The Jewish 'Exorcist'? Sam Raimi on 'The Possession'The article interviews Sam Raimi and links to the trailer for the film.
By REUTERS
08/29/2012 12:55
The producer's new horror flick starring Matisyahu is inspired by an account of a family fighting a Dibbuk.
LOS ANGELES - Film director and producer Sam Raimi, for the first time in a long career of spooking audiences with his horror films, has turned to real-life events for supernatural thriller The Possession, opening in the United States on Friday.
Raimi, whose credits range from directing 2002's Spider-Man to producing horror flicks such as The Grudge and The Grudge 2, produces The Possession. The movie, directed by Ole Bornedal, is inspired by a newspaper account of a family that fights a demon known as a Dibbuk in ancient Yiddish folklore.
The spirit, which resides in a Dibbuk box, is said to possesses the bodies of people with the intention of devouring them. In The Possession, the Dibbuk enters the body of a young woman and her parents must figure out how to stop it.
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