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  Review by Chris ★★★★ 4

  Bro that wasn't a possum

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  Review by pd187 ★★½ 15

  i know writers who use subtext and theyre all cowards

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  Review by WraithApe ★★★ 31

  Darkly oblique, low key character study of a damaged mind. Philip is a puppeteer by profession, who is forced to return to his childhood home following his disgrace at his last paying gig. He terrified the kids with his puppet, a macabre arachnid creation with a blank head resembling his own. This is Possum, an alter ego which has haunted him since entering his life in childhood, preventing him from becoming a functioning adult.

  Scored by a brooding collection of dissonant field recordings and dark ambiance from The Radiophonic Workshop and envisioned through a muted palette of greys and earth tones, deep shadow saturating every frame, Possum is about as bleak as it gets. It riffs on The Babadook -…

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  Review by kemely ★★★★★ 6

  I'm feeling completely dirty. my god. the final 5 minutes of this movie were too painful. i'm devastated. Sean Haris, my man, you deserve all the awards. i really felt in shock when the credits rolled. there are so many disturbing image here. metaphors and allegories that at first appear to be just that, a tool for the narration, but no, they aren't. i fooled myself thinking i'd just be that. really dark and powerful in every way possible. i never thought that a movie about a pet giant-ish spider would impact me so much. and hey, if you're thinking that this puppet monster thing only appears in a few scenes, well, i've got some good news for you .…

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  Review by lizzy deane ★★★★ 12

  have any of you ever gotten that feeling you get when you’re watching creepy videos from the dark side of youtube? those sinister, experimental little videos you feel like you shouldn’t be watching, but you keep watching them because they’re sort of oddly fascinating and almost hypnotic? despite how unnerving and uneasy they are, you still feel weirdly drawn to them? this movie feels exactly like that.

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  Review by bearひ ★★½ 10

  this is what I think my penis looks like

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  Review by nick ★★ 4

  Possum is what happens when you stretch an okay idea into a full length feature with monotone delivery.

  Clearly drawing parallels between traumas and gruesome imaginary creatures, Possum starts with some truly breathtaking stills that give the audience a false impression that the whole experience is going to be as gripping, only for them to be tricked into enduring an oversized (despite its short runtime of 85 minutes) and flatfooted borefest reliant heavily on startling sound effects and jump scares to make its point. Shots are deliberately extended while the characters are conditioned to repeat the same routines over and over, building towards a final revelation that is objectively anti-climatic and incoherent, but still feels somewhat like a blessing in disguise.

  Possum is clearly an ambitious work as evidenced by its bleak, symbolic style, but the story just isn't inspired enough to take it anywhere further. Don't recommend.

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  Review by LetterBodnard ½ 5

  This script must have been five pages long.   You want to see a sweaty guy walk around and look at doors while the soundtrack tries to convince you something scary is going on?  Watch this then I guess?

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  Review by Gina ★★★★★ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Sethsreviews ★★★ 3

  an intriguing and brutal character study which honestly would've benefited so much more by being a 30-40 minute short film rather than a full length feature.

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  Review by ZaraGwen ★★ 1

  I honestly have no clue what this was about, but I do know that spider thing can fuck right off

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  Review by Robert Wyatt Duncan

  This is just the average life of a British person, it’s not that scary