Piggybacking upon the sporadically effective "The Awakening" and the supremely dim-witted "The Apparition," "The Possession" marks the release of the third supernatural horror film in as many weeks. Though not without its own missteps—the tight, intoxicating storytelling of the first half unravels substantially by the weak climax—it might very well still remain the best of the trio. When Danish director Ole Bornedal (making his first American feature since 1998's smartly skin-crawling "Nightwatch") gets it right, his know-how of the genre, of the importance of building atmosphere and character over easy, predictable jump scares, recalls a lush, adult-minded style all but missing since the 1970s.
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