Possession (Sam Neill Tribute Screening)
Inhuman ecstasy fulfilled.
We are dimming the lights, raising a glass, and firing up the projector in tribute to the late, great actor Sam Neill with one of his most memorable performances as a husband whose marriage is falling apart in Andrzej Żuławski‘s iconic and endlessly influential horror thriller, POSSESSION.
2021 4K Restoration. A Metrograph Pictures release.
“That the film is much more than a gawk-at-it freak show is testament to Zulawski’s talent for making even the most exaggerated behavior resonate with pointed and potent emotion.” (Time Out Magazine)
“This is not the type of horror movie you take your friends to for a laugh; this is what you watch with your ex and realize how much worse things could have been.” (The Stranger)
“[Possession] remains one of the most grueling, powerful, and overwhelmingly intense cinematic experiences that you are likely to have in your lifetime.” (Roger Ebert.com)
Saturday, July 18
Doors 8:00 pm | Movie 8:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Tickets HERE
POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981 / 123 mins / 18A) After Anna reveals to her husband, Mark, that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it’s soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret — one that is both inexplicable and shocking.
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A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
- Budget$2,400,000
- Revenue$1,200,000
- IMDB
