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Possession

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Possession	type	TVTItem
Possession	label	Possession
Possession	page	Possession
Possession	comment	A 1981 psychological horror drama, directed by Andrzej Żuławski and starring a young Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani.Mark (Neill), a secret agent, returns from an overseas assignment to discover that his wife Anna (Adjani) has left him. After she disappears, abandoning their child in her apartment, Mark manages to track down his wife's lover. He turns out to be Heinrich: a swinger who knows kung fu and lives with his mother. However, Heinrich also hasn't seen Anna for weeks. Together, the two men track down Anna's new lover, a lover that might not even be human...Banned in the UK, most likely due to Carlo Rambaldi's impressively goopy effects, which still hold up quite well today. It's currently available uncut on DVD/Blu-Ray.Not to be confused with the 2012 Sam Raimi film The Possession. Or with Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt.
Possession	fetched	2024-04-28T07:15:56Z
Possession	parsed	2024-04-28T07:15:56Z
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Possession / int_1073963d	type	Psychosexual Horror
Possession / int_1073963d	comment	Psychosexual Horror: The movie starts as a rather grounded drama about an unraveling marriage, but it takes a hard left turn into this territory when it's revealed that the female protagonist, Anna, has been having sex with this weird, fleshy... thing that lives in an abandoned apartment and gradually starts looking more human as the film progresses.
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Possession / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Possession / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Starts as a divorce drama, but evolves into supernatural horror and eventually into Surreal Horror.
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Possession / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Possession / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: As Mark is slapping Anna across the face, he angrily tells her "You know what this is for? The lies!".
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Possession / int_1d311757	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest
Possession / int_1d311757	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest: Many writers about Possession have paid attention to the motif of doppelgÃ¤nger throughout the film. Both spouses die, but they are replaced by doubles, ideal models of husband and wife. Anna "grows" a double of Mark from the creature, an indefatigable lover who is always by her side. The real Mark finds a copy of Anna in the person of the school teacher Helen - she is a gentle character, and does not demand anything from Mark, being an "ideal housewife".
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Possession / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Possession / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Heinrich is brained with the lid of a toilet tank and then drowned in that same filthy, public toilet, after he'd already been stabbed and Driven to Madness by the thing in Helen's apartment. Truly there aren't many worse ways to go.
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Possession / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Possession / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of the movie, Mark is asked by his business associates if the subject he was following still wears pink socks. At the end of the movie, he's shot by one of his former employers, who happens to wear pink socks, so it's implied that he unleashed the apocalypse we hear of in the ending.
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Possession / int_25f02846	type	Deranged Dance
Possession / int_25f02846	comment	Deranged Dance: Anna's body movements during her nervous breakdown in the subway almost resemble an odd dance, thrashing her limbs and body around while screaming.
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Possession / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Possession / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Bob drowns himself in the bathtub.
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Possession / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Possession / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Mark says he doesn't want to see Bob if Anna gets custody of him and this upsets her, saying that Bob needs his father.
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Possession / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Possession / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: The private detectives Emmanuel and Zimmerman were revealed to have been in a homosexual relationship together and both men died a violent death at the hands of Anna when they stumbled upon the creature hidden in the abandoned apartment.
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Possession / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
Possession / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Anna murders the two private detectives and her lover Heinrich when they discover her third secret lover the creature hiding in her second apartment.
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Possession / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Possession / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Heinrich, being a bisexual swinger.
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Possession / int_309edee6	type	Divorce Assets Conflict
Possession / int_309edee6	comment	Divorce Assets Conflict: Mark asks Anna if she wants to keep their apartment or if she'll live with her lover Heinrich. Anna wants to keep the apartment.
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Possession / int_311bcac6	type	Beard of Sorrow
Possession / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Mark grows one after spending three weeks in a hotel room as a consequence of having been just left by Anna.
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Possession / int_33e48eb9	type	Hysterical Woman
Possession / int_33e48eb9	comment	Hysterical Woman: Anna grows gradually unstable over the course of the film. With odd body movements, loud shrieking noises and homicidal behavior.
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Possession / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Possession / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: After Anna confesses to Mark about her miscarriage in the subway, Mark just throws some harsh words in her face. "You look ugly. Youâ€™ve hardened. For the first time, you look vulgar to me.".
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Possession / int_35b7c1e3	type	Blaming the Cuckold
Possession / int_35b7c1e3	comment	Blaming the Cuckold: Both Anna and her lover Heinrich blame Mark for the affair happening because he was away on business for so long.
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Possession / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Possession / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Mark murders Anna's lover Heinrich to get Anna back into his life. When Anna shows Mark that her lover the creature is now a human look-alike doppelganger of him, Mark attempts to shoot the creature but he gets gunned down by the police.
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Possession / int_39e6c49e	type	Compulsive Liar
Possession / int_39e6c49e	comment	Compulsive Liar: Anna has been lying to Mark about her whereabouts. He catches on to her lies eventually and presses her about her location.
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Possession / int_3bf27a8d	type	Right Through the Wall
Possession / int_3bf27a8d	comment	Right Through the Wall: Heinrich says that his mother is at his home all the time. Even when he is having sex with Anna.
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Possession / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Possession / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: When Mark tries to fight Heinrich after meeting him for the first time, Heinrich takes him out in about 3 hits while Mark flails ineffectually.
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Possession / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Possession / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Anna denies being unfaithful when Mark questions her.
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Possession / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Possession / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Berlin is depicted as an almost humanless concrete desert, with most of the little human interaction that occurs being crazy and violent. Oh, and did we mention the ghost of the Cold War creeping through the city?
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Possession / int_415257d9	type	Mess of Woe
Possession / int_415257d9	comment	Mess of Woe: Mark has his hotel room unkempt with beer bottles on the floor. Mark then returns to find his home in quite a mess and his son left alone covered in food stains. Anna is unable to keep both the apartments she has clean, with clothes all over the place and food everywhere.
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Possession / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Possession / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Anna screams a lot whenever she's fighting with Mark, murdering people or having a nervous breakdown during her demonic possession and miscarriage in the subway.
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Possession / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
Possession / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: Mark goes to the apartment and finds Anna having sex with the creature. Despite Mark's intrusion, they keep on going.
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Possession / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Possession / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Berlin is a worn-down, desolate wasteland of a city in this film. Even calm domestic interiors become this after Mark and Anna's arguments cause them to throw trash and broken furniture everywhere.
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Possession / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Possession / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Anna bursts out into long fits of unsettling mad laughter prior to her nervous breakdown and miscarriage in the subway.
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Possession / int_4e20ce40	type	Returning the Wedding Ring
Possession / int_4e20ce40	comment	Returning the Wedding Ring: After having another fight, Mark asks Anna for the wedding ring and wrist watch back.
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Possession / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Possession / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Mark and Anna are both gunned down by the police while the doppelganger escapes. Bob drowns himself in the bathtub and the doppelganger waits behind the door as Helen witnesses World War III begin outside.
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Possession / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Possession / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Anna is responsible for two extraordinarily disturbing ones. The first one, when Zimmerman discovers the creature in Anna's apartment and then he (and the audience) learn who Anna's third lover is And when Anna reunites with Mark at the end, she brings the creature along with her and Mark (and the audience) sees what the creature has finally grown into...A complete human look-alike DoppelgÃ¤nger of Mark.
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Possession / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Possession / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In-universe. Mark finding Anna having sex with the creature in her apartment.
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Possession / int_51509ce7	type	Convenient Miscarriage
Possession / int_51509ce7	comment	Convenient Miscarriage: A dark example. In Mark's absence, Anna suffered a violent miscarriage in the subway tunnel. This is what led to her having a nervous breakdown and wanting a divorce.
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Possession / int_5233f9ca	type	Calling Your Orgasms
Possession / int_5233f9ca	comment	Calling Your Orgasms: As Anna locks eyes with Mark while having sex with the creature, she cries out "Almost!" repeatedly.
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Possession / int_55966885	type	Marionette Motion
Possession / int_55966885	comment	Marionette Motion: Anna moves her limbs and body around in a stiff puppet like manner when she gets demonically possessed. When she narrowly avoids getting hit by truck out on the streets and when she has her nervous breakdown and subsequent miscarriage in the subway.
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Possession / int_5a2d2d5c	type	Visit by Divorced Dad
Possession / int_5a2d2d5c	comment	Visit by Divorced Dad: Mark lampshades this during an argument with Anna, citing how awkward it will be for both him and their child Bob when his dad has to become "sunday Daddy" while Bob gets raised by Anna and her lover Heinrich.
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Possession / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Possession / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Anna considers her eventually fully-formed demonic creature lover to being a superior replacement to her husband Mark as he satisfies her unmet sexual needs and Mark finds a replacement for his wife Anna in his son's teacher Helen who is kind to him and fulfills his need for an obedient housewife.
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Possession / int_6507a7e0	type	ModestOrgasm
Possession / int_6507a7e0	comment	Modest Orgasm: Anna lets out a quiet mousy gasp when she has sex with Mark after killing people.
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Possession / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
Possession / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: It's hard to say just what the fuck that thing in Anna's apartment is supposed to be, but whatever it is it's pure evil and its completion appears to herald the apocalypse.
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Possession / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Possession / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: During a conversation with Margit about Anna's lover Hendrich, Mark sarcastically admits that the divorce and the affair is all his fault. Everyone blames me Mark for everything that has happened. Even though Anna is truly in the wrong for cheating.
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Possession / int_70746ec7	type	Dance of Despair
Possession / int_70746ec7	comment	Dance of Despair: Anna loses control of her body and limbs and she just moves around in violent thrashing fits as the demonic possession takes over her.
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Possession / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Possession / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: The movie is a steadily accelerating descent into a hellish nightmare. At the end it's hardly recognizable as the tense divorce drama it started out as.
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Possession / int_7433754f	type	Better Partner Assertion
Possession / int_7433754f	comment	Better Partner Assertion: Anna bluntly tells Mark that her lover Heinrich is better at sex than him. Even Heinrich tells Mark that while Mark was unable to make Anna happy, Heinrich and Anna reached "a state of perfect harmony" together.
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Possession / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Possession / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Anna in the subway. Ends with her spewing blood, pus, and slime from several orifices.
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Possession / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
Possession / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Mark has Icy Blue Eyes normally, but his completed doppelganger has totally black eyes.
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Possession / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Possession / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: It's a divorce and a dysfunctional family we're talking about, after all.
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Possession / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Possession / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Mark's doppelganger arrives at his house to do... something to Helen. Bob, apparently sensing the approaching evil, begs her not to open the door and then runs upstairs to drown himself in the bathtub. As Helen sees the doppelganger through the door, sirens and explosions are heard outside; Helen turns and looks directly into the camera as the doppelganger presses itself against the window. The end.
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Possession / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Possession / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: You wouldn't tell the two detectives are a gay couple until they reveal it.
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Possession / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
Possession / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: Mark and Anna end up sleeping together after killing a few people, disposing of the bodies and cleaning the blood off of each other.
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Possession / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Possession / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Could be called Ham: The Movie. The vast majority of scenes containing Mark, Anna, and Heinrich contain intense amounts of yelling, exaggerated gestures, and uncomfortable amounts of out-of-place touching. All three of these characters often engage in frequent spasmodic fits, intense physical reactions to emotion, and temper tantrums, though none stand up to the 5 minute long segment of Anna screaming and throwing herself around a subway tunnel, completely by herself. Just about the only time you see reasonable, level-headed behavior is when Mark is interacting with Bob.
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Possession / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Possession / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Anna's secret lover... demon... tentacle... thing. Turns out to be Mark's DoppelgÃ¤nger in the end.
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Possession / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Possession / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: By the last third of the film, Mark has killed Heinrich and is actively covering up Anna's other murders. It's clear by this point he only cares about being with her again.
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Possession / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Possession / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Happens to anyone who sees the creature. Heinrich appears to go temporarily blind after laying eyes on it.
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Possession / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Possession / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Mark engages one to find out more about Anna. He meets a bad end when he gets too pushy about entering her apartment, and ends up running right into the creature.
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Possession / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Possession / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: According to this theory (beware: spoilers ahead!), the movie is an allegory of divorce, and there's subtle Cold War undertones here and there that become more obvious in the ending.
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Possession / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
Possession / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: After being asked for a divorce, Mark has trouble performing and becomes insecure about it. Not helping is the revelation that Anna has been having an affair with Heinrich and the creature and she tells Mark to his face that her lover is better at sex than he is.
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Possession / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Possession / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Anna vomits white fluid as she suffers a miscarriage in the subway tunnel.
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Possession / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Possession / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Mark has Helen, his son's kindly schoolteacher, as the Betty, and Anna, his mentally unstable ex-wife who is fucking a newborn demon, as the Veronica. Both of them are played by Isabelle Adjani.
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Possession / int_96b68af2	type	Desk Sweep of Rage
Possession / int_96b68af2	comment	Desk Sweep of Rage: Mark throws all the dishes and cutlery off his restaurant table when arguing with Anna over her affair.
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Possession / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Possession / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Considering that Mark was away at work and Anna has been having an affair with Heinrich for a year, it's unknown if the baby Anna miscarried in the subway was her husband's or Heinrich's.
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Possession / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Possession / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Mark screams this to Anna after their argument in the cafe.
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Possession / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Possession / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Anna neglects her son Bob, leaving him all alone in the apartment while she is away with her lover.
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Possession / int_a9d70c96	type	Icy Blue Eyes
Possession / int_a9d70c96	comment	Icy Blue Eyes: Both Mark and Anna have these, and with how many shots there are of both of them staring piercingly into the camera, the movie makes good use of them.
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Possession / int_af19b864	type	Custody Battle
Possession / int_af19b864	comment	Custody Battle: Because of Anna neglecting their son Bob, Mark tells her he is seeking sole custody of Bob while Anna will only be allowed to visit him.
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Possession / int_afe698ea	type	Plot-Inciting Infidelity
Possession / int_afe698ea	comment	Plot-Inciting Infidelity: What starts the whole plot after all.
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Possession / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Possession / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Mark after being shot through the throat, combined with blood bubbling out of his neck. Anna has blood dripping down from her nose and mouth after being hit by Mark during a fight.
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Possession / int_bbec7823	type	Bedroom Adultery Scene
Possession / int_bbec7823	comment	Bedroom Adultery Scene: Mark walks in on Anna having passionate sex with the creature in the bedroom of her second apartment.
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Possession / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Possession / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: It's all an allegory for divorce.
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Possession / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Possession / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: After killing Anna's lover Hendrich, helping Anna dispose of the bodies, and then having sex with her, Mark thinks he finally has everything back to the way he wanted. Or so he thinks. Then he finds Anna having sex with the creature and he is devastated.
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Possession / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Possession / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Isabelle Adjani is quite an attractive woman. To see her having sex with an Eldritch Abomination? Not hot.
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Possession / int_cad80e66	type	Blame the Paramour
Possession / int_cad80e66	comment	Blame the Paramour: Mark not only becomes furious at his wife Anna for her infidelity, he holds her lover Heinrich in contempt as well.
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Possession / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Possession / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The film's thick symbolism prevents most critical viewers from interpreting the film literally, but that leaves an open interpretation as to what exactly Mark's "doppelganger" is. Is the Eldritch Abomination a production of Mark's psychosis, his warped viewing of Anna's adulterous lover? Is it Anna's delusion, her interpretation of the perfect version of Mark? A broader allegory for the nuclear spectre of the Cold War? Or, if we choose to view it literally, is it truly an Eldritch Abomination, and the entire story is one psychologically monstrous Cosmic Horror Story? The film never denies any of these perspectives, and it's important to note that multiple other characters corrobate Mark's seemingly delusional fantasies.
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Possession / int_cc017ca0	type	Emasculated Cuckold
Possession / int_cc017ca0	comment	Emasculated Cuckold: Mark becomes aware that his wife Anna is cheating on him with Heinrich and the creature and he is not happy about it. He becomes impotent during sex with Anna and he is further humiliated when he confronts Anna's lover Heinrich and loses the fight easily. Mark is even willing to give Anna full custody of their son Bob and leave just to avoid the humiliation of seeing Anna and her lover Heinrich together. And it doesn't do him any good once Mark catches Anna having sex with the creature after having sex with her a few days earlier.
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Possession / int_d08a19c4	type	ImmodestOrgasm
Possession / int_d08a19c4	comment	Immodest Orgasm: Mark is able to locate Anna in the decrepit apartment building through her loud moans of pleasure.
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Possession / int_d29d163f	type	Affair Letters
Possession / int_d29d163f	comment	Affair Letters: Mark learns of Anna's lover Heinrich through a postcard he sent addressed to her.
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Possession / int_e30a4813	type	Third-Option Love Interest
Possession / int_e30a4813	comment	Third-Option Love Interest: Anna prefers her third lover the creature over her first lover Heinrich and her husband Mark.
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Possession / int_e57c714d	type	Insane Equals Violent
Possession / int_e57c714d	comment	Insane Equals Violent: Anna lashes out more physically at Mark and other people as her mental health becomes more and more unstable.
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Possession / int_e5c4e505	type	Dub-Induced Plotline Change
Possession / int_e5c4e505	comment	Dub-Induced Plotline Change: The US cut of the film was edited down from 127 to 81 minutes and had the original score replaced with Ominous Latin Chanting in an attempt pass it off as a straight horror film.
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Possession / int_e8804a1d	type	Bishōnen Line
Possession / int_e8804a1d	comment	Bishōnen Line: Each time the creature is seen it looks a little bit more human. It goes from being a fleshy shape attached to the bathroom wall, to a vaguely man-shaped mass of gore on the bed, to something resembling a cross between a deep sea fish and a newborn fetus, to a merman-like creature with tentacle arms and a tail, to a perfect copy of Mark with Black Eyes of Evil. When Anna is having sex with it near the end, she shouts "Almost!" repeatedly, implying that she's shaping the creature into a clone of Mark herself.
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Possession / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
Possession / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Heinrich's mother seemed a very nice old lady in a world going mad; she commits suicide because she can't stand losing her son.
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Possession / int_f27ec906	type	Identical Stranger
Possession / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Helen looks almost exactly like Anna, differing only in hair and eye color.
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Possession / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
Possession / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Mark and Anna die together to a hail of police bullets. They share one last kiss before Anna shoots them both through the spine.
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Possession / int_f87b5237	type	Spit-Trail Kiss
Possession / int_f87b5237	comment	Spit-Trail Kiss: Mark and Anna have one as they lay dying on the stairs from gunshot wounds. In their case the spit mixes with blood.
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Possession / int_fd86da63	type	Crisis of Faith
Possession / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: Before her miscarriage in the subway, Anna is shown inside a church looking up to a statue of Jesus and pleading for answers.
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