The Possession of Michael King (2014)

Release date: 2014-08-22
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: David Jung
Production Co: Gold Circle Films, Quickfire Films
Genre: Horror
Rating: 5.7/10
Length: 1h 23min

Storyline

Michael King (Shane Johnson) doesn't believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment - allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him - in the hopes that when they fail, he'll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.

Plot Keywords

satanic ritual, found footage, graveyard, cemetery, looking at the camera, talking to the camera, angst, anguish, handcuffed to a bed, sadism, brutality, loss of control, out of control, convulsion, mirror, anger, fear, desperation, suffering, staircase

Short Review

Nowhere near as rigorous as the "Paranormal Activity" movies it superficially resembles, writer-director David Jung's increasingly unpleasant, rarely frightening debut feature won't possess screens for long.