Hipnos

"Hipnos" tell the story of a young and beautiful doctor Beatriz,who starts working with patients in a mental hospital.Soon she realizes that the place hides some dark secrets..."Hipnos" is quite similar to Mathieu Kassovitz's incredibly boring "Gothica".The plot seems rushed and is unoriginal,the pace is slow and some scenes are downright confusing.The acting is decent and Cristina Brondo provides some nice full-frontal nudity.The film looks pretty damn impressive,though.It's truly a shame that the plot is so dull and lifeless.Still like I said the nudity is always welcomed,so I was at least mildly interested.6 out of 10.

********************************************************************* Although the movie is a little bit confusing at times, don't worry. In the end everything comes together. I'm really impressed with this thriller and I really would like to recommend it. The plot is ingenious and well crafted. What took me by shock was the fact that this one isn't an American movie (almost all movies I get are American and the Title is a little bit suggesting - Hipnos). I realized it on the first scenes (good way to practice my Spanish).**************************** ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* *********************************************************************

Well, an Spanish thriller that doesn't make you blush... that's a good beginning. As for the movie itself it is such of a dissection of madness, with an structure similar to David Lynch's universe but without the intensity and the fascination of the Canadian director.

A young woman (a doctor) comes to a psychiatric institution to fill a vacant. Soon some strange events will begin to happen and she'll begin to feel that something is wrong over there.

The aesthetic of the film is so white and aseptic (it reminded me of movies such as THX), mixing old buildings with ultra-modern technologies and decorations.

It is not the movie of the year but you may spend a nice time watching it (specially main character's great body -an unknown Spanish actress, maybe a debutant-).

*My rate: 6/10

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.

A dark night, the police receives a mysterious message. A dead woman is found and next to her lays a girl in shock. Beatriz is a famous doctor that starts to work in a mental hospital specialized in hypnosis. While she studies the case of the girl, the little commits suicide, which will cause Beatriz to enter into a world where it is difficult to distinguish between reality and dream. The plot is interesting and at the beginning, the movie is quite catching, but, as the movie develops, it becomes clear that it has anything worthy. It becomes not terrifying nor thrilling, just weird and boring. As an opera prima it is, it's clear to realize that many scenes could be better filmed and the plot is maybe too complex for a newbie. Perhaps with more experience and clearer ideas, the movie could be better. The acting does not helps, too. As at any moment the actors feel comfortable in their papers, perhaps is the inexperienced director that makes this, as he is not able to transmit everything he wants to transmit. the directing its promising, but the experience makes the grade, perhaps in the future, he will make a good film. Let's wait for it.