Day: May 22, 2026

Obsession leaves the theater with you

We finally saw Obsession.. and yes we became obsessed.

Obsession Proves Horror Still Thrives Where Other Genres Struggle..


Horror always succeeds where other genres fail. Even a movie with a low budget can make a profit without having to become some gigantic cultural phenomenon.

OBSESSION didn’t make the top movie of its opening weekend, but it really didn’t have to. The film opened to around $16 million domestically despite reportedly being made for only around $750,000. In today’s entertainment landscape, those kinds of numbers are exactly why horror studios continue to thrive while other genres keep struggling to justify bloated budgets.


From a talented young newcomer Curry Barker, Obsession stars Inde Navarrette  in the lead role alongside Michael B. Jordan and Olivia Colman.

The film follows Bear, a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants him his wish for his childhood friend Nikki to fall in love with him, resulting in horrifying consequences.

The film had already been generating buzz online well before its release, especially among younger horror audiences who seem to crave unsettling stories that blend realism with psychological discomfort rather than relying entirely on jump scares and CGI spectacle. This one had a whole bunch of those awkward social moments..


What makes Obsession interesting is that it starts off almost deceptively normal at times. There are moments where the audience can laugh or settle into the characters, but then the movie shifts. And once it shifts, it becomes deeply uncomfortable in a way that lingers afterward.

This movie blended overall lessons of the occult.. sexual abuse.. a lack of moral fortitude among our characters.. and an unsettling thought that we are presented with a villainous woman who really was not the villain at all, and we realize that near the end when we root for who would have been the ‘evil’ person..

The characters had hedonistic qualities and their likability diminished quickly. The most amazing of people in the movie succumbed to cruel and dreadful fate just for being wholesome .. the curse did injustice to the moral..

One particular scene completely changed the atmosphere of the theater and took the movie from entertaining to genuinely disturbing. It became shockingly violent..

And yet no one called 911!?

That’s where the film worked best.

It stopped trying to simply entertain and instead made the audience feel trapped inside the situation unfolding onscreen.

We also loved the honorary mention of the Mandela Effect in the film!


That’s something horror continues to do better than almost any other genre right now.

Horror does not need a billion-dollar budget, endless CGI armies, or giant established franchises to succeed.

It only needs atmosphere, tension, creativity, and a filmmaker who understands how to get under the skin of the audience.

Younger directors especially seem to understand this shift in audience taste. Instead of trying to recreate the past exactly, they’re building horror around modern anxieties, awkwardness, dread, and realism.


In the end, Obsession may not become the biggest film of the year, but it really doesn’t need to.

Financially it already appears to be a success, and creatively it shows once again why horror remains one of the safest bets in entertainment.

While other genres continue chasing massive budgets and struggling to break even, horror keeps quietly walking into theaters, unsettling audiences, and walking away with profit.

We saw Obsession so you don’t have to.. but you really will want to.

Slow burn to real burning: Ebola outbreak in Congo poses ‘very high’ risk

New fears of an expanding crisis..

The AP dispatch from Congo:

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Congo banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more 50 people Friday in an effort to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in a region where medical workers have struggled with a lack of resources and pushback from angry residents.

The World Health Organization said that the outbreak now poses a “very high” risk for Congo — up from a previous categorization of “high” — but that the risk of the disease spreading globally remains low.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 82 cases and seven deaths have been confirmed in Congo, but that the outbreak is believed to be “much larger.”

DEVELOPING… READ THE FULL STORY HERE..

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People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are struggling to contain.

The arson attack in Rwampara reflects the challenges of health workers trying to curb a rare Ebola virus by using stringent measures that might clash with local customs, such as burial rites. The disease has been spreading for weeks in a region lacking in adequate health facilities and where many people are on the move to escape armed conflicts.

Disclosure Day part 2: The art of the trickle

Another batch .. now there’s more questions than answers with each black and white redacted image..

For years the UFO conversation existed mostly in the shadows… grainy VHS tapes, late-night radio shows, whispered stories from military personnel, and blurry black-and-white footage that people either laughed at or obsessed over.

Now in 2026, the floodgates continue to slowly creak open. Additional UFO and UAP-related files were reportedly revealed today through the White House and the newly expanded government disclosure efforts tied to UFO.gov and Pentagon transparency initiatives.

More than 50 videos and supporting documents are now circulating through the media and online communities.


Among the material getting the most attention…
Apollo 12 astronauts reportedly describing eerie streaks of light during portions of their moon mission and landing operations.


A never-before-seen 2024 video allegedly showing the Coast Guard tracking an object flying near an aircraft over the southeastern United States before disappearing from view.


Military footage from Syria in 2021 following an unidentified object that suddenly accelerated at a speed witnesses labeled “instant acceleration.”
A separate 2020 video captured under US Central Command showing what appears to be a metallic sphere traveling over a populated area before climbing high into the atmosphere and vanishing.
Despite years of investigations and mounting public pressure, officials continue to maintain that there is no confirmed evidence that any of these incidents are extraterrestrial in origin. At the same time, military representatives openly admit that many of the cases remain unresolved and unexplained.


That contradiction is what continues to fascinate the public.


If nothing extraordinary is happening, why does the disclosure process feel so controlled and gradual? Why the endless stream of black-and-white footage, partial answers, heavily redacted files, and carefully worded statements? Why does it feel like the public is being allowed to see just enough to keep asking questions, but never enough to arrive at a conclusion?
For many people, this no longer feels like a question of whether strange things exist in our skies. The question now is whether governments have decided humanity can slowly handle the conversation.

The trickle of disclosure itself has become part of the mystery.


And perhaps that is the strangest part of all…
The timeline now appears set. More hearings. More footage. More former officials speaking publicly. More pilots stepping forward. More documents emerging piece by piece.


But if this is disclosure, then what exactly is the endpoint?


When does the “real” disclosure actually occur?