Possessed DVD Review:

My first thoughts as I began to watch Possessed, was that I had seen the same story in many other films before, but I was unable to remember any of them specifically because they were all as unforgettable as Possessed is. Try as it may, there are no new concepts within the film, and the lead actress, despite her recent success on Desperate Housewives, is rather bad.

Ann Culver has just regained her sight thanks to a transplant, after a terrible car accident caused her to go blind and lose her unborn child. Now she can see, but she often has strange visions of a young woman being brutally attacked and murdered. Ann believes that the visions she is seeing may be the last things that her organ donor saw before her death, so she begins to investigate. Although the police believe that the organ donor’s death was a suicide, Ann thinks that this may be a mistake so she sets out to prove otherwise. Soon Ann finds herself too close to the truth, and in danger herself.

Nicollette Sheridan is not completely terrible as Ann Culver, although she often looks slightly plastic, but the moments when she is having her visions are downright comical. Sheridan suddenly has a blind struck look on her face, but it is more than that. It almost seems like she is simulating someone being hypnotized. At this point her performance is so distracting that I don’t even care what happens in the rest of the film. Ann discovers secrets, her life is soon in danger, and all the while she is working out her issues with losing her child. The entire things is rather tiring.

The DVD looks fine, although the production values are not fantastic. Most of the scenes are clear and audible enough to get the point across just fine. Its entire list of features include:

-Full screen
-2.0 Dolby stereo surround
-Trailers
-Scene selection
Closed Caption



Ryan Izay