2009 · mystery · thriller · supernatural
Possession
Directed by Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist1h 26m2009
A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas. Thrills arrive after the brother-in-law wakes up, thinking he's his brother.
Our read: Possession (2009) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive mystery · thriller · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
- intimate
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“You want a body-swap romance-thriller with earnest supernatural longing.”
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