The Possession of David O'Reilly (2010)

A supernatural shockumentary about a demonic presence in a young couple's home in London.

Directors:

Andrew Cull, Steve Isles

Writer:

Andrew Cull

Stars:

Giles Alderson, Francesca Fowler, Paul McGuinness

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Giles Alderson	...	David O'Reilly
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Francesca Fowler	...	Anna
Paul McGuinness	...	Monster
Zoe Richards	...	Kate
Nicholas Shaw	...	Alex

Storyline

A supernatural shockumentary about a demonic presence in a young couple's home in London.

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Plot Keywords:

character name in title

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 August 2010 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Posednuce Davida O'Reilija

Company Credits

Production Co:

Authentic Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

On the second morning that David stays over, he takes his cell phone and sees it says "Call". He tries to answer it, and the phone then says "Low Battery". But he sees this, you can see that the battery icon is fully lit. The phone has full battery power.

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Connections

References Sesame Street (1969)

User Reviews

Disappointed

Having read the reviews I settled down for a little spooky affair, already familiar with these sort of films and being of a sensitive nature I was expecting a bit of a thrill.

Whilst I enjoyed the storyline and, by the way nice flat!, as the action heated up and the first demon appeared I started to be a bit dubious that this may be a decent ride. The plot for me was interesting enough - the frantic locking of the doors, power cut, knocks and bangs

• all the usual tricks, did add to the atmosphere but the girlfriend's

constant question 'What's going on?' reminded me a bit of Eastenders.. 'Oi Ricky, what's going on?!' Even the boyfriend started asking his made David 'David, what's going on?'. I actually laughed on a couple of occasions.

As we start to see more of the demons appearing from the shadows they reminded me of discarded Dr Who monsters - to be honest, we don't need to see them, there's more fear of what we don't see than what we do.

Towards then end it was pretty obvious what was going to happen because we always have to have someone being killed no matter who does the killing.

Was David insane.. probably, or.. maybe not. The ending doesn't need an explanation - it is what it is.

If you like gore then you will be disappointed, if,like me, you 'appreciate' truly supernatural spooky films, again you will be disappointed. It's neither. But, it's not a bad film to while away some time.

The first Paranormal Activity had me sleeping badly for months after - that's what I call a good horror film!