 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: The Last Possession • Year: 2022 • Country: USA • Director: Dan Riddle • Main cast: Stephen Brodie, Cassie Shea Watson, Sawyer Bell, Lourelle Jensen, Patricia Rae • Runtime: 87 minutes • Production company: Filmspire Productions, FortWinter Films • TRAILER
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Despite its title, The Last Possession (2022) has more of the science-fiction horror movies so popular in the 1970s and 1980s where an extraterrestrial being or force was landing in those American small towns or farms to change the inhabitants into deformed creatures or infest the homes with slimy parasites and weird creatures than a regular exorcism movie. Actually, the film swims in several waters, because from its entire first act it feels pretty close to a haunting film in the style of the popular sagas The Conjuring or Insidious.
Quite predictable if you have seen the trailer for the movie and read the official plot, the story follows the classic cliches of the genres in a meticulous way, leaving little space for a surprise or originality. Still, it has some moments of genuine fear that would scare the shit of the most avid horror film lover, mostly thanks to a simple but very effective creature and the timings and the way it is finally revealed to the audience. Those small frightening moments can save the day for this title keeping away from completely falling into oblivion, and makes it a worth watch if you are craving for some chills.
In the artistic and technical aspects, the movie doesn’t outstand but neither has big flaws. The actor kids do a good job understanding the nature of their roles, as the adults also perform efficiently with their duties. Despite the dark nature of the images, most of the events in the movie happen at night in that farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, the cinematography allows the viewer to be part of the action and witness everything going on, not sinking the images in complete darkness as it happens most of the times in productions of this sort, which is most welcome.
I really loved as a kid those kinds of movies mentioned before, titles like Night of the Creeps (1986), The Blob (1988), or even Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). In fact, I kinda miss the subgenre, and the last one I recall in the style was James Gunn’s Slither (2006). So, although The Last Possession (2022) is not following 100% of the subgenre patterns, it was a good exercise of nostalgia to be in front of a movie dealing with an alien invasion of these terms. Not the best one on the list, but I greet it with anticipation.
RATE: 5/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4109756
