Review #255: Possession (1981)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #9 - Possession (1981) It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that made less sense than this one. I'll start off by trying to summarize the plot. As best as I can tell, Possession follows Mark, a spy (I think? It never plays into the story except to show that he works for the government) who's come home to his wife Anna and young son Bob after a long time away. He soon discovers Anna has been having an affair with a man named Heinrich, so Mark confronts Heinrich but gets beaten up. Anna begins acting increasingly bizarre and unhinged so Mark suspects she was cheating on him with more than just Heinrich, and some private investigation reveals she's been living with a... weird lovecraftian shapeshifting tentacle creature (?) whom I think she views as some sort of divine being. She kills a couple people, Mark has inexplicably become so obsessed with her that he covers up h...