The Possession
When the youngest daughter of family becomes obsessed with an antique wooden bought from a yard sale, she doesn't realize that an ancient spirit resides inside. Based on a true story, the spirit takes over the human body and subsequently destroys it.
29 October 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
22 December 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
1 December 1989, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada
11 December 1980
22 November 1996, San Antonio, Texas, USA
30 June 1978, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
19 February 1999
19 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
7 May 1957, Dayton, Ohio, USA
January 25, 2013
"The Possession" offers a few scares here and there. But, mostly it's a retread of spooky films that went before.
December 17, 2012
The movie is well-appointed if not terribly well thought-out.
November 13, 2012
Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill give mesmerizingly out-there performances as a troubled couple trying to hold it together for their young son.
July 13, 2013
...a better-than-expected variation on an exceedingly hoary theme...
August 31, 2012
The film is basically a compendium of possessed-child clichés reaching back to The Exorcist.
November 25, 2013
Not every film needs to reinvent the wheel, and nothing here is particularly ground-breaking, yet this is one of the more satisfying horror jaunts in quite some time.
August 31, 2012
Another horror movie about a little girl possessed by a demon? Seriously?
September 05, 2012
There may be need for an exorcist, but the power of Christ isn't going to compel the Jewish demon wreaking havoc in this competent but shopworn horror film.
February 07, 2013
Puppet-master technique and a generally well orchestrated sense of moodiness help this chiller deliver on more than it botches, despite a fumbled third act.
September 01, 2012
The first half of The Possession is suitably atmospheric and reasonably creepy.
August 31, 2012
The script, credited to Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, adheres so closely to formula that it's possible to predict not only which characters will end up dead, but in what order ...
September 06, 2012
Director Ole Bornedal doesn't add a single idea of his own.
