10 Recent Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

Brandon Cronenberg's second feature film Possessor may have been shot down by the pandemic, but it's certain to live on in the annals of psychological horror as a stand-out accomplishment in darkness and misery on a slender budget.

Andrea Riseborough stars as Tasya Vos, an assassin existing in an alternate past (2008, to be specific), who uses technology to take control of other bodies and complete her contracts, often forcing lovers, family members and trusted confidantes to murder each other. While the process may be nice and clean (usually concluding in murder-suicide), allowing Tasya and her organisation to slip away without anyone ever knowing they were there, little thought is given (at least on Tasya's part) to how the constant inhabitance of other minds affects the user.

She gradually slips away from normality, becoming distanced from her family life and constantly reliving the violence she conducts in secret. By the time the chickens come home to roost, it is unfortunately too late to do anything. Stuck inside the body of one of her targets, Tasya willingly participates in the murder of her own husband and son, and becomes the perfect killer, free from all human attachments and really any reason for living in the first place.