8/10
Speaking of ridiculously overwrought direction and acting...Andrzej Zulawski's Possession must be near the top of the list of the most completely over the top movies in the history of the medium. Every overly verbose line is struggled through by actors spitting them through heavy foreign accents...that is when they're not screaming, cutting themselves, shooting at others, or breaking things. Released in 1981, Possession is like of a weird mix of David Cronenberg's body horror, Antichrist and Rosemary's Baby. It also contains probably the best enactments of demonic possession I've ever seen, jaw-droppingly acted by Isabelle Adjani. A lot of stuff in this movie probably went way over my head, but I don't think anyone could possibly fully understand it except Zulawski himself. Heck of a ride though.
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