The young friends moan about work, go to bars and hang out in a standard "rubbish jobs in a boring town" kind of way.
Bear has a crush on the vivacious Nikki but in typical rubbish bloke fashion, can't bring himself to tell her.
One day he buys a novelty gift from a "new age" shop thinking to give it to Nikki. The One Wish Willow claims to give you one true wish if you snap it.
After a fumbled conversation with Nikki that he regrets, Bear snaps the One Wish Willow and asks that it makes her "love him more than anything in the fucking world".
No good will come of this.
CW: bloody violence, gore, mutilation, suicide, generally pitch black
Curry Barker takes very familiar territory (be careful what you wish for) and delivers a breakout summer horror hit worthy of its box office.
It's grim.
Nikki becomes obsessed with Bear and does awful stuff exactly like you'd expect but it's handled in a way that makes it clear she's the victim and he is the villain. Bear almost immediately regrets the violating wish but it's now done. Both are well served when the cheap take would have been an "evil woman" movie, which this definitely isn't.
It's driven by the astonishing performance from Inde Navarrette who is no longer a whole person really and now just a conduit for loving Bear. She emulates the old Nikki lots of the time but is often a weird puppet and genuinely disturbing in places. One of her facial expressions has gone into use as a meme, although I'm not sure how long it will stick around.
A great, dark watch 9/10.