Michael Johnston (“Teen Wolf”) shares a bed with Inde Navarrette (“Superman & Lois”) in a new still from Obsession, courtesy of Collider.

Why does he look so uneasy beside the girl of his dreams? Find out when the horror film hits theaters on May 15 via Focus Features and Blumhouse.

In the movie, 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.

Curry Barker (Milk & Serial) writes and directs. Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial), Megan Lawless (“The Girl from Plainville”), and Andy Richter (“Conan”) round out the cast.

James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, and Roman Viaris produce, with Jason Blum, Leonora Darby, Mark Lane, David Haring, and Ruzanna Kegeyan executive producing.

Obsession kicked off its festival run at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Upcoming screenings include SXSW, Boston Underground, and Beyond Fest Chicago.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of TIFF, “While Monkey’s Paw scenarios often yield predictable outcomes, and this outcome is practically telegraphed from the start, Barker manages to surprise with the journey itself. And it’s one insane journey paved with blood-soaked violence and no shortage of nightmare fuel.”

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I spend a lot of my life talking to the people who make the movies we love.

As a long-time co-host of Bloody Disgusting’s interview podcast, The Boo Crew Podcast, I’ve had the privilege of sitting down with some of the most fascinating voices working in horror today. Over the years, we’ve welcomed Diablo Cody onto the show multiple times, and in 2019, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Jennifer’s Body with a special conversation with Megan Fox.

But my relationship with Jennifer’s Body goes deeper than interviews.

The film arrived during a massive turning point in my life: the year my first child was born. When you become a parent, everything shifts. Identity rearranges itself. The world suddenly feels heavier, stranger, and more meaningful all at once!

Somewhere in the middle of that life earthquake came this vibrant, razor-sharp horror film directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Cody.

It hit me like lightning.

Fresh. Dangerous. Funny. Sad. Electrifying in ways that were hard to fully articulate at the time. Beneath the neon humor and supernatural carnage lived something deeper…transformation masquerading as empowerment, and a mythology about exploitation that felt uncomfortably real.

Even then, it felt like the film was building its own universe while commenting on the one that created it.

And maybe part of why it resonated so strongly was that it felt misunderstood when it first arrived. For those of us who recognized what it was doing immediately, it felt like discovering a secret. Something specific. Something personal.

Over time, that connection grew. Admiration turned into fascination. Fascination turned into collecting. Through conversations, emails, and shared enthusiasm, I found myself connecting with some of the incredible artists who helped bring the film to life.

Then something even more special happened.

My daughter Scarlett grew up.

Scarlett is now seventeen, the same age as Jennifer’s Body itself.

When she finally watched the film for the first time, something clicked instantly. She didn’t need the years of cultural reappraisal to understand it. She felt it immediately: the tragedy embedded inside the horror, the themes of transformation, the strange sadness behind Jennifer’s monstrous rebirth.

When I asked Scarlett what stuck with her most about the film, she immediately went to one of its most haunting moments, the night Jennifer returns to Needy’s house.

Before the audience ever learns exactly what happened to her in the woods, the film lets us sit with the aftermath first. Jennifer shows up soaked, shaken, and altered in a way that feels far worse than anything we’ve seen.

Scarlett articulated it perfectly.

“That scene is really sad more than scary,” Scarlett told me. “She looks like something terrible happened to her, but you don’t know what yet. Your imagination fills in the worst possibilities. There’s a tremendous amount of grief baked into the horror and into the monster. It’s incredibly powerful.”

Watching her connect with the film on her own terms was surreal.

When I first experienced Jennifer’s Body, I was becoming a father. The film arrived right as my life was transforming.

Scarlett is encountering it at the opposite side of that journey.

She isn’t just watching the film,  she’s being shaped by it.

The story that once resonated with a brand-new parent is now resonating with someone becoming herself. A film about transformation, identity, rage, and survival, landing at the exact moment she’s forming her own understanding of the world.

That’s the strange magic of art when it lasts long enough.

It stops belonging to the moment that created it and starts belonging to the people who grow up with it.

And lately Scarlett has been discovering her own voice behind the camera as well. She’s been diving into filmmaking and production through her high school’s student-run podcast and daily television show. Seeing her curiosity for storytelling grow made us want to try something cool together.

So we packed our gear and headed to Vancouver.

Following the Footsteps of Devil’s Kettle

What started as a father-daughter adventure quickly became something bigger.

We set out to track down as many filming locations from Jennifer’s Body as possible, exploring the real-world spaces that helped build the fictional town of Devil’s Kettle.

To our surprise, no one had ever documented the film’s locations in this depth, if at all, ever before.

So we followed the breadcrumbs…and almost twenty years later…it’s pretty much all still intact!

Quiet Vancouver neighborhoods that doubled as Devil’s Kettle streets. Forest edges where ritual and transformation unfolded. Schools, houses, and back roads that now feel haunted by the mythology the film created.

Walking those spaces together was surreal.

Movies live in our imagination, but standing in the real places where they were made adds another dimension. Ordinary streets suddenly carry cinematic ghosts. A stunning patch of forest hums with the memory of a sacrifice scene.

For Scarlett and me, the trip became more than a filming-location tour.

It became a shared exploration of a story that had shaped both of us in different ways. Cinematic archaeology.

The result is the video releasing today here on Bloody Disgusting, a deep dive into the real-world filming locations of Jennifer’s Body, and the first time this level of location documentation has been attempted for the film.

It was a labor of love from beginning to end.

A Film That Grew With Us

One of the most fascinating things about revisiting Jennifer’s Body today is realizing how much its reputation has evolved.

The film has undergone one of cinema’s most satisfying cultural reappraisals. What once felt misunderstood now feels prophetic. Audiences have caught up with the film’s satire of exploitation, its commentary on fame and manipulation, and the tragedy embedded in Jennifer’s transformation.

For Scarlett, discovering those themes at seventeen, the same age as the film itself, creates an eerie symmetry.

The story that resonated with a new father years ago now resonates with someone just beginning to shape her own creative voice.

That kind of cross-generational connection is rare.

But Jennifer’s Body has always operated on that strange emotional frequency.

What Comes Next….

There’s also exciting movement happening around the creative voices who brought the film to life!

Diablo Cody and producer / manager Mason Novick are about to unveil the witchy new project Forbidden Fruits, directed by Meredith Alloway, on March 27.

Jennifer’s Body director, Karyn Kusama, has also let it slip that, apparently, Diablo has been busy putting pen to paper on a Jennifer’s Body sequel.

As for Scarlett and me….this adventure sparked something.

Exploring Vancouver through the lens of a film that meant so much to us was too much fun to do just once. We’re already planning more journeys like this, diving into the real-world locations behind other movies that have shaped our lives and our love of horror.

Because sometimes movies aren’t just stories.

Sometimes they become maps.

And if you’re lucky enough, you get to follow those roads with someone you love.

You can watch our full Jennifer’s Body filming locations exploration now here on Bloody Disgusting and on the Bloody Disgusting YouTube channel!

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You must see something in the teaser trailer for Dead Eyes, a first-person horror film captured using a custom head-mounted Sony Rialto camera system to create an immersive cinematic experience.

It will have its world premiere at SXSW in Austin, TX, on March 12 as part of the festival’s Visions section, which is known to showcase bold, distinctive features with strong directorial voices.

In the film, Sean and his fiancée, Grace, enter a remote forest to search for his missing father, Paul, who vanished following the tragic death of his youngest daughter, Lilly.

Returning to the site of Lilly’s death forces Sean to confront his inner demons — which soon begin to manifest in terrifying physical ways. Their search takes a horrifying turn when they uncover Paul’s dark secret: cloning experiments designed to resurrect Lilly.

The forest is now inhabited by cannibalistic mutant girls, each a clone of Lilly, violently battling to prove she is the “real” one. As Sean and Grace uncover the grim truth, they must survive grotesque creatures while grappling with disturbing questions about identity, loss, and the boundaries between life and death.

The Australian production is written, directed, edited, and produced by Richard E. Williams. Executive producers include Tristan Barr, Ari Harrison, and Jeff Harrison.

Rijen Laine, Ana Thu Nguyen (Mortal Kombat II), Charles Cottier, Alea O’Shea, Mischa Heywood (Bring Her Back), Stephen Phillips (Bring Her Back), and Freya Callaghan star.

Blending psychological terror and body horror with an intense POV style, Dead Eye delivers a relentless descent into grief and obsession that blurs the line between the living and the dead.

Dead Eyes is slated for a spring release in Australia from Umbrella Entertainment. Anthony Buckner of AMP is representing worldwide sales.

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It’s “Night of the Living Dead for the digital age” in the trailer for Didn’t Die.

Directed by Meera Menon (“The Walking Dead,” “For All Mankind”), the character-driven horror-comedy premiered at Sundance 2025.

Set in the not-so-distant future, a young podcaster, Vinita, struggles to maintain her dwindling audience amidst the zombie apocalypse.

To make matters worse, the undead are beginning to mutate and become more powerful. When her ex-boyfriend shows up with an orphaned baby, it becomes all that much more important that Vinita and her family do what it takes to survive.

The film opens in the following theaters tomorrow, March 6, via Level 33 Entertainment:

• Laemmle Glendale – Los Angeles, CA
• Vidiots – Los Angeles, CA
• AMC Orange 30 – Los Angeles, CA
• AMC Fullerton 20 – Los Angeles, CA
• AMC Rolling Hills – Los Angeles, CA
• AMC Saratoga 14 – San Francisco, CA
• AMC Stonebriar Mall 24 – Dallas, TX
• AMC First Colony 24 – Houston, TX
• AMC Fountains 18 – Houston, TX
• AMC Empire 25 – New York, NY
• AMC Cherry Hill 24 – Philadelphia, PA
• AMC Voorhees 16 – Philadelphia, PA
• AMC Hoffman 22 – Washington, DC
• AMC Colonial 18 – Atlanta, GA
• AMC Summit 16 – Birmingham, AL
• AMC River East 21 – Chicago, IL
• AMC Roosevelt Collection 16 – Chicago, IL
• AMC Niles 12 – Chicago, IL
• AMC Highlands Ranch 24 – Denver, CO
• AMC Jefferson Point 18 – Fort Wayne, IN
• AMC Eden Prairie Mall 18 – Minneapolis, MN
• AMC Thoroughbred 20 – Nashville, TN
• AMC Quail Springs Mall 24 – Oklahoma City, OK
• AMC Ahwatukee 24 – Phoenix, AZ
• AMC Southcenter 16 – Seattle, WA

Kiran Deol (Destroy All Neighbors) stars with George Basil (Werewolves Within), Samrat Chakrabarti (“The Sinner”), Katie McCuen, Vishal Vijayakumar, Ali Lopez-Sohaili, and Kandis Erickson.

Menon penned the script with cinematographer Paul Gleason. They produce alongside Erica Fishman and Joe Camerota.

“I’m drawn to the question of what still makes life worth living when everything else has come undone,” said Menon. “Being an indie filmmaker right now feels like podcasting in the middle of a zombie apocalypse — this film is about the grit it takes to simply keep going.”

“Didn’t Die is a witty and poignant take on the classic zombie film, crafted by a group of truly remarkable filmmakers,” commented Level 33 President Andreas Olavarria. ” We can’t wait to share this film with audiences across North America.”

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Blending cursed object horror, possession, and paranormal suspense, Capture explores the deadly cost of revisiting the past and being seen through the wrong lens.

The indie horror film will be released on Digital March 17 via Uncork’d Entertainment. Watch the trailer below.

In the movie, after inheriting her parents’ long-abandoned house, Abby uncovers a mysterious 30-year-old camcorder hidden among a collection of videotapes.

As she reviews the footage, she begins to unravel horrifying secrets tied to her family’s past — and a terrifying truth about the camera itself: anyone it records doesn’t just relive the past, they die. What begins as a disturbing discovery soon becomes a desperate fight for survival as the camcorder’s supernatural power refuses to stay buried.

Kaitlyn Lunardi (The Hangman), Cedric Gegel, Chris Cimperman (Dawn of the Beast), Leah Eckardt, Grant Schumacher (The Tomorrow Job), and LeJon Woods (Beezel) star.

Bruce Wemple (The Hangman, Dawn of the Beast) writes and directs. Traverse Terror and 377 Films produce.

“Bruce Wemple has become one of the most reliable voices in modern indie horror, and Capture is one of his most unsettling films to date,” said Uncork’d president Keith Leopard.

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