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Possess-O-Sound

posted 13 years ago by boinnng
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When the movie came out, I am almost sure it was promoted as being in "Possess-o-Sound", which as I recall, was not a all that exciting. Basically there was a big speaker in each corner of the theater. Ooooo. However, despite a few references to it on the web, i can NOT find any other evidence to back this up. It's not mentioned on any of the trailers I've fouund, not on the posters I could find. There are scant newspaper scans online and NONE of them mention "Possess-O-Sound". But I am fairly sure I did NOT imagine it.

Can anyone point me in a direction to photos, clippings, press kit info etc on this, PLEASE! I'm a big fan of movie gimmicks and I just want to back this up.

THANK YOU!

[–] NwsHound 12 years ago

There's a UK quad poster (with the title "Devil Within Her") that promotes a process called "Vibrasound." The text reads "The ultimate in audience involvement! You will definitely quiver with fright!"

Here's a link to an image: http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/square/52603.jpg

[–] boinnng 12 years ago

AWESOME!!!! Thank you so much for posting that!

[–] tabbycat 12 years ago

You definitely did not imagine it.
Ads in the Los Angeles Times for the initial release mentioned "Quadraphonic Possessound".

I later assumed this to be just a gimmicky rename of standard magnetic 4-track stereo, but if there were actually custom speaker setups involved (as with Damnation Alley's Sound 360), then there might be something more to this.

[–] boinnng 9 years ago

Hey, I'm a little late (by 2 years) seeing this, but THANK YOU for responding. I knew I hadn't imagined this.

Now that you mention it, I also remember "Damnation Alley"'s Sound 360 promotion. I saw that in the theater...but don't remember any added speakers in the auditorium. I got ripped off. Ha!

CHEERS!