The Possession

Inspired by Los Angeles Times writer Leslie Gornstein’s article “A Jinx in a Box,” this horror film from Ghost House Pictures and director Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) tells the tale of a broken family that comes under attack from a malevolent supernatural entity of Jewish folklore. Shortly after her parents (Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick) divorce, a young girl purchases an ornate antique box at a yard sale. In the weeks that follow, the young girl forms an intense fixation on the box, her behavior growing increasingly bizarre as she falls into the grip of a diabolical apparition. When the girl’s father discovers that the relic is in fact a holding cell for the disconnected soul of a deceased person who has been denied entry into the afterlife and needs a human host to inhabit, he fights to rid her of the evil that threatens to consume her body and soul., In this terrifying supernatural shocker, a divorced father fights for the soul of his young daughter after she purchases an antique box at a yard sale and is possessed by a spirit seeking a human host to inhabit after being denied entry into the afterlife., A divorced father fights for the soul of his young daughter after she purchases an antique box at a garage sale and is possessed by a spirit seeking a human host to inhabit after being denied entry into the afterlife., A young girl is possessed by an evil spirit when she buys an antique box at a yard sale. The girl’s father struggles against her possession.