📈 TrendingObsession
HorrorMay 13, 2026
Obsession
Details
- Language
- Italian
- Studio
- Nightswim
- TMDb Rating
- 6.9 (142 votes)
- Directed by
- Paolo Strippoli
- Written by
- Paolo Strippoli, Jacopo del Giudice, Milo Tissone
- For
- adult
Rating · Quality score from voters
TMDb
6.9/10
IMDb
6.8/10
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21.2
Based on TMDb activity
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A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
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About this release
A PE teacher arrives in a remote mountain village and finds its residents peculiarly, almost unsettlingly content. That is the opening premise of *The Holy Boy* — known in Italian as *La valle dei sorrisi* — a horror-thriller-drama releasing September 17, 2025, from studios Nightswim, Fandango, and Vision Distribution. The film is in Italian, suggesting an Italian or Italian co-production origin, and the involvement of Fandango and Vision Distribution, two companies with established roots in Italian cinema, reinforces that impression.
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