Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) works for a secret company that implants agents in the brains of other people, letting them carry out assassinations from inside someone else's body. Each job ends with the host taking their own life. But Tasya is starting to lose track of who she is, and her family life with her husband and son is falling apart.
Her next job: possess Colin Tate (Christopher Abbott), the boyfriend of a rich man's daughter, and use him to kill the father, a data mining CEO played by Sean Bean. But Colin is not as easy to control as her other hosts.
Brandon Cronenberg creates some of the most stunning images in recent horror, with faces melting and blending together in psychedelic dream sequences. Riseborough and Abbott are both excellent, playing two people sharing one mind.
The violence is brutal and graphic, and the film is cold and puzzling at times. But if you love bold, original body horror, Possessor is one of the best of its decade.
