"Possum" is one of those intriguing but ultimately underwhelming creepers that feels like it made it all the way through production without ever becoming more than a skeleton of an idea. It is basically all about Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong taking turns being weird, creepy and sinister in the wake of the apparently disgraceful end to the former's career as a children's puppeteer. Throughout the movie he is haunted by the "possum" puppet of the title, which survives his every attempt to destroy it and seems to represent some disturbance of the mind which may or may not have played a part in the disappearance of a young boy Harris's character is seen staring out early in the movie. Naturally, there's a twist to what little plot "Possum" has, but if you don't see it coming, you might wanna check your pulse. Harris and Armstrung are great characters who do what they can with their threadbare nephew-uncle storyline but they can only do so much, after all. The movie has an abiding eeriness and little else.
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