It’s a strong contender for the most distressing, astonishing, heart-stopping scene in the history of horror cinema: Isabelle Adjani runs riot in the corridors

To watch it again is to realize that it remains one of the most grueling, powerful and overwhelmingly intense cinematic experiences you are likely to have in your lifetime.

Gene Siskel Film Center presents the Chicago premiere of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession, uncut

Possession starts on a hysterical note, stays there and surpasses it as the film progresses. There are excesses on all fronts: in supposedly ordinary married life and then occult happenings, intricate political skulduggery with the infamous Berlin Wall as background - they all abound in this horror-cum-political-cum - psychological tale.

Divisiveness and duplicity are at the heart of Andrzej Zulawski’s notorious cult film.