DAILY CALL SHEET: JANUARY 25, 2026

Possessor (2020) Thanks to devices implanted in unwitting victim's brains, regret-ridden assassin Tasya Vos is able to transmit her mind into their bodies and use the controlled individuals to kill her real targets. However, this mingling of minds is beginning to interfere with Tasya's relationship with her husband and daughter, as she starts to have difficulty separating her own thoughts from the temporary ones she has usurped. Things go really awry when Tasya unwisely accepts one last assignment to kill a nigh untouchable executive using the body of his daughter's fiancé and her muddled mind gets stuck in it. Soon, other assassins enter the fray, including Tasya's boss, who is determined to squash Tasya's burgeoning sense of right and wrong. With bodies being possessed left and right, it becomes impossible to tell who is trying to kill who. Can Tasya and her conscience survive? Brandon Cronenberg does an excellent job carrying on his dad's legacy of body horror while also exploring the consequences of detachment and guilt.

In Catholic theology, charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and love our neighbor as ourselves. The deliberate murder of another human being directly rejects charity. It places the killer's own will, passions (e.g., anger, envy, greed), or perceived good above their neighbor's dignity and above God's commandment not to murder. The resulting loss of sanctifying grace caused by murder is fundamentally a spiritual reality but, since humans are a unity of body and soul, this loss can also indirectly influence psychological and emotional well-being. Mortal sin, of which murder is definitely one, can burden the conscience, leading to guilt, anxiety, or desolation, all of which explains Tasya's problems as the movie starts. Sadly, repeated mortal sin can progressively weaken moral sensitivity, thereby deadening a person's conscience. Which is what Tasya's boss wants her problem to be by the end.

The Night House (2020) Following her husband's suicide, Beth spends most of her evenings getting plastered, especially since her own near-death experience left her with the belief that there is nothing beyond this life. Things get worse when Beth starts seeing frightened ghost women who look extremely similar to her jumping into the lake near her home. Following these apparitions across the water, Beth discovers her late husband has constructed a mirror image of her own home. Searching her husband's laptop for a reason, she discovers lots of photos of more lookalikes, as well as information on voodoo rituals. Has Beth discovered her husband was a satanic serial killer with a penchant for victims who looked like his wife, or was something much more weird going on? The movie's not entirely successful, but Rebecca Hall's performance as Beth is pretty great and there are some genuinely creepy moments.

One of the central conceits of The Night House is that death is terrifying because there is nothing awaiting you after it, no consciousness, no heaven, no continuation of any sort. There's one or two questionable plot points that seem to contradict this, but that's the movie's main gist. Obviously, the Church disagrees with this supposition, teaching that the soul's immortality can be satisfactorily known through natural reason alone. The seven proofs she offers include humankind's power of abstraction, our knowledge of immaterial realities (non-physical truths), the desire for immaterial goods, our ability to self-reflect, the innate desire for eternal life, the universal human testimony of nearly all cultures, and an objective morality that demands justice, especially if it's unrealized in this life. Each of these deserve their own discussion, which, of course, Aquinas is more than happy to give you if you're curious.