Obsession (1949 film) a body by dissolving it in acid. This had similarities to the John George Haigh case. Accordingly, the British Board of Film Censors refused to grant the film a certificate for a time and its release was held up. "Variety" wrote that the film is slow paced at first but becomes suspenseful. "The New York Times" called it "a first-rate study in suspense and abnormal psychology". Kendal Patterson of the "Los Angeles Times" described it as an early predecessor of "Fatal Attraction". Obsession (1949 film) Obsession, released in the US as The Hidden Room, is a 1949 British crime film
Obsession (Spiritism) their guilt for being obsessors in previous incarnations or people who accepted to suffer for altruism, so that more people could find evidence of the existence of spirits. Obsession (Spiritism) Obsession, also known as spirit obsession, is a technical term within the Spiritist belief and practice defined by the author Allan Kardec as the interference of a subjugating spirit with a weaker spirit ("cf." Latin "obsidere", "besiege"). Although the term most commonly refers to the negative influence of the spirit of an evil deceased person on the mind or spirit of a living person, obsession can occur in either direction.