2020 · sci-fi · horror · thriller
Possessor
Directed by Brandon Cronenberg1h 43m2020
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Our read: Possessor (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal sci-fi · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme sci-fi / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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