Film

Possession

Name: Possession
Genre: Horror
Released: 1981
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer

Żuławski's berserk 1981 divorce drama detonates the genre from the inside: Isabelle Adjani unravels in a performance so violent it needed a doppelganger and real vomiting, while Sam Neill spirals into obsessive rage. Set against divided Cold War Berlin, it fuses body horror with marital collapse until metaphor and monster become indistinguishable. Not scary so much as overwhelming — for anyone who wants cinema pushed past the edge of sense.

TMDb rating

7.3

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