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A New Dystopian Thriller That Will Twist Your Stomach and Your Brain

Brandon Cronenberg’s <em>Possessor </em>is a grisly film that asks perturbing questions about the world we already live in.
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Maybe the best approach to making a dystopian film, given the state of the planet in 2020, is to not set it many years from now. The ruined worlds of classic movies such as or typically exist decades in the future, as grim warnings about the path society is on. But Brandon Cronenberg’s , a gleefully gory bit of techno-horror in theaters starting tomorrow, is set in the past—an alternate 2008 where online surveillance has become the norm, city

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