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| Metrograph Pictures | Release Date: October 28, 1983 |
Starring:
Carl Duering, Heinz Bennent, Isabelle Adjani, Johanna Hofer, Margit Carstensen, Maximilian Rüthlein, Michael Hogben, Sam Neill, Shaun Lawton, Thomas Frey
Summary:
A woman (Isabelle Adjani) starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband (Sam Neill) for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
There are plenty of movies which seem to have been made by madmen. Possession may be the only film in existence which is itself mad: unpredictable, horrific, its moments of terrifying lucidity only serving to highlight the staggering derangement at its core. Extreme but essential viewing.
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The genius of Zulawski is that he's dispensed with all the buildup and explanation and logic. How many horror-movie explanations make any sense? He just made an entire movie out of the scary parts, the way a different genius concocted only the muffin top and some pop music producers give you 10 minutes of beats and chorus. Possession climaxes for two whole hours. It's as if, with "The Shining," Stanley Kubrick found 25 variations on "here's Johnny" and "red rum." [17 Nov 2012, p.G5]
The result may prove to be
too much for even cult horror nuts. This complete 121-minute "director's
cut" is tough to follow, so you can see why home viewers were
mystified by the early '80s Vestron tape that cut nearly 40 minutes
out of the movie and scrambled the order of scenes. [2 June 2000, p.10E]
Dec 8, 2020
Each and every scene of this movie is a mixture of beauty and disgust. I will probably see nightmares for a week.
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Nov 10, 2021
I can’t believe this style got me hooked so long. Thought I’d change the channel 10mins in
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Mar 28, 2020
This is considered to be one of the greats in horror cinema, however my only real comment is 'what the hell did I just watch'. Visually this film is interesting, as it feels more like a David Lynch, surrealist art film than a mainstream horror. The acting though, my god was too over the top.
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