After the young puppet returns to his childhood home, he has to face his evil mother's husband as well as an evil doll hidden in a brown leather bag in order to escape those dark secrets that tormented his life and escape from a seemingly painful past that could be the cause of his transformation.
Propelled by a limitless feeling of dread, Holness' film blurs the lines between nightmare and reality to conjure what is a deeply unsettling experience.
A disturbing, curiously beautiful British horror exercise. Recommended, but with a warning: next time you wake up in the middle of the night, you'll find Possum at the end of the bed.
While Possum's resolution is a little disappointing -- rendering text a plot development that could easily have been left ambiguous -- it does little to dampen or dismantle the dread that's come before it.
