- Studio: Lionsgate
- Release Date: Aug 31, 2012
- Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis
- Summary:
- Director: Ole Bornedal
- Genre(s): Thriller, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 26
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Mixed: 16 out of 26
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Negative: 5 out of 26
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88Like "The Exorcist," the best film in the genre, it is inspired by some degree of religious scholarship and creates believable characters in a real world. That religions take demonic possessions seriously makes them more fun for us, the unpossessed.
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70Moody and a little slow, with muted colors and a half-empty, alien-feeling suburban setting, Danish director Ole Bornedal's The Possession is a nifty end-of-summer gift for horror buffs.
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Sep 1, 201260Ole Bornedal's slick religious horror bears all the hallmarks of Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures (the Grudge remake, Drag Me To Hell) – except the gore.
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30Bornedal's fondness for punctuating abrupt cuts to black with a solitary piano-key note is so pathological that it soon turns risible.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 22
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Mixed: 6 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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