48. Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981)

Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast

Content Warning: this movie depicts domestic violence, child endangerment and psycho-sexual assault

Sexy tentacle aliens will fill up your holes all night long in this movie full of chunky blood, broken eggs, spilled milk, oozing jism, allusions to world politics and some of the most gut-dumping relationship trauma you’ll ever see in a horror movie. Isabelle Adjani gives the performance of a lifetime, and you get to see a young and spermy Sam Neill. Andrzej Żuławski was in artistic exile from his home country of Poland while filming this epic post-Eraserhead, pre-Mother! body-horror masterpiece. Watch the movie before listening. It’s a shame more people haven’t seen this film and just another drop in the bucket of evidence for 1981 being the great year in horror movie history.

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The Loathsome Things Official Top 10 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time List
(of those we've reviewed for an episode of Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast)

(1) Andrzej Żuławski's Possession (1981)
(2) Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976)
(3) Rose Glass’ Saint Maud (2019)
(4) Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)
(5) George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)
(6) Alex Garland’s Men (2022)
(7) Miike Takashi’s Audition (1999)
(8) Ti West’s X (2022)
(9) Bob Clark’s Deathdream (1974)
(10) David Prior’s The Empty Man (2020)
Honorable Mentions:
Beyond the Door III (1989) – Not a great horror movie, but so much fun to watch!
The Pit (1981) – Watch this coming-of-age story about seeing boobs and feeding beasts!