Posedlost

Bear (Michael Johnston) is an ordinary young man whose love for his colleague Nikki (Inde Navarrette) is as intense as his shyness and inability to ask her out. Desperate people do desperate things, so Bear buys a fancy toy at a fancy junk shop that, according to the instructions, can grant him one wish. Any wish. The young man doesn't have to think about it for long. He wants Nikki to love him. The result comes almost immediately. Nikki is in love with Bear. Passionately and madly. So madly that it's dangerous and Bear starts to mind. At first a little, then a lot. The more it bothers him, the colder his feelings for Nikki become. But Nikki is still crazy about him. And he starts to act like a crazy person because of all this love imbalance. Slightly frightened, Bear would like to claim his wish, but the owner of the shop where he bought the wishing tool is not very helpful, or rather gives him advice he didn't want to hear. The wishing spell can only be ended by death, preferably his own. Possession can be seen as a pure horror or a very black comedy, depending on the viewer's experience with love. Although the consequences of poor Nikki's too intense love are terrifying, director Baker tried to keep her feelings as civil as possible, even though they are very perverse. "Nikki is possessed. It's not the demon or the spell that's to blame, it's the love. Too strong and devastating. And it makes her do all these scary things," says director Baker.