Sundance 2020: 10 Films Everyone Is Buzzing About

5. Possessor

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Violent horror-thrillers aren't normally the kind of thing you'll find on the Sundance docket, but director Brandon Cronenberg's (son of David Cronenberg) stylish sci-fi tale has been turning plenty of heads since its festival premiere.

The movie stars Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sean Bean, and centres on a shady organisation that specialises in brain-implant technology. But of course, this power isn't used for good: agents who work for this organisation (like Riseborough's character, Tasya Vos) are able to control the minds of their targets to make them carry out murders.

Picture a hitman who doesn't actually need to pull the trigger: they can just hack into someone else's mind and make them do it instead. Possessor sounds like it has shades of Leigh Whannell's underrated Upgrade, and considering that many critics have pointed out how violent and bloody it is, it sounds like it has just as much of a horrific edge as that film, too - if not more so.

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