Possessor

2020
18
1h 43min

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6,5/10

49 k

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Body Horror Cyber Thriller Psychological Horror Psychological Thriller Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

Un agent qui travaille pour une organisation secrète utilise la technologie des implants cérébraux pour habiter le corps d'autres personnes - les poussant à commettre des assassinats pour de... Tout lireUn agent qui travaille pour une organisation secrète utilise la technologie des implants cérébraux pour habiter le corps d'autres personnes - les poussant à commettre des assassinats pour des clients bien rémunérés.Un agent qui travaille pour une organisation secrète utilise la technologie des implants cérébraux pour habiter le corps d'autres personnes - les poussant à commettre des assassinats pour des clients bien rémunérés.

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49 k

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POPULARITÉ

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Récompenses
- 15 victoires et 40 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Most of the special effects in the film were done practically, with an effort to use as little VFX work as possible. The hallucination scenes' effects in particular were done in-camera. Cronenberg credits his effects specialists, Dan Martin and Derek Liscoumb, and his longtime cinematographer Karim Hussain for being able to pull off convincing visuals with a minimum of CGI.

Gaffes
When John Parse is being mutilated, his skin in the close-up shots of the wounds on his face looks completely different than it does in the rest of the scene. Mainly, it has a different color and is much smoother.

Citations
Colin Tate: Just think, one day your wife is cleaning the cat litter and she gets a worm in her, and that worm ends up in her brain. The next thing that happens is she gets an idea in there, too. And it's hard to say whether that idea is really hers or it's just the worm. And it makes her do certain things. Predator things. Eventually, you realize that she isn't the same person anymore. She's not the person that she used to be. It's gotta make you wonder, whether you're really married to her... or married to the worm.

Versions alternatives
Possessor exists as a cut US R rated version and an uncut MPA Unrated Version titled Possessor Uncut. The producers were keen to differentiate between the two versions and the 'Uncut' tag is an official re-titling of the film. UK releases are the Uncut Version and are 18 rated.

Connexions
Featured in Possessor/Possessor Uncut Review (What's the difference?) (2020)

Bandes originales
Detroit II
Written by Shigeto (as Zachary Shigeto Saginaw) & Marcus Elliott
Performed by Shigeto
Published by The Ghostly International
Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd. & Copyright Control
Licensed courtesy of Ghostly International

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6/10

Too Cronenberg for no reason at all

The son of David Cronenberg wants to to a movie like Existenz, but he ultimately fails to do so. The acting is good, but the plot is really drawn out and says almost nothing in the end. Also, as many others noted, there is some gratuitous gore and violence put in which doesn't really advance the story in any way, and that extends to some other things as well.

The entire thing revolves around people that "jockey" other people in order to do very mundane things like assassinations. The very idea is lacking imagination, considering that the premise of this film is killing people for other people that want their money and the very obvious alternative is to jockey the people directly and take their money. And then there is an entire exploration of what it means to inhabit other people's lives and minds, but it goes nowhere other than hallucinating some images.

At least the end was good because the jockey finally got back on track and remembered her work ethic! I am kidding. The end was bad.

Bottom line: an overly long film that shouts "Cronenberg!!!!" but needed very little of the signature characteristics of a Cronenberg movie to tell this story. I hope Brandon will find his own voice rather than bank on the same ideas his father explored. Or was it really Brandon? Maybe his father was jockeying him!