Hypnosis, by Davide Tartarini and Simone Cerri Goldstein

And another new one.  Hypnosis, directed by Davide Tartarini and Simone Cerri Goldstein, is a thriller / horror film, has opened in just under 50 cinemas throughout Italy, not bad distribution for a film made by unestablished directors and which isn’t a comedy.  Information is scanty… the synopsis is very short:

The idea of the film comes from the desire to tell of some “obscure” mechanisms of the mind and the human soul, and what happens when they are confronted with the facts beyond reason.

Well, that doesn’t tell us much.  So, any further details… well…

What is Hypnosis? It is a paranormal thriller centered hypnotherapy which tells the story of Isaiah R. Deutzberg, brilliant American experimental psychiatrist, and his patient, suffering from congenital cerebral aneurysm.

OK, well that’s a bit more.  Ah, here’s something a bit more in depth:

Hypnosis is a supposed video-documentary detailing the treatment that the American psychiatrist Isaiah R. Deutzberg leads on a patient, who suffers from a brain aneurysm that causes congenital disturbing visions about his childhood. After starting treatment, they go to the uninhabited village of Crespi d’Adda, where he was born, in search of the origins of (his) bad memories.

The only revioew I’ve been able to find isn’t particularly positive.  According to http://www.sentieriselvaggi.it

[It’s] lacking the political inspiration that made Federico Zampaglione’s Shadow interesting, and the productionforces acting on it create a ridiculous effect that involuntary dilutes the tense situation, undermining the excellent on set photography work in the natural province of Bergamo. Unfortunately, people continue to confuse the vision with the look, the technique with the cinema. Too bad.

Here’s the trailer:

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