The Possession of Michael King
The Possession of Michael King
R | 22 August 2014 (USA)
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The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who 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.

Reviews
Wordiezett So much average
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Páiric O'Corráin The Possession of Michael King: Michael King's wife dies in an accident after she follows advice from a psychic. wanting to debunk all psychics and believers Michael (Shane johnson)sets out to prove that neither God nor the Devil exist. Things don't go so smoothly though as he encounters a series of believers in Satan, necromancers and even a mortician who will provide body parts for use in dark ceremonies. At first the attempts seem farcical as police disrupt an attempted summoning in a graveyard. But during one of the rituals something seems to follow Michael back and his increasingly erratic behaviour worries his friends. Michaels sister Ellie (Ella Anderson) is looking after is daughter and is concerned for the child's safety.Nothing particularly new in this competent horror flick directed and written by David Jung (no relation) but it has more than a few scares with convincing effects. The tension gradually builds as Michael's possession occurs more more often and the spirit is more fully able to control him. Starting with dark eyes it leads on to levitation, telekinesis and abnormal strength. A vein of dark humour runs through the film especially helped by the necromancer/mortician (cullen Douglas. 7/10. On Horror Channel.
GL84 After losing his beloved wife, a man determined to make a mockery of the paranormal slowly begins to suspect that he's being enveloped by supernatural forces out to play with him for tampering in their domain and must try to remain in control to save his family from the demons.This here wasn't all that bad of an effort. One of the few solid aspects of this one is the rather creepy work done here in regards to how the supernatural rituals are conducted. The variety of different performances conducted here, from the opening showing him subjected to the ritual where he has to be tied down and subjected to the presence of the demonic figure flashing over him to the encounter at the graveyard where he's trapped inside the coffin in the graveyard where he confirms the situation with his wife that propels him to keep going deeper into the world of the black arts, give this one plenty of starting points to get going later on with more intense sequences. Those are more prominent in the second half, where it abandons much of the rather stylish build-up in favor of more overt and obvious genre tropes. This relies specifically on the ranting and contortion he displays while possessed which has some traditional moments here, from how he freaks out on the daughter and chases her around the house to the rather enjoyable series of chase scenes featuring the deformed victim chasing others around in rabid fashion. It's quite thrilling to see this as it adds a different vibe to the film which is quite fun to see play out. That these are shown to come after the work done to showcase the skepticism he exhibits early on, from treating the different rituals with a sense of disdain or outright mockery where he's not surprised at all that the process doesn't work, creates a nice opening to then slowly lead him into far more dangerous rituals that actually do manage to prepare this one for the far more deadly preparations. As he gets swallowed up by these forces the deeper into the film and running through a wide range of experts and their treatments, it leaves quite an impression. These are what really help make this one enjoyable. However much good these positives are, the fact that this one is still quite flawed is quite apparent. The film's main problem is that it just doesn't do much of anything for such long stretches of time as he stands around trying to come to terms with the effects of the possession. A large majority of these scenes aren't in the slightest bit scary or chilling, and the fact that almost all of these are committed with the first-person camera technique examining the fake documentary approach of the whole film really takes this one down considerably by rendering most of the actions quite lame and blase. That the format itself is the real problem here with the majority of the film not in the slightest bit interesting as when it focuses on the guy going around with the camera interviewing various practitioners of these rituals or showing the daily life with his family as these really didn't need to be filmed in that manner to have their impact. It just comes off as unnecessary and just really makes this all the more confusing as to why it chose that format. Still, these are really the only real detrimental angles with this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and children-in-danger.
Stevieboy666 When a psychic fails to predict his wife's untimely death Michael King embarks on a project to disprove the paranormal, subjecting himself to demonic and necromantic rituals. Needless to say his life soon takes a turn for the worse, with the life of his daughter and his own sanity in grave danger. The 83 minutes move at a pretty fast pace, with plenty of jump scares, demonic possession plus some decent gore. Possibly too much, these things do start to lose their impact after a while. Overall a decent enough effort, though not one that I'd care to watch again.
tray-58745 After being duped with the fake reviews of "Whispers" needless to say I was skeptical with this movie, however it's definitely worth a watch. I won't go as high as some people and compare it The Excorist because there's no comparison, but if you're looking for a little horror in your life, well..... Enjoy.
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