Sunday, February 3, 2013
The Posession
PG-13 horror movies are such a crap shoot, and
most of them are just crap. The problem isn’t just with the level of gore
required to get the teen-friendly rating; the problem is that most of the
people making PG-13 horror movies have no idea what makes a horror movie good
in the first place. They use the laziest tricks in the books – simple camera
misdirection, obnoxiously loud music, editing quick enough to cause a seizure –
to try and hid the fact that there’s nothing really scary happening up on the
screen. Danish director Ole Bornedal is better than that. He not only knows how
to build suspense -- the lifeblood of true horror – but has a sure hand in
delivering the goods when it comes time to scare the audience. He is also smart
enough to hire strong actors like Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick to
anchor the story in the real world. Because of their performances as the
parents, it’s a lot easier to believe the story of a young girl who becomes
possessed by the spirits living inside a box she buys at a flea market.
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