| Author | Message | ||
     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.174.36.172 |
Out monday. Anyone else ordered it? http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003WUXJ2G%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJKTXY WBP4ZI3F6WA%26tag%3Dfindhotelinth-21%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3 D165953 Mark Kermode feels it explores some of the same ideas von Trier did with ANTICHRIST. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
One of the greatest horror films of its era imo. Caught it one night on Film 4 years ago, introduced by Kermode, and found it mesmerising. Isabelle Adjani & Sam Neill gave stunning performances, I thought, and the bizarre atmosphere and understated special effects put me in mind of David Cronenberg directing one of Ramsey Campbell's more surreal stories. It was all there; the grimy urban setting, the concentration on characters descending into paranoid nightmare, the inexplicably tangible horrors forming out of nothing. An unreservedly adult horror masterpiece that belongs in every serious fan's collection. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVdtYAs8-w Steve - the Poles don't make many horror films, genre films, but when they do (: | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.174.36.172 |
I agree with all of the above - I can now replace my knackered old VHS copy (which I have no machine to play on anyway). | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
A film you can't get out of your head, once seeing. And keep in mind Barker's "The Hellbound Heart"/HELLRAISER throughout viewing.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
True, Craig... I never noticed the similarity before, but you're right! | ||
| Joelmurr (Joelmurr) Username: Joelmurr Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.169.25.44 |
Thanks, Mick, I didn't know it was being released in the UK. Shall order a copy! Zulawski is all kinds of awesome. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.51.96 |
I've had this for ages on DVD (Anchor Bay) - didn't realise it was hard to find. Adjani's scene in the underpass is pretty intense, as is the ending. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
The ending, Huw, was for me almost totally inscrutable - as was much of the movie, a movie that does not explain itself in any way easily. But the ending of POSSESSION, I found not only crazed, but one of the most disturbing closes to a movie ever... a truly horrifying climax.... An analogy would be to think the ending to Fulci's THE BEYOND - only not so hilarious....  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Craig, I picked up a copy of POSSESSION on your recommendation andf thought it was a remarkable film. Unique, really. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
I suspect I had the same old VHS version that Mick had, which was ditched a while ago. Thanks for the heads up though as I had no idea this was coming out & have just ordered it! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
I was out and about today and couldn't find it. I'll have to order it online. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.181.107 |
Ally - it's due out tomorrow so that may be why. |