The Asylum is taking on one of horror’s biggest franchises with Insidious: Possession, a new supernatural horror mockbuster that is now available on digital. The movie arrives just ahead of Sony’s Insidious: Out of the Further, and you can check out the trailer above.
Directed by Marcel Walz from a screenplay by Joshua Pruett, Insidious: Possession has the following official synopsis:
A troubled teen invites the darkest of all demons into her soul. Now it will not leave without taking the life of another, someone tied by blood to that of the possessed.
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Marcel Walz is no stranger to The Asylum’s brand of low-budget genre filmmaking. The director previously helmed the company’s The Odyssey, The Anacondas, and Jurassic Reborn, among other projects. The cast features Star Trek: Enterprise and 24 actor Dominic Keating alongside Llana Barron, Krymis J Fernando, and Bryan Barron.
Insidious: Possession is the latest mockbuster from The Asylum, the production and distribution company behind a seemingly endless supply of low-budget alternatives to major Hollywood genre movies. The timing here is, as usual, quite obvious. The Asylum’s Insidious: Possession is arriving just before Insidious: Out of the Further, the latest installment in Sony’s supernatural horror franchise. While Insidious: Out of the Further is getting a theatrical release, Insidious: Possession is available to watch at home on digital.
The Asylum has been making movies in this fashion for years, with titles including Jurassic Rampage, Jurassic Domination, Triassic World, Alien Disclosure Day, The Exorcists, Battle Star Wars, Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, and Shark Thrash. But there’s more to The Asylum’s filmmaking machine than simply cranking out movies designed to capitalize on Hollywood trends.
The recent documentary Mockbuster offered a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the company by following filmmaker Anthony Frith as he was given the opportunity to direct a new adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land That Time Forgot. There was one major catch: Frith had just six days to make the movie.
The documentary follows Frith through that compressed production schedule, showing how he attempted to make a feature while working within The Asylum’s strict budget and time limitations. Rather than simply making fun of the company’s movies, Mockbuster provides an interesting look at the practical realities of low budget filmmaking and the system The Asylum has developed to produce movies quickly and economically.
That’s the same filmmaking machine that continues to produce movies like Insidious: Possession.
If you enjoy supernatural horror, demonic possession movies, or The Asylum’s particular brand of low-budget genre filmmaking, Insidious: Possession certainly looks like it could be worth a watch. The movie is now available on digital. Check out the trailer above, and let us know in the comments if you’ll be watching Insidious: Possession.