In the fall of 1976, a small psychology lab in Pennsylvania became the unwitting home to the only government-confirmed case of possession. The U.S. military assumed control of the lab under orders of national security and, soon after, implemented measures aimed at weaponizing the entity. The details of the inexplicable events that occurred are being made public after remaining classified for nearly forty years.

I'm the kind of a horror movie viewer who wants the occasional scare but doesn't like too much gore or disgusting content. To me the best horror is something that's realistic and sneaks up on you slowly building up towards the end. For this reason I've grown fond off horror movies filmed as if they we're documentaries made by the people involved in the incidents that occur. I can even watch the gory parts if the movie isn't about the gore but about really truly scaring and creeping you out till your skin crawls and you have this feeling like something is itching on the back of your head.

Good examples of this kind of horror genre are Paranormal Activity and Rec and their sequels. The Atticus Institute in my opinion follows in their footsteps and is really under-appreciated and underestimated. I gave this movie 9 out of 10 points because it is almost perfect in it's subtlety and unsuspecting, almost drama resembling, beginning that incorrigibly moves towards an irreversible unnerving ending.

The movie skillfully avoids overdoing it and relies on the weight of the threat evoking fears in the viewers mind about what is really out there or should I say below us. It's effectiveness is in the very simple truth revealed to us that this was overseen and documented by the very government which admitted that this was something they couldn't explain in any other way than this being an actual demonic possession. The accounts of the research scientists, family members and the government investigators or soldiers are convincing and serious as the story unravels towards the only possible outcome: destruction.