Possessor
- heavy
- extreme
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
Heavy, steady, extreme sci-fi / horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
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The shape of Possessor
What watching it is actually like.
“You want visceral identity horror about mind control with Cronenberg-level bodily unease.”
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The reading.
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