Film

The Possession (2012)

Director: Ole Bornedal

Synopsis

Sam Raimi takes up the producer’s reins for this mid-budget horror blockbuster. The film was originally entitled ‘Dibbuk Box’, after the ancient Jewish legend of a box which contains an evil spirit which consumes the souls of those it possesses. Rumours suggest that the title was changed after the release of 2009’s megaflop thriller ‘The Box’, though we suspect the un-American nature of the word ‘Dibbuk’ might have had just as much to do with it. The film is directed by Danish helmsman Ole Bornedal, who has been relatively quiet since the success of his 1994 chiller ‘Nightwatch’, and its 1997 English language remake starring Ewan McGregor. Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as the patriarch of a small American family, whose daughter picks up a mysterious box at a yard sale, only to find out that it has deadly supernatural powers. Well, we’ve all done it. Kyra Sedgwick joins the cast as Morgan’s wife, but there’s no word yet on whether the cast has room for a cameo by Raimi regular Bruce Campbell.