Friday 30 October · 81 Renshaw, LiverpoolDoors 6:30pm · film approx. 7pm · 18+
Obscure Film and Fringe Flicks join forces for a Halloween-weekend screening of Andrzej Żuławski’s cult classic Possession (1981), closing Scalarama Liverpool 2026.
Set against Cold War Berlin and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, Possession begins with the collapse of a marriage before spiralling into paranoia, obsession, body horror and something much harder to explain.
Feverish, unsettling and extraordinary, it’s a film made to be experienced on the big screen.
We’re making a suitably strange night of it too. After the film, anyone feeling brave can enter our Possession scene-recreation challenge, inspired by one of the film’s most infamous sequences, with fabulous prizes to be won.
Taking part is completely optional. Sitting back and watching other people make questionable performance decisions is also entirely acceptable.
There’ll also be a specially commissioned alternative Possession poster, screen printed at Liverpool Community Print Station and available on the night.
The screening is presented by Obscure Film + Fringe Flicks / People Versus TV as the closing event of Scalarama Liverpool 2026, a month-long celebration of independent and DIY cinema across the city.