Monday, March 2, 2020

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Marquee Collection Status On Sarah Michelle Gellar's Possession • DVD And Blu-ray Editions Available On Apr. 14


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyMVD Entertainment Group has targeted Apr. 14 for the Marquee Collection release of both DVD and Blu-ray editions of the directing team of Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist’s 2008 (2009) film suspense thriller, Possession, an English-language adaptation of the 2002 South Korean film titled Addicted.

This should have been a theatrical hit, but the production company, Yari Distribution, ran out of money after nearly two years of trying to get a finished product into release.   Just that simple … the result was an on-again, off-again direct to video launch by 20th Century-Fox back in 2010 and it is now out of print.

Possession, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, Cruel Intentions, The Grudge … and as Buffy in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series) fits right into MVD Entertainment Group’s Marquee Collection promotional banner … too new to be cult, but not old enough to be catalog.

This is a creepy film, and deliberately so, that spins around the premise of a happily married young couple, Jess (Gellar) and Ryan (played by Michael Landes — Angel Has Fallen, Burlesque, Lakeview Terrace), lives being turned upside down as the result of a car accident.   
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But, wait, car accidents do turn lives upside down by there very nature, but there is more going on here.   Ryan has a screw-up brother by the name of Roman (Lee Pace — Captain Marvel, Driven … as Thranduil in The Hobbit film series), who scares the bejesus out of Jess.   Finally something has to be done … and that’s when everything gets downright weird.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
The storyline, while wildly improbable, has the two brothers involved in the same car crash and both in comas at the hospital.   Roman wakes up and insists that he is Ryan and that his brother’s essence (spirit, whatever) has been transferred to him.   Put yourself in Jess’ position, the man she is mortally terrified of claims to be her husband.   Is he?   

Sorry, we are not giving away the secret here … Apr. 14 for MVD’s Marquee Collection release of Possession to find out. 

Bonus features include roughly a half-hour’s worth of deleted and alternate scenes (as Yari Distribution ran out of money they cut and re-cut the film) and a making-of featurette.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


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