Mind-bending Horror Thriller Takes You To Your Darkest Past

Possum is an incredibly claustrophobic film that plays into Freud’s theories of the uncanny. Within its tight 85-minute runtime, you’re taken on a journey through the dark recesses of a troubled man’s imagination, and into his cathartic psychological regression that will haunt you for weeks after viewing the film.

The protagonist in Possum is a disgraced and mentally unstable children’s puppeteer named Phillip. He returns to his childhood home after an incident that his uncle Maurice never fully explained but often alluded to.

Inside Phillip’s leather duffel bag resides the most horrifying thing you’ve ever seen: a massive spider-like marionette named Possum with a disturbingly realistic human face. As Phillip gets settled into his new living situation, he stumbles upon a long-forgotten rhyming picture book about the titular puppet that he wrote as a child.