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Possession

1981 · 124 min

A relentless descent into marital collapse and monstrous obsession, blending visceral horror with psychological hysteria in a cold, alienating city.

Tagline: Inhuman ecstasy fulfilled.
Overview: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
betrayal
madness
isolation
grief
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	4
Horror	8
Humour	1
Realism	5
Romance	3
Tension	9
Darkness	9
Complexity	9
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: horror
Directed by: Andrzej Żuławski
Written by: Andrzej Żuławski
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering, Shaun Lawton, Michael Hogben
Music: Andrzej Korzyński
Cinematography: Bruno Nuytten
Runtime: 124 min
Country: France, Germany
Languages: English, French, German

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