The Possession (2012)


A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.

The Possession (2012)

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Released Year: 2012
Runtime: 92 minutes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Directors: Ole Bornedal

Storyline


A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.

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Reviews


88
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
Like "The Exorcist," the best film in the genre, it is inspired by some degree of religious scholarship and creates believable characters in a real world. That religions take demonic possessions seriously makes them more fun for us, the unpossessed.
70
Movieline - Alison Willmore
This variation on the demon child subgenre has enough of the familiar and the new to be a decently good time at the movies.
60
Arizona Republic - Bill Goodykoontz
Ole Bornedal's film hits enough high notes to make it a worthwhile addition to the exorcism-film heap, somewhere in the lower middle.
50
The Hollywood Reporter - Frank Scheck
Representing a sort of equal opportunity religious variation on an all-too-familiar theme, The Possession is a Jewish-themed "Exorcist" that, if nothing else, should discourage the practice of buying antique wooden boxes at flea markets.
50
Variety - Geoff Berkshire
A ho-hum exorcism chiller that tries to spice up a formulaic screenplay by converting a predominantly Catholic-fixated horror subgenre to Judaism.

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