Possession (1981)

  This is not a movie I probably would have found on my own.  I recently joined a movie club on Discord and this was their Cinema pick for the week.  It is ...a thing of its own.  Content warning:  attempted suicide, domestic abuse, tentacle sex, light nudity

Mark (Sam Neill) has completed some shady assignment for unnamed government powers and is eager to get home to his wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani), and son, Bob (Michael Hogben).  The problem is that Anna doesn't want to see Mark.  In fact, she wants a divorce.  Mark can't let go, however, and the more he delves into Anna's personal life, the more erratic and dangerous her behavior.  

This movie is like if Marriage Story and Hellraiser had a gross hentai baby.  War of the Roses by way of H.P. Lovecraft.  It is beyond weird on the surface.  (Dig a little deeper and it turns out to be yet another Cold War paranoia porn about mutually assured destruction.  Boring.)

Adjani was incredible in parts, but her overwrought hysteria started getting on my nerves around an hour in.  The subway scene was about two minutes too long.  This is also the second time I have expected to see Sam Neill eaten by an eldritch abomination and both times I have been denied!

Anyway, if you like watching messy relationship drama with a side of graphic violence, Possession is currently streaming on Shudder.  Bon appétit!