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Beyond the realm of human desire there is a darkness... A horror film like no other, "Possession" is an intense, shocking experience that was banned in the UK as a 'video nasty'. With its dark subject matter and high gore quotient, it's not for the faint hearted. With their marriage in pieces Anna and Mark's tense .. Read more

Starring	Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent
Director	Andrzej Zulawski
Genres	Drama, Horror

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- Self-exiled Polish directors - like Walerian Borowczyk - who wind up doing art movies in Paris tend over the years to... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 01 Sep 2010 at 05:33
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  Definitely worth seeing
  
  I saw this film without knowing anything about it, including its genre (if, indeed, it has one). Surprising is the first word that i associate with the film, ... read more »
  
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  - York, England
  - 26 Jun 2006 at 00:45
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  Its like a cross between some hellraiser movies, but with British censorship
  
  I like strange movies. Well I did until I seen this one.
  
  I got lost so many times in the plot I had to rewind it several times.
  
  Its like a... read more »
  
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- - IM69
  - 113 reviews
  - stonehaven
  - 14 May 2012 at 16:15
- - 0
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  Original, terrifying, for hardcore horror fans!
  
  Original, terrifying and clearly a source for Wes Cravens Hellraiser. Lynchian nightmare sequences with a scene in the Metro that is disturbingly hard to endure... read more »
  
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- 1111675
- - buzzbugg
  - 2 reviews
  - 16 Apr 2012 at 17:40
- - 0
  - 1
  Another from the video nasty list...
  
  Another horror let down
  
  Definitely one for the die hards, this B movie heralding from the golden era of video nasties seems to have lost the impact ... read more »
  
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- - carl28
  - 63 reviews
  - Burgess Hill
  - 30 Dec 2011 at 08:55
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  This film is insane
  
  An awkward film to watch especially as my copy fractured on screen during the last 30 minutes despite cleaning the disc. This was Adjanis first major fiilm role... read more »
  
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- - Dungbeetle
  - 503 reviews
  - London
  - 14 Dec 2011 at 21:39
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  Possession? Boring, boring.
  
  I must have seen worse films than this but I am at a loss to remember one. What on earth were the 2 main characters arguing about? The story line made no sense ... read more »
  
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- - Belzebu
  - 16 reviews
  - Chester
  - 18 Nov 2011 at 20:52
- - 0
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  If you like your horrors strange...
  
  This is one of the strangest films i think i have ever seen. uh uh chacka chacka boom! oh yeah!
  
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- - jimmymack
  - 2 reviews
  - 12 Nov 2011 at 11:34
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  Beyond normal comprehension
  
  I genuinely believe in films treating viewers as intelligent adults but having watched the directors/producers take on what this film was all about then my low ... read more »
  
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- - fairylegs
  - 3 reviews
  - Beverley
  - 01 Sep 2011 at 08:49
- - 0
  - 1
  Supernatural gore galore!
  
  A great supernatural horror film.Full of gore
  
  & utterly insane character's. Isabelle Adjani fluctuate's
  
  between lucid raving ... read more »
  
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- - jasper15
  - 2 reviews
  - 05 Aug 2011 at 19:39
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  Possession - wierd and confusing
  
  I really don't get this one. Why the main female character behaves the way she does is strange and wierd. Possessed? By what? Isabelle Adjani is a beautiful... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 22 Jul 2011 at 11:40
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  Let me explain who Possession will appeal to
  
  Let me try to give some idea who 'Possession' will appeal to. This is a fairly low-budget horror movie. It starts out as psychodrama but gets weirder ... read more »
  
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- - Pufferfyshe
  - 17 reviews
  - Oxford, England
  - 26 Jun 2011 at 23:05
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- - 17
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  Definitely worth seeing
  
  I saw this film without knowing anything about it, including its genre (if, indeed, it has one). Surprising is the first word that i associate with the film, ... read more »
  
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- 258021
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  - York, England
  - 26 Jun 2006 at 00:45
- - 13
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  Jings Crivens!
  
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  One of the weirdest films I've seen with some fairly wooden performances.
  
  Sam Neil is amazingly wooden, Heinz Bennet is hilarious as this sort of... read more »
  
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- - BimBawBagus
  - 32 reviews
  - edinburgh
  - 17 Sep 2008 at 14:54
- - 10
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  Totally unique
  
  Don't rent this expecting a conventional (horror?) film.
  
  The acting is bizarre, the storyline is beyond belief. But it is really worth every ... read more »
  
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  - sebastienstrasse
  - 28 Feb 2007 at 01:36
- - 6
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  A film like no other
  
  “It’s about a woman who f**ks an octopus” was Andrzej Zulawski initial pitch to Paramount who, unsurprisingly, passed. Although partly true his ... read more »
  
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- - Bribaba
  - 146 reviews
  - London
  - 29 Oct 2010 at 10:31
- - 2
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  Wierd and bizarre
  
  This Is one of the most strangest film I've ever seen. Totally bizarre, and I can't say that I understood much of the material. It has meanings and ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Liverpool
  - 01 Nov 2010 at 20:22
- - 1
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  A trial
  
  Not sure what I was expecting with this one. Maybe a touch of Rosemary's Baby mixed with The Omen and maybe a little Dario Argento and European art house ... read more »
  
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- - Lordmelbury
  - 26 reviews
  - London
  - 27 Nov 2010 at 22:09
- - 1
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  Barking mad
  
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  The movie concerns a couple who are breaking up. You can tell they are doing this because they both overact and over-react at the top of their voices for most ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 03 Feb 2011 at 13:52
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  May keep you awake.
  
  Apparently, this story is a surreal interpretation of the horrors experienced by the Polish people caused by the building of the Berlin wall. I felt this was ... read more »
  
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- - Nitaray
  - 218 reviews
  - Farnham
  - 19 Feb 2011 at 11:09
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  Adjani's character is the most frightening i have ever seen!
  
  Anyone who has wrote a bad review of this movie are the kinda people that shouldent be renting this type of movie as they dont really understand the beauty of ... read more »
  
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- 983666
- - a customer
  - 17 Apr 2011 at 22:32
- - 0
  - 0
  As Crazy as a Coconut
  
  Isabelle Adjani: 'What I miscarried there was sister Faith, and what was left is sister Chance. So I had to take care of my faith to protect it.'
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- - Paulthelifelongmoviefan
  - 6 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 04 Nov 2010 at 20:48

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- Possession
  
  Beyond the realm of human desire there is a darkness...
  
  A horror film like no other, "Possession" is an intense, shocking experience that was banned in the UK as a 'video nasty'. With its dark subject matter and high gore quotient, it's not for the faint hearted.
  
  With their ...