Nikki From ‘Obsession’ Will Be At Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights

Inde Navarrette successful "Obsession."

Focus Features

The freaky type of Nikki from the summertime blockbuster Obsession is coming to Halloween Horror Nights arsenic Universal Studios Hollywood.

Written and directed by Curry Barker, Obsession is 1 of if not the biggest astonishment movie deed of the summer, earning $475.4 cardinal astatine the worldwide container agency since its merchandise successful theaters May 15. The movie was made for a minuscule $750,000 earlier trading costs.

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In the film, Bear (Michael Johnston) has a monolithic crush connected his co-worker Nikki (Inde Navarette), but retired of fearfulness that she will time off him successful the friend zone, he makes a Faustian bargain pinch a One Wish Willow. After wishing Nikki would emotion him much than anyone successful the world, Bear soon finds that Nikki becomes dangerously obsessed pinch him and will spell to deadly extremes to protect her emotion for him.

Obsession was released by Focus Features aft it acquired the movie astatine the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival for astir $15 million. Focus, of course, is the independent movie subsidiary of Universal Studios.

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Universal Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights’ imaginative head and executive shaper John Murdy announced astatine Midsummer Scream successful Los Angeles Sunday nighttime that the Obsession characteristic was a precocious summation to this fall’s lineup.

“I can’t springiness you each the specifications …. But Nikki is retired location location — you request to get into a Where’s Waldo?-type mentality,” Murdy told the crowd, which screamed during the announcement. “She mightiness beryllium looking for her adjacent obsession, and I’ll time off it astatine that.”

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What Version Of Nikki From ‘Obsession’ Will Appear At Halloween Horror Nights?

John Murdy didn’t specify whether Obsession’s Nikki would only look astatine Halloween Horror Nights astatine Universal Studios Hollywood, aliases astatine Universal Studios Orlando arsenic well. This year’s yearly arena originates connected Friday, Aug. 28, successful Orlando and Thursday, Sept. 3, successful Hollywood. Both of the parkland events extremity connected Sunday, Nov. 1.

Nikki is simply a analyzable characteristic prime for Halloween Horror Nights successful that she’s not a monster, but personification who had nary power complete a way that was chosen for her. As such, Halloween Horror Nights describes Nikki, per Attractions Magazine, arsenic “the latest unfortunate of the One Wish Willow’s terrifying curse.”

For fans wondering what loop of Nikki they will get from the film, Murdy told Inside Universal, “It’s a circumstantial prime of which type of her we wanted to really attraction on, and it’s the type astatine the very extremity of the movie wherever she’s each bloody, she’s taken her friend’s dress, and she’s drawn the tattoos each complete her body.”

Discussing Nikki’s destiny aft the events of Obsession, Inde Navarette said successful a Zoom speech successful May, “Ultimately, it’s up to [Curry] wherever that [storyline] goes, but he did driblet a small Easter ovum successful his adjacent film. In the inheritance [of a scene] connected the news, there’s a woman being charged pinch 3 counts of homicide, truthful that’s benignant of the direction.”

Curry’s adjacent film, Anything but Ghosts, is expected to beryllium released successful 2027. Also starring Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless and Andy Richter, Obsession is still playing successful 186 theaters nationwide and is streaming connected premium video connected request and on Peacock.