Sam Raimi's The Possession: Review.

Sam Raimi, most likely one of my all time fave producers/creators.

With his name behind legends such as "The Evil Dead" & "Spiderman" movies, and TV shows Xena: Warrior Princess & Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. You can imagine I was excited to watch his new movie, The Possession.

Of course, like all modern day horrors.... it was supposedly "based on true events". All about a girl who acquires an old box with strange writings upon it. After a while she manages to open the box, afterwards strange things happen and she becomes of course... Possessed.

After watching the trailers, I expected many freaky things and was giddy with the excitement.

However....

The "horror" part of movie was not as I hoped, maybe I was expecting too much from Sam (or maybe there have been too many of these kind of films now). It had it's moments of "ooooh" but it wasn't anything special or anything you have ever seen before (except the hand thing, but you saw that in the trailers).

On a plus side though, Sam Raimi picked a good team to film it and picked the perfect cast to star in it. The little girl was amazing, she made you believe it from time to time. Although near the end, the acting from the father was a little of a let down after his great performance through out the movie.

At the end of the day I would give Sam Raimi's The Possession, 7/10. Not for the horrors, but for the well written dialog and acting. If I had to give it a rating just for horror... 5/10.

Sorry Sam, not your best but it is good to see you again.