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OBEX

Play trailer Poster for OBEX 2025,  1h 30m,  Fantasy/ Sci-Fi Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 97% 58 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
97% Tomatometer 58 Reviews Popcornmeter
Set in pre-internet 1987, Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog Sandy, until the day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing the line between reality and the game blurs, and Conor must embark on a mission to save her. OBEX creatively weaves together fantastic horror elements to embark on a nostalgic adventure through time and space, immersing audiences inside of a unique video game where a fairy, monster, TV-headed man, lovable dog, and swarms of cicadas collide in a strange and captivating narrative world.
OBEX

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A beguiling odyssey that offsets its scrappy production values with sumptuously analog presentation, OBEX is a wildly inventive riff on the digital world.

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Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Jan 29, 2026
3/5
Its gentleness and incremental increases in weirdness are a feature, not a bug. Go to Full Review
Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times Jan 16, 2026
“Obex” also reminds us that the power to be positively emboldened by tech — rather than imprisoned by it — always will be in humans’ hands, so long as we remember that we always can unplug. Go to Full Review
Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader Jan 14, 2026
Birney’s gritty, imaginative filmmaking results in a compelling fantasy that leaves us nowhere to hide . . . from ourselves. Go to Full Review
Pedro Gallego Espinof May 21, 2026
3/5
Despite its obvious lack of substance, it's a highly commendable entry in the genre. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Graeme Tuckett The Post NZ May 7, 2026
4.5/5
Writing "it's Eraserhead does The Hobbit" was definitely not on my bingo card for this or any year. Go to Full Review
Joonatan Itkonen Region Free Apr 2, 2026
4/5
Like other great coming-of-age stories, Obex is as scary as it is comforting. It treats its audience with great care, even when it refuses easy answers. Go to Full Review
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Albert Birney

Director

Albert Birney

Actor

Callie Hernandez

Actor

Frank Mosley

Actor

Albert Birney

Screenwriter

Pete Ohs

Screenwriter

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Synopsis Set in pre-internet 1987, Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog Sandy, until the day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing the line between reality and the game blurs, and Conor must embark on a mission to save her. OBEX creatively weaves together fantastic horror elements to embark on a nostalgic adventure through time and space, immersing audiences inside of a unique video game where a fairy, monster, TV-headed man, lovable dog, and swarms of cicadas collide in a strange and captivating narrative world.
Director
Albert Birney
Producer
Emma Hannaway, Pete Ohs, James Belfer, Albert Birney
Screenwriter
Albert Birney, Pete Ohs
Production Co
Cartuna, True Friend
Genre
Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 30m
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