Review – The Possession

How long has it been since I enjoyed a demonic possession movie involving a kid? The Exorcist? This one’s on par with the genre-spawning original, plus it doesn’t have all the soup spitting and crotch stabbing. Instead, this calmly-paced production works in some genuinely impressive chills rather than relying on sensation and gross-out. A girl picks up an old box at a yard sale and ends up releasing a dybbuk (and yes, I know dybbuks technically aren’t demons). Some of the exorcism rigamarole seems a little silly, but the rest is spooky on a human level. Worth seeing