FilmRDemonic & Possession Found Footage Witchcraft & Occult

The Possession of Michael King2014

Name: The Possession of Michael King
Genre: Demonic & Possession, Found Footage, Witchcraft & Occult, Psychological
Released: 2014-08-14
Rating: 5.4

“If you invite it in, it will never let you go.”

Directed by David Jung

5.4

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.7Rotten Tomatoes 33%Metacritic 34TMDB 6.1

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Year

2014

Runtime

83 min

Box Office

Revenue (worldwide)

$2,405,143

🏆 2 nominations

The premise

The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.

Horror Vault's take

After the sudden death of his wife shatters his world, documentary filmmaker Michael King turns the camera on himself in a reckless quest to debunk the supernatural once and for all — inviting necromancers, demonologists, and occult practitioners to perform their darkest rituals on him. What begins as a coldly rational experiment quickly spirals into something far more terrifying than Michael ever bargained for. Captured in a raw, pseudo-documentary style, the film puts a deeply personal face on demonic horror, grounding its scares in genuine human pain. As Michael's behavior grows increasingly erratic and disturbing, the line between grief-fueled breakdown and true possession becomes agonizingly hard to read.

Content: Demonic Possession Imagery, Disturbing Ritualistic Content, Themes Of Grief And Suicide, Psychological Distress, Some Graphic Violence