Total Therapy (1997)
Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems. Cut off from the rest of the world, the participants are increasingly drawn into the therapy's spell.
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Such a frustrating disappointment
I'll tell you why so serious
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
The atmosphere oscillates between an acid dream and esoteric delusions, between help and bleak sadism. The whole situation escalates, and we kind of expected it, we wait for it, but are bored at the same time.The director has strong competition from Lars von Trier and similar artists, and he can't really make the final step to make it an extraordinary film.
Certainly one of the best horror thrillers in german speech. A group of people, all suffering by psycho/social problems, are visiting a kind of seminar in a farm in bavaria. But the master of the seminar is like a sect guru and uses very sadistic methods to discourage the people and to break their will. All hell breaks loose when he tries to rape a young female.