IMDb plot summary: Conor Marsh's secluded life is disrupted when he plays the OBEX game. His dog Sandy disappears, blurring reality and game. Conor enters the OBEX world to rescue Sandy, navigating its strange realms.
Directed by Albert Birney. Stars Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, and Frank Mosley.
Obex is a strange little film about a very introverted man in the late 80s who is very into new tech. He gets the chance to try a new computer game called Obex, but it starts blurring the line between reality and fiction, and eventually captures his dog from the real world into the game world, and he has to go rescue him. The vibe of this is very much that one man and maybe his two buddies made a movie in their apartment and with a green screen, but it's definitely also part of the aesthetic, especially as we're also focusing on the late-80s tech and the pixelated computer screens. I appreciate I never knew where this movie was going. It managed to keep surprising me, but even more so as it got to the ending, which was an unexpectedly pleasant landing place. I left with very warm feelings toward it, which were not what I anticipated given the pretty terrifying moments of tension throughout so much of the film. A fascinating little movie that I'm very glad I got to see.
🎥 OBEX (2026)
📊 Ranked #1213/4227 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 71
beat Raising Arizona (#2130 → #2131)
lost to Barbie (held at #1110)
beat Backbeat (#1620 → #1621)
beat Corrina, Corrina (#1364 → #1365)
beat The Awful Truth (#1236 → #1237)
lost to Brazil (held at #1172)
lost to Come and See (held at #1205)
beat Auntie Mame (#1220 → #1221)
lost to The Last Seduction (held at #1212)
beat Hoodwinked! (#1216 → #1217)
beat Gone Girl (#1214 → #1215)
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