the killer inside me

There are many things worth knowing about Brandon Cronenberg’s sophomore movie Possessor. First and foremost is that it’s violent. Shockingly, sick-makingly violent. The sort of violence that might make you queasy even if you’ve breezed through all the movies by Brandon’s dad, David, whose ’70s shockers Shivers, Rabid and The Brood earned him such nicknames as Baron of Blood and Dave Deprave.

You’ll know if you’re up to it in the first five minutes, when a prologue to the main action sees a woman at some posho event squish an electrode into the back of her skull (check out that