Producer Sam Raimi (Spiderman – Tobey Maguire) is at it again, collaborating with the husband-and-wife screen writing team Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, on this blood curdling scream-fest called The Possession. Apparently, this story is based on a Los Angeles Times 2004 article with the headline “A Jinx in a Box?” that caught the attention of Raimi who then called upon Snowden and Stiles to work with the idea and come up with a script. The original real-life story revolved around a strange box possessing a Jewish spirit called a dybbuk that seemingly had a horrific affect on the owner of the box, before it was sold. However, that is pretty much the extent of the similarities between the true story and the actually film. For me, the idea that the film proclaims that it is based on a true story was a little misleading because the movie seems quite different from the actual article in the LA Times.
Unfortunately, movies about exorcisms are nothing new and viewers will see the typical scenes of bodies being thrown around and hitting the ceiling, and they will hear funny, hoarse voices calling out the victims’ names and scenes of young females seemingly floating vertically, with long black hair draped over their eyes for added dramatic affect. READ FULL REVIEW