Possession

Every once in a while, a horror film comes along that’s a bit different. Not necessarily ground-breaking, but a bit odd, interesting and strangely mesmerising. The Violent Kind is one such film. [...]

I’ve been playing quite the tough guy recently with regard to horror films. I’ve been watching them with reckless abandon and poo-pooing any attempts to scare me as nonsense. A recent viewing of Paranormal Activity being a good example – it was terrifically dull and about as scary as mash potato. [...]

It’s quite a common occurance in horror films nowadays. A teenage girl starts acting all crazy, throwing things about etc. So the parents worry and call in a specialist, thinking that she’s just hormonal and next thing we know, her head is spinning and a priest is battling for her soul. [...]

Angelica (Cathrine Georges) is a typical high school girl with very typical high school problems. However like any other teenager she believes her trivial tribulations are the most important things in the world. [...]

So. Puppet Master eh? It’s one of those straight-to-video films that a surprising number of people seem to remember, though many wouldn’t be able to tell you why. [...]

Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 feature, Possession became another victim of the Video Recordings act orchestrated by Mary Whitehouse and was banned in the United Kingdom for over a decade. Censorship rules aside, this injustice is particularly upsetting as it is a film that far transcends the caste of the ‘video nasty’. [...]