Regression (2016)

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

A really clever story involving Satanic cults. An unexpected twist gives this movie the edge over other of a similar genre. Well acted especially by Hawke and Watson. Retained for future viewing.

I grew up in a cult. The classic kind from the seventies. And then they disappeared but heavily influenced DC politics. This movie is a close representation of perhaps mass hysteria experienced on all levels of the media and is a good provocation of what it is like to be stuck in a fraudulent system.I give this film the rate of a ten for simply stunning acting, very, very subtle transition from scene to scene, great cinematography, an incredible score and for truly capturing a spirit of mystery and for allowing nonfiction to be fiction or vice versa, to being true to the spirt of a kind of collective mysteria all religious people seem to suffer from and for dealing with a forbidden topic, that is, the one devout Christians most fear. Yes, this film deals with heavy issures but because things like this have happened to others and to me, i cannot say they are not true.Thank you, Ethan, Emma and to Mr. Amenabar.

It was amazing! This movie was portrayed beautifully and it had so much tension and such good acting What I didn't really expect was the plot twist!!!! I was just pranked??? And that was great too because people don't expect many cases like that to go south, especially in a horror/thriller film. The ending also shocked me, for the main character to just not suffer that horribly in the end is very rare in these types of movies.

Regression is about false memory syndrome and outbreak of mass hysteria in some parts of the USA.Director and writer Alejandro Amenábar seems to have lost his way when he showed so much promise some years ago.Detective Bruce Kenner (Ethan Hawke) gets obsessed about an investigation on satanic cults and ritual sex abuse. One young woman (Emma Watson) believes she was abused as a child including by her father. The more Kenner delves into this investigation he becomes unhinged, even thinks that fellow police officers might have something to hide. Eventually Kenner thinks people are seeing what they want to see and hear what they want hear as the line between lies and reality have become blurred.The film comes across as flat, slow and subdued. It is one of these small town thrillers that actually looks cheap despite a few known stars being cast. There should had been an interesting, thought provoking film however it just ended up being dismal with cheap scares. I think you might be better off watching Rosemary's Baby.