Hypochondriac

I caught a screening of this during SWSW. Without giving away any spoilers, let's just say that this is absolutely nothing we haven't already seen before. The storyline seems to have borrowed pieces of concepts from previous films (who did it better). To me, Hypochondriac seemed poorly executed. The concept was overdone. The writing was weak. It's small budget was glaringly evident. And most of all, some characters felt miscast, most notably the film's main character Will, played by Zach Villa. Villa just did not have the intensity required to pull off his character, his acting came off as amateur and ultimately non-believable (even sometimes unintentionally funny). The film had some moments, but unfortunately, that's about it. It could have had more potential, but the uninspired casting and general execution makes this a "skip it". - HK.

First of all the main character was annoying. And the movie also forces such a "woke" idea. This movie had so much potential to be good. I could've sat there and watched it instead of being on here while the rest of the movie is playing in the corner. It's cringy and insufferable but at least the plot was interesting.

I hadn't heard about the 2022 movie "Hypochondriac" as I sat down to watch it. But I will say that the synopsis for the movie sounded interesting enough, and also the movie's cover/poster seemed interesting. And with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give "Hypochondriac" a chance.

But wow. Just wow.

This movie was an incredible swing and a miss of epic proportions.

The storyline in the movie, as written by writer and director Addison Heimann, fell entirely short of providing me with any sense of entertainment, so it was a real struggle to suffer through this slow paced and pointless narrative. And to make it even worse, nothing thrilling or interesting happened as the movie trotted on in a monotonous pace.

Granted, I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Hypochondriac", and that is usually something I enjoy when I watch a movie. However, the actors and actresses in this movie stood a snowballs chance in Hell of delivering anything worthwhile or wholesome on the screen, because the script was just hopelessly devoid of any such thing.

Now, "Hypochondriac" is listed as a horror, thriller and drama, well forget about this being a horror movie, unless counting boredom beyond belief as horror. As for the thriller aspect of the storyline, well it could be classified as a thriller if you stretch the term loosely enough.

This is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this ordeal so you don't have to.

My rating of this disappointing movie lands on a two out of ten stars.

I watched this with a friend of mine who used to have some mental issues before he got on medicine, and he said this movie really hit home for him.

This movie is very sad at times. You feel so bad for what the main character is going through. This is definitely more drama than horror....it has very very little horror IMO, but is well done and very well acted, especially by the main character.

7/10 - Recommended if in the mood for something different.

No pun intended - the movie is quite out there. You really get into the mind of our main character. Of course his past does inform his present ... but what does that mean exactly? And how does he or has he coped with that? If he has at all of course .. you are able to sabotage yourself. Even if you don't mean to ... or is there something more, something quite sinister? Well you have to watch to find out.

Of course this having a same sex love theme, may not be what you are looking for. And if you have issues with that, well that would mean you will be missing out on a more than decent movie. The ending is a bit weird ... but then again, the whole movie to say the least.