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| “ | Mommy and daddy all burned away? | „ |
| ~ Maurice tormenting Philip. |
Maurice is the main antagonist of the 2018 British psychological horror film Possum. He is the uncle of Philip Connell who sexually abused him in the past.
He was portrayed by Alun Armstrong, who also played Baltus Hafez in The Mummy Returns and Mornay in Braveheart.
Biography[]
When Philip was a child, his parents perished in a house fire. His uncle Maurice moved in to raise his nephew. At some point, Maurice enacted revenge on a group of children who bullied Philip, with only Philip's teacher knowing what happened. But as Philip grew up, he found himself sexually assaulted by a masked man, who tormented him by shoving his fingers down his throat. Once he grew up, Philip moved away to become a children's puppeteer, a tradition that ran in their family.
Years later, an incident occurs that ruins Philip's reputation, prompting him to move back to his childhood home that Maurice still occupied. His uncle allowed Philip to live there, on the condition that he does not enter one room in the back. Throughout the film, Maurice insults Philip and torments him into recounting traumatic experiences from his past, such as the circumstances that cost him his job and the bullying he went through.
Philip finds himself haunted by one puppet in his possession, Possum, a creepy spider with a white humanoid head and tries numerous ways to dispose of it, yet it keeps reappearing in his room. Around this time, Philip learns that Michael, a boy he met on the train, had disappeared and he became the primary suspect due to people having spotted him running franticly through the woods while trying to get rid of Possum. He also learns that Maurice would be leaving for a while for "business".
Eventually, Philip enters the secretive room, revealed to be charred from the fire. Philip observes the items laid on the floor, including a jar filled with teeth, before a masked figure suddenly emerges from the shadow and attacks Philip with a bag. Once Philip is pinned to the floor, the intruder removes his mask to reveal Maurice, revealing himself as the one who molested Philip during his childhood. Maurice proceeds to whip Philip with a belt while sadistically taunting him about the deaths of his parents, the previous abuse he went through, and how he planned to frame Philip for his crimes. Just then, Philip hears a whimper from a chest in the room, giving him enough motivation to stand up against his cruel uncle and snap his neck. Philip then opens the chest, freeing Michael from the same torment that haunted his childhood.
Trivia[]
- During production, Alun Armstrong and Sean Harris (who played Philip), were purposely prohibited from interacting with each other off-set so as to make the interactions between Philip and Maurice appear more cold and disoriented.
External Links[]
Maurice on the Pure Evil Wiki