Simon Mayo
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
I mean, it just says here they're on the same listing as Maverick in the American chart, which implies that they're together.
Yeah.
Because they're both number eight.
Well, I mean, it's a heck of a double bill.
Yeah.
Obsession is at number four, number three in America.
Nick in Leeds says, Dear Honey and Bunny, I just came out of Obsession, having experienced the curious sensation of feeling a tightness in my chest and a stinging in my eyes during most of its runtime.
Seems I'd forgotten how to blink and breathe.
This is my new favourite horror of 2026, Sorry Hocum, and this year's Talk to Me.
The cast are great, especially Indy Navarette, who really goes there.
By the way, the...
Wiki says it's Indy Navaretti, but I would have thought it's Indy Navarette.
Anyway, it really goes there in a manner reminiscent of Mia Gothard, her most fantastically deranged.
And it has one of the greatest shock scares I think I've ever seen.
Also reminiscent of an infamous scene in the debut movie by the Philippou brothers that you can see coming a mile away, just makes it all the worse when it happens.
And Peter says, it's an insane, deliriously over-the-top and incredibly noisy little number, for sure, which you find yourself laughing at in one minute and then choking on your popcorn in horror the next.
And then somewhere in between, not being sure how to react at all.
That's Obsession, number three in America, number four in the UK.
Boyd Hilton is another one who we won't be seeing for weeks after the Arsenal victory.