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Pretty Good

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

During 2010-2012, a period of exorcism and possesion films came out including The Rite, Exorcismus, The Devil Inside, The Last Exorcism and of course, The Possession which came out in the Autumn of 2012 and was reportidly the last one to arrive before the trend ended. The film follows a young girl who takes in a box from a yard sale which will not open but one night, she then does and releases all kinds of malevolant evil..including the ones who want to take over her. So, one thing..this film is a possession film, so it's pure boredom, simple as. There is not any exorcism film that is actually very entertaining, the only one that sort of succeeded on that was The Exorcist. So ya, just a short review for you guys about this film, The Possession, it's good, it's not very creative but it does creative things with the story but it is VERY boring which is why everyone does not like it.

For starters I should say that halfway through the movie, until that point, I honestly felt this was one of the finest horror movies I'd seen, the acting is great, the settings (the grim and empty feeling of the new house when they just sit down for dinner), yet one fused with just good classic American style family dialogues and interactions between teen daughters and their dad (which, I should state gave a serious boost to the movie for me- the father portrayed by JDM, his presence is almost spiritual to me in it's incredible fatherly, graceful decorum and personality), the scenes where he coaches his team, etc..I simply found it superbly well made. There are however some problems with this film - first of all, I think the potential in the storyline is transcendental, it's just magnificent, (I mean, the whole idea of Jewish lore and real haunted traditional Jewish object, wise rabbis who of course are just so much more awesome than some pisspoor Christian priest, and the buildup and adventure and amazing references that could have been implemented in the film...) - well that's the problem, the potential and expectations for what this could have been in my book is so amazing, that it would be hard to execute it ideally, but I maintain the efforts weren't even half-way enough, it falls pretty flat once the whole "turn to Judaism" thing starts, and disappoints severely imo, and it just keeps spiraling down from there, to where it gets "choppy", too fast paced and all in all just disappointing to me. To sum up, I'd say this movie in idea is divinely great, as a whole it disappoints direly, but if you're looking for a ghost movie that's just easy to watch ,well acted (and with great actors c'mon Jeffrey Dean Morgan fcs)and with a nifty idea based on a real haunted object, go for it. :)

This film did not like it. In my opinion it is too trivial. There are scenes viewed hundreds of other films. I am disappointed, because the producers of this film have beautiful horror. The acting is good. Also good cast. Unfortunately, the downside is history, like any other possession. Sometimes it was also fun. Unfortunately, for me it is Not recommended!

The Possession has done only one thing well: it follows the formula of "Look at that piece of possibly cursed box of questionable origin, there's no way it has some demonic entity that will make my life miserable". Everything plays out predictably, there are no surprises or twists, and the worst of all, it's not even scary. The movie is just annoyingly loud and poorly edited, I'd advise you use your money to watch the kiddie CG movies instead, they won't suck as much as this.Look at the poster above, you'll be seeing some people puke moths, hands and even a Gollum. This trick is done so many times, it loses any suspense and resembles more of an eating disorder. Plot has a bit of value in the beginning as the family is in post-divorce aftermath, their relationships been fractured and set for harder situation to come. The sisters are good addition, since they look identical which might show how both of them cope with the possession, respectively. Instead, you'll be bombarded with series of gibberish that comes of that bloody box, things being broken in maximum volume and someone is always screaming.I get the necessary blast of volume in horror movies, but this is just ridiculous in every levels, as if they are saying "HEY, IT'S SCARY! LOOK, SO SCARY!" every five minutes. At some point, I prepare myself for the next attempt of blowing my ear drums off, it's not even unintentionally funny anymore. There's also telekinesis parts where people are seemingly break dancing or doing lousy acrobatic while the soundtrack is trying so hard to hum unpleasant effect to convince the audience. Play dubstep remix instead and you have a hip hop dance video.It's also unfortunate that the movie's editing is sometimes choppy, it could use more time to emphasis some scenes further and establish more ground for the build the next fright, instead they dwell longer on the divorce issue. It's a good concept for background, but it gets stale and offers only more excuses for people screaming at each other. It doesn't help that it uses every-so-cliché flashing lights, coupled that with the blaring audio, it's a torment to your senses.If you like girl throwing tantrum because their parents are separated, seeing her gorging food to make herself obese and watching the parents watch Youtube videos with cinematic overly loud volume, still don't watch this. I honestly can't find any reason to recommend it, I actually would give it lower score if not for the "Based on true story" remark, because I don't want to mess with the creepy Dybbuk.