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Overview

User Rating:
7.1/10   2,443 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Andrzej Zulawski (original screenplay)
Andrzej Zulawski (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
27 May 1981 (France) more
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Tagline:
She created a monster as her secret lover! more
Plot:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Zulawski & Raimi: The Hell They Dragged Us Into
 (From GreenCine. 13 October 2009, 11:19 AM, PDT)

The Madonna Next Book of Blood Film!
 (From Dread Central. 23 October 2008, 1:18 AM, PDT)

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Excellent! more (67 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Isabelle Adjani ... Anna / Helen

Sam Neill ... Mark
Margit Carstensen ... Margit Gluckmeister
Heinz Bennent ... Heinrich
Johanna Hofer ... Heinrich's mother
Carl Duering ... Detective

Shaun Lawton ... Zimmermann
Michael Hogben ... Bob
Maximilian Rüthlein ... Man with pink socks (as Maximilian Ruethlein)
Thomas Frey ... Pink sock's acolyte
Leslie Malton ... Sara, woman with club foot
Gerd Neubert ... Subway drunk
Kerstin Wohlfahrt
Ilse Bahrs
Karin Mumm
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Night the Screaming Stops (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
France:127 min | UK:118 min | USA:80 min (cut) | USA:123 min | Australia:123 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Although co-produced by a German Company and shot in Berlin, the Film itself has never been released in Germany. more
Quotes:
Heinrich: There is nothing to fear except God, whatever that means to you.
Mark: For me God is a disease.
Heinrich: That's why through a disease we can reach God.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Celluloid Horror (2004) more

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What did I just see?
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10 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent!, 4 May 2001
10/10
Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

"Possession" is a weird horror film by Polish art house director Andrzej Zulawski.Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill("Event Horizon","Omen 3")star as a couple who's marriage is on the rocks.Adjani claims to have a lover-she has a surreal affair with an octopus creature.First of all this movie is great,so every horror fan should check it out.Obviously some people don't get it-maybe they were expecting some cheesy horror bloodbath,who knows?Of course there's some exceptional gore including where Adjani slices into her own neck with an electric carving knife and a scene where she has a miscarriage on the metro which is quite disgusting(and possibly due to this scene the film was classified as a video nasty),but the atmosphere is really creepy and weird.The acting is awesome-especially an incredible performance by Isabelle Adjani.Watch this film with an open mind and an open heart,and I guarantee you will love "Possession".

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