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Possession (1981)
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Viewed:
12/15
12/15:
That's the Damien Thorn who was missing the entire time in
Omen III: The Final Conflict.
According to the trivia section of IMDb: "Isabelle Adjani told a French magazine that it took her several years
to get over playing Anna. She also said that she'd never take on a similar role." Anyway, yes...Possession
is among the worst films I've seen in my life. I thought I could handle the pain during the first hour, but
afterwards, it finally got to me.
The movie keeps going nowhere by pouring in senseless grotesque scenes while boring the hell out of me. There's
no story, either. David Cronenberg did it better in his early horror films which were more lucid. In fact, again
from the trivia section: "Reportedly, writer-director Andrzej Zulawski has said that he penned the film's screenplay
during a divorce he was going through at the time." Did he just copy Cronenberg's reason for making
The Brood?
All in all, Possession is a rip-off of The Brood.