Ep. 101: POSSESSION (1981) - Mother Lover God Freak

We're back! This month your favorite caffeinated ghoul friends tackle 1981's Possession! CW: death by suicide, acts of and thoughts of self-harm, child abandonment, incest, divorce, adultery, war, physical and mental abuse from a spouse, suggestive sexual content. Resources: Possession (1981) Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_(1981_film) Beyond Polish Moral Realism: The Subversive Cinema of Andrzej Żuławski by Michael Goddard https://www.academia.edu/15266526 Extreme Sex Addiction in Shame; Extreme Everything in Possession by J. HOBERMAN https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/11/30/extreme-sex-addiction-in-shame-extreme-everything-in-possession/ Why Was 'Possession' Banned? The History Behind The Horror Cult Classic by Chase Hutchinson https://collider.com/why-was-possession-banned-explained/ Possession is a gross yet masterful take on doppelgängers by Roxana Hadadi https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/22740902/possession-review-horror-movie-doppelgangers Possession: A Marriage of the Natural and the Supernatural by David West https://thetwingeeks.com/2018/10/12/possession-a-marriage-of-the-natural-and-the-supernatural/amp/ Better the Devil You Know: The Double and the Cold War in Zulawski’s Possession by Henri De Corinth https://henridecorinth.wordpress.com/2015/07/03/better-the-devil-you-know-the-double-and-the-cold-war-in-zulawskis-possession/ Possession Ending Explained: We Are Makers Of Our Own Evil by DEBOPRIYAA DUTTA https://www.slashfilm.com/1159987/possession-ending-explained-we-are-makers-of-our-own-evil/ Possession (1981) Explained: A Controversial Masterpiece by Stacey Shannon https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/possession-1981-explained-a-controversial-masterpiece/ The Nature of God in Andrzej Żuławski's Possession by Ande Thomas https://www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/possession-zulawski-nature-of-god The Opposing Genres Of Possession by Vincent Bec (they/them) http://filmandfishnet.com/the-opposing-genres-of-possession POSSESSION: Scenes From A (Monstrous) Marriage by Lee Jutton https://www.filminquiry.com/possession-1981-review/ Run From Your Wife: Exploring The Horror of Marriage In Possession and Antichrist https://intheirownleague.com/2019/10/01/run-from-your-wife-exploring-the-horror-of-marriage-in-possession-and-antichrist/ WIHM REVIEW- Possession: Isabelle Adjani delivers an explosive performance as a woman dissatisfied with domesticity by Emily Gett https://screen-queens.com/2019/02/05/review-possession/ “MONSTROSITY AND MISOGYNY IN ZULAWSKI’S POSSESSION” BY EDDIE FALVEY https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/exeterfilmpg/2017/01/10/109/ Feelings Change: Anger, Fear, and ‘Possession’ in Andrzej Zulawksi’s Nightmare Divorce by Brian Keiper https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3674282/feelings-change-anger-fear-possession-andrzej-zulawksis-nightmare-divorce/ The nightmare of corporeality in Andrzej Żuławski’s ‘Possession’: A personal essay by Kris Shin https://www.dailycal.org/2019/10/25/the-nightmare-of-corporeality-in-andrzej-zulawskis-possession-a-personal-essay The Question in Bodies #21: Lectio Infernalis https://www.room207press.com/2018/10/the-question-in-bodies-21-lectio.html?m=1 Abjection & The Monstrous Feminine In AMER & POSSESSION by J. Simpson http://filmandfishnet.com/abjection-the-monstrous-feminine-in-amer-and-possesion Mother’s Milk and Menstrual Blood in Puncture: The Monstrous Feminine in Contemporary Horror Films and Late Medieval Imagery by Rachel Frances Sharpe and Sophie Sexon https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4274/ TCM on Possession (1981) by Chris Fujiwara https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/86982/possession#overview Isabelle Adjani is Not an Internet Meme by Jacob Trussell https://filmschoolrejects.com/isabelle-adjani-great-performances/?amp Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered by Agata Pyzik https://thequietus.com/articles/19750-zulawski-article Possession (1981) Constructing Identities by Style and Substance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8lnMspDIzg