The Possession
Based on the true story of young girl, who becomes strangely obsessed with an antique wooden box bought from a yard sale, unknown to her of the great evil within the box. However, she and her parents must team up in order to destroy the dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
25 April 1939, Toronto, Canada
19 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
27 February 1962, Detroit, Michigan, USA
29 October 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
18 December 1976, Montréal, Québec, Canada
19 February 1999
22 April 1966, Seattle, Washington, USA
11 December 1980
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 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.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 ...January 25, 2013
"The Possession" offers a few scares here and there. But, mostly it's a retread of spooky films that went before.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.September 06, 2012
Director Ole Bornedal doesn't add a single idea of his own.September 01, 2012
The first half of The Possession is suitably atmospheric and reasonably creepy.July 13, 2013
...a better-than-expected variation on an exceedingly hoary theme...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.August 31, 2012
Another horror movie about a little girl possessed by a demon? Seriously?December 17, 2012
The movie is well-appointed if not terribly well thought-out.August 31, 2012
The film is basically a compendium of possessed-child clichés reaching back to The Exorcist.