Nocebo

In the supernaturally-tinged "Nocebo" creepy Philippine housemaid Chai Fonacier (good on her English language debut) arrives at the London home of upper middle-class Eva Green & Mark Strong who're struggling to parent young Billie Gasdson as Green re-launches her clothing design career AND struggles with a debilitating sickness' various dramatic symptoms (inc nightmarish 'hallucinations'). Fonacier helps, though Strong suspects something sinister's afoot (as is gradually shown thru Fonacier's flashbacks). While writer / director team Garrett Shanley & Lorca Finnegan's third collaboration may not top the horror thriller genre, it is a decently solid entry into it.

1) Watch it without reading anything about this movie. There are no mind-blowing twists but you will enjoy it more if you don't know anything about the plot. Some things that happened are not difficult to predict, but still, their reveal is shocking.

2) During the first 10-ish minutes, i thought that this was going to be a mediocre to bad movie. I was wrong. This is getting better by the minute. The ending is shattering, i liked it very much.

3) Stil, it's flawed. Green and Strong are very good actors but i didn't love the acting here. Definitely not bad though. Chai Fonacier steals the show, she was amazing. Furthermore, this is a forgettable movie, not exactly formulaic and predictable but definitely not groundbreaking and original either. In any case, I believe it's better than the average movie of this genre.

4) So, if you wanna watch a good psychological-drama horror movie, watch NOCEBO. Not scary, not mindless fun, but a nice movie to spent 96 minutes. I would even call it daring for an American movie, due to its script.

In Nocebo, everything deserves praise. The story and the themes and ideas it deals with, performances of the cast, soundtrack, direction, screenplay, creepy and tense atmosphere, horror elements, cinematography, and ending all deserve all praise without any exception.

Regarding the flaws, the only flaw that I saw in the movie was some horror scenes which were, from my point of view, unnecessary and a little bit disgusting. Rather than that, everything else was perfect.

I liked Nocebo so much, and I wish that they make more psychological movies which are even deeper in the future. That is why when it comes to score, I gladly give Nocebo 9 out of 10.

I have watched many horror movies this year and I hate horror movies that don't make sense however this one is well scripted and convincing. Every scenes are well plotted. Love the choice of actress who plays the maid, she is absolutely amazing in the movie. I will give this a 8/10. Enjoyed every min of it. The score of the movie is brilliant. Even though the movie is a little shorter than usual two hours long movie but i think it is well paced. Love how the story revealed in an overlapping way. The ending was great as well, I must say this is the best horror movie of 2022 alongside with 'Smile'.

In the first fifteen minutes you know all you will need to know about where this movie is going and where it will end up. There are no surprises at all, other than showing the Phillipines as a backwards. Third world nation full of sweat shops and military takeovers.

I wanted to see this because of Eva Green, and Mark Strong was a plus, but this could have starred anyone at all and it would still be the same movie; the big names were just a draw to a very predictable and ultimately mediocre story. There are no scares and a very few good FX scenes, but that's about it.

If you have ever seen a movie before, you don't need to see this one, unless you want to see how right you are about predicting how each scene will end.