The psychotic Kyla Wilde
Kyla Wilde (Lucy Loken) is the main villainess from the 2018 Netflix film, My Teacher, My Obsession (alternately titled, Dad Crush; release date June 12, 2018).
Backstory and Introduction[]
Kyla Wilde is the yearbook photographer at her high school, though her backstory revealed that at her past school a year prior, she developed an obsession with her history teacher and made failed attempts to seduce him, which resulted in Kyla's transfer to her current school. Her introduction saw her befriend main protagonist Riley Sumner, whose father, Chris Sumner, served as their English teacher. As the film also showed, the girls' classmate, Tricia, appeared to flirt with Chris, and while Kyla and Riley's friendship was growing, the former noticed Chris and began developing her own infatuation with him.
Events[]
However, upon seeing Riley befriend Tricia, Kyla warned Riley about Tricia, doing so by claiming that Tricia had a history of sleeping with her teachers, even pinning her own villainous past on Tricia as part of the rumor. She kept her obsession with Chris hidden from Riley, but became shocked and jealous after learning that Chris was dating Jess Wilde, Kyla's mother. Kyla sabotages her mother's date, and later confronts Riley for ignoring her warning about Tricia, who revealed that Kyla was the one seducing her history teacher.
After being confronted by Tricia, Kyla planted lewd selfies of herself and planted them in her locker, doing so to set up Tricia as a bully harassing her. She later confessed to Riley that she did sleep with her history teacher, claiming to be manipulated, and later on, Kyla posed as Tricia and sent suggestive messages to Chris before showing the texts to Jess, resulting in Jess breaking up with Chris. Afterwards, the scheming villainess seduced Chris into making out with her, and on the following day, Kyla's sabotage resulted in Tricia being taken away by police. At a Riley's birthday party, Kyla again seduced Chris, leading to a sexual tryst that was discovered by Riley.
After Riley ran off following a confrontation with her father, Kyla informed Chris that she is of legal age and that she and Chris can be together, only for Chris to rebuff her advances. Another attempt at school is interrupted by Jess, who confronted her daughter after slapping Chris, and later on, the evil Kyla arranged a meeting with Tricia, which saw the madwoman attack herself and break her fingers in an attempt to set up Tricia as her attacker.
Climax[]
Kyla's heel persona in the final scene
After Kyla is hospitalized, Riley informs her villainous former friend that her and Chris' illicit relationship was over, while Chris voiced the same sentiment and ignored Kyla's denial. The film's climax saw Kyla appear at the school late at night and stab Riley with a scalpel from the hospital, while informing Riley that there was room for only one woman in Chris' life. The insane villainess later approached Chris and threatened him with the scalpel before attempting to seduce the object of her affection, while admitting to seducing and manipulating her history teacher. The attempted seduction saw Chris shove Kyla away, which was followed by the villainess tripping Chris and causing him to hit his head.
The commotion was overheard by the school's janitor, whose throat is slashed by Kyla before she pursues Riley. The brawl between the teens ends with Riley taking down Kyla, and later on, both young women were taken away in separate ambulances. Kyla was presumably arrested (off-screen) for her various crimes, though in the final scene, a hooded villainess appeared and watched as Riley left her house and headed to college. The scene suggested that Kyla was the maniacal villainess, having escaped custody and maintained her heel persona and her obsession with Chris still continues.
Trivia[]
- This was Lucy Loken's first villainous role.
- Kyla Wilde is similar to fellow villainess Madeline Sawyer from 2017's Lifetime film The Wrong Student. Both are students who have an obsessive crush on teachers that are looking an eye for and having befriend a classmate from school to make friends with. One such difference on taking a love interest: Madeline never resorted into seduction, Kyla did.
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