Possessor (4K + Blu-ray Limited Edition) (Second Sight Films) [UK]

[Space Cadet]

Release date: March 18, 2024
Purchase links: Second Sight - Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV
Price: £39.99 (Second Sight - Amazon - HMV) - £40.99 (Zavvi)

 

[Space Cadet]

Special Features

• Dual format edition including both UHD and Blu-ray with main feature and bonus features on both discs
• UHD presented in Dolby Vision HDR approved by Director Brandon Cronenberg and Director of Photography Karim Hussain
• New audio commentary by Brandon Cronenberg, Producer Rob Cotterill, Karim Hussain and Special Effects Artist Dan Martin
• This Unfamiliar Life: a new interview with Brandon Cronenberg
• Inside the Machine: a new interview with Karim Hussain
• Feel the Real: a new interview with Rob Cotterill
• Disassociating from Mind and Body: Zoë Rose Smith on Possessor
• Camera Test Footage
• FX Show and Tell with Dan Martin
• Archive featurette: A Heightened World - A Look at Possessor
• Archive featurette: Identity Crisis - Bringing Possessor to Life
• Archive featurette: The Joy of Practical - The Effects of Possessor
• Deleted Scenes
• Short Film: Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You
• Trailer
  

Limited Edition Contents

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Marko Manev
• 120-page book featuring extensive behind the scenes gallery, script-to-screen comparisons, new essays by Stacey Abbott, Anton Bitel, Jon Towlson and Heather Wixson
• 6 collectors' art cards

 

[Space Cadet]

Liked this a lot, but don't wanna seen again soon. Ever ?

 

[Daubt]

H

 

[ishothim6x]

Liked this a lot, but don't wanna seen again soon. Ever ?

I liked it a little, but didn’t want to see anybody vaping again….ever….after watching it.

 

[Vega]

How is this compared to Infinity Pool? Loved the set-up but hated the ending of that one.

 

[TheWildEye]

How is this compared to Infinity Pool? Loved the set-up but hated the ending of that one.

This is WAY better.
Liked this.
Hated Infinity Pool.
It's definitely still not a blind buy though. Seriously. Watch it first.

 

[sinusR2]

This is WAY better.
Liked this.
Hated Infinity Pool.
It's definitely still not a blind buy though. Seriously. Watch it first.

same here. Infinity Pool for me is 1/5. This one easily 3/5 if not 4/5. Really cool ideas and great execution.

 

[Lenny Nero]

Daaamn, SS are cranking out some gooood shhhhhiieeeeet!
I just recently bought this in a German mediabook, if I'd known SS would be releasing it, I'd have waited and saved $25.

 

[TheWildEye]

same here. Infinity Pool for me is 1/5. This one easily 3/5 if not 4/5. Really cool ideas and great execution.

Yep, the ideas seem more innovative in Possessor; the body horror more effective and subtle. I got a genuine ickiness from this film. A skin crawl. But in a healthy interesting way, not a puke inducing kind of way - if you know what I mean.

Reminded me a lot of 'Mandy' (the film, not the gear ) and how that made me feel - especially in the trippy sequences.

And I'm NOT a horror guy. I just like innovation in genres.
This definitely pushed that.

 

[sinusR2]

Yep, the ideas seem more innovative in Possessor; the body horror more effective and subtle. I got a genuine ickiness from this film. A skin crawl. But in a healthy interesting way, not a puke inducing kind of way - if you know what I mean.

Reminded me a lot of 'Mandy' (the film, not the gear ) and how that made me feel - especially in the trippy sequences.

And I'm NOT a horror guy. I just like innovation in genres.
This definitely pushed that.

Possessor - apart from being a visually cool Sci-Fi movie with some really interesting superficial ideas - also made me think a bit afterwards and I always like that about normal stuff in life... Sure, it was quite indulgent with some of the violence, but I felt it still made sense in the context of the story.
Infinity Pool also had an interesting concept, but I think they made nothing interesting of it and instead doubled down on the indulgent part without much substance - it felt like those chose to try to shock for shock's sake and the story stayed extremely superficial and juvenile IMO - not much to think about there, I felt...

 

[sinusR2]

sorry for the typos...

 

[Flloydo]

Not bad at all. Might consider it as I missed the German steel

 

[Sono2020]

I like the art, but I feel like it was ripped off from hollow man blu-ray 88 films set.

 

[IllegalSwede]

I like the art, but I feel like it was ripped off from hollow man blu-ray 88 films set.

Wasn't this imagery literally in the film though?

 

[Daubt]

tracked down that steel, and might use it instead of the digipack in this set, because the art ain't doing it for me.

 

[StifflersDad]

Bizarre pretentious movie. Good thing I streamed it instead of a 40 quid blind buy

 

[Jocelin]

Bizarre pretentious movie. Good thing I streamed it instead of a 40 quid blind buy

this is how most people who don't like some of dad's early work would summarize it.
do you Like videodrome, crash or the naked lunch ?

 

[Lenny Nero]

do you Like videodrome, crash

I like those, buying it 'blind'...

 

[StifflersDad]

this is how most people who don't like some of dad's early work would summarize it.
do you Like videodrome, crash or the naked lunch ?

Videodrome is great
Crash is okay
Naked Lunch - no thanks