Cinefantastique Online

Kaiju Shakedown, the Asian film blog of Variety, takes a look at POSSESSION, the new film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Surrprise, surpise, the spooky flick is a remake of an Asian horror film – although, unlike THE GRUDGE (which was based on a Japanese horror film), this one is based on a Korean film called ADDICTED.

This 2002 movie is more of a gentle, supernatural drama than a horror movie or even a thriller. In ADDICTED, a woman has her life ruined when her husband and her brother-in-law are in two separate car accidents. Brother-in-law is in a coma, husband is dead. Then the bro-in-law wakes up and starts acting like the husband. OOOoooOOO…spooky. It’s not a bad movie, but not a great one either and it did so-so business in Korea way back when.

Now, Sarah Michelle Gellar and a bunch of Swedes have teamed up to bring the world what sounds like a dumbed-down version of ADDICTED called POSSESSION and Variety reviews it and stamps it as blah. This is as hot-blooded as their review gets:

“Tech package is competent but reps nothing special. Given pic’s mostly interiors-set storyline, sparing use of Vancouver to pass as Bay Area locations is perfectly adequate if anonymous.“