10 Movies to Watch After You See 'Possession' on Shudder

Horror cinema is, by design, challenging, and few films in 1981 (or ever) have done a finer job than director Andrzej Zulwaski's Possession. 1981 was a big year for horror films. Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, and David Cronenberg's Scanners were all released that same year. But Possession, telling the story of Mark, played by Sam Neil and Anna (Isabelle Adjani), a couple living under the strain of possible infidelity, was so infamous that, in countries where it wasn't outright banned, it needed edits just to be released.