3 out of 4 found this helpful. So that gives us different angles and legitimate cinematic quality that sets this miles ahead of your average POV flick. movie theaters are playing The Possession of Michael King near you. If he is wrong, at least he becomes the first person ever with concrete evidence for the supernatural. He becomes convinced that something dangerous has happened to him. Michael decides to make himself the center of the experiment - allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him - in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. 9 out of 16 found this helpful. It had a cool story and special effects were on point! Very Refreshing Horror flick. This is one of the best possession movies I've seen and I've practically seen them all. 1. When you buy 3 specially marked General Mills items at Target between 8/29-10/3.
There are a few scattered jump scares but seeing Michael's descent is what sticks with you after the credits have rolled. Something I've seen a million times already, cliché, cliché, typical, typical and boring as it gets! But I have to hand it down to the director. It's a simple plot, but grows on itself in an organic sort of way, consistently adding cohesive elements that work with the original idea. Was this review helpful? His wife Samantha believes the opposite. Enter your location to see which You begin to see and feel the inner torment of a grieving husband. According to Gibbons, his father died of a heart attack shortly after he prayed to Satan for help.
Coincidence, according to Michael. Great stuff by Jung to get his actors on the same page and clicking.Unfortunately, Jung does have a lapse in keeping with the idea of the film being a documentary, with certain shots that are impossible to explain with the absence of cameras in the scene to capture said shots, or the editing of other shots. The Possession of Michael King doesn't break any new ground, but what makes it above average - and therefore the frightening scenes much scarier - is that we are invested in the story. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful? The acting is actually pretty good, and there are even some very interesting characters that you can tell are having good fun with their parts. I believe the producer/director have got some background on this subject. When he sews his injuries the next day, he notices that it hardly hurts to insert a needle through his skin or completely into his thumb. I'm not a huge fan of found footage flicks, but I really don't hate them outright. Shane Johnson plays the title character in The Possession Of Michael King: a documentary filmmaker who blames spiritualist charlatans for the death of his wife, since a fortune teller convinced her to cancel a vacation shortly before she died in a freak accident. He dehydrates Michael, this time with the substance Michael next attends a large group meeting with a medium. He argues that such concepts can only be sustained out of human fear of nothingness, by a market that earns big money from it. That's why he goes home and chains himself with handcuffs to his bed. The first of Michael's new internet contacts to visit him is a spiritual named Gibbons, who says that his father systematically sexually abused him in his youth. It started out ok with a good premise to the story. Michael confronts Beverly with this. Michael goes downstairs.
The Possession of Michael King ( 2014) The Possession of Michael King. It actually gripped me for a moment==had my heart pounding when he appeared in front of the camera from out of nowhere. Finally, much of the jump scares are accompanied by loud ‘stings’, which while unexpected, quickly turned annoying and took away from the actual scares.In spite of the missteps, Jung has crafted a disturbing and very unsettling film. 3 out of 4 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? The medium says to him "Michael, you need to ...". Just finished watching this movie. Both Tobias Jelinek and Cullen Douglas turn in believable performances as a Satanist-turned-priest and a mortician who practices necromancy. On top of that, Johnson displays a great acting spectrum: going from your skeptical, happy family man to your morose, hurt individual to finally your maniacal, tortured soul begging for death. Michael is sitting in a rocking chair at the front door. This is a breathe of fresh air compared to the recent and usual string of tasteless horror films. He doesn't understand that he is choosing to mess with powers that are beyond his comprehension. Jordan analyzes the camera recording and determines that human vocal chords are not capable of producing Michael's shouts. A coin on his desk stands on its side. Rack up 500 points and you'll score a $5 reward for more movies.Get your swag on with discounted movies to stream at home, exclusive movie gear, access to advanced screenings and discounts galore.Collect bonus rewards from our many partners, including AMC, Stubs, Cinemark Connections, Regal Crown Club when you link accounts.We know life happens, so if something comes up, you can return or exchange your tickets up until the posted showtime. It's about Michael who loses his wife and being a absolute athiest starts to experiment using himself he invites God and the devil to show up well God did not but something else did after he uses two or three different occults to help bring him what he did not believe, it soon starts to fall apart and now possessed is getting much worse by the day,he is loosing self control but can he overcome what has turned into his worse nightmare.