13 Slots for the Best Horror I've Seen in the Past Year
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(June 2018)
Look at Possum, there he lies
Children, meet his lifeless eyes
See his nasty legs and tongue
When he wakens, watch him run
Drenched in tone and atmosphere, dotted with
mysteries (a bag and its hideous contents; a perpetually closed door), Matthew
Holness’ debut feature Possum is subjective,
oblique horror at its finest.
In it, Sean Harris (notable to this film and music
geek for portraying Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People) plays Philip
Connell, who returns to his now squalid childhood home in an attempt to rid
himself of his figurative (or perhaps literal?) demons.
And since we’ve mentioned music, certain aspects of
Possum put me in mind of a particular
track from The Cure’s Disintegration.
If you take a gander at Possum, and are a Cure fan, you’ll know which track I’m referring
to…
And even if you aren’t a Cure fan, and are also somehow opposed
to horror films that don’t rely on over-exposition, surely the eponymous Possum
is a creature of deep, dark nightmare that, at the very least, demands to be
seen, so its insidious presence can stain even your most innocent, sundrenched
dreams…
Wait a while, my little child,
For what is playing dead
Possum, with his black balloons
Will eat you up in bed.
Parting Shot: Sean Harris also appears in Billy O’Brien’s
excellently repulsive Isolation (review
here).
(Possum OS
courtesy of impawards.com.)
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