MVD 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.
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.
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.
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