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Possessor

Possessor

Horror · Thriller · Science Fiction · 2020

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

Movie details

Possessor

“No body is safe.”

2020 Horror · Thriller · Science Fiction 1h 43m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Brandon Cronenberg

Written by

Brandon Cronenberg

Andrea Riseborough

Andrea Riseborough

Tasya Vos

Christopher Abbott

Christopher Abbott

Colin Tate

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Girder

Sean Bean

Sean Bean

John Parse

Tuppence Middleton

Tuppence Middleton

Ava Parse

Rossif Sutherland

Rossif Sutherland

Michael Vos

Kaniehtiio Horn

Kaniehtiio Horn

Reeta

Court is in session

Put Possessor on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.