Plot: The marriage of Mark and Anna crumbles, leading to a series of intense arguments, gross-out body horror, brutal murders, and possibly an apocalyptic scenario.
Review: Director Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 horror film Possession was never a movie that was destined to be embraced by mainstream audiences, but there has always been an audience out there for the film – it has just had difficulty reaching the viewers that would get the most out of watching it. In the United Kingdom, the film was banned as a video nasty. For the U.S. release, forty minutes were whittled out of its 124 minute running time. Home video releases have come along and then gone out of print, and the DVDs and Blu-rays are going for prices some collectors probably aren’t willing to pay for something they’re not familiar with. But now Possession is streaming on the Shudder service, which may be...
Review: Director Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 horror film Possession was never a movie that was destined to be embraced by mainstream audiences, but there has always been an audience out there for the film – it has just had difficulty reaching the viewers that would get the most out of watching it. In the United Kingdom, the film was banned as a video nasty. For the U.S. release, forty minutes were whittled out of its 124 minute running time. Home video releases have come along and then gone out of print, and the DVDs and Blu-rays are going for prices some collectors probably aren’t willing to pay for something they’re not familiar with. But now Possession is streaming on the Shudder service, which may be...
- 1/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
When Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski released his disruptive second feature "The Devil" in 1972, the film was promptly banned in Poland due to its treatment of taboo subjects and its layered political subtext. Determined to fight against government repression, Żuławski spent the following years making his epic science fiction film "On the Silver Globe," which remained unfinished due to further state intervention. Although the Polish government ordered all materials be destroyed, they were eventually preserved and the film premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. After Żuławski moved to France to be able to create art more freely, he made a string of renegade arthouse films that were deemed extreme and controversial, as they challenged notions of "normalcy."
Among them was 1981's "Possession," Żuławski's only English-language horror offering that contained autobiographical elements, starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani. While "Possession" has garnered cult status as the years passed, it received lukewarm reviews...
Among them was 1981's "Possession," Żuławski's only English-language horror offering that contained autobiographical elements, starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani. While "Possession" has garnered cult status as the years passed, it received lukewarm reviews...
- 1/7/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Possession
Stars: Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani, Michael Hogben, Heinz Bennent | Written and Directed by Andrzej Zulawski
Upon rejoining his wife (Adjani) and child (Hogben) after a period of absence, Mark (Neill) discovers his spouse is leaving him. Initially, he believes she is leaving him for her lover, the portentous Heinrich (Bennent) but Anna (Adjani) has an even more sinister lover. One with more tentacles.
A bright eyed and bushy tailed Sam Neill stars in this wacky psychological horror, directed by Andrzej Zulawski, in which a couple’s marriage breaks down in cataclysmic mental and personal destruction. Although Possession was one of the original banned video-nasties, it also won an award for best actress in Cannes and nominated for a BAFTA.
More than one critic has compared Possession to Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and not without reason. Both films study the simultaneous romantic, mental and sexual destruction of warring couples...
Stars: Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani, Michael Hogben, Heinz Bennent | Written and Directed by Andrzej Zulawski
Upon rejoining his wife (Adjani) and child (Hogben) after a period of absence, Mark (Neill) discovers his spouse is leaving him. Initially, he believes she is leaving him for her lover, the portentous Heinrich (Bennent) but Anna (Adjani) has an even more sinister lover. One with more tentacles.
A bright eyed and bushy tailed Sam Neill stars in this wacky psychological horror, directed by Andrzej Zulawski, in which a couple’s marriage breaks down in cataclysmic mental and personal destruction. Although Possession was one of the original banned video-nasties, it also won an award for best actress in Cannes and nominated for a BAFTA.
More than one critic has compared Possession to Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and not without reason. Both films study the simultaneous romantic, mental and sexual destruction of warring couples...
- 10/15/2010
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
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