Possession - The dark in you

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Movie
German title Possession - The dark in you
Original title The possession
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Ole Bornedal
script Juliet Snowden ,
Stiles White
production Sam Raimi ,
Robert G. Tapert ,
JR Young
music Anton Sanko
camera Dan Laustsen
cut Raph Adiao
occupation

Possession - The dark in you (Originally The Possession ) is an American horror film by Ole Bornedal from 2012 . According to the filmmaker, the story is said to be based on a true story. The film was released in the United States on August 31, 2012.

action

After the divorce of Clyde and Stephanie Brenek, their children Emily and Hannah help their father furnish his new house. At a flea market, Emily discovers an old wooden box with a Hebrew inscription. Since she is so fascinated by her, Clyde buys the box for her. During the night a voice begins to come out of the box whispering Emily's name. When she opens the box, she finds a tooth, a dead moth, a wooden figure and a ring, among other things. She slips the ring over one finger and develops a strong obsession with the wooden box. She begins to distance herself from other people, becomes more and more lonely, and begins to talk to herself. When a classmate secretly takes the box away from her during class, Emily beats him and yells at him to give the box back to her immediately. On the same day, the class teacher talks to Emily's parents and recommends that they take the box away from her, as she doesn't seem to be having a good influence on them. Clyde and Stephanie decide to give the box to the teacher. While the teacher checks the students' homework that same night, she also hears the strange voice from the box. She becomes curious, tries to open it and is killed by the dibbuk living in it.

Clyde tries to get Emily to see her senses, but even the death of her teacher doesn't wake her up. She tells him that the box is so important to her because a friend lives in it who tells her that it is very special. The obsession becomes so pronounced that Emily's father takes the box away one night. This provokes such anger in Emily that she unjustly accuses her father of child abuse . As a result, the family court withdrew his access rights. In desperation, Clyde seeks out an old university professor whom he still knows from college. He can tell him that the box probably dates from 1920 and that it was used to hold a dibbuk imprisoned in it. However, since the box was opened by Emily, he concludes that the demon has taken possession of her.

Clyde visits the Jew Tzadok to ask for an exorcism . Tzadok says he needs to find out the demon's name in order to lock it back in the box. While driving to the Breneks, he destroys a mirror in the lid of the box. Behind it, the name of the demon is worked into the wood: Abyzou. At home, Emily has a kind of epileptic fit from the demon and is taken to the hospital by her mother and sister. During a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, Stephanie and Hannah see the demon in Emily's chest. Clyde and Tzadok arrive at the hospital and Tzadok performs the exorcism in the basement. A duel ensues between the demon and Clyde. Clyde first manages to get the demon to leave his daughter's body and step onto him. Eventually, Tzadok can lock the demon back in the box and save both Emily and Clyde.

After the experience, Clyde and Stephanie get closer and decide to live together again. Tzadok takes the box with the demon and is about to drive back to his community when a truck rams the car sideways. In the last scene you can see the box lying on the street next to his destroyed car, from which the voice comes again.

background

The event on which the film is supposed to be based became public in February 2004. The American antiques dealer Kevin Mannis offered a wooden wine box that contained various items for sale on Ebay. He reported incidents such as a strong odor of cat urine, nightmares that several owners of the cabinet and visitors had, to doors that are said to have opened by themselves. In addition, the former owner assumes that his mother's stroke was related to the cabinet. This happened when she was alone with it for a short time. The two-door cabinet is said to come from the estate of a Polish-born Jew who escaped from a concentration camp. The Polish language was also used in the film. The dibbuk speaks Polish.

The film was shot in Vancouver , Canada and grossed around $ 85.5 million on an estimated budget of $ 14 million. Because of the eerie atmosphere, the filmmakers booked the disused Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam near Vancouver to shoot the exorcism scene.

The book Clyde reads from his ten-year-old daughter is the Tanach in an English translation. The text corresponds to Psalm 91 .

In the 57th minute of the film, actor Matisyahu sings one of his own songs, Open the Gates . With the line of text "one bright morning when my work is over i'm gonna die" he alludes to Tzadok's death at the end of the film. The original text of the song is slightly different: "I'm gonna fly away home".

criticism

The lexicon of international film praised the “imaginative atmospheric camera work”. The film The Exorcist turns out to be the model for this production, but is not achieved in terms of the "plot and tension dramaturgy".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Possession - The dark in you . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 432 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Possession - The dark in you . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Ebay offer ( Memento from November 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.dibbukbox.com/german.htm
  5. ↑ IMDb Trivia
  6. ↑ IMDb locations
  7. ↑ IMDb Box office
  8. ^ Box Office Mojo
  9. ↑ The Possession Filmed at Eerie Locations for Full Effect ( Memento from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Psalm 91 in the Jewish Study Bible. (PDF) Accessed February 11, 2015 (English).
  11. ↑ Open the Gates on YouTube
  12. ↑ Possession - The dark in you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed February 10, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used