![]() Was the dybbuk that haunted the box and inspired the movie real? No, definitely not. That opens up a fun thought experiment about the box. Which is to become an interactive horror story in real-time.” And the Dybbuk Box story has done exactly what I intended it to do when I posted it 20 years ago. “The Dybbuk Box is a story that I created. “I am a creative writer,” Mannis said to Input. But he said everything that’s happened with the box is exactly what he hoped for. Two years later, the original seller, an artist named Kevin Mannis, explained in an interview with Input Magazine that it was, in fact, entirely fictional. In 2019, a post in The Skeptical Inquirer put forward a convincing case that the box’s story wasn’t real. The original eBay seller posted an update: The box was a complete and total fake. The box changed hands, cursing each owner, until it ended up at a museum in Las Vegas, where pop star Post Malone was supposedly cursed by it too. The movie’s box is based on one that was sold on eBay in 2003, along with a haunting story about the ills the box - or its demonic occupant - supposedly caused. See, the dybbuk box from the movie is actually real. The best part of The Possession isn’t the movie itself, but the “real” events that inspired it. But none of that is the best part of the movie. Even still, it’s a worthy addition to the possession genre. On top of that, it’s interesting to see the trappings of an exorcism movie removed from the specific iconography of the Catholic Church, even if the Jewish elements feel a little tacked-on rather than integral to the story. ![]() It’s fast-paced and creepy, with hosts of massive insects that seem to spawn from the box, a few great sequences with an invasive hand that seems to belong to the demon, and some really tremendous-looking effects work. Eventually we learn that the box is haunted by a dybbuk that wants to possess the young girl, and the movie devolves into another rote exorcism movie in the third act.īefore that, though, The Possession is pretty good. The box, we know from the movie’s prologue, is haunted in some way, with a spirit that speaks to its owner. In a bid to make his younger daughter happy while she stays at his new house, which is basically in the middle of nowhere, he buys her an old-looking box at a yard sale. Recently divorced, Clyde is struggling to find common ground with his two daughters. The movie, produced by horror legend Sam Raimi, follows a man named Clyde. But few of those movies have ever had a history as interesting or complicated as that of the supernatural demon movie The Possession, a movie about a supposedly real box haunted by a dybbuk, a demon-like spirit from Jewish mythology. There’s the Conjuring movies, based on the mostly fabricated cases of Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. ![]() Horror movies based on barely true stories are a dime a dozen.
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