The Possession of Michael King (2014)

I found first half of movie better, it was informative, full of mystery and revelations The character of Michael looked pretty real and determined, as the movie proceeds the things starts to get more and more predictable and that when it loses its touch. The last 25 Mins were completely generic full of all those repetitive stuffs happening as happens in a ordinary ghost movie with ghost taking over a human's body the human fights it and ultimately stops the demon with power of love. One thing that I found very unappealing is the fact that the nature of the film started with an explorative tone with Michael being a hardcore nonbeliever in paranormal. But his character transforms into something that is very prone to get Inhibited by a ghost. In my opinion if the indirect interaction between the two were shown the overall theme of the movie would have been in coherence.

A-Z Horror Movie of the day..."The Possession of Michael King" (R - 2014 - US)Sub-Genre: POV/Paranormal My Score: 7.8Cast=3 Acting=9 Plot=10 Ending=8 Story=8 Scare=7 Jump=6 F/X=8 POV=10 Creep=9Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural - allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him.I was really impressed with this movie!! I love possession films and this one was great...it had all the best elements. You never know which one, or what combination, caused his application. only that he was powerless to fix it. I liked the ending, although a bit anti-climactic was similar to "The Exorcist" in how it played out. I recommend this one if you like paranormal movies.

THE POSSESSION OF MICHAEL KING is a found footage horror flick about a grieving widower who decides to disprove the existence of the paranormal by allowing a supposed demon to enter his body. You can guess where it goes from there. I was hoping for some B-movie fun with this one, but what I got was a noisy little escapade that only succeeded in giving me a headache. The main actor shouts and screams and gnashes his teeth a lot while failing to elicit the viewer's sympathy, while the rest of the movie is shot with a dull, greyed-out colour palette and a lack of vitality. Overall, the only thing this film did was depress me.

This contains a very good central performance from Shane Johnson, playing Michael King, who gets … you guessed it … possessed! After his idyllic life is shattered with the death of his wife, he and his two young daughters try continue with their lives. Michael decides to make a documentary, using himself as guinea-pig, to prove there is life after death, while his daughters' grieving is ignored. After various experiments involving characters of varyingly dubious quality, it would seem that a demon has gained possession of the rapidly degenerating Michael. Understandably, the daughters leave. Less understandably, despite Michael's frighteningly upsetting behaviour, it is a very long time before anyone comes to see what all the noise is about. By this time, the house is a bloody wreck.This is good, quite unsettling story-telling. Events happen at a brisk pace, and we lurch with Michael, from one horrific incident to the next. Johnson is excellent throughout, and it is just as well - you do get the impression the entire film hangs on his acting at times.During one of the hallucinatory sequences that may be a dream, a very curious thing occurs. Scenes from Richard Driscoll's notorious 2008 film 'The Legend of Harrow Woods/Evil Calls: The Raven' are inserted for no reason whatsoever. Featuring characters and events that have absolutely nothing to do with anything – which could arguably said about their context in their original surroundings – the effect is so jarring (probably because I am so familiar with the Driscoll film) that I suspected a possession on behalf of my DVD player! It is a very strange occurrence, and I would love to know why such scenes are included here – mind you, if it provides funds for a further Driscoll project, then all the better.Director David Jung does a good job with the jump scenes, and the more subtle effects are highly successful (an ant crawling out of an eye at an unexpected moment, etc), but one gets the impression that the price paid for such slick pacing is that once King is possessed, there's nowhere for the story to go other than repeatedly perverse stunts for the unfortunate titular character.