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Possession (1981)

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Reviews Counted:7

Fresh:5

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: A secret agent named Marc returns home after an assignment to find his wife Helen acting peculiar. He soon realizes that she's been having an affair. But it turns out that Helen has been busy in... A secret agent named Marc returns home after an assignment to find his wife Helen acting peculiar. He soon realizes that she's been having an affair. But it turns out that Helen has been busy in more ways than one: she's created a monster-- literally--from the evil within her. And the slimy creature, despite being held in captivity by Helen, has violently killed a number of people. Now, Marc must forgive Helen's indiscretions in order to save her from the being, which could escape at any time. [More]

Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent

Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

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Sep 30, 2008

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  • In this controversial epic of obsessive love and sexual psychosis, Isabelle Adjani (QUEEN MARGOT, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE) and Sam Neill (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, JURASSIC PARK) star as a married couple torn by emotional instability and carnal infidelity. As their madness grows, their world becomes a nightmare of savage murder… and climaxes in a monstrous manifestation of sexual evil.
  • Written and directed by acclaimed international director Andrzej Zulawski and featuring shocking creature effects by Carlo Rambaldi (ALIEN, E.T.), POSSESSION is an experience like no other - part masterful art film, part bizarre horror thriller. Cut by nearly 45 minutes for its U.S. release, this controversial film is now presented here completely uncut and uncensored.
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    a bizarre, hysterical, yet utterly absorbing supernatural tale of a marriage in dissolution

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    02/27/01
    James Kendrick
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    Q Network Film Desk

    Horror being a profitable genre in the early 1980s, Possession was made to pronounce an aesthetic more visceral than cerebral, in turn more superficial than it was initially conceived to impart.

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    05/24/06
    Rumsey Taylor
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    Slant Magazine

    Are the characters even real? I don't know, and I don't care. Possession is an ostentatious, absurd waterfall of beauty and horror and I let it wash over me.

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