Watch: ‘Obsession’ director Curry Barker returns with unsettling short ‘Mama Bear’

Just days before Halloween, Obsession director Curry Barker returns with a new project to spook us.

Barker posted short film Mama Bear to his and collaborator Cooper Tomlinson’s YouTube channel, that’s a bad idea. The short was created in partnership with Windows.

Mama Bear stars Jon Lee Richardson as Floyd, a house cleaner who’s fallen asleep on the job. When he wakes, he finds himself in a living nightmare, plagued by a series of distressing phone calls and doppelgängers. While the film has far less to hold onto than Obsession, it stills carries over some familiar elements from Barker’s directorial debut. Think shadowy figures lurking in corners, along with a woman (Katie Sarife) in major distress. (No, the title Mama Bear does not appear to connect to Obsession‘s Bear, played by Michael Johnston.)

Mama Bear marks Barker’s first post-Obsession project. His next feature, Anything But Ghosts, premieres in 2027. It stars himself and Tomlinson as a pair of fraudulent paranormal investigators who find themselves dealing with real ghosts.

Bryce Dallas Howard, Aaron Paul, Violet McGraw, and Chris Reinacher are also attached to star in Anything But Ghosts.