2022 · mystery · thriller · horror
Nocebo
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan1h 36m2022
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Our read: Nocebo (2022) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive mystery · thriller · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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