{"id":1000,"date":"2022-10-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"MOVIE REVIEW\nPossession (Forbannelsen)<\/strong>\n <\/strong>- \n
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MOVIE REVIEW
\nPossession (Forbannelsen)<\/strong>
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Genre:<\/strong> Horror
\nYear Released:<\/strong> 2022
\nRuntime:<\/strong> 1h 44m
\nDirector(s):<\/strong> Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
\nWriter(s):<\/strong> Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
\nCast:<\/strong> Jan S\u00e6lid, Eva Nerg\u00e5rd, Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Anna Filippa Hjarne, Dennis Storh\u00f8i, Benjamin Helstad, Nina Ellen \u00d8deg\u00e5rd, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
\nWhere To Watch:<\/strong> in select US theaters + on VOD starting October 7th, 2022<\/p>\n

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RAVING REVIEW: <\/strong>Norwegian horror films that are also period films maybe aren\u2019t my cup of tea. I thought initially it might just be the style of film, but upon digging further, I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever watched another horror film from Norway, so now I\u2019m curious.<\/p>\n

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This was a slow burn; the film took what felt like forever to get to the point of the story taking off. I will give it credit for tackling the Spanish flu epidemic, and I can\u2019t help but feel that it was intentional to parallel the COVID pandemic (although I don\u2019t have any confirmation on that at all.)<\/p>\n

I will say that when things got going, the film’s period setting added a great atmosphere to the scene. Possession films are a dime a dozen, so this had a lot of potential to be another unique mix of drama\/horror but the creepy moments had some of the thunder stolen because there was such a long drought getting to them.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it feels like something I\u2019ve seen without the same execution level. Thankfully, some great visuals offset the pacing of the film. The idea of the slow possession stalls out at times and then excels at others. I\u2019m hoping this is more of a \u201cme\u201d problem, and I\u2019m going to make it a goal of mine to check out other films within this subgenre from the area. Maybe this is the style, or perhaps this is an outlier that I just didn\u2019t appreciate fully.<\/p>\n

If you have any suggestions, either from the director or the genre in general, please reach out and let me know. I feel the pieces are there, but I was looking for an edge piece and could only find the middle parts while watching.<\/p>\n

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MOVIE REVIEW Possession (Forbannelsen)  –      Genre: Horror Year Released: 2022 Runtime: 1h 44m Director(s): Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Writer(s): Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Cast: Jan S\u00e6lid, Eva Nerg\u00e5rd, Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Anna Filippa Hjarne, Dennis Storh\u00f8i, Benjamin Helstad, Nina Ellen \u00d8deg\u00e5rd, Ellen Dorrit Petersen Where To Watch: in select US theaters + on VOD starting October 7th, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-theaters-digital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}