Possession (1981): The Film So Disturbing It Was BANNED

Possession (1981) was so raw that the British government banned it outright and American distributors hacked 43 minutes off it — releasing an incoherent corpse with complimentary barf bags. We dig into 13 dark facts behind Andrzej Żuławski's masterpiece: the directing method drawn from voodoo trance and experimental Polish theatre, the casting hesitation that handed Isabelle Adjani one of cinema's greatest roles, the creature built by the man who made Alien and E.T., and why Sam Neill calls the film that nearly broke him his favorite work ever. It took the world 30 years to catch up to what Cannes saw in 1981. Comment below. 👇 #Possession #IsabelleAdjani #SamNeill #FilmHistory #CultFilm #PsychologicalHorror #VideoNasty #MovieFacts #HorrorMovies #ArthouseFilm