Good performances help make this PG-13 horror movie watchable, but it is still missing something to make it anything special.
The Possession is your typical PG-13 horror movie for the majority of the film, and by that, I mean predictable with a couple cheap scares. The movie follows Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Stephanie (Kyra Sedgwick) who are a couple going through a divorce with two daughters who are all trying to deal with the separation. The film begins with Clyde, who has just moved into a new house, picking up his two daughters for the weekend. Along the way, they stop at a yard sale where his youngest daughter Em finds an old box with Hebrew inscriptions on it. While Em is sleeping later that night she hears whispering coming from the box. After that, things start to pick up with Em becoming short tempered and more violent. As I said before, things are pretty predictable and more so as the movie continues. Clyde starts to figure out what's going on and seeks out help from a Jew named Tzadok, played by Matisyahu. The whole cast is pretty good in this one. The best performances come from Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matisyahu, and the young Natasha Calis as Em. This is exorcism film is much better than the many other garbage ones that have came over the over the years, but still has flaws. To me, the one thing that hurt the film was the PG-13 rating. As The Exorcist proved almost 40 years ago, it just doesn't feel real without an R rating. Also, there is maybe only a handful of horror movies that aren't rated R that I consider good. This one was decent, but had the potential to be so much better if it wasn't restricted because of the rating
...AND SIMPLY PUT WORTH A RENTAL IF YOU'RE A FAN OF THE GENRE. C
Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Davenport, Natasha Calis, Matisyahu, Grant Snow, Jay Brazeau, Rob LaBelle
Director: Ole Bornedal
Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving violence and disturbing sequences
The Possession out August 31 is Now in Theaters.
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