'Obsession' Director Curry Barker's New Short Film "Mama Bear" Review
Decider • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Curry Barker, breakout writer-director known for the hit horror film Obsession, continues to engage with his roots by releasing a new YouTube short titled “Mama Bear” despite his growing success and upcoming projects with A24 and Universal.
- “Mama Bear,” a five-minute horror short released just before Halloween, serves as a digital follow-up to Obsession and precedes Barker’s next feature, Anything But Ghosts, which has already completed filming.
- The short is described as thin and impersonal, resembling more of a teaser or proof-of-concept than a fully developed narrative, featuring a doppelganger story germ but lacking depth or character development.
- While “Mama Bear” showcases some stylistic elements familiar from Obsession, it fails to capture the same emotional engagement or complexity, possibly due to its brief runtime and spontaneous production.
- Barker’s career trajectory remains promising, with Obsession’s massive financial success and upcoming films, and “Mama Bear” is viewed as a minor, experimental piece rather than a definitive indicator of his future work.
