Just because the rating limits the amount of gore that can be shown, that doesn't mean you should also limit the amount of fun and thrills that should be shown as well. Generic and bland PG-13 horror movies are a dime a dozen and The Possession is here to keep the chain going.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star as Clyde and Stephanie, the divorced parents of two children, one of which is given a magic box from a yard sale that contains a demon that possesses her. No I'm not kidding, demons are now coming out of music boxes. What the fuck?
The Possession fails on many levels, it's impossible to really decipher what was the biggest flaw. I would pinpoint one of them on the lack of tension. There's never any source of thrills here. All of the characters are paper thin, you don't really give a shit about anyone, and even when the daughter is possessed, the most frightening thing she does is chill in her room filled with moths or eat raw meat off the ground. Damn, these demons must be getting lazy.
The special effects feel terribly cheapened as well. The aforementioned scenes with the moths are quite well done, but everything else feels like a cheap video game and there's really a problem when a movie places effects in place to replace thrills.
For a 90 minute movie, The Possession feels like it will last until you're in Hell. It takes forever to get going, after it reaches a climax you feel like nothing has happened and the ending feels terribly unsatisfactory and what's even more terrifying; it leads a possibility for a part 2. Let's hope the box picked up in the next story is filled with a reason for existing, something terribly missing from this nightmare.
0/4
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