Think 'Rosemary’s Baby' reimagined as David Cronenberg bio-horror colliding with European psycho-drama.

| Apr 26, 2025

The film contains one of the great gross-out scenes of all time...

| Oct 21, 2024

The film is essentially about the war between the sexes and the destructive nature of love.

| Oct 11, 2024

Zulawski’s beloved berserker of marital mayhem... is the vicious m-----. Bergman’s <i>Scenes From A Marriage”</i>? Only vamping... See it with someone you’re not sure about.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 2, 2024

While Possession is certainly one of a kind, its imaginative plot is over-shadowed by stilted dialogue and overly theatrical performances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 13, 2024

Visceral and upsetting, Possession is a film unlike any other.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2023

The disintegration of a marriage disguises a complicated film loaded with cultural commentary, spectacular framing and two incredibly physical performances by Adjani and Neill. A spectacular, confounding cosmic horror drama; it's sheer perfection

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 11, 2023

Possession’s bewildering complexities and unnerving overtures render it a singular work, crazier even than Lynch and Cronenberg.

| Jan 7, 2023

Possession is a film about low trash masquerading as high art.

| Jul 28, 2022

...an art-house experiment that one admires more than one enjoys.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2022

The 1981 film's something of a psychodrama that morphs into an arthouse horror-thriller...

| Nov 19, 2021

This is a challenging film, in the best possible fashion.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 17, 2021

A singular cinematic experience and probably the greatest breakup movie ever made.

| Nov 16, 2021

It slaps us in the face with naked, raw emotion, worlds away from most light-on-characterization contemporary shockers.

| Oct 28, 2021

The actors' commitment to this berserk nightmare remains awe-inspiring; whether you've seen Possession many times or wish you never had, it's an experience not easily forgotten.

| Oct 22, 2021

This new 4K restoration allows a film kept as a secret held dear by arthouse devotees and horrorheads to find new life - claiming new eyes, new lives with each new viewing.

| Oct 21, 2021

A movie of total conviction and little regard for anything other than the emotions it's trying to convey.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 9, 2021

Żuławski channeled his personal heartbreak into primal horror, and the result is a messy, marvelous movie. If you have not yet seen it, there's no time like the present.

| Oct 2, 2021

[Possession] remains one of the most grueling, powerful, and overwhelmingly intense cinematic experiences that you are likely to have in your lifetime.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2021

It is not so much an absolute pioneer, but it is a key link to decode what is now understood as auteur horror. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 9, 2021