In the last month, Obsession has become the world’s latest horror fascination.

The hit film has broken box office records, and got the whole world talking about Bear, Nikki and the mysterious One Wish Willow.

Obsession follows Bear, who comes across a One Wish Willow that is supposed to grant his heart’s desire. However, when he wishes for his crush, Nikki, to fall deeply in love with him, things don’t quite work out as he intended, with deadly consequences for himself and those close to him.

If you’ve been picking apart the film and its meaning over the last few weeks, you may have spotted one part of it that doesn’t quite make sense – and so, apparently, has its director, Curry Barker.

During an interview with Total Film, it was pointed out that other One Wish Willow users had been complaining about how things had turned out for them, with the YouTuber-turned-director then being asked what he thought other people had been wishing for.

“I mean, it’s kind of a plot hole,” he admitted. “It’s something I don’t like to think about too much, because it totally doesn’t make sense that there’s a world of people just making wishes.”

He added: “It really doesn’t make any sense at all. If the One Wish Willow actually works – which it does in this lore – and people are just making wishes left and right, there would be some crazy [things going on]. Like, dragons would exist.”

As Curry put it, the world in Obsession seems too “normal” for everyone to have access to these wish-granting sticks.

The writer-director went on to try and put forward a theory to explain this plot discrepancy, claiming: “Here’s my take – every time someone makes a wish, they enter into an alternate reality where their wish comes true, so you’re not experiencing everybody’s wish at the same time.”

However, he quickly realised that this theory presented its own issue, brought about when Ian’s billion-dollar wish comes true towards the end of the movie.

“That doesn’t make sense because the money falls from the ceiling,” he joked. “Yeah, it’s broken.”

Meanwhile, Curry has revealed to CinemaBlend that he is brainstorming ways of returning to the Obsession universe and expanding the One Wish Willow lore even further.

“I obviously have a couple more things that I’m excited about next, but I do see Obsession 2, maybe. Or even what really is exciting to me is maybe an anthology, like a one-hour episode,” he said, although we probably shouldn’t expect Nikki to return after that gruesome ending.

“Each episode is a different wish that goes completely off the rails. Maybe I’ll direct the pilot with the same DP, and you could invite other filmmakers to kind of give their spin at it. That would be really cool.”

Obsession is currently in cinemas.