This slow-moving film takes accent as the suspense as the terror with eerie and shocking scenes. When Beatriz Vargas (Cristina Brondo) accepts a position as a doctor in the institution where severely emotionally disturbed patients are interned, she quickly befriends a young girl (Natalia Sánchez) who has been unable to communicate for years due to severe shock. Beatriz becomes clear that these are not normal patients. Although she feels a strong bond with the young girl, Beatriz soon becomes very unlucky with the way the patients are being treated. Her unhappiness starts to result in conflicts with her superiors like Sánchez Blanch (Féodor Atkine) and other co-workers, some of whom may prove to be more dangerous than she first realized. The doctor begins to suspect that she is dealing with something much worse than disgruntled coworkers; that her actual survival may be at stake. After a horrible death occurs at the facility, a man named Miguel (Demian Bichir) poses as a police officer to get close to the inner workings of the hospital. Miguel befriends Beatriz and warns of the terrible danger that may be closing in on her. The doctor begins afraid of the darkness and is terrorized asking for help but she becomes threatened by vicious visions and subsequently taking place a killing spree. The horror of being dead!. The nightmare of still being alive!.
Intelligent terror thriller dealing with a woman suffers a traumatic incident as a young girl, whereas she doesn't know which reality is the real one. This thrilling picture displays mystery, suspense, restless terror including decent scares with tense horror sequences. Director usually uses focus on the face and body of our beautiful starring to show the despair and unsettling happenings, adding adequate cinematography, stirring musical score and eliptical edition. The film could be described as anything but figurative immersion into the meanderings of the protagonist's pathological psyche. A decent film with flaws but a good casting, well played by Cristina Brondo, Demián Bichir, Marisol Membrillo, Julián Villagrán , Féodor Atkine, Natalia Sánchez and Carlos Lasarte. The film unfortunately has a script with an interesting subject matter but mediocre dialogue, seen and reviewed, brought to the screen by nice direction, excellent photography and appropriate scenery. It provides horrifying and hair raising images with a little bit of blood and some creepy frames. The weak point of Hipnosis, is the predictable script, the work of the director himself in collaboration with Juanma Ruiz Córdoba. The choice to identify in the protagonists of the trauma also the characters of the inner construction, in a complete transference, is questionable, even if it is exhaustive. The water in the film is an allegory of passionate and mental instincts and impulses, but it is precisely by launching into that sea, crossing the line of separation between reality and inner perception, a line often recalled in the film.
Cameraman Xavi Giménez provides an adequate cinematography with strong colors, dark and white par excellence, and the psychiatric structure in which the plot takes place suggest very well the feeling of anxiety and claustrophobia that the director evidently attributes to a sick mind. The motion picture was professional but uneven directed by David Carreras who has made ¨Flores Negras¨(2009) and he has directed various TV episodes as ¨R. I. S. Científica¨ (TV Series), ¨El Comisario¨, ¨Hospital Central¨, and, today, he's directing films in Germany. Rating: 5.5/10. ¨Hypnos¨ may be a good watch for lovers of "psychiatric" themes, but prepare them for a very long hour and a half.
Intelligent terror thriller dealing with a woman suffers a traumatic incident as a young girl, whereas she doesn't know which reality is the real one. This thrilling picture displays mystery, suspense, restless terror including decent scares with tense horror sequences. Director usually uses focus on the face and body of our beautiful starring to show the despair and unsettling happenings, adding adequate cinematography, stirring musical score and eliptical edition. The film could be described as anything but figurative immersion into the meanderings of the protagonist's pathological psyche. A decent film with flaws but a good casting, well played by Cristina Brondo, Demián Bichir, Marisol Membrillo, Julián Villagrán , Féodor Atkine, Natalia Sánchez and Carlos Lasarte. The film unfortunately has a script with an interesting subject matter but mediocre dialogue, seen and reviewed, brought to the screen by nice direction, excellent photography and appropriate scenery. It provides horrifying and hair raising images with a little bit of blood and some creepy frames. The weak point of Hipnosis, is the predictable script, the work of the director himself in collaboration with Juanma Ruiz Córdoba. The choice to identify in the protagonists of the trauma also the characters of the inner construction, in a complete transference, is questionable, even if it is exhaustive. The water in the film is an allegory of passionate and mental instincts and impulses, but it is precisely by launching into that sea, crossing the line of separation between reality and inner perception, a line often recalled in the film.
Cameraman Xavi Giménez provides an adequate cinematography with strong colors, dark and white par excellence, and the psychiatric structure in which the plot takes place suggest very well the feeling of anxiety and claustrophobia that the director evidently attributes to a sick mind. The motion picture was professional but uneven directed by David Carreras who has made ¨Flores Negras¨(2009) and he has directed various TV episodes as ¨R. I. S. Científica¨ (TV Series), ¨El Comisario¨, ¨Hospital Central¨, and, today, he's directing films in Germany. Rating: 5.5/10. ¨Hypnos¨ may be a good watch for lovers of "psychiatric" themes, but prepare them for a very long hour and a half.