Earlier this year, Jon Barkan wrote about The Possession Experiment, which at the time had released a new trailer that he dubbed, “…vicious, gory, and epic.”
Scott Hansen’s film, featuring genre fav Bill Moseley, is now available On Demand, Digital HD, and DVD through Momentum Pictures.
In the film a student takes on a theology project: to explore the dark world of exorcisms. He decides the only way to research this topic is to undergo an exorcism himself…
We caught up Moseley, who many of you will remember from House of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, to break down his five favorite “possession” movies!
- The Shining: Stanley Kubrick’s take on Stephen King’s story of Overlook isolation and Jack Nicholson ‘s possession by unkind spirits (literally & figuratively). When the booze starts flowing, not even Scatman Crothers can save the day. What do they say about all work and no play?!
- The Convent: Mike Mendez’s 2000 homage (?) to ‘Night of the Demons’, this low-budget gem celebrates the demonic possession of teenagers in an abandoned convent, complete with black light, Adrienne Barbeau, Coolio and yours truly as a stoned security guard!
- Demons: Dario Argento gives us a night of mayhem & gorgeous gore when the audience is possessed by, well, demons in a haunted theater. Some awesome practical effects, music by Goblin, beautiful blinding colors and the delicious Geretta Geretta make this one a must-see.
- Paranormal Activity: This seminal work reminds us that possession can take place in the suburbs just as easily as in an old dark house! Wonderful use of GoPro self-taping to prove that something creepy lives in the attic and wants to swallow someone’s soul. Scared the crap out of my girlfriend!
- The Exorcist: The granddaddy of them all, this William Friedkin masterpiece is always somewhere in everyone’s Top 5 Horror Movies of All Time! Such an intelligent rendering of William Peter Blatty’s book, Linda Blair spewing pea soup all over Max Von Sydow and one of my favorite movie lines- “Your mother cooks socks in Hell!” Wait a minute, did I get that right?
Scott Hansen’s film stars Bill Moseley (House of 1,000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects), Chris Minor (“Edge”), Jake Brinn (“Glimpse”), Nicky Jasper (“Nocturne”) with KT Fanelli (“Pretty Bad Girls”).
“The Possession Experiment tells the story of Brandon (Minor), who has always been drawn to the supernatural. So when asked to pick a topic to base his final world theology class project on, he decides to explore the dark world of exorcisms. Teamed up with three classmates, the group investigates a multiple homicide that they eventually discover was an exorcism gone horribly wrong. Brandon becomes obsessed with the event, and in a strange turn of events, decides the only way to research this topic is to undergo an exorcism himself.”
