Funny horror is a particularity potent genre. Apart from the obvious, that the dissonance between finding something funny and scary elevates emotion, it has a very unifying effect amongst an audience as you all engage in sync - laughing and cringing together.
That alone doesn't make for a good film though, but luckily Obsession was decent enough. It knows what it is and focuses on getting the basics right - we don't really have a plot per se but instead a series of scenes in the life of a guy with an... interesting problem. Put it this way, structurally the first and third acts are very thin (think minutes long).
A lot of fun, low stakes and very effective, Obsession gets a recommendation from me.
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