Possum: Worth a watch?
Lowkey British chiller Possum certainly wins the award for Silliest Name for a Horror Movie, but is it any good? This moody, largely silent study in Lynchian strangeness and English grottiness will seem like a drag to some, but bear with it and you may find it oddly bewitching. Possum' s hits Sean Harris as an absolute weirdo who may or may not be a paeodphile and Alun Armstrong as the world's shadiest uncle. A definitely-unsuitable-for-children puppet which is a) indestructable and b) probably alive. It really looks nothing like a possum. A scenic backdrop of scrappy moorland and post-industrial decay which shows off rural England at its worst. An atmosphere of unrelenting dread courtesy of the Radiophonic Workshop's experimental score. Possum' s misses The unrelenting bleakness. Though Harris and Armstrong give complex performances, it's near-impossible to sympathise with either of their characters. Leaves itself very open to the "...