A Terrible Retread of 1000 Better Films Harbors a Streaming Obsession- Armessa Movie News

There are only so many ways you can spin a psychological thriller revolving around one person becoming increasingly infatuated with another, but 2009’s Obsessed didn’t even bother to try.

Instead, it leaned hard into formula and delivered exactly the film everyone was expecting it to be, albeit to a much lesser standard than the innumerable all-time classics and cult favorites that it was evidently indebted by. On paper, the prospect of a glossy genre film starring Idris Elba and Beyonce being nominated at the Razzies sounds ludicrous, but that’s exactly what happened in the end.

While Obsessed did do a decent turn at the box office by earning almost $74 million from theaters on a $20 million budget, the downside was a thoroughly deserved Rotten Tomatoes score of only 19 percent, while the musical superstar and Ali Larter were nominated for Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress at the annual showcase for the bottom of the Hollywood barrel.

Undeterred, though, streaming subscribers have opted to become obsessed with Obsessed all over again after it ended up stalking its way straight to a spot on the Starz global most-watched charts, per FlixPatrol. As tends to be the case in the majority of these stories, Elba and Beyonce have an idyllic marriage that gets shattered when Larter’s temp worker arrives on the scene.

Developing an unhealthy attachment to her boss, Elba’s Derek Charles is forced into a fight for survival when she begins to encroach on his personal and professional existence with increasingly dicey and dangerous results.