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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror podcasting from the Horrid Halls

of academia. I'm Alex West with Andrea Sue Bassatti and Andrea. I'm just going to take this

moment. This is over. What? This is no. We're just getting started. No. I'm at us. You're

done? Oh, oh. Oh, we're done. We're done. Oh, we had a good run. Did we? I'm going to take

the listeners and let them smear their faces with jam. Okay. And yeah, yeah, there's someone

else. I don't know what to tell you. Oh, man. Well, is there someone else or am I projecting

that like, or is it me and myself and my bodily fluids that have created something? It's

all a mystery to me. Or is it the nature of society that brings us together and drives us apart

for many reasons? Or is it high theater? Maybe. I'm open to all of these interpretations because

holy fuck. What a film. Yeah. Today we are talking about Andre Zulaski's 1981 film Possession.

This is a film we have been asked about. When are you going to do it? Are you going to do it? How

are you going to do it? So many times over the eight years of doing this podcast. And we've

always kind of been like, oh, no, no, maybe. Yeah, we'll get to it. And now we're here. I hadn't

seen it for years. I knew that it was kind of, you know, important. It was one of those films that

was very divisive within the horror community, very open to interpretation, very strange, very

singular. And I think that's why we never got to it was I was like, I don't know what this film

is about. So we never really lumped it in with pairings the way we do. Yeah. And it's a bit of

an intimidating film. No, kid. You know, there's a lot to it. And we should say this was actually

a dean tier pick. So for all the people who've been asking about this film over the years,

it came down to one of our patrons, Andrew, who bought the dean tier, where you can pick what film

we do for an episode. And Andrew very kindly, as we mentioned last episode, passed it on to our

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