![]() ![]() ![]() A creepy father named John Gray (David Dencik) turns himself in to the police after his angelic looking daughter Angela (Emma Watson) accuses him of sexual abuse. Ironically, Amenábar’s ability to master a variety of genres fails him here, where an odd pastiche of trashy exploitation films, slasher/horror movie, psychological thriller, police procedural and drama collide into a dog’s dinner.Ī caption tells us that in the 1980s, stories about satanic rituals began spreading in the USA, and that this story is inspired by true events. His successful debut feature was the psychological fantasy, Open Your Eyes, followed by the atmospheric, unsettling horror movie, The Others the lyrical, issue-based biopic, The Sea Inside and the underrated, but rather wonderful historic film, Agora. But it’s even sadder to report that the film’s Writer/Director is the talented, Academy Award winning (The Sea Inside) Alejandro Amenábar who is arguably, along with Almodóvar, Spain’s greatest living filmmaker. It’s a sad day when the co-star of the brilliant and achingly romantic Before Sunset and Sunrise and the marvellous Boyhood, Ethan Hawke appears in the thankless role of Detective Bruce Kenner in a film, rather suggestively, called Regression.
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