The screen bled into a suffocating close-up of a ringing telephone, the sound unnaturally sharp against the silence of the theater. In Obsession, Curry Barker doesn’t just invite the audience to watch a descent into madness; he traps them in the room with it. Following the viral, jagged success of Milk & Serial, Barker trades found-footage grit for a slick, neo-noir aesthetic that feels like velvet wrapped around a razor blade.