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Directed by | Jordan Galland |
Written by | Jordan Galland |
Starring |
Louisa Krause Annabelle Dexter-Jones Wass Stevens Whitney Able Lou Taylor Pucci |
Music by | Sean Lennon |
Cinematography | Adrian Peng Correia |
Edited by | Jordan Galland Daniel Hahn |
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ODD NY
Off Hollywood Pictures Ravenous Films Traction Media |
Distributed by |
Orion Pictures (USA) Momentum Pictures (USA) Netflix (Australia) |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Ava's Possessions is a 2015 American supernatural horror comedy film written and directed by Jordan Galland. The film had its world premiere on April 26, 2015 at the Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival and was given a DVD and VOD release on March 4, 2016. Louisa Krause stars as the titular Ava, a young woman that must learn how to put her life together after a demon is exorcised from her body.
The film opens with a priest (John Ventimiglia) successfully completing an exorcism on Ava (Louisa Krause), who is stunned to find that she has spent the last 28 days possessed by the demon Naphula. She's initially flippant towards her actions during this time, but soon discovers that she caused serious emotional and physical damage, resulting in her losing her job, friends, and boyfriend, as well as potential jail time. Ava's parents (William Sadler and Deborah Rush), sister (Whitney Able), and her sister's fiancee Roger (Zachary Booth) are all concerned for her and push her into accepting a plea deal that would spare her jail time or commitment in a facility for troubled ex-possessed people as long as she attended a rehabilitation program for the recently exorcised, as possessions are seen as real, common phenomena in this universe. The program is led by Tony (Wass Stevens), a gruff man that insists that Ava take the program seriously as to do otherwise would just raise the likelihood that the demon would return, as repossessions will frequently happen. Participants will ultimately be tested by wearing a necklace that invites the demon back into their body. If they can pull the necklace off and reject the demon, they graduate since this shows that they are strong enough to deter future possessions. At one meeting Ava meets Hazel (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), a fellow ex-possessed person that wants her demon to return since she enjoyed its presence and felt that it was "special" for both of them.