Possession thriller The Atticus Institute set for January release

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Anchor Bay’s latest foray into the world of possession sees them release a little indie haunter from the producer of THE CONJURING Peter Safran. Hitting shelves on Blu-ray and DVD on January 20, 2015, THE ATTICUS INSTITUTE marks Chris Sparling’s directorial debut about a woman with the ability to manifest evil forces within her, prompting the government to take measures to weaponize this force. It sounds a bit off-the-wall nuts to me, but I’m cool with that. Find the Blu-ray cover art below.

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Dr. Henry West founded The Atticus Institute in the early 1970s to test individuals expressing supernatural abilities – E.S.P., clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc. Despite witnessing several noteworthy cases, nothing could have prepared Dr. West and his colleagues for Judith Winstead. She outperformed every subject they had ever studied – soon gaining the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense, who subsequently took control of the research facility. The more experiments they conducted on Judith, the clearer it became that her abilities were the manifestation of evil forces within her, prompting the government to take measures to weaponize this force. But they soon discovered there are powers that exist in this world that simply cannot be controlled. Now the details of the inexplicable events that occurred within The Atticus Institute are being made public after remaining classified for nearly forty years.

The film stars Rya Khilstedt (“Dexter”), William Mapother (“Lost”, The Grudge), Harry Groener (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), John Rubenstein (“Angel”) and Sharon Maughn (The Bank Job) and was executive produced by Dan Clifton.