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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Release:
Sep 30, 2008
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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a bizarre, hysterical, yet utterly absorbing supernatural tale of a marriage in dissolution Full Review |
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