Possession 1981 2160p UHD Blu-ray Remux DV HDR HEVC FLAC1 0-CiNEPHiLES
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Year: 1981
Duration: 124 min
Release date: Friday 28th October 1983
Genre: Drama, Horror
Rating
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Stars:
Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering, Shaun Lawton, Michael Hogben
Possession.1981.2160p.UHD.Blu-ray.Remux.DV.HDR.HEVC.FLAC1.0-CiNEPHiLES
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SIZE............: 70.2 GiB
RUNTIME.........: 2 h 4 min
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Codec...........: HEVC, Main 10@L5.1@High Dolby Vision, Version 1.0, Profile 7.6, dvhe.07.06, BL+EL+RPU,
no metadata compression,
Blu-ray compatible / SMPTE ST 2086, Version HDR10, HDR10 compatible
Resolution......: 3840x2160
Bit rate........: 78.6 Mb/s
Frame rate......: 23.976 FPS
Color primaries.: BT.2020
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 675 kb/s
Language........: English (Original Mono Mix)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 249 kb/s
Language........: English (Unauthorized Alternate Soundtrack)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 393 kb/s
Language........: zxx (Isolated Score & Effects)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 242 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by director Andrzej Żuławski, moderated by film scholar Daniel Bird)
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Format..........: Dolby Digital
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 192 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by co-writer Frederic Tuten, moderated by film scholar Daniel Bird)
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Format..........: Dolby Digital
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 112 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by film critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Alison Taylor)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 303 kb/s
Language........: English (Commentary by film historian Sally Christie)
SUBTITLES.......: English
SUBTITLES.......: English (PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: English (SDH)
SUBTITLES.......: English (SDH / PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: French
SUBTITLES.......: German
SUBTITLES.......: German (PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: Danish
SUBTITLES.......: Finnish
SUBTITLES.......: Norwegian
SUBTITLES.......: Spanish (Latin America) Spanish (Latin American)
SUBTITLES.......: Swedish
SUBTITLES.......: German (Commentary #1)
Chapters........: Named
Release Notes:
Sources
#1: Second Sight GBR UHD Blu-ray (2025): video, audio, commentary, subtitles - thanks TMT!
#2: Starz / Anchor Bay NTSC DVD (2000): alternate OST audio, commentary
#3: Second Sight GBR Blu-ray (2013): commentary, named chapters - thanks BIZON1984!
#4: Umbrella Entertainment AUS UHD Blu-ray (2023): commentary - thanks CultFilms™!
#5: Le chat qui fume FRA UHD Blu-ray (2021): isolated score
#6: Mondo Vision USA Blu-ray (2014): subtitles
#7: Bildstörung GER Blu-ray (2015): subtitles - thanks MAMA!
#8: iTunes WEB-DL (subtitles)
Video
Second Sight's release features a new Dolby Vision/HDR regrade of the 2020 Le chat qui fume restoration, and has the best encode of the bunch (from Fidelity in Motion).
Comparison: Second Sight GBR UHD (tonemapped), Le chat qui fume FRA UHD, Umbrella AUS UHD
Audio
All available sources used the same audio mastering, except for a few early DVD releases, which used an unauthorized alternate soundtrack.
Mondo Vision's notes on the alternate soundtrack: This audio track features alternative music. It is not the director's approved version, and is included for completeness.
Most notable is the addition of the piano theme during the subway miscarriage scene, the repurposing of music originally designed for the deleted Abe character, and the removal of music during a pivotal scene.
A handful of releases, including POSSESSION's first US DVD release (ironically billed as the "e;Director's Cut"e;) were issued only with this audio track. Accordingly, this Blu-ray Disc is the first release of the film in its original form in North America.
It is strongly recommended to watch the film with the original director's approved audio.
Preferred alternate audio and director's commentary tracks from the DVD, as all later sources appear to be lossy transcodes. Tracks from AUS UHD and FRA UHD discs were slowed down to 23.976 FPS to the main source.
Audio comparisons: Main, Alternate, Director's commentary, Co-writer's commentary
