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Critics Consensus: Unsettling and absorbing in equal measure, Possum presents a dark character study rich with rewards for fans of chilling genre fare.
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Critic Consensus: Unsettling and absorbing in equal measure, Possum presents a dark character study rich with rewards for fans of chilling genre fare.
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Holness firmly captures the feel of '70s British horror -- the oppressively close atmosphere is so powerful, you can almost smell the damp.
The film has a striking aesthetic and atmospheric assurance that takes a particular British miserabilism into near-abstract terrain, not unlike Cronenberg's vaguely similar (if more rigorously plotted) "Spider."
Possum ultimately has to stand or fall on its own merits, and at heart is a serious and dark journey into the labyrinths of cruelty and abuse.
Despite all it has going for it, the movie's undercooked plot and dialogue keep it from breaking out of its trauma.
It slowly builds tension to a disturbing denouement.
Possum is an impressively chilling debut from Holness and credit must go to the director for taking a risk on a darker affair.
It's a bleak but absorbing trip as we creep into the depths of Philip's sad, broken mind.
If David Lynch's Eraserhead were transported to bleakest Norfolk, you might end up with something as uncomfortable to watch as Possum.
Inspired by his Holness' research into the uncanny, it's a bleak and desolate horror which contains flashes of Cronenberg and traces of macabre early silent films.
In the end, there's little payoff for all the repetitive series of evocative visions and mute stares.
Propelled by a limitless feeling of dread, Holness' film blurs the lines between nightmare and reality to conjure what is a deeply unsettling experience.
The film is scary and intriguing in equal measure, with subtle elements of homage to 1970s horrors.
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