be nothing
more awkward than saying this type of stuff to a stranger.
Yeah, and it kind of shows you who Barry is.
He's kind of pathetic because I think a normal person would
never do this. It also shows you what kind of
friend Ian is because he's kind of a Dick.
Kind of, but he seems like he's trying to help his buddy.
Seems interesting. I know we have some things to go
into. All right, before we jump, like
we'll jump back on that scene, but let's just break down the
cast so then we don't have to like, keep explaining who these
people are. Absolutely.
Bears our main character. He some might say, has an
obsession with Nikki. He is a man who loves a woman
and he's not sure if she even likes him back, but he does seem
to have an unhealthy relationship with her.
Also just can't like finish the job but like we'll take no step
to move to the next level. It seems like he's trapped
within himself, like he has these emotions.
He will never let them out. Wow, That was deep, right?
That was something. Next we have Nikki.
That's the girl of his dreams. She's writing a love book.
Like that's her thing. It seems like these kids are
just a little bit out of high school, kind of figuring out
what they're going to do in life.
Yeah, she seems very nice fun. I would say she's like an
energetic soul. Yeah, and a little bit of she's
got some sass on her. Yeah, she's got an attitude, but
in a good way. Then we have Sarah.
Seems very nice. Wants to be a tattoo artist.
Yeah, that's it. Ian's his best buddy.
I guess. He's his best buddy.
And, well, there's a lot to talk about, Ian.
Eventually I'll tell you more about Ian, but for now, that's
all you need to know. He's a funny, jovial guy.
I mean he, I would say he has Bear's best friend and we got to
say Sarah works at the store with they all work at a what is
a guitar store, a music store? Yeah, and I believe Sarah's dad
owns the store. I think so and.
That's he's played by Andy Richter.
I don't know if you've noticed. That well, that was Andy
Richter. Yeah, don't hit the name too
hard. I'm not sure if that's how you
say the last one, but. OK, it's at the Andy.
Wow, that's funny. I didn't recognize him.
But, and Sarah, by the way, she likes Bear.
Well, are we just going to throw that out there?
I mean I. Don't think that's a secret.
That was not brought up at all in the beginning of this movie.
I mean, it was brought up at some point, I don't remember.
What? Yeah.
D World, You wanted to bring everything up.
No, that's it. I'm done.
She, she, what are? You talking about like that's a
spoiling the plot or the spoiling?
Andy does come up pretty early. Yeah, OK.
Thank you. It kind of takes a little bit of
that back. All right, back to the practice
pitch he did on The Waitress. We learned some things about
Bear and his infatuation. So he thinks about Nikki all the
time. In every song he hears, he hears
Nikki. After Old Nana passed away,
Nicki was the one who called and helped him out through.
It So I'll say two things. One, this whole practice scene
was really funny. It was awkward, weird and funny.
And his buddy Ian adds like some good like comedic humor, too.
Right. And then the other part is
you're kind of thinking like, what is this relationship really
like between Nicki and Bear? Because you're kind of trying to
grasp like, is he kind of crazy or do they actually have a
relationship? Right, right.
Well, it seems like they there's something if his buddy's helping
him. But the thing about Ian is he
seems to know a lot about what Nikki likes and he gives him
some advice that I would say probably not great.
Like for instance, he says she's not into any of the sappy stuff,
which, OK, I could kind of get. Maybe there's some truth in
that. But the waitress did seem to
like that part and it seemed like he was doing OK.
I mean, it was a lot though. I don't.
I don't know that I would ever recommend anyone lay it on that
thick. Yeah, it was, It was a lot,
you're right. But the real thing they were.
I'm like starting to question Ian is he gives him the.
Advice that he should Nikki. OK, that was crazy.
Especially when you know this girl.
I don't, I don't know actually that any girls really like that.
I mean, dude, it's a stupid, one of those stupid things is the
dumb pickup artist. So anyways, there was a name she
was called. What is it, Freaky Nikki, when
she was a kid people call it too, I guess.
Called her that and it bullied her a little bit.
So Ian tells Bear this is what he should do, is call her that
name. Yeah, which is again, it's not a
good idea at all. Yeah, there may be some reasons
he's saying these things. We'll get to it.
This whole thing gets tied up with Bear deciding, you know
what? I know when I need to tell her
this and it's going to be a trivia night, which is going on
with tonight, right? Yeah, I think it's the same day.
Yeah, and Ian's not down for this because he loves trivia and
he knows as soon as Bear does this, it's going to ruin the
whole thing. And he, he makes it clear to
Bear. Like, you got plenty of time,
dude. Don't do it tonight.
Which is really funny just watching Ian interact with Bear
in that situation, because you could understand.
In no way would you want to be around that situation, right?
If your friend is going to profess his love for someone, I
don't want to be around that because it could go very bad.
Yeah, and then the night is ruined.
And then, yeah, maybe their trivia nights are ruined now
because he did that. Right, right, we cut to bear.
Arriving home, he walks in the door and they're on the floor,
stiff as a board. Is this little cat Sandy?
Rest in peace. We barely knew you, Sandy.
Barely knew you, but you're going to be around a little bit.
Not spiritually, but physically. Yeah.
You make your presence known. Sandy somehow got into his pills
and overdosed on oxycodone. Is that what that?
Was it was I did it, dude, I did a little deep dive here.
Thank you, because I don't know if it was the theater.
I'm kind of thinking it was the theater screen.
It felt really dark. I had trouble reading what was
on the screen. I also have bad eyes.
Bad eyes. We also sat in the back row.
Yeah, all bad. So when he goes in his cabinet,
so he keeps this pill bottle there.
I looked really deep at this thing, right, Right on the
bottle. I believe it said Barbara
Bailey. That's not his name.
Oh, so he how'd he get the bottle?
Because his real name is actually barren.
And then I figured it out. I did some more investigation.
I don't know if you caught this. This is actually his grandma's
house. Oh, interesting.
OK, so he's taking her pill. Well, actually, is he even
taking those pills? No, I don't.
I mean, they were just in the cabinet.
Oh, OK, so maybe they were left from his grandmother.
Interesting. The real question is how did the
cat get into the pill bottles? Yeah, because you have to push
down unless it uses its little paws.
So yeah, maybe Bear is taking those pills too.
Yeah, I mean, I mean that's what I kind of took is like, OK, the
only thing that makes any sense is he left the pills out and
then the cat got in because the the place looks crazy.
Like the cat went on a Bender. Like there was like cat food all
over the place. There was also like 2 cans of
like catnip or something. It looks like a mess.
The cat was whiling out man, it was hot.
And Bear is pretty unstable, so that wouldn't be out of
character for him at all to take pills, right?
Well, I don't know. There's nothing that implied he
was like he had that kind of a thing going on.
I could see him having problems. Yeah.
I mean it's possible they didn't.
We didn't go any further into that.
So take that how you how you may.
It's just interesting. Good point out.
I didn't even know what those pills were.
All right, so we cut over from that moment.
Baron ends up throwing his cat in a trash bag and I guess into
the trash, and then he sits on his bed and cries.
Now while he's crying, they zoom in on the mirror and we see
these photo booth pictures, right?
There's like a strip of them. Yes, if you look very closely,
they give away the entire movie. Well, how so?
Well, I'll tell you later. OK, We'll save that for the.
End Yeah, we'll break that down. Really.
OK, you got me interested. Later that night, bears just
kind of in a depressed state. He gets on his phone and he
straight doom scrolls Nikki's Instagram.
That's a creepy move. Kind of weird.
Then he gets a call from Nikki
and he immediately pops into like a different mode.
Now he's happy, now he's excited and she wants him to come out to
trivia. But being that his cat just
died, he's like, I don't really want to go out.
Nikki seals the deal by telling him, you know what, I got to
tell you something. I'm putting in my 2 weeks.
Why she's putting in her two weeks.
I think she said time's running out for her and there's OK,
there's some weird time stuff. I don't think this is the type
of movie I need to dig too deep. But like she says, time's
running out. He's staring at a clock.
His buddy Ian just told him that he has plenty of time with her.
Lots of time references here. Yeah, I did think that was
interesting. I mean, I just took it as Nikki
was ready to move on. She wants to start a real
career, probably. Yeah, I mean, you could take it
that way. That's a simple way to take it.
Well, while she's on the phone with him, she ends up dropping
her crystal necklace, which goes down the drain.
And this is another thing where I'm like, there's a lot of
crystals in this movie. There's going to be a couple of
them. Well, there's crystals,
supernatural stuff. Yeah, I think that's just where
we're going. All right, we'll roll with that.
So Bear decides, you know what? I'm going to go to the bar, the
trivia bar, and hang out with Nikki tonight, and his other
buddies too. Whatever.
But before he goes to the bar, he's going to make a little stop
at the Crystal Store. I don't know if this store is
another name. It's like a mystical store.
It's going to be where he finds the Willow, yeah.
Now I thought him stopping off at this crystal store to buy her
a new necklace seems a little obsessive.
It all kind of depends on their relationship.
It Yeah, I think it's fair to say he is a little obsessive,
right? I think that's fair.
I mean, if you we're just. Gonna keep using the title of
the movie while we talk the. Obsessive.
Oh my God. But we get broke up, guys.
The obsession's got to change hands here in a little bit, but
I just think it's odd, like you lose something, you're just
casually on the phone with somebody and then they show up
with a replacement. It would be a nice move, I
guess. I don't know, I'm not really
that type of guy, but it's. Also kind of weird because his
cat just died but yet he's buying her gifts, you know?
He didn't tell her that, by the way.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
I can. OK, I can see that.
Anyways, he's in this mystical shop when he spots the one wish
Willow, and it just happens to be right next to some voodoo.
Dolls. Oh, I didn't even catch the
voodoo dolls, but. OK, I wonder if those work.
I mean, today maybe Part 2. Yeah.
All right, so here's where we got to take a quick break and go
into the one witch Willow. Oh, thank you.
This is a deep dive because there's a lot of people, and I
see people like, break this movie down.
And then they say things like, why didn't he just do this?
Or why didn't he do that? And I'm like it's, you can't do
that. Is it?
Is it written on the box? There's frequently asked
questions and they explain these things.
OK, so first of all, if you go to 1witchwillow.com, they have a
breakdown. They have like reviews and stuff
on there. That's so funny.
Yeah, and there's a phone number and I called the phone number.
It's like a hotline. It said you are a loser, get a
light. Basically all these days they're
not responsible. There's fine print on the box
you should read if you need further assistance.
There's nothing they can really do.
Good luck. They're very.
Chill about the whole. Situation.
No. We need to talk about how to use
the Willow. So the Willow is a branch,
right? I don't know.
It looks kind of weird. It's like wrapped up branch.
Yeah, it seems to have lights on it and it makes a little noise.
Yeah, there's some music, but we never, like, get a full zoom on
this thing. Yeah, but how you're supposed to
use it? You remove it from the box to
make a wish, you spark the middle and break it in half.
I don't know why they say Spark. Yeah, I don't get that.
Maybe it's sparks when you break it.
I don't know why that kind of threw me off, but basically you
make a wish, break it, and then that wish comes true.
Yeah, awesome. Seems to be like a great deal.
Now some questions you may have. How many wishes do you get?
It's just one. You get one wish per person.
Yes, single use only grants one wish, no multiple.
Attempts. That's very important to know.
And if you're thinking I'll get another Willow, like maybe it's
just that one stick that's not going to work for you.
They specifically say using additional one, which willows
will not change or affect your other wishes.
Only one wish per life per person.
OK. Very, very specific there.
But can you change your wish? Important to know you cannot.
Once made, a wish cannot be reversed or repeated.
Consider long. Term effects, yeah, that could
be problematic. If you wish for the wrong thing,
sure. Yes.
Is there anything that I can't wish for?
Yeah, I'd love to know. Please tell me.
You cannot grant. This is important.
People get this confused here. Cannot grant wishes, including
time manipulation. OK, so you can't go back or
forward in time. Resurrection can't bring things
back for the dead. Immortality.
You can't stay alive forever. Are creating additional one wish
willing? Yes, you can't do this.
That's the whole genie in the bottle.
You can't wish for more wishes. So there's a point in this movie
where a wish, maybe, I don't know, there's a plan to maybe
have someone else wish and kind of reverse everything.
I think that's flawed from the beginning because you can't do
time manipulation. Oh, that's interesting.
You're right. You can't say.
Oh I wish the wish was never made because they can't go back
and reverse what happened. Well, and also that would
involve resurrection at some point.
Oh, that's a you know what? That's a great point because
yeah, that is interesting that. Well, we'll get to the why
That's interesting, Yeah. All right, so remember those
rules. That's like the breakdown of it
because it's going to play in as we go through.
I do have to say though, I love the one wish Willow.
I like what they did with it. I like they didn't explain it.
It's just this mystical thing and I'd love that they have this
lore behind. It Yeah, it's nice.
Yeah, it's cool. So Bear good.
It's this Willow. He's at that again.
We're we're still in the shop. He takes it to Viola, who's the
one behind the counter. I bet you didn't know her name.
No, she seems like a fun, chill girl.
Yeah, it's a great time to take. Out she relax.
So she does kind of warn him. She's like, hey, people buy
this, but they come back, they complain about stuff and he's
like, what? Well, do they complain 'cause it
works? Or does like something bad
happen and she's like, yeah, whatever.
Like they just complain, like, well, it's a really funny scene
'cause it's so awkward, 'cause she's really chill.
About the whole thing, yeah, they complained about and he
obviously is a little concerned. Like hold on, like what exactly
are they complaining? About yeah, like, does this
actually work like? Do I?
Do I need to be concerned about? This why do they?
Complain cause it like ruins their lives or they die.
I wish they were dead. But they give them.
No. It's like that place just gives
you the bare minimum. Yeah.
So he gets the one, which Will
heads over to Barker's Pub, where he meets up with Nikki,
Sarah and Ian. This is the friends group.
This is basically all we need to know in the movie.
And I have to say, I love the environment.
This seems like a really cool place to do some trivia.
It's actually like a place doing some horror movie trivia at a
bar like this that. Would be.
Cool, Let's all put that together, guys.
Well, while they're hanging out at the table, Nikki decides she
wants to get some shots and Bear sees his opening.
He goes with her to the bar and well, his first mistake, he
orders a pina colada. It's, I mean, yeah, I don't know
anyone actually who's ever ordered that.
Any male friends who's ever ordered a pina colada.
Not that they're not delicious, I've drank them.
But you know, if you're at a bar hitting on a girl, you got to be
careful. Yeah, it's just, well, to be
honest though, I feel like he played it off well and I
actually thought he was doing OK with her at this point.
Yeah, and honestly, it is. You know what, I'm going to take
that back. It's kind of an interesting
drink. It shows he has confidence.
See, there you go. That is true.
There's that angle. It's all how you order it and
then how you deal with the repercussions, like the like
response, you know? Yeah, Yeah.
Bears got a cooking all right. I thought he was doing all
right, and he must have thought he was doing OK too, because he
keeps trying to bring up the talk he's waiting to have.
Oh my gosh. And this is what starts this
brutal sequence of where he keeps trying to tell her his
feelings and he just keeps getting interrupted.
He never can do it. Yeah, the bartender interrupts
him two times and then his buddy Ian, like, saddles up right next
to him, totally interrupts him and just starts in on a random
story that Sarah's dad keeps his gun in the break room safe.
Yeah, I thought that was a really weird story to bring up.
Also, Ian knew what Bear was doing so it's a Dick move on top
of that 'cause he knew Bear was going to try to tell her and he
purposefully interrupted it. Now, did you find it
interesting? Like anything interesting about
that story? Wow, I just now did OK.
That's where that thing came from.
See a gun in this movie? And I didn't put it together
either until I watched it again. How'd you watch it again,
Daniel? Oh.
I went to the theatre and watched the At this point all
the friends end up at the bar and they're like wanting to do a
toast. So you mean they're at the front
of the bar where they're serving drinks?
Well, it's the bar, Darren. Well, I mean, I consider the
whole establishment a. Bar too.
They're at the bar within the bar.
They decide they want to do a toast.
So bears like, OK, we'll toast to Sandy.
But like as soon as they start the test, Ian and Nikki just
like take off and he's left with Sarah.
And Sarah's like, why didn't we toast to your cat?
And then he tells her that the cat's dead.
This is where you see Sarah start to console him.
Dude, I got to can I admit something?
And this is bad. I'm a complete moron.
I didn't realize that was Sarah. I thought that was Ian's
girlfriend. And you might ask, who's Ian's
girlfriend? And I just realized he didn't
have one. I was like, who's his
girlfriend? I thought the whole time.
I didn't realize that was Sarah. I thought he had a girlfriend
the whole time. OK, it does come off at times
that Ian and Sarah are together. Yeah.
Like it seemed like there was a relationship there but there
isn't. They don't like ever like flirt,
but it it just seemed that way. Yeah, well then, OK, that's why
I just thought it was like a double date situation.
Ian was with his girl and then Nikki was with Bear.
Kind of, I guess. It does seem that way, but The
funny thing is, it's actually more the opposite.
Always can't give it away just yet.
All right, so we finish up the trivia night and Ian decides
he's not done. He wants to do some karaoke, but
Nikki is like, I'm done for the night.
I want to go home. Ian, just Take Me Home.
Ian's not going to do it. He really likes karaoke.
So Bear jumps in and he's like, hey, sees a spot, I'll take you
home. Interesting thing here.
It like came off weird to me why Nikki always wants a ride from
Ian. Like why it seems like
everywhere. Like he's her ride.
Oh, that is true. I mean it.
It makes sense though. Define ride.
Yeah, give it away. Yeah, we'll get there.
We'll get there. Now, before they head out,
they're all going to split up. So Sarah gone with Ian, Nikki
with Bear. Before they leave, something
very strange happens. Nikki goes over to Sarah,
borrows $20 and gives it to the homeless guy.
Do you have any more information 'cause I did also think this was
interesting. I did not.
OK, first I saw this. I'm like, wait, did she buy
drugs? And then I'm like, wait, why
would the homeless guy? I mean, they might have drugs,
but I mean, that's a tough spot to go hit up, you know?
Yeah, so I guess the idea is we're just seeing Nikki's a good
person. Is she though because she just
took her friends money and gave it away?
Kind of a good. Person.
That's a really weird thing to do.
It is odd just to be like, hey, give me $20 and then just pass
it along. I don't know.
We could assume that she would pay her back, but it is an odd
thing to do. Yeah, I find it very odd.
It just was a weird thing to throw which made me think there
was more to it, but I don't know that there was.
I think that was it. So now we're in the car with
Bear and Nikki, and as they're driving, she's kind of opening
up to him and she's telling him like all her problems.
And basically she says, like, you're the only one I can share
a lot of this stuff with and you're trying to interpret this
relationship because she does look at him and it seems to be
longingly. That is the best part.
As you're watching and you're kind of you're reading into
every detail and you're like at once moment you're thinking, OK,
she's into them. But then she'll kind of say
something. You're like, OK, hold on back
up. Maybe she's not into it and it
kind of keeps flipping you. Yeah, because that whole thing
like you're the only one I can tell my problems to.
It comes off a little friend zone is.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's like that's what you would
do with a friend. Yeah, so it's like, it's this
weird balance they're really like playing with right there,
which it makes it really fun as a viewer trying to figure this
thing out, right. So they finally get to her house
when Nikki drops that Sarah has been talking about him all day.
And then she asked him how do you feel about Sarah?
Like how do you actually feel about?
Her and thinking of this from Bear's perspective when he's
trying to put a move on her right and finally tell her how
she feels when you hear that. Yeah, how he feels.
When you hear that, you're like, Oh no, she's asking about a
different girl. In my mind, I'm thinking, OK,
she's trying to set me up with Sarah.
But then you could also spit in and think maybe she's thinking
she wants to know where Bear is at with Sarah because she's
interested in. Him, you can take it both ways.
And initially the way I took it is actually that she was
interested in him and she knows her friend Sarah kind of likes
him and she wants to just fill him out on that.
Yeah, OK. There's also the option that
she's just totally mind effing this guy, that she's not
actually a good person and she's just playing with him.
Yeah, like, it could be an option that she likes him in the
friend zone and he kind of, like, does what she wants and is
just stringing them along. All right, all right, again, I
don't know. We'll give you the at the end of
this too. We'll break it down with the
facts and come up with our conclusion.
But for now, Bear does say, oh, Sarah's just a friend.
Like, I only feel that way about her.
I'm not into her like that. Yeah, it makes it very clear.
And then Nikki drops this one on him.
She says when I have a crush on a guy nobody knows.
Talk about a mind F bro. I know.
I'm like, well, hold on, he doesn't know.
Bear doesn't know. Does that mean you have a crush
on him now or are you saying he wouldn't?
Even I, I don't even know how to take that.
See dude I think she has to like him or no she for sure knows he
likes her. Every girl that has like that
guy friend that they hang out a lot, you know if they like you
or not not I mean right? I think so.
And he's. Wait, what did you ask me?
Like when? You when a girl and a guy are
hanging out, you know, and they have that friend, or maybe
they're more than a friend, you know, when the guy's into you,
like, it's pretty obvious, right?
I mean, I'm a guy. I don't know if I don't know if
I felt that. Like she has to know he's into
her and I do feel like at this point she is kind of interested
in him. My true opinion here is that I
do think she liked him and she's trying to help him bring out his
feelings. Yeah, and I think that she knows
Sarah likes him, so that puts her in an awkward spot, too.
Not that she's necessarily looking for that, but it's like
it's an idea in her head now. Like, well, if he isn't to me,
like or he might just be into Sarah, then it it is what it is.
You know, we need to keep moving.
We're going to take forever on this.
Nikki ends up getting out of the car and bears like, Oh, I got a
I got to say my line. I got to like tell her how I
feel. So they see, you know, Nikki,
Nikki come back and she comes back and then he's like, oh, I
forgot what I had to say. Well, he's chickening out over
and over and again, watching it. You're like, Oh my God, please
just tell her. She's giving you every
opportunity. Just tell her.
Just say the words man. She ends up walking away again
and this is where he look he dude, this guy, he looks at her
and goes goodnight freaky Nikki just.
A. Complete moron.
And dude, Nikki doesn't like this at all.
She hears it, turns around, walks to the car, kneels next to
it, and then she just straight up asks him, do you like me?
Because if you do, now's the time to say it.
She. Gives him one more chance and
you're just thinking, OK, he's gonna do it now, right?
This is the perfect opportunity. She's telling him, just tell me
if you like me. That's it.
Just say the word. This is the tough part, 'cause I
took this, it could, you could go either way with it.
Because her coming back and saying that, there's the big
part of me that's like, oh, OK. She wants him to admit that he
likes her. And this is like an awkwardness,
like he just said something dumb.
We should do a relationship. Podcast But then on the flip
side of that, I'm like, OK, he just offended her and she's
coming back and she's like, OK, this guy may be into me.
I kind of need to squash this now.
I see both sides of that all. Right, all right.
Well, Bear just got confronted. It's time for him to open up,
tell her how he feels. Does he do it?
No, he doesn't. In fact, he friend zones her and
tells her, hey, I just think you're a good friend.
Dude, just like you have written a complete and utter fell.
What on earth is he even doing? I just was like what?
Just scream at him. You know?
Honestly I'm just like hey, I'm over this.
You don't deserve her. We're going to move on even
though I know we're not, but. You know, and from her
perspective too, I started getting the vibe like.
Maybe, you know, maybe she thinks like this dude is like
almost like he has these ulterior motives she's been
opening up to him. And you got to take a real girl
perspective on this. He really is only listening
because he wants to get with her.
And maybe that's her filling him out there.
I don't know dude, I'll move it. Can we just get moving all?
Right, so Nikki walks back into the house.
He's left in the car. Obviously the night did not go
well for him. He grabs the one wish, Willow
opens it up, and when he takes it out-of-the-box, it plays
almost like video game noises. Yeah, it's a fun little noise.
Yeah, almost like, you know, it reminded like a Christmasy
noise. Yeah, it isn't Christmas video
game. Yeah, mystical.
Then he says, I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than
anyone in the world. Snap breaks the stick.
Couple things. 1st that's kind of a crazy thing to wish for.
OK, you can't. OK, first of all, you can't,
like, nitpick him. He didn't know what he was
doing. He doesn't know this thing's
real. Yeah, but why would you wish
that she loved you more than anyone in the world?
That's a crazy wish. I like.
Would you really want that? I guess we all know you.
Probably. Wouldn't you?
Probably wouldn't. But he's emotional.
He's dude, you got to think, put yourself in his spot.
He's totally fell this night. He's just saying whatever.
Yeah, he is kind of a pathetic person right now.
Second thing, as soon as he breaks that stick, they cut to
Nikki and she's standing on her doorstep in pitch black and
there seems to be a shift that happened.
I wish Nikki Freeman loving more than anyone in the Tiger world.
Right from now on, you'll see Nikki, like other people will be
lit up, but at times she's very dark.
She's like, she's like a shadow. Yeah, and this is where this
movie really kicks off. And it's really interesting
because she just, her personality really shifts and
we're going to go into this whole thing where she is kind of
normal but really off in a lot of ways.
Yeah, I mean, she tries to be normal.
So she immediately walks back over to the car and she's like,
hey, didn't you say you got a gift for me?
Yeah, I don't know if we mentioned that, but yeah, we
said she he went to the store and got the one which will he
was going to give it to her. And then she's like, well, you
know, maybe you should just come in the house.
But all these advances like on Bear are not working because
he's totally freaked out that her like she's even being this
forward with him. Well, yeah, she seems not
normal. It's it's concerning that she
flipped this quick. Well, and then she said some
weird stuff because she's like, oh, I just lost my cat.
Like maybe you should come in. And then she's like, well, wait,
hold on, you. No, no, you lost your cat.
Yeah, and you're like, OK, hold on, something's wrong here.
Really wrong. So Nikki's, she almost seems
like flustered, like she's trying to do everything she can
to, like, get him to come in and it's just not working.
She's kind of like tongue tied, like falling over her own words.
Yeah, it's you get the sense of desperation.
And then all of a sudden it's like a snap and her like face
changes and she looks like terrified and she goes what the
F and like falls back a little bit, almost like a different
person. Honestly that gives me chills.
She does this multiple times and it's creepy because it's like
she's snapping out of this tranche she's in, like the real
Nikki snapping it back in and then she goes back out.
It's in and out. Yeah.
Then she like, yeah, it only happens for a couple seconds.
She, like, composes it herself. And then they both, like, start
awkwardly laughing, like, what was that?
And you know, like, well, she's more doing kind of a crazy
thing. And he's this poor guy's like.
I don't know what's going on. It's a lot to think in, but.
I want this but I don't want it like this.
Right. Well, Nikki then walks over to
the driver's door, opens it up, and she's like, come on, Bear.
And then, like, she's, like, unbuckling his seat belt, trying
to get him out. But Bear is just, like, I don't
know what this is. I just stop.
Yeah, it's a little concerning. She seems crazy.
Yeah. So Nikki then stands up and
crosses her arms, and you only see, like, her torso.
She just, like, stands there for a minute and you're just like,
what is going on? Only for her to drop down.
And she has this just huge smile on her face.
And she goes, I know what you're trying to do.
Like, this playful thing going on.
It's like she's trying to be cute, but it's coming off so
crazy. Yeah.
And then she just takes off and starts, like, running One
Direction, then switches back to the next.
And she's kind of, like, doing this weird bobbing back and
forth and too much. I'm going to be honest.
The crowd laughed. Bear laughed.
Everyone was laughing. Because it's so absurdly insane
and you're just. She's like, oh God, she's lost
her mind, right, right. So she ends up running back to
the other side of the car, jumps in and she's like, let's just go
to your place. But bears like, hey, I think
you're drunk. And maybe we should just, like,
continue this tomorrow. Because you could make the
argument maybe she is drunk, we find out, maybe she was on
drugs. I don't think she was,
obviously, but that could be an explanation for this crazy
behavior. Right.
Well, Nikki hears this and doesn't like it, so she lays her
head on the dash and she starts crying.
Why is she crying? That's because her dad all of a
sudden has cancer and she can't be alone tonight.
OK. And you're thinking, OK, that
seemed to come out of nowhere. I mean, in this situation,
there's no way on earth you would ever take her home.
I mean, it's not good. I don't know.
Well, Bear does take her home. They get to his house.
We learned that it's old grandma's place at this point.
And after she died, he got the house.
And I just want to say, too, it's hard.
We're not going to be able to hit them all.
But there's so many awkward, funny moments in this movie.
Like I can't like even describe every scene, just her weird
behavior and his awkwardness. It just comes off funny a lot.
Yeah, it's pretty hilarious. Again, it's hilarious and creepy
and scary. It's all those at the same time,
which is really fun. Right, well, Nikki decides it's
time for bed, but she doesn't want to sleep alone because he
put her in like the spare bed. Whatever it is, she ends up
getting him to get in the bed with her.
They start making out all of a sudden in the middle of this
make out session. Nikki pulls back again, snaps
out of it, and says what? The F falls off the bed,
terrified. Man OK and this I thought was
pretty creepy especially from a guys perspective.
It's like they're kissing. I mean, well, you could also
make the argument, what the heck is Bear kissing her for?
Like, this girl's clearly unstable and he's still going
for it. Not a good look.
It's not great. But the fact that they're
kissing and then she snaps out and makes it seem like he's
doing something wrong, like she didn't want this.
And then she's back in and you're like, Oh my God, what are
we doing? Yeah, she jumps up and she's
like, I'm so sorry. It was just a panic attack.
And bears like, no, I don't know what that is, but something's
off. I'm not into this, you know,
fair reaction. Well, Nikki then starts crying.
So this must be like the this Nikki's little manipulative
ways, you know, like, let's put the tears on.
She's trying whatever she can do to make Bear.
Happy either way. Bear's like, hey, we're
sleeping. I'll sleep in the room, but I'm
sleeping on the floor. We could to later that night,
bears laying on the ground, eyes wide open.
Yeah. You can't sleep with this.
This girl's crazy. He ends up Googling some facts
on the one wish Willow and basically like goes to like a
Reddit forum. I don't know, it's mixed
reviews. One person said their mom was
ugly, now she's beautiful. Everyone else says they're just
collectibles. Doesn't really learn a lot.
Probably what you would get from Reddit.
I was. Going to say it seems like a
typical Reddit question. You get all sides of it.
So he returns to the room, but Nikki is now awake and she's
wondering what he was doing concerning concerning.
But they end up laying down in the bed for the night.
Nothing happens more than that. That's our first night together.
Yeah. So hey, already a lot.
I mean, you could chalk this up to, hey, she had a bad night,
maybe a bad reaction to drugs, who knows.
Oh, I think we do. I mean, we know, but I'm saying
from Barry's perspective, you could see how he could possibly
justify what has happened. Right.
So the next morning he wakes up, Nikki isn't in bed.
He walks into the kitchen and she's made him like this.
Big old breakfast, has a big glass of orange juice.
Things look nice, right? And at this point, you're like,
OK, she's kind of come around. She's come out of it.
She's back to like a normal nice girl.
Until he walks further in the kitchen and signs the shrine to
his dead cat. This was a little weird that
she's got candles and the cat body lay on the floor.
So she went and I guess pulled it out of the trash.
A weird. Thing to do, she thought.
He would like this though. That I got to say in this movie
that it was kind of weird. This was very abrupt.
I feel like they kind of like lean or go slow into a little
bit of her quirks, but this one was like, I don't know, this
seemed like this should have happened later.
You mean you think she went too crazy too early?
Yeah, because like, if she's obsessed with, I mean, would you
think that making a cat shrine with the actual cat?
It seems to me like I think we can agree she isn't Nikki.
This is almost like a demonic type thing.
Like I don't even think this is a normal person.
And they seem. I guess they just don't
understand. Yeah, it's hard to explain what
Nikki is now. OK, so here's the thing.
You can't justify what she does because a lot of what she does
is it's insane. It's not a normal thing someone
would do who's in love with someone.
It, like I said, there's like a demonic twist to it or an evil
twist to it. Yeah, there's extreme obsession
with a little bit of, like, demon in there.
Yeah. Anyways, whatever.
Bear's like, that was freaking weird.
They kind of like actually brushes that whole thing under
the rug for a while. Yeah.
You know, I would have been a little bit more concerned on,
well, I think any normal person would have pulled the plug on
this whole thing early. But Bear is so pathetic that he
just kind of keeps going with it.
And I think maybe the idea is that he likes her so much, he
wants it so bad. He's just overlooking the crazy.
I mean, that was a pretty crazy moment, yeah.
Anyways, they end up going to work at the music shop and Ian
wants to know what happened last night because when Bear came in,
he was with Nikki. So he knows they were like,
together last night. Yeah, well, any friend would
want to know. Like what happened?
So they head back to the break room, Nikki's at the cash
register, and while these guys have a conversation, she stares
at them and does not turn away. I love this scene so much
because Ian and Bear are talking and they're kind of next to the
doorway and you can see through the doorway, but there's a
little bit of a blur. So you're looking through Ian's
perspective and he's looking at Bear, but you see that blurred
figure and you can't really tell, but you kind of can that
Nikki has not moved and she is just watching everything.
Dude, you know what's funny about that?
You're it's the blurred section. You're so focused on that they
could have had all kinds of stuff going on in this scene
that you just didn't even realize.
Because all you're doing is watching her head that doesn't
move. Yeah, it's so creepy.
It's like a simple thing they did that was really just
unnerving. Right, right.
So Baron ends up telling Ian, I think there's something wrong
with Nikki. I think she's having a nervous
breakdown and her dad has cancer.
It must be that too much. Ian's like her dad.
Like she's not even close to her dad.
He lives in Washington. Like, they've never been close.
I don't think she would even care.
Yeah. And which is kind of how we felt
watching. You're like, hold on.
That seemed to come out of nowhere.
It did. It seemed real.
Right. But then Ian's like, hold on, Do
you think she could be doing Molly again?
That's fair. And then they're both like,
yeah, actually that makes a lot more sense, which.
Would be a reasonable explanation I guess.
It doesn't really explain the cat thing in the morning though,
and and Bear did not explain that to.
Ian, that's a good point. The the cat does not explain
Molly. Yeah, the next day.
That's a crazy move. They all end up getting off
shift and Bear goes to Nicki and he's like, hey, I, I can't take
you home tonight. And she actually seems like cool
that she's like, oh, yeah, no problem.
Ian will Take Me Home. And you're like, oh,
interesting. Yeah, I'm like, OK, She just
jumps in the car with him and honestly, my first thought is
like, Ian's dead, she's going to kill him.
She didn't like what they were talking about.
Well, that night bears at his house when someone knocks on his
door and you're never going to guess who it is.
It's our girl. It's Nikki and she has a very
nice red dress on, like dressed to the nines.
You mean she just looks really good?
Yeah, she has a nice dress. I mean it's not a casual like
hangout dress. No, I just didn't know if there
was like more meaning to that. No, OK, so she ends up
apologizing to him. She's like, hey, I was on Molly.
Like she obviously caught on to the story and must have asked
her. And she's like, I just want to
apologize. The only thing I can think
during this dude is like, you're so dark, like you can't see her
face. She's just in darkness.
Oh yeah, The whole time she's talking, she was like in the
doorway, right? And it's just a dark shadow over
her. I mean, you're, you're playing.
I don't think you remember necessarily.
No, I'm going off the vague memory.
I think you can see her face to this, but it was like it was
like a shadow on the face. It wasn't a complete blacked
out, you know. Anyways, Bear just wants to make
it clear to her like, hey, I didn't take advantage of you
because that whole freak out thing.
And then if she's on Molly, it does seem like it could be one
of those situations. Which which was really funny
because he's trying to explain like I didn't take advantage of
you and she's like, no, no, you didn't.
But it gets awkward because it makes it feel like he did
something when he. Didn't, you're totally right.
They're back and forth. They did hit a point where it
was like they're kind of saying the same thing, but it just,
it's awkward and so it seems like there's more to it.
Yeah, it was really funny. Anyways, Nikki ends up telling
him hey don't worry about it, I actually like you.
And then Bear finally admits, you know what, I like you too.
So we finally got that out of the way.
Took long enough. So what do you do after you tell
each other you like him? This is where he makes the huge
mistake and they hook up. Yes, we have a scene and from
there we cut to a straight montage where they're just like
living the perfect couple life. OK, well. 1st about the hookup
scene, didn't you think it was problematic?
I mean, it's troubling. Yeah, because he knew she's off.
Because we we've explained it, but it was very clear, like
something is still wrong with her and to hook up with her at
this point is insane. It's not good.
I'll say that there's more problematic hookups later.
OK, well, we'll get to it I guess.
Either way, he does what he does.
So now they're living the perfect life.
They're showing them going out to restaurants, hanging out,
they're like constantly together.
But in between that they show shots of like their friends at
the shop and whatnot. And they're every time, like
they see them together. They're just like weirded out by
the whole thing. It went from zero to 100, right?
It went from Nikki was not really that into him or they
didn't seem to be into each other and now they're like
lifelong partners or. Something, and it's also does
come off that whole thing which is real, like you get a
girlfriend, next thing you know they don't care about anybody
else. Yeah, and it's also they're kind
of thinking maybe something happened to Nikki, maybe there
is some trauma going on or something, and she's using Bear
to like, replace her to make her feel better.
I don't. Know right now, the best part
about this montage though, is they have one seed where they're
watching a movie and Nikki is just glued in watching Bear the
entire time, right? And Bear does and Bear's
watching the movie. He sees her looking and he just
reaches over and turns her head so she watches the movie.
She doesn't say a word. He just grabs her.
It's so funny she's so fixated. Well, she's obsessed with them,
that's for sure. After the montage, we cut to a
restaurant where Bear and Nikki are out for dinner.
While they're sitting there, Bear keeps getting calls from
Ian. Finally, after like the second
call, he's like, OK, Ian's calling, I got to take this.
So he walks out, goes around the corner and starts talking to
him. Now Ian has done some research.
Nikki's dad is healthy and fine, and if you look closely behind
Bear, he will notice there's a Willow tree.
Just throwing that out there. That's just kind of cool.
It might just be a tree, I don't really know.
We'll see. It'd be cool if it's a Willow
tree. Yeah.
So that's a problem. Now we know she made that story
up, so it's like, OK, hold on. What is going on?
Well, not only that, Nikki and Sarah had a little conversation
about and apparently Nikki told Sarah that she just thought of
him as her little brother. And Sarah told Ian this.
And Sarah told Ian this and she basically says like she friend
zoned you. Which is interesting though,
because you don't really know if that was real or not, because
that could have been Ian making the story up.
It could have been Sarah making the story up, right?
Oh, dude, there's so much going on here because OK, so Ian even
says on the phone he's like, maybe Sarah made that up because
she's jealous. But that could also be Ian just
saying that. It could, but I think Sarah does
say she did have that conversation.
Oh, OK. And she did say that Nikki
thought of him as like a little brother.
OK. And I would say Sarah does seem
trustworthy, so I believe. That I mean, let's just get it
out in the open. We have Ian was hooking up with
Nikki. Oh.
We're just going to break that. Down.
We're going to say that because you kind of need to know because
it makes these scenes. Make a little more sense?
A little more interesting because that's why it messes
with you because you're like, well, is he just saying this to
get Nikki away from him to kind of like mess this whole thing
up? So take with that what you will.
Now while he's on the phone talking to Ian, you see Nikki
get up from the table and she walks to the side and kind of
like peeks to watch him and then she disappears back.
Yeah, and it's just not normal. The way she moves.
It just is. She's just out of her mind.
Yeah. I mean, really, I just keep
thinking obsessed, but I don't want to say it anymore.
All right. So Bear goes back to the table
and that's where Nikki presents him with a little gift that she
brought, and it's a tiger eye stone, which is I guess brings
you confidence and willpower. It's a nice gift, sure.
Yeah, then she tells him how much she loves him too much
bears like, because he's just heard all this stuff and he's
thinking like, maybe that Willow was too.
What is it? The wishing well?
One wish? Well, the one wish Willow, maybe
that worked. So she tells him she loves him
and he's like, would you say more than anyone in the world?
I love that 'cause it's just a question he has to know now.
And she does love him more than anybody in the world.
And that's a big problem. So he realizes, OK, there's, you
know, obviously I may have done something wrong.
He doesn't fully own up to that, but he's thinking it.
So he has to ask about the cancer thing.
And he's like, hey, Nikki, did your dad actually like, does he
have cancer? And she's like, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no. And like starts getting louder
and dude, and she's got this huge.
I'll cut you off. Here you guys go.
No, no, no, no, no, no. This whole time too, she has
that huge smile on her face. And you know what it reminded me
of Smile. No.
Well, I mean, there's that. But you remember Georgina and
get out. No, I haven't seen that movie in
a. Long time dude, 'cause she's
like that too. She gets confronted and she's
got that big smile, but like inside she's dying, you know?
Like she's trying to like, let it out.
Yeah, she's trapped. Yeah, Yeah.
And man, when she did this, I mean, it was such an
overreaction and just an unstable moment.
You're like, man, this girl has lost it.
Yeah, she ends up getting up from the table and while smiling
is still yelling, saying don't say that.
I thought we were having a nice day but she's like screaming and
dude, it's like the awkwardness and I'm just, I'm embarrassed
watching it. Yeah, they're at a nice
restaurant. Everyone's kind of watching,
like, what the heck is going on? So yeah, he has to kind of
smooth this thing over. What she does and he gets her to
calm down and basically she ends up saying like, does it really
matter? You know?
And then Bear's like, no, I guess it doesn't.
Well, Bear only said no because he just doesn't want to deal
with this anymore. He knows this is going bad.
She might have another big meltdown.
He just wants to kind of get away from her.
Yeah, well, I shouldn't say get away from her.
Get out of this restaurant with her.
And I understand that feeling. I had a girlfriend once that
was. She was a little crazy.
And no offense to her now, I'm just saying back in the day, it
was very clingy. Some would even say.
She was a little obsessive. Little obsessive and I remember
one time she was older she was like a great above me and there
was these. Humble.
Brag yeah 'cause whenever we went to like McDonald's and.
In the drive through there, like it was a hanging out spot for
all the what do you call them, overclassmen, Like they were the
seniors or whatever. I people who are out of school
went nowhere. So they hang out at McDonald's.
Yeah, I mean, they're the older kids there.
Oh, you're talking. About when you're in school,
like the seniors? Yeah, the upper.
Class upperclassmen, yeah, they're all hanging out there
and she's like, oh, let's let's go hang out with them.
And I'm like, no, I don't want to go hang out with them.
Like none of these people are my friends.
I'm also like, you know how this when you're dating someone
that's above your grade and you're the younger grade, they
don't want you around. Yeah, it's a super awkward
position to be put in. And, you know, some of them kind
of liked her too. So it was one of those
situations where I'm like, let's not do that.
She didn't like that. So not only did we go hang out
with them, she let them know that I did not want to talk to
them or be there. Dude, I forgot she did have some
crazy moves with you. I've lived this, guys.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not kidding.
It's a it's a small piece of what this movie is, but there
was some weird obsession stuff going on.
It didn't go well. Well, I mean, I think you guys
went your separate ways and that was for the best.
OK, so back to the movie. After this whole event at the
restaurant, we cut straight to the bedroom where Bear is just
thrusting away. Oh this is the OK.
I thought this was the first time they hooked up.
No, I thought you might be getting them confused.
I was OK, so this was the really problematic one because it was
very clear she's not in the right mind to do this at all.
Like it does feel like he's just taking advantage of her.
I mean, he knows this. He know, even knows he may have
been the reason she is this way and he still did it.
Yeah, and not only that, she's pretending that she's enjoying
it, like she's making the right noises, but when they show her
face, she is dead behind the eyes.
Yeah, this is kind of tough to watch.
So this is what made me kind of turn on Baron.
I'm like, OK, this guy is not a good guy.
Not great, no. That night he wakes up and this
is the middle of the night and she ain't in bed.
I would say he gets what he deserves from now on.
But he hears something moving in the room and in the corner of
the room there seems to be someone standing there.
It's so dark, though, it was hard to see, but you're like, is
that Nikki? Well then you hear a voice and
she says go back to sleep. Oh my God.
I'd have a heart attack, man, especially with everything that
happened. I There's no way on earth I'm
staying in that house. Dude the way they did this was
so weird too. So she's standing in the corner
and you can't see her like her again.
It's that whole thing where her face is like blacked out.
It almost looks like she has a mask on.
Like it just you can't see her face.
Yeah, I didn't even know what I was looking at, so.
She ends up stepping away from the wall and then she does she
dude, she does such weird stuff. She puts her hands out like, I
don't know, like limp wrist a little bit.
And then she she starts like prancing towards them, almost
like kidding around or something.
They do some great job with her movement.
It's like little subtle weird things they do with her that is
just so creepy because it's not the way a normal person would
move. No, and here's where Bear asks a
very important question. He's like, what are you doing?
That is totally fair. And she explains.
I'm just watching you sleep. And during this whole time too,
there's they're doing these weird speed changes with her
where she'll move but it like move too fast or too slow.
Again, it's not normal. Yeah, and now Nikki knows she's
upset him, so she has to start crying.
And she explains she doesn't like her dreams, which makes you
question, oh, it's creepy whose dreams those really are.
And she doesn't think that the love is mutual at this point.
And it's so tough because you're from Bear's perspective, you're
like, man, you don't even know what to say because anything you
say that's wrong is going to set her off.
But you also don't want her staring at you while you sleep.
Yeah, you got to just like, smooth this over somehow.
Now you did just hook up with her, so this is your cross to
bear, correct? Correct now Nikki won't come to
bed so Bear just ends up laying down.
How you would ever try to sleep like this I don't know.
Doesn't work out well for him anyways because as soon as he's
laying there she starts screaming.
Why don't you love me? Man and the way they have the
score of the scene, it is just so creepy because the volume
lifts and you just feel like. That intensity, I don't know if
you mean score but basically they bump the volume up when
their screams and stuff it goes through the roof.
Yeah, it just is so intense. And like I said before, this
what this movie is, you're just tensed this whole way through,
like you don't know what she's capable.
Of no, and you can't even predict what's going to happen
because this is what happens next.
He gets up, he hears this. He can't see her.
She's gone. All of a sudden she comes
walking in through the door, but she's walking sideways and she's
got a vase of flowers in front of her head.
It is. So terrifying, but in this
scene, which really shouldn't be that scary, she's just holding a
vase, but she's like, sidestepping.
Yeah, it's super weird. And then she just stands there
like she's not even moving. She's just holding it there.
It's like 20 seconds. And you're just expecting a big
moment, right? Like she's going to remove that
vase and she's done something effed up to her face or
something. Yeah, or you're going to see
some demon or something weird. But no, she just sets the vase
down, lays next to him and goes, oh, those are for Sandy.
Yeah. She just again she just flips
back and forth between extremely crazy and just semi crazy.
OK, from here we get to 1 of the funniest parts of the movie I
love. This so Barry is laying there
and he is terrified and she's just like cuddled up next to
him. Everything's good, right?
It seems that way. He goes to just like roll over
and Nikki just screams stay. That's screaming and it's like,
Oh no, he's stuck now. Everyone just started laughing
at just the position this guy is in and just how insane she is.
So the next morning Bear gets up and he notices his hair looks a
little different. And why you might ask?
Well, Nikki gave him a little trim while he's sleeping.
Why not right? Just cut his hair.
My question is, where did this hair go?
She ate it. I don't know.
Yeah. Because it doesn't come back and
OK, so I like after the after I watched it the second time, I'm
like, dude, that hair has to be there's a shrine later on has to
be on it. Oh 100% I'm sure.
It wasn't, I looked, I couldn't see it, 95%.
You would have thought that's where it went, but yeah, who
knows. Just the fact that she's cutting
his hair in the middle of the night is terrifying.
It is. It is so Bear.
He knows he's got to talk to her, right?
Like you got to, you got to air some of this out.
I mean, it just can't keep going on this way.
She seems to be getting worse. Right.
So bear's like, hey, about last night.
That was pretty terrifying. Too much Nikki's like, oh, I'm
sorry, I'm so sorry. I just had a bad dream and I
just. And then she freezes, just like
all of a sudden stops in the middle of her sentence.
She just doesn't say anything. And she just stops right there.
Then she goes, how's this? Plasters a giant smile on her
face and just stares at. It Oh my gosh, I loved the
smile. This I thought was actually
really funny. It was funny and creepy because
she tries to smile and she keeps trying to make it better.
But it looks so weird and off. That is really funny.
Yeah, she has better. Like how's this after like
staring at her for 10 seconds, he goes not great.
He's like, I get what you're doing.
It's not working. So Bear just is like, hey, just
promise me no more weird stuff like don't watch me when I sleep
and don't move. Weird.
It's crazy to me that he would even think that this is going to
work right. Obsession.
I know. Well, he goes both ways.
Yeah. Huh.
So Bear smoothed it over as best he can.
He thinks they're good enough to like he can move on from this.
So he's got to go to work. She's staying home today.
The only problem is when he goes to walk out the door, it's
covered with duct. Tape.
I love this too because he walks over the door.
He doesn't even question it, he just slowly tries to open it
until he has to yank it and the duct tape rips off and he gets
out. He doesn't even talk to her
about it. No, in fact she's like, oh, it
looks like you might not be able to get out or something.
Maybe you should just stay here. She tried to trap him in there
and he's like numb. Nope, I'm good.
And I will have to say, the use of duct tape wasn't great for
locking someone in. I had a hard time seeing it
again. I thought the screen was really
dark. She.
Spent way too much time on the center of the door, not much
around the edges. I feel like it would.
Have been harder for him to open the door.
Well again, she didn't have a ton on the outside it was she
really duct taped the middle of the door.
She's not in her right mind. So Bear walks out the door and
the camera pans inside and Nikki is left just standing there with
this huge smile on her face. As the camera pans down, you
notice she's pissing on the floor.
Yeah, which is disturbing because to me, that red, like
she's stuck there, like her, she's stuck in her body, right.
I feel like the real Nikki, like the peeing was her almost
terrified. I don't know if it was meant to
be that way, but that's what I took.
From it. Oh, I like that touch.
Yeah. Yeah.
She's stuck inside just waiting for him.
Yeah. No, let's go.
To lunch, let's go to. Lunch and Bear I we didn't
mention Nikki packed him a nice little lunch, right?
He just got a little lunch box, some little things in there,
just so he remembers her. So he opens up his lunchbox and
there's two Polaroids. These are very interesting.
First one says you. And this is a very strange shot.
So this is a shot of bear, but it looks like it's from above.
And this is from like a Polaroid.
To me it almost looked like it was like a security Cam at work
that she took a picture of. Oh, weird.
Super weird. Yeah.
I couldn't tell what it even was.
And there's a little heart drawn around him.
It's really hard to see. You had to like, kind of like
slowed down. It's creepy.
Now. There's that photo and then
there's a second photo that says not me, which has him a laying
next to Nikki. Wait, so is this the real Nikki?
Interesting. Let me explain some things.
Oh, I didn't even catch that. OK, that's odd.
All right, we'll come back to that here in a second because
there's something else that happens.
But for now, Bear takes out a sandwich, starts eating, and
he's talking to Sarah. So him and Sarah are hanging
out, right? Well.
I'm going to be honest, as soon as you start eating the
sandwich, I'm like, there's no way I would eat a sandwich that
this crazy girl made for. Me, I thought kind of the same
thing. Yeah, I'm like, who knows what
she's doing? She's out of her mind.
Yeah. Well, Bear has some things he
wants to talk to Sarah about, and one of them is that Nikki
apparently told her that, that him and her were just friends.
You remember that whole thing? Yeah, Right.
So he confronts her about it too much.
Sarah's like, hey, that happened like, one time.
It was like a no, nothing. Like just a little conversation.
Kind of plays it off. Then Sarah's dad comes over.
She's got another letter. So the Sarah's story, she's
wants to be a tattoo artist. Apparently you have to go to
college for that. I don't know.
I guess so. So I mean, I don't think you
have to. I guess she just wants to.
And I feel like if you want to be a tattoo artist, just start
tattooing. Yeah, just go to a shop and be
an apprentice. But I don't know.
I don't know, maybe, I guess maybe she's going to art school
and like that's going to hone her skills.
We'll go with that, Dan. All right.
So she gets rejected. Now she comes back to Bear and
she kind of lays his head, her head on his shoulder and he puts
his head on her. So you can tell there's a little
bit of something here. I mean, first of all, Bear's
playing with absolute fire. He did that.
I'm like, dude, you don't know if Nikki's around, why are you
doing that? But also, it's like, dude, I
guess I get it from Bear's perspective, he's been through a
lot and he is just going through it and he's just looking for
something to latch onto right now.
Right. So they have their little
moment, then Sarah jumps up, snags the note off Bear's
lunchbox that Nikki wrote to him.
And unlike the front of the note, it says, like, my little
food critic. That's because Bear had said he
wants to be a food critic or something.
It was like a joke kind of thing.
It's a cute little note from your girlfriend.
Right then she spots something else written on it, which says,
what's the verdict on Cat? Immediately I just started
laughing. I'm like, no, she did not.
Well, bears like, wait, what? What are you talking about?
And Sarah is like, yeah, what's that even mean?
Like, what are what is this? And then she shows him the note
and it's written. What's the verdict?
Period. Cat question mark this part.
We're dying laughing, psycho. B just fed him cat.
So Barry looks down at a sandwich and in between those
little slices of bread is some nice cat meat.
Dude, why did she do this? OK, so here's the thing.
Did Real Nikki do this or was it fake Nikki?
Yeah. Oh, OK.
That is interesting because we have seen she snaps in and out,
but it's only for a brief amount of time.
But maybe you could say Real Nikki is trying to sabotage
this. Thing why would on the picture
say not me? That would explain real Nikki
doing that. Right.
I think Real Nikki did this. And maybe real Nikki also did
the cat. What's the?
Word Shrine. Yeah.
No, I don't think so. I think that was crazy, Nikki.
OK OK so back to here. That is interesting.
I didn't even think about it from that perspective because
also I didn't even see what the picture said when I watched the
movie. But that would make more sense
because why on earth would the Nikki that was obsessed with him
feed him his own cat? It's yeah, you won it.
Right. But it was such a great shocking
scene. And it was hilarious.
Cut meat. He ate it.
Now the cat is part of him. Bear gets off shift when Ian
asks him for a ride home. Now I thought this was weird too
because all of a sudden Ian has a check engine light.
He had Uber to work. I thought there might be more
going on but I don't think there really is.
Well. Yeah, and I thought maybe the
car had something to do with Nikki, because Ian drove Nikki
home that one time. I thought maybe she did
something to him or threatened him and got his car.
I don't think that played into it, but I thought maybe that was
it. No.
Basically on the ride home, Ian confronts Bear about how Nikki
was having a mental breakdown like her dad had cancer.
She lied about that, but you're kind of pretending like
everything is cool too much. Bear kind of like brushes it out
of the way and changes the subject because he found out
Ian's having a party and he didn't get invited.
You're getting the vibe that Ian thinks Bear is taking advantage
of Nikki, which he actually absolutely is.
He is, yes, that's true. That's accurate.
Yeah, 100%. Eventually Bear kind of wears
him down and gets Ian to invite him to the party, but he's like,
OK, you come, Nikki can't come and I will tell Sarah she can't
go because then that kind of justifies it.
Which is funny because now I'm thinking, Oh my God, how is he
going to tell this girl? There's no way she's going to
let him get away with this. Dude, this movie does it so
well. It's like, you know, you're
already nervous for him to bring this up.
Yeah, you're dreading. Him going home and talking to
her, yeah, it's like it's going to be a difficult situation.
Absolutely is. Well, let's get there because
Bear gets home now before he even goes in.
I love this part. He's sitting in the car and he's
trying to figure out how he's going to explain not the party,
but the fact that she can't feed him Cat.
It's crazy that he thinks he can like, teach her to be normal.
It's weird. It is weird.
It's like, bro, this is far gone.
You got to get her help. Now before he gets out of the
car he hears the one wish Willow.
It starts to play little music but it sounds like a little
different. So he opens it up, takes out the
box, and one thing you notice on the box, there is a picture of a
cat on it. I think it's called a tabby cat
or something. I don't know.
Just interesting that the cat was pictured there.
OK, just a nice little subliminal message.
Sure. It's embleminal.
Yeah, it's not. It's bluminal.
Well, he also notices a number to call.
And at this point, he's like, you know what?
Maybe I should look into some help here.
So he dials up that number. By the way, I dialed this
number. It doesn't work.
Oh, but it did in the movie. Now Bear gets through, but the
guy who answers the phone is like the most nonchalant guy
ever. Sounds like a total Stoner and
just it's kind of like whatever man.
I, I loved this and I told you, this is the director on the
other line. I love the way he came through
'cause like you said, it's just so chill.
Like Bear will be like, man, things are going crazy.
Like how do I fix this? He's like, I don't know, man,
just figure it out. You'll, you know, you'll get
through it or you just that's kind of the kind of vibe you
get. Now, the interesting part is
like, at first the guy makes it seem like it's a possibility to
cancel this. You know this.
Yeah. Well, he's like, yeah, did you
want to cancel your wish? No no no no.
It's OK to keep the. I just want to know if I can
like alter it a little. But here's where you see again
the sight of Bear. Because he doesn't initially
want to cancel it. He wants to alter.
It that was hard to watch too. I'm like, this guy's giving me
the option to cancel. Just cancel it dude, this is
bad. Right, but he still wants that
love anyways. He moves on to like some
questions that he has. He wants to know if her love is
real for him. Like is this actually real?
Does she feel this way too much? The dude's like, well because
you chose this for her doesn't make it less real.
Yeah, it's like, well, I don't know what you want me to say.
Sure. Yeah, so then bears like, OK, it
doesn't sound real to me, so let's do the cancel option.
Problem is, they don't really do that.
Then I would like to cancel. You'd like to file a cancel
request? Yes.
We don't really do that. You were just making it sound
like I could put in a request. So he basically tells him like,
if you want it cancelled, you kind of have to die and then
it'll go away. Well, I like, I think he said
too. He's like, well, why'd you tell
me that was an option? He's like, I just wanted to know
what you were wanting. He was like, he was like, I
wanted to know your intentions. Now before they get off the
line, bears like, OK, there's one thing I have to know.
Every once in a while, she has these moments where she, like,
snaps out of it and freaks out. What's that about?
And the guys like, oh, do you want to just talk to her?
And then through the phone you can hear Nikki just screaming.
I know it's creepy. It felt to me like he's the
devil and he has her soul, like she's trapped with other souls
at this, wherever this place is, right?
Which made me go like, what? Yeah.
What is the structure we're operating in?
Is this like witchcraft? Is it demons like he just hurt
her over the phone? Well, that's the great part.
It's all up to your interpretation.
It is whatever you want to bring into.
It because it's not explained. No, but I thought that scene was
really creepy, simple and effective.
Well, Baron ends up hanging up the phone and decides, you know
it's time to go into the house. And when he walks in, it's not
good. Guys, Nikki's standing there,
looks like she really hasn't even moved, but she has vomit on
her chin. Her eyes are like black and
sunken in her shirts ripped. I mean, there's just things on
the floor that aren't great. Yeah, she is a complete
disaster. I guess she hasn't moved.
It almost looks like she got into a fight, but she is in
rough shape. Right, so Nikki's like, oh, I'm
disgusting, I'll take a shower, I'll take a shower.
So she runs in to take a shower and Barry yells through the
door. He's like, hey, just to let you
know there's a there's a boys night tonight at Ian's.
Soon as he does, shower shuts off.
Yeah, there's. Like a loud noise from the
bathroom. Clearly she's not happy with
this. Yeah.
She starts screaming, like just screaming.
They make it so freaking loud. And then Nikki's like, hey, I
talked to Sarah and Sarah said she's going too much.
Bear totally folds. He's like OK, you can come.
We're good. I'm sorry, I even said that you
can come. I mean, her reaction is so over
the top, you kind of can't argue with her 'cause you don't know,
I guess you really feel like she's going to do something bad.
Yeah, it's not. I mean this whole thing because
we're going to go over to the house party the whole time.
You're just like, Oh my gosh, what is going to happen?
Well, can we get to it? Let's get to it because it's
great. All right, so let's go to the
house party. So.
Ian, I got to be honest, this is a nice house party.
I I again, I love the vibes, I love the bar vibe.
I like the house party vibe. Seemed like a cool party to be a
part of yeah. Lounging, everyone's chill.
Just seemed like a good time. Yeah, just having some drinks,
playing some ginga truth or dare or something so.
It's kind of weird. Yeah, the it's a giant ginga
set. The big ones, but on the blocks,
it's like a truth or dare. But I think it's just like
truths. I don't know.
Yeah, I think so. There's dares in there, too.
Yeah, there's both. So the best part is Bear and
Nikki walk. In and yeah, the whole time
you're like, how long is this going to last before something
goes off the rails? Because Nikki is clearly not
herself and everyone knows the old Nicki.
Like there's no way this is going to work.
Right. And the best part of this whole,
I mean, one of the best parts is just looking at other people's
faces, reacting to what's going on.
Yeah, you see them kind of watching her, and it's like, oh,
something's a little weird here. And just the awkwardness of
these two people coming in, no one likes that they're together.
It just doesn't seem right. Well, it all starts when the
first guy takes his little Jingle block and it's like his
dares to like switch seats or he has to switch seats with
somebody. So he looks at Bear.
He's like, oh, Bear, I'll switch.
You see, it's all set next to Nikki, and Bear's like, OK, so
he gets up and Nikki, she, you know, it's Nikki, like, oh,
don't go. Like, she's like very clingy
with this whole thing. Doesn't want him to leave,
right? Clingy and desperate right off
the bat. Too much.
Another dude is like, whoa, hey bear, what kind of spell did you
put on her? And.
They just kind of laugh. It's like oh God.
Well they start laughing but Nikki doesn't over laugh and she
is just laughing her head off. Everyone's stops and she's still
laughing. You put on her everyone just
staring like oh God is are you really under her spending?
Well, the best part too, is they pan to Ian, who's just staring
daggers at Bear. Like, what have you done?
Yeah, he knows Bear has done something bad.
Now we get to Nikki's turn to pull a block, and she grabs a
block, pulls it out, reads it, but doesn't say what it is.
Then she stands up and starts telling one of the most
disturbing Hansel and Gretel stories I've ever heard.
This was so great because, yeah, you're wondering what did the
block say? And quickly realize I don't
think it matters what the block said.
So she starts reading her story and I'm kind of summarizing it,
but this is how it goes down. Hansel's checking out Gretel's
tits. OK, not not good.
They're getting the Hansel and Gretel are brother and sister.
Oh yeah, that's weird. Yeah, and then she says come lie
with me like the old woman taught.
Us. Oh, God, the story's dark.
Yeah. And by the way, while she's
doing this, she's doing the accents and stuff, like she's
getting into character. Yeah, again, in front of
everyone sitting around this table.
Right. She goes, I'm more than your
wife. I am your sister.
Hansel tries to leave, but Gretel knows he wouldn't leave.
He would relent and be inside her like he had done many a
night before. And if not, Gretel would filet
his meaty forearm, roll it up like a stick of licorice and
insert the flesh between her legs.
Dude I mean the story is disturbing on its own but when
she said that part I mean the visuals like what the heck.
But she wasn't done yet. She goes.
Hansel is her soul, the love only the branch of a Willow tree
could conjure. Shots fired.
OK, so we got. OK, so yeah, obviously she says
this sits down. Everybody's like shell shocked.
Like what the? FI love it because it was such a
fun moment. And then it's just awkward, as
you can imagine, everyone just looking at her like, what just
happened? Yeah.
And she just looks. She's like, oh, it's a new book
I'm working on. Like what on?
Earth. Could you imagine?
OK, can we break this down a little?
OK, so we talked this Hansel and Gretel story.
You hear it And you're kind of like, that was freaking weird,
but is there more to it? I think you know more sure.
Well, I just, this is just off the Dome.
Oh, OK. It seems to be very similar to
things that are going on. For one, Nikki thought of Bear
as her brother, didn't she? Yeah, her.
Sarah, if you're buying that story and you're going on the
route that Nikki really wasn't into Bear, she thought of him as
a brother, OK, That's her real feelings about him, right?
Interesting. That would make sense, sure.
So now we have a brother and sister hooking up and it seems
like Gretel is almost obsessed with Hansel and mentions that
like Hansel will like resist but he will be inside her.
I feel like we've already kind of seen that happen.
I think we saw it happen a couple times.
And then I mean, come on, she said.
A Willow tree like. So she's kind of explaining
their story. That's interesting.
Interesting. I didn't even catch that
connection. Good job.
Yeah, that was deep, Dan. No, thank you.
Expert, expert review here. All right, so her turn's over.
Let's get to Bear's turn. He pulls a block and it says
kiss the person on your left. I feel like the theater's like,
oh, no, well, 'cause you know who's sitting next to him on his
left? Sarah.
Sarah is sitting there now. This is great.
Well, 'cause you're there like, there's no way she's going to
let this happen. No.
So as soon as Nikki hears this, she stands up.
And then she puts on the biggest frown I've ever seen.
Like it? But it's almost like a cute sad
frown. It's like a child pretending you
need to be sad. It is a deep frown.
And you're like, what the heck? Yeah.
And she just stares at Sarah. And she lingers in these
positions where she just stands there for a little too long.
Well, it it's just funny because you're watching everyone look at
her. It is hilarious.
Like, what is she doing? Then she slowly walks over to
Sarah's chair, stands behind it again, lingers a little too long
and then pulls the chair backwards, gets on her knees,
puckers up. And man, I just just looking, I
mean. He kissed her.
But like looking around the room, everybody was just like,
what the F you know? Because not only the sad face
was really weird moving Sarah, obviously this is a party weird
move to do. And then the pucker, she sticks
her lips out. It's not like a normal kiss,
it's like an exaggerated pucker. It is just disturbing.
Yes, well, Nikki's not done, because then she says she says
this to bear. Nobody on this earth will
comprehend what it feels like to love someone, how much I love
you. Wow, that's a lot.
That is a lot, but she's not done because now she stands up
and addresses the room and she does this by screaming this and
everyone in this room will die, never feeling the strength of
connection I have felt with my bear.
This room is just dead silent, dead and silent, just looking
into their faces. And then she goes, just kidding.
Wow. And you're like, OK, So she
flipped back to normal version, right?
And she's she's trying to sell that this was all a joke.
And I'm thinking there's no way people are going to buy this.
And they're not buying it. And then she's like, fine, I'm
not joking, deal with it. I love them.
Flip back. She's like, I tried, it didn't
work. Yeah, I love him.
Yeah, this is all real. Yeah.
So she reaches over, starts caressing Bears hair all of a
sudden snaps right out of it so she's back to original.
Nikki starts screaming the the faces that she makes are just
like, terrified. Looking, it's like she's seeing
a monster or something, right? And she falls like across the
room. And then she yells it's coming
and grabs a bottle, starts smashing it on the table and
stabbing herself in the head. Oh, now I kind of get why she
did that. She's trying to kill herself
right before it gets back. Right.
Oh, that's so creepy. Gives me chills.
Yeah, that was good. That.
I'll tell you what that snapping in and out is so effective and
so weird and creepy. So I guess we can say the party
didn't go well. No, not.
At all. Now, Bear's driving Nikki home
where she's bleeding from her forehead, so he's got to take
her to the emergency room. Now, I've seen people speculate
on what happened here. I don't think it's that, like,
complicated. I watched the scene.
It appears like he pulls into the emergency room, A nurse
comes out, doesn't look like Nikki wants to go.
You can't just steal someone out of the car, so the nurse walks
back. When she walks back, Nikki gets
out and starts dancing. Oh, weird.
I didn't I it was hard for me to see again.
It was so freaking dark. But yeah, I just took it as she
never went in. Yeah, I don't think she ever
went in. I think she just didn't want to
go in. Because yeah, if she went in,
you would have seen some like addressing of the wounds, but
they weren't. I think she had cleaned up.
But yeah, there was no medical stuff on her.
Right. She, I don't think she ever went
in. I think she just didn't want to
go. And she can't leave Bear's side.
They end up going back to the house, and Bear is not in a
great place. He wants to go to the bathroom.
And of course, Nikki's like, well, can I just stand outside?
It's not good. It's so creepy.
He confronts her about what she did.
And then Nikki's like, well, OK, but you, you and Sarah have a
thing going on. So that's already planted,
right? Well, yeah, we kind of saw that
earlier. Yeah.
Which is kind of funny because it's like, in hindsight, Sarah
is the good girl for him, but he wanted the girl he shouldn't
have been going after. And that is the thing.
Reap what you sow. Now Bear decides.
You know what? Let's get to the bottom of this.
Nikki, do you even like me? And of course this Nikki's like,
yeah, I'm your freaky. I couldn't tell if she said I'm
your freaky Nikki or if she said.
Freaky, which I thought it was freaky, kind of called back to
what he called her earlier, which he knows she doesn't like.
Right, which is weird. And he's like, hey, can you just
be freaking normal? Just be Nikki.
And Freaky Nikki screams at the top of her lungs.
I can't be Nikki. It is still crazy that he's
trying to reason with her to get her to be normal.
It's like bro there's no way this girl is going back to being
normal. No, no.
But Bear realizes at this point like none of this is actually
real. Like he made this happen.
But Nikki tells him she loves him and he's like, oh, I guess I
mean, I, I love you too. As soon as he does this, she
stands up, starts walking backwards but in like a slow
motion. Wave scary.
That was such a freaking weird. Walk right and she comes to a
complete stop in the doorway and now she's blacked out.
Yeah, you know what? I feel like that's a possession
style walk and I think that is what we're seeing.
She is possessed by something. Something else is acting like
Nikki. Right.
Well, Bear is terrified. He's like on the floor against
the wall and he's like, I'm scared.
And she's like, don't be scared, I would never hurt you.
And then she does this fake run towards him where it's like a
little fake out. Yeah, she just had to check him
real quick. And I'm like, was that real
Nikki doing that? Like, what was that?
Hey there. You can't justify her behavior.
She's all over the place by alls I know is I would be out of that
house. There's no way I'm staying with
someone like this. Well, Bear thought that 'cause
he's like, hey, why don't you go to bed?
I'll go over to her friends and come over in the morning.
Too much. Nikki's like, OK.
But I mean, if that happens, I'm basically gonna.
I mean, she just said she's gonna kill herself.
Like she describes how she's gonna fail, basically saying
she's gonna. Yeah, so she's kind of trapping
him, which I do find funny. There's a lot of this where
Nikki is actually trapped in her body.
We see this but Bear. Also, in a lot of ways is
trapped in this as well. Yeah, double trap deep thoughts.
So after all this, like, I mean, this is tense.
This is some tense scenes. Then she goes.
Or you could just stay, you know, like just she, she flips
that so quick. Anyways, Bear ends up staying
the night, but then at about 2:42 in the morning, he gets a
message from Sarah. Now Sarah is at the park and she
really needs to talk to him about something.
And she tells him, like, if you don't come, I'm going to just
come over there. Which is not an option.
You can't have Nicki and Sarah in the same house.
We know this. This will not go well.
None of this will go well. Also, it's 2:00 in the morning.
Why are we really meeting at a park?
It must be something extremely important.
Yeah, this is the only scene where I'm just kind of like, I
don't know about this. It seemed.
I think I told you afterwards, it kind of felt like a dream.
This doesn't seem like something people would really do because
once they even get in the car, we're going to break it down.
It doesn't seem like Sarah had this urgency where they had to
meet up right then. No, yeah.
It was just kind of like, oh, let's just hang out for a little
bit. Right.
Well Bear ends up trying to sneak out of bed but before he
can leave he hears Nikki and she says Bear kill me please.
Oh, it's creepy. So this is when you realize, oh,
shoot the role. Nikki is trapped like you knew
it, but she's kind of coming out.
She is coming out. She even says be quiet because
she's sleeping. We don't want to wake her up.
Terrifying. Now you would think bear hearing
Nicki's voice. This would have like a profound
effect on him. But in reality, he just is more
concerned about himself. And he goes, what's so bad about
being with me? Too much?
Nicki's like the real Nicki. Well, I've never been with you.
Which is creepy, but we already kind of knew it and it just
shows you who this bear guy is. He's just so pathetic and just
not a good person. No selfish.
He just leaves her. Yeah, but what do you really do?
You. Know it's a tough spot.
I mean, I'm not staying. With everybody.
Bear ends up going to the park, finds Sarah, gets in the car
with her. They're just kind of chilling in
the front seat, and he kind of covers for Nikki and he's like,
yeah, all this weird stuff. It's just her dad, He's going
through cancer, all that stuff. I don't know why he's still
putting this front up as if no one knows what's going on.
What she just did at the party was insane.
Right, right. Well, Sarah is more concerned
about bear and she thinks that like Nikki's taking advantage of
bear. Interesting, I guess.
You can, but she doesn't know what really what's going on,
right? She only saw what happened at
the party. You could see maybe she is just
acting out, just trapping. Bear with her.
Sure, we'll go with that. Now we get to the reason she
called him, and it's because she got the last letter from the
college she applied to for tattooing.
Yeah. And they wanted to share this
moment together. Which, again, two in the
morning. Tough sell.
Yeah, Sarah wants him to open this letter.
But before he opens it, Sarah has some things to tell him.
Oh, this is actually where I think the Ian Nikki stuff comes
in. Yeah.
She finally tells him they were hooking up, but it was, like,
super casual. And Ian thinks that dating Bear
is just a way she's getting back at Ian.
OK. So now, like we already said, a
lot of Ian's actions kind of make a little more sense, even
the relationships, it all kind of comes together.
Yeah, so Ian is kind of a Dick, right?
Yes, because he kind of was encouraging Bear.
In fact, I wouldn't say kind of. He was encouraging Bear to go
after Nikki, but Nikki was hooking up with him.
But it was casual. So I guess you could think like
maybe. No it's never casual come on.
And he gave him bad dating and like telling her to call her
Freaky Nikki and then telling her like really putting him off
on even making the move. Yeah, yeah, not a good friend.
I mean yeah, just to be hooking up with her, not tell your
friend is weird, especially when you know he's into.
Her. And then it kind of comes off
of, like, a lot of the stuff he's been doing.
It's kind of like a jealous thing.
Yeah. Sarah ends up kind of convincing
him that, you know what? He shouldn't be with someone
like Nikki. He should really be with someone
a little more chill, kind of like her.
Yeah, and you start to see they're actually good for each
other and to be honest, for the first time.
Come in a while, we see bears like kind of laughing and he's
enjoying this. Well, first of all, there's a
little bit less tension. Finally, a moment where you can
just relax and see a nice relationship.
I enjoyed the moment for while it lasted.
Well, the problem is when you're looking at Sarah, the framing of
that shot just had way too much window in it.
Way too much window and it wasn't.
You couldn't see out of it clear enough, so you knew something
was coming through that. Thing and well, that something
would be Nikki, because she full on sprints at that window like a
linebacker, hits it, bursts out the window, grabs the back of
Sarah's head and starts smashing it.
Now you may be wondering. Oh, she's smashing it into the
steering wheel. I thought so, but then it looked
like maybe there was a brick involved.
She brought her a brick, put it in front of the steering wheel
and is smashing her face into the brick and dude this went
straight like terror fire type gore.
Where her face gets completely smashed in.
Yeah, it is destroyed to where? I don't know if we're looking at
Skull or what the heck we're seeing, but I got to say this
moment actually made me jump. I was embarrassed in the
theater. I jumped hard on this one.
I knew it was going to happen too, which just makes it even
more impressive from my point of view because I knew, like you
said, we're looking at that window, you know, this is a soft
scene. You know Nikki's not going to
let him leave the house. You know, you just knew she was
going to come back around. And man, when she just destroyed
Sarah like this and jumping through that window, it was
crazy. I guess her hands jumped
through, but not her body. That was crazy.
Yeah. It was a gruesome, gruesome
scene. And just like, you know, at this
point, you're like, oh, this is not going to have a good ending.
Oh, this? Is the beginning of the end.
We have just murdered someone. Also, Bear, while this is
happening, didn't try to stop it.
He's just staring. Yeah, he was like in total
shock, just like back against the window.
Yeah, you'd think a normal person would try to stop this
situation from happening. It did happen pretty quick, but
he was fast. He could have stopped it.
So he's got like blood all over him from his Sarah getting
destroyed. Well, he doesn't help himself
from here on out because now Nikki explains they got to clean
this up and Bear goes along with it and they stick Sarah in the
back of the car. I don't know where they go.
I'm going to be honest, I watched the scene.
It looks like maybe they went back to their work.
OK, yeah, I wasn't sure either. Either way, it's not the house
because at some point like she's she's doing the work like
Nikki's doing whatever needs to be done.
Bears like just shell shocked sitting at this like table and
it looks like a break room and then she goes, baby, why don't
you go home? I'll take it from here.
So they're not. I don't.
There's nothing really else about this, that they were
somewhere else. Yeah, all's we know is she's
going to handle the body, and Bear's in a pretty tough
situation now. She may have gotten into a safe
if they were at the work at this point.
Which would make sense. That's probably where they were.
Who knows? Right, so Bear drives home.
He opens up Sarah's acceptance letter.
Don't know why but he did and Sarah got into the college so
Congrats. Sucks.
But congratulations, now we cut back over to the crystal shop
and Bear walks in covered in blood again.
Just been through something traumatic.
He's looking for some answers and not answers even.
I mean, he is looking for answers, but he also just wants
those. One Wish Willows because he's
got to try something to fix this.
The problem is they're not on the shelf.
And that's when he meets Harry. Now Harry is the new employee.
We meet at the shop and Bear starts freaking out and he's
like, hey, where are these One wish willows?
They were right over here. And Harry's like one wish.
What? Yeah, so it's really funny what
they do here because you think like, oh, this is a different
shop now, right? Like it's the same spot.
But there was something magical about the first time he went
there. Now it's back to a normal place
of business, right? Right, like there never was one
wish willows or something or? Yeah, like this guy doesn't seem
to even know what he's talking about.
But then he flips and he's like, OK, hold on a second.
First of all, don't come in here with this kind of energy.
It's like way too early to be doing that.
Again, I love their vibes. They're just like, hey, you got
to chill, man. Yeah, I know you're covered with
blood. Obviously a lot's going on, but
you just can't bring that in here.
Yeah. And then he's like, second of
all, I'm messing with you, dude. They're right here.
We just moved them. So there's like 3-1 wish willows
left so it's a a fun little fake out.
It still is the store. The one wish Willows still are
magical and everyone knows about them here.
Yeah, no big deal. Yeah.
Now Bear tries to blame Harry. He's like, why did you guys do
this to me? How could you ever sell this?
And Harry's like, whoa, dude, like the box is like full of
warnings. Like, did you not read them?
It's like, hey, I, we warned you about it.
It says all over the box they're real.
Why are you coming in here? At me like this.
Yeah, so then Harry's like here, dude.
Like, I don't know, man. Maybe someone else can make a
wish for you. I used my wish, so I can't do
it. Or you could just, like, die or
like, kill yourself. Like, I don't know.
Those are your options. It's just so funny because it's
such an extreme situation he's in, but they come at it with the
most chill attitude the whole time.
Which is just a funny thing to watch.
It's a nice place to be in. It's it's like our little safe
room. It's like Resident Evil.
You know, you go in your safe room and you kind of relax.
Yeah, Nothing can get you in there.
That's kind of the shop. It just brings, like, chill
vibes for a little bit. Yeah, that's what they're all
about. Well, bear gets 31 wish.
Willows goes to the car, immediately tries to wish for
Nikki to love him only as a friend goes to break it.
But it won't break. Yeah, and which is what we know,
you can't make another wish. So yeah, he tries to snap the
thing and bend it and it won't do anything.
Yeah, so he goes to his backup plan.
He drives over to Ian's house, and as soon as he walks into the
door, Ian's like, dude, what is going on?
Sarah keeps texting me. She wants me to come over.
Which is funny because it's psycho girls.
You know she's going to try to kill him, right?
Oh, the plot is going. She's got to fix this and it's
hilarious. No, I did like this part too,
because Bear is in a complete manic state, like he's bouncing
off the walls. And when he hears this, he's
like, Oh my gosh, I got to go take care of this.
And he goes to like run out the door.
But then he realizes, wait, I, I I got to fix this other thing
first too. So he comes back in with Ian and
Bear just opens up about these one wish Willow sticks tells him
like kind of what's going on with it.
And he's like, Hey, you're here, dude.
Ian, you just got to like do a wish for me to fix this whole
thing. You got to unwish my wish.
And then he and then he's even like and after that, dude, you
can be with Nikki like. Yeah, he's like, I'm over it.
I I made some mistakes. Just do this for me and just be
very, very, very specific about what you say when you make the
wish. He keeps trying to reiterate
like this isn't a joke, it's real.
Do the wish, do it very clearly, and all will be good.
Yeah, and Ian, though, because you got to realize Ian didn't
know that he even knew about him and Nikki till now.
And he actually comes off like a little defensive here to where
he's like, oh, you think it's all about that or whatever?
And Pierre, just like, no, no, no, no, no, I don't care about
that. Doesn't matter.
He pulls out the stick and hands it over to Ian, and Ian's just
moving too fast. Like, he grabs the box, rips it
out, and he's like, whoa, yeah. Bears panic.
He's like, you gotta take time with this thing.
Yeah, you gotta take your time too much.
Ian just ignores him and goes, man, I wish for a billion
dollars. Snap stop.
OK, I need you to say. I wish for a billion dollars.
Money starts falling from the ceiling and Poor Bear's dreams
are crushed. Which is funny though 'cause
like you said earlier, it wouldn't have mattered.
That wish never would have gone through.
It couldn't have. Yeah, it breaks the rules.
It actually might snap Nikki out of it.
OK, so. But no.
But the people are dead. Yeah.
So you still have a big problem. OK.
Barry ends up heading home and as soon as he walks in the door
he finds Nikki's made him a new little shrine.
And you just knew. You're just dreading as soon as
you walk in that door, you're just thinking this, well, one
we're getting at the end of the movie and you know Nick, he's
been up to no good. Bear pulls out the last wishing
Willow stick. So I thought he got three.
Well. You're going to see what the
shrine is. Well, what do you mean what is
it? Well, what was it?
It was just a shrine. I don't know how his picture and
stuff. No, you're not talking about
what's sitting in the chair. No, no, no, that's different.
OK, OK, but I was. I thought he grabbed 3 wishing
willows. Am I missing 1?
I didn't know he grabbed 3. Maybe it was just two.
Whatever Bears whole plan at this point is to have Nikki do
the last wish for him because she's obviously will like do
whatever he says he thinks he can get her done.
Wish the wish. See, but that's where I'd argue.
I don't know that she really does whatever he says, right?
I don't know that you could control anything she does.
So in my mind, I'm like, there's no way Nikki's going to make the
wish. It's going to be a tough one.
Yeah, a tough sell. So he walks past the shrine and
then he notices somebody tied up in the living room and it just
happens to be Sarah's naked body.
Oh, so it was hard to see it was her body.
So. So Nikki didn't get rid of it,
she just kept it in the house. Well, see, that's the thing.
It's like, I'm pretty sure they weren't at the house, so it's
almost like wherever they dropped her off, she did
something and then brought her back home.
Yeah, so who who knows what she was up to?
Well, I know some things because that's when Nikki walks in.
And did you notice the transformation?
She. Looks like Sarah, right?
Well she comes in chain smoking a cigarette.
Sarah smoked. OK, she all of a sudden has a
lot of new tattoos. See, when I watched it, I
noticed the tattoos, but I didn't make this connection.
I watched a review before I came over here or just like a little
snippet of like what you missed and they talked about this part.
It made sense. I didn't catch it.
Now someone I ever watched a video too where someone said her
hairstyle like she I heard that she shaved off the other girl's
hair and they've switched hair. I don't know to me it looked
like her normal hair they just tried to like style it a little
more. Sarah Ish.
She's crazy. She's clearly trying to look
like Sarah so he'll like her more, which is an insane thing
to do, you know? Then saying keeps going because
she immediately smashes her face again just like 1 little hit
with it. Bear is like taken aback.
He falls onto the couch. Next thing you know, Nikki's in
his face and she got a gun. This is a big problem.
A crazy girl with a gun. And she's screaming in his face
about how she's going to kill herself.
Yeah, the the tension has amped up to Max now.
And that's when Ian walks in, bullet straight to the head.
Boom, Ian's down and dead. There was not much more to it.
So Nikki just killed Ian and now she talks about where she's
going to stick that barrel. I'm just going to say it's in
places it shouldn't go. Yeah, she gets very graphic.
And it is. Brutal.
Well then she throws up on Bear too.
She just like projectile vomits on him concerning she's losing
it. So at this point Bear just grabs
her. They sit on the couch, they
cuddle and he's like I love you. I'm going to fix this.
If I fix this, he's going to go into the bathroom and he took
the gun with him, lock the door and he gets ready to do what
he's got to do. The problem, it's bare.
He can't do it. Typical with this guy.
Can never commit, can never make a decision.
He's trying to off himself and that was brutal to watch because
he's kind of trying. You could see him like holding
grab his head, trying to figure out the best way to do it.
It was just an intense, brutal scene.
But yeah, he didn't go through. So instead, he goes to the
medicine cabinet and grabs that bottle of Oxys.
Now you may be thinking, OK, Bear, he's finally doing the
right thing. He's going to like, set this
spell free. He's going to, like, take
himself out this way, right? Yeah, the only problem is I even
at this point I'm thinking, man, even if this works, poor Nikki
is in a bad situation. You've kind of ruined her.
Well, no, you have ruined her life.
She's got a lot to account for. Yeah, I think she's going to be
in prison, but. She'll talk.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
For now, Bear takes a handful, actually just takes the bottle
to the head, just like swallows all the pills, sits there for a
second and then, in typical Bear fashion, decides you know what,
I can't do this either, and tries to start making himself.
Throw up. This dude is so pathetic.
Just when he's finally going to do the right thing, he bells
out. Again.
But that's when we hear the Willow music and.
This made me laugh because I'm like.
Oh no. And then a snap.
All of a sudden, Bear's demeanor totally changes.
He's all of a sudden happy. He stands up, walks out of the
bathroom. Him and Nikki look at each other
and I mean there's nothing but love.
It is so funny when you see these two crazy people who have
this wish put on them, kissing and hugging and just like, Oh my
God, just two insane people. So if you haven't put it
together, what happened here while he was in the bathroom
about to take himself all he did take all those pills, he was
about to throw them up. But Nikki decided she was going
to use the wish and make him obsessed with her.
Just an insane moment. Which poor timing because right
when she did it, he would have been alive still had she not
made that wish. Yeah, you know what?
You're right. If she would have done it a few
seconds later after he threw up the pills, he would have been
alive. But no, those pills are still in
the system. Right.
So they go to the couch, they're cuddling, and then, yeah, Bear
dies, gone. And as soon as he does, Nikki
starts freaking out. Is about ready to do some things
she shouldn't with that weapon that she has yes.
And then boom, snaps out of it and.
She wakes up to a room of of horse, lots of people.
I mean, yeah, three people dead in the room, yeah.
All of her friends are are now dead.
Yeah. And that's the end of the movie.
That's it, guys. God, what an intense ride.
We just went off. All right, before we get to the
final, like our final rating. And then some of the trivia, we
got to go through some things here.
OK, there's some like little trivia things, and I got to go
over those photo booth pictures and some other little things.
Right? All right, let's go.
Michael Johnston, who was bare, he actually came up with the
idea of throwing up the pills. Originally he was just going to
take them and that was like it. Take them and then she snaps,
then she makes the wish and then they're together and he dies.
Right? I like this better because it
fits the character. And that's what he thought too.
I thought that was a great touch.
Absolutely. I agree.
All right, the photo booth pictures, so it is said that
they explained the whole movie and they kind of do.
I'm going to be honest, some of it's interpretation, but they do
definitely have some signs. The first pictures of Bear and
Nikki, and in that one she's distorted, like hard to even see
what she looks like, but Bear is kind of like like staring at
her. I took it like that's the
obsession phase, you know, like she's not really herself, but
whatever. Second picture, Nikki is unhappy
flipping off the camera, but Bear is still smiling.
Almost kind of felt like the real Nikki in there.
Yeah, so this would be the stage of Bear got what he wanted.
Nikki's obsessed with him, but Nikki's not happy.
Yeah, this doesn't really necessarily go straight in
order, you know what I mean, But I'm just throwing it out there.
We're just, I'm just listening here.
Third. Photo Bear's not happy, but now
Nikki is hugging Ian and both of them are happy.
So that's just showing the Nikki Ian relationship.
OK? The fourth photo.
This is really the big one. Sarah's laying down in the front
and Ian has X's on his eyes. Oh, why were they?
Why were their X's on his? Eyes.
See, that's a good question, because then I was started
wondering about that later. So what people are saying about
it, Obviously Sarah's laying down, signifying she's going to
die. He's got X's on his eyes.
You don't have to explain that. It's pretty clear.
Yeah. But The thing is, this was the
beginning of the movie. Why did Bear he was the one who
had to have put X's on Ian's eyes?
Oh, so it looks like he actually did that with like a pen or
something. Like a permanent marker?
Oh, so you're thinking maybe he knew about Ian?
He may have known about Ian all along.
Interesting, I like the little hidden lore there.
It's something, or I guess it's really more of a theory, but
yeah, interesting. Now the big question was Nikki
into Bear? It's arguable.
I feel like she kind of was. Yeah, we can.
We can hit this, but we can. We don't.
We already talked a lot about it, but we'll go through.
So you think she was into Bear? I got the vibe she liked him,
yeah. See, he and dude, Here's the
thing. I originally thought that I
thought she liked him. That whole thing with Sarah,
like her filling out if he liked Sarah was her trying to get like
a fill on him. And when she came back to the
car, she just wanted to hear him say it.
But after watching the movie and going through that Hansel and
Gretel scene, well, well. Yeah, but that's also after he
hooked up with her when she's not really in her own body,
right? So she might have been a little
pissed off at that point. But it does seem to play into
the whole part of like she thought of him as a brother
because that whole story is about a brother and her sister
hooking up. Yeah, that's fair.
Could be looking more into it. So now I'm kind of leaned into,
you know what, I don't think she did like him.
OK. I could go both ways.
I don't really care to be honest, Dan.
I mean, yeah, either way. You know what, this next part
I'm just going to. Was Bear a good guy?
Absolutely not. Yeah.
Let's just go through the things he did.
Neglected his cat. It died.
Yeah. I left the pills out.
So he stuck it in the garbage can.
That this cat he loved. I mean, I get it.
It's pets. Sometimes you got to do what you
got to do, but it just seemed very.
Cold. Well, I thought you should bury
it, or maybe put it, cremate it, put in a little urn or
something. He was very obsessed with Nikki.
Instead of asking her out or just, you know, manning up a
little bit, resorted to magic. Yeah, that's questionable
decisions. And then what he did with Nikki,
knowing the state she was in. Yeah, good.
Absolutely not good. I mean really though, like key
point of that is when he was on the phone with the dude from the
box when he's calling the number and he still didn't want to end
the spell. And to be honest, I don't think
he really cared about Nikki. It was more about how he felt,
you know what I mean? Yeah, I think we saw that he's
very selfish. Absolutely.
He got, he pretty much got Sarah killed.
I mean, kind of. Either way, he participated in
hiding her body, so. And he didn't even try to stop
the assault, so that's bad. Now the last question I had here
of seen people ask what happened with Nikki?
Like did she get the billion dollars and live happily ever
after? God no, because remember, Ian
has all that money. Yeah, but she's at a murder
scene. Yeah, nothing good happened, no.
She's got to go to jail. Yeah, she's definitely going to
jail. There's no good indeed.
Oh yeah, she already used her wish too.
So I was going to say unless she gets the wish thing and maybe
you wish that you don't go to jail.
You can try that. Yeah.
All right, let's move to our final rating.
Darren, what you got for Obsession?
Oh, man. All right.
I've kind of shifted my score a little bit since we last talked
after the movie theater. Like I said before, man, I just
love this movie. I thought they did such a great
job building that tension and just keeping it throughout the
movie. You never knew what this girl
was doing. And then when she would have
these little scenes where she'd flip out and then flip back, I
just thought it was so much fun. And I love the way they mixed
the humor into it as well. Acting was great, cinematography
was great. And you know what I like most
about this movie, Daniel is after we left the theater, I had
to call you and I even called my wife.
And initially though, I was like, I don't want to watch this
again. It was a lot.
But the more I started talking about it and thinking about the
way the movie went, I liked it more.
And I'm like, dude, I told my wife, I'm like, I I don't want
you to watch this. I want to see how you feel
watching the movie. That's a good point.
So let's get to it. I'm going to drop a 9.1.
Wow, that's really funny. Because I initially said it was
an 8 and we talked about it. I'm like, I don't think I can
give this thing a nine because I don't know.
It just was a lot to go through. But the more I thought about it
and kind of marinated on it, even doing the review, this has
been a blast talking about the whole movie.
I it's great. I'd watch it again.
I want other people to watch it. I want to hear what they think.
Yeah, I totally actually agree with all your points pretty
much. That's a first.
Thank you. And I mean this, I'll be honest,
I came into this movie and I wasn't, I don't even really want
to like it. I'm like oh this sounds like a
lame kind of relationship type movie.
Yeah, too soft. But dude, the way they took the
obsession to the next level and again, it's all that the old
story. Be careful what you wish for,
you know? And we got to see what happens
on a like if someones actually obsessed with you.
Yeah. Not good you.
Don't want you don't want it. Yeah, I absolutely love the
crystal Shop, all the employees. I loved the, I guess the
director who was the one on the phone call.
He just had a small part, but it was fun.
They did such a good job mixing the just pure torment and
anxiety with like humor and awkwardness that it's just, it's
a good combination of a movie. There were some things in the
plot where, like I said, her going to the park, Sarah to
going to the park, that was weird.
Like, I don't know, I just didn't buy that they'd go out
there at 2:00 in the morning, especially at that stage of the
relationship. Yeah, and I didn't even feel
like Nikki would let him leave the house.
She was. She was far gone.
At that point she she let him leave, but she wasn't far.
Behind. Yeah, maybe that was her plan.
Anyways, the whole thing, the dark humor of it, the whole
thing was fun to watch. I was into it the entire time.
I never got bored, didn't feel like I wanted to like in the
movie early or something, you know.
So overall I had a blast watching it.
It rewatch ability. I'd said the same thing when we
were done. I'm like, I don't know if I'd
want to watch it again. Well, I did watch it again and
it was just as good. In fact, I saw other little
things I start. Obviously you guys probably can
tell I got a little into the relationships.
Got a little obsessed. And like trying to figure out if
Nikki wasn't to him and trying to dissect those little moments.
And then you add those weird connections where there's the
Nikki with Ian and then there's Sarah, who likes Bear.
Bear. Like, trying to figure out,
like, how much of that played into were people lying about
things? What were the motives?
Yeah, I don't know. It sent me down a web and I
enjoyed all of it. And originally I said, I think I
was going to give it like, an 8.1.
Yeah, I actually went with a 9.1 too.
Dang, we double scored it. It would be matched.
That hasn't happened in a long time.
I'm going to be honest, I it's like everyone's loving this
movie. I didn't want to love it too,
but I did love it, yeah. It was really good.
I mean, it just, there's so many layers to it.
You're just watching Bear making these stupid decisions, and you
start liking, and you initially start the movie liking him, even
though he's kind of kind of pathetic in a lot of ways.
But then you slowly turn to like, Oh no, he's kind of the
bad one in this, right? And then you start feeling bad
for Nikki the whole time, but the real Nikki's good trapped in
there, and you're just kind of feeling for her, like, oh man,
this poor girl. But the the bad Nikki, the demon
Nikki is just doing these insane things.
It's just so much tension. I mean, I love, I think my
favorite part was the house party.
The house party was fun. Watching other people watch what
she's doing was so funny to see. It was almost like we got to see
people like us watching it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know what it was like They were the audience like, Oh my
God. Yeah, it's like, hey, we've been
dealing with it. It's crazy.
Great movie, if you haven't watched it, recommend you do.
It is kind of funny. I have seen like some takes that
are like the real villain of the movie and it's and it'll be like
it's bearer. It's like, obviously.
Yeah, of course he did. All this Benner's, like
terrible. Yeah, he let it go on way too
long too. I mean, and he hooked up with
her while she was possessed. That's a no go.
Yeah. We don't even need to get any
further. I would say Bearer's obviously
the villain. There's whatever spirit entity
that is within Nikki. Nikki, and then Ian's not.
He's kind of a villain, too. In a little bit of a way, yeah,
for sure not a good guy. Anyways, let's get to some
survival rules and then on to trivia.
So I mean, come on, survival rules, guys, when you make a
wish. You got to be clear, you guys,
we've all heard the genie rules, all that stuff.
Do some research, be very clear, and think of every way you can
get screwed over. Yeah, maybe you just don't need
to make a wish. Just try the normal way of just
talking to a girl. If that works, yeah, you could
just do that too. Or it won't, and that's the way
it is. Yeah, maybe it's just meant not
to be. Yeah, not meant.
To be all right, let's move to some trivia.
Shockingly, this movie was shot for under $1,000,000 and was
picked up by Focus Features for distribution for 15,000,000
after a bidding war. Several distributors wanted it,
including a 24. And neon, yeah, that's crazy.
I can't believe they made it under a million.
This does feel very a 24 ish. Yeah.
And you could see why after. Why watching this movie?
Everyone wants Barker on their films.
He's kind of the hot dude right now.
Yeah, he did well. He did really good.
The music store scenes were shot at the same music stores as
Wayne's World. Oh man, I loved Wayne's World.
Wayne's World Party time. Excellent.
There's one in there. The entire film of Obsession was
shot in 20 days. Wow.
That's crazy. Is that not insane?
Like I don't even know how they did that.
And they did such a good job. I wouldn't have known that.
I would have thought this thing was.
I don't know how long normal movies take, but it seems like
longer than that. Well, that's The funny thing
with all these like theories and looking deep into stuff, I don't
think they're, it's kind of like on you because I don't think
they've thought every single thing all the way through.
And those are the best type of movies where they let you kind
of just marinate with it. When bear scrolling Nikki's
social media posts. I think this must be when he's
in the room after his cat dies. Apparently one of the posts is
liked by Cooper, who plays Ian. So it's liked by Ian?
It's liked by the character, Yeah.
Oh, OK. I thought you meant like they
had Cooper, the real guy's name on there or something.
Oh, wait. I think you're right.
That's the way that reads. It's liked by Cooper Tomlinson,
who plays Ian. Oh.
OK, so that's kind of a funny little nugget Easter egg, yeah.
The production filmed on location at real Burbank
establishments. I guess one's The Roguelike
Tavern, and at North Hollywood's the Green Man Store, which
serves as a crystal shop. OK, so the.
OK, the Taverns, obviously the Roguelike Tavern.
That's the bar. OK, that's a cool bar.
Yeah. The the shop that you like, The
Crystal Shop. That's North Hollywood's The
Green Man Store. Oh, so you can actually go to
these locations? That's cool.
Yeah, I probably won't go, but sure.
They should start selling the one Wish Willow there though.
Oh, for sure, Curry Barker told The New Yorker that he asked his
father, who's Jeff Barker, to write some of the scripts
monologues, and the one he wrote just happened to be that old
Hansel and Reynolds scene. I.
Mean someone looked into his father.
No, that's funny. I mean, that was a great scene
because it was so freaking weird.
At the Q&A for the film, Curry Barker has revealed that the
film originally ended with Nikki killing herself, but one of the
production companies asked for an ending where Nikki lives.
Upon viewing the results, Barker realized this bleaker ending of
Nikki screaming in the aftermath of the carnage was objectively
better. Decide to keep it.
Yeah, I think it worked pretty good.
I was. I was happy with that ending.
I liked it. All right, let's get into a
little bit of the lore. They asked Curry Barker about
what really happened to Nikki for most of the movie, and he
kind of explains it, that she's in some sort of a purgatory and
it's not good. I think we kind of saw that.
I think that's a vibe we got, especially when we hear the
phone call and she's screaming in the background.
It seemed like she was her soul was being held captive.
And as we also see her popping in and out, yeah, that makes
sense. He also.
Elaborated on some of the particulars of the one Wish
Willow, stating that it isn't inherently really a bad genie,
but bear wishes for exactly the wrong thing in the worst
possible way. Yeah, I think that's fair to
say. While writing the script, Barker
had also had in mind that Nikki did genuinely have some feelings
for Bear, or at least had the potential to, and that if he had
told her the truth about his feelings, she may have even
reciprocated. Interesting.
So yeah, I guess the idea is she did.
Kind of like him, but he would have had to change kind of the
way he is. See, that's funny, 'cause I I
mean, that's. What I'm saying about this
movie, like there's the director's vision and yeah, he
wrote the whole thing, but I feel like it's one of those that
people are going to argue about it now because it's like, well,
OK, it's cool you think that, but the way this is written by.
The way it kind of played out in the movie, you could see it
another way. Yeah, yeah, All right, guys.
Well, that's going to wrap up Obsession.
Great movie. I enjoy doing every bit of it.
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