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Love Me to Death: When a Wish Turns Into Obsession
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Love Me to Death: When a Wish Turns Into Obsession

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Obsession follows Bear Bailey, who uses a wish-granting toy to make his childhood friend Nikki Freeman love him.
  • The wish produces an overwhelming and frightening response, sending the story toward psychological horror and catastrophe.
  • After its North American release in May, the film earned $501.66 million and ranked fifth among the highest-grossing horror films worldwide.

Bear Bailey has loved his childhood friend Nikki Freeman for years, but his attempt to confess fails because he lacks confidence. Desperate and frustrated with himself, he remembers a toy called One Wish Willow, which supposedly grants a wish when someone breaks it.

Bear jokingly wishes, “Make Nikki Freeman love me more than anyone else in the world.” The answer quickly turns disturbing. Nikki declares, “Bear, I love you so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much.”

Make Nikki Freeman love me more than anyone else in the world.

— Bear BaileyHe makes the wish that sets the film’s horror story in motion.

That frightening response drives Obsession, a psychological horror film opening on the second. The story begins with the fulfillment of an unrequited-love fantasy, then turns the wish into an all-consuming fixation that leads to catastrophe.

The film earned $501.66 million, or about 687.3 billion won, after opening in North America in May. It ranks fifth among the world’s highest-grossing horror films. Before Obsession, only It, released in 2017, The Sixth Sense, released in 1993, and I Am Legend had crossed the $500 million mark, according to the figures cited.

Bear, I love you so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much.

— Nikki FreemanHer unnaturally intense response reveals the wish’s frightening consequence.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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