After the movie 'The Open House' from 2018 directors decided to film a new movie called 'Hypnotic' which is a movie about a psychiatrist named Collin Made who is using hypnotherapy to control people for his evil plans by just saying a few words.
Directors of this movie are Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel who have been cooperating on their latest projects; they are most known for 'The Open House' which is not rated very well by users on IMDb and these qualities are very visible in this movie too. In the whole movie we are watching bad and unprofessional work from directors which have no logic. This movie has many problems from the side of logic because they are only creating movies to make money and this element is ruining their logical thinking or they have no talent to make a good movie because they have no feeling about it. When the main character Jenn Tompson (Kate Siegel) wakes up from the hypnosis she hears that someone is choking in her bathroom. Instead of running to the place and finding out what is going on, she is walking slowly with fear in her face as if there is a killer like Michael Myers and she is in his house. This is one of the most illogical scenes of this movie but there are so many scenes like this, but most of the most illogical scenes are caused by the writer not by the directors although it is in some point of view a problem of the directors too because they agreed with the screenplay. When Jenn called with Gina suddenly the call was starting to fall out because of a problem with the signal in the middle of the town, that is very logical, we were hearing the SFX of the falling signal. The SFX was so bad and vague that it is only good for B movies. Which is actually a B movie, so the SFX is good. When was Gina going by car with Scott and then they had a car accident and both of them died. The car accident was made in a way that Scott would survive, the car accident could be done more sophisticated and well executed. The last problem with the directors in this paragraph is that they were not able to get better performances from the actors than average, sometimes below average performances. The directors definitely do not have a talent to make good movies because they do not have the feeling for that and this is very important. To expect something good after 'The Open House' and 'Hypnotic' is very impossible.
The second big of the biggest problems is writer Richard D'Ovidio who is most known for 'The Call', 'The Forger', 'Thir13en Ghosts' and 'The Blacklist: Redemption'. After the experience which he gained through the years while he was writing his movies, it is not astonishing that he has written illogical and nonsensical movie 'Hypnotic'. Richard D'Ovidio has made more problems than the couple of directors. Some dialogues are not good because the writing is poor but in some cases where there were better dialogues there were below average performances of actors that ruined the better lines of dialogues. When Gina and Scott were going by car before their car accident Dr. Meade called Gina and then he said something about this looking like the end of the world and then Gina had illusions that on her chest was a spider. Gina wanted Scott to take the spider off but she didn't see anything on her chest. In real life a normal person would stop the car immediately and then go out to take off the spider by hand from the chest but in this movie she started to go faster and this caused the car accident. When Jenn had an outage because of the hypnosis she made something bad and then when she was talking to someone she suddenly remembered what she was doing during the outage, this is so illogical, how can someone while he had outage remember the situation what was doing during the outage. There are a very big amount of logical holes in the screenplay of this movie and there are not 5 or 6 problems with logic but there are eight up to twelve problems with logic and this number is very astonishing how can someone write the screenplay in a way like this with this big amount of logical problems.
This movie is based on likeable actors and this is not a problem. Movies can be based on likeable persons but it is important that they need to have energetic and good performances and this doesn't have the movie. This movie is based only on likeable actors who don't have good performances. The actor who has the role of the main character Jenn is Kate Siegel who can have good performance but she needs a good director, when she has good director she is able to bring good energetic performance but without the good director she is not able to do it. Other actors fit the role as Kate Siegel but they don't have good performances. Maybe because of average directors, I haven't seen any movie with these actors. Performance of actors is on a very strong average and sometimes below average and this is very sad because the actors could help this movie with the rating but they didn't.
Director of photography John S. Bartley did here a very average job and it is very debatable if he failed or half succeeded in this project because as I said the job which he did here is on very strong average because of the focus of camera and positioning of the camera. Scene where Meade was standing at the bar in his office and Jenn was here for the first time the camera has very strange focus and it was very strange how the scene was filmed.
Brian Ufberg who was the editor of this movie and his work feels in some scenes unprofessional and amateur because the style of editing feels for a rookie in this field. These people are maybe good for independent filmmakers but this movie is not definitely made by independent filmmakers and it is a shame for the directors that they did it like this.
This movie is just a money grabber and a nonsensical below average movie about hypnotherapy from bad directors without any horror atmosphere or deeper meaning.
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Directors of this movie are Suzanne Coote and Matt Angel who have been cooperating on their latest projects; they are most known for 'The Open House' which is not rated very well by users on IMDb and these qualities are very visible in this movie too. In the whole movie we are watching bad and unprofessional work from directors which have no logic. This movie has many problems from the side of logic because they are only creating movies to make money and this element is ruining their logical thinking or they have no talent to make a good movie because they have no feeling about it. When the main character Jenn Tompson (Kate Siegel) wakes up from the hypnosis she hears that someone is choking in her bathroom. Instead of running to the place and finding out what is going on, she is walking slowly with fear in her face as if there is a killer like Michael Myers and she is in his house. This is one of the most illogical scenes of this movie but there are so many scenes like this, but most of the most illogical scenes are caused by the writer not by the directors although it is in some point of view a problem of the directors too because they agreed with the screenplay. When Jenn called with Gina suddenly the call was starting to fall out because of a problem with the signal in the middle of the town, that is very logical, we were hearing the SFX of the falling signal. The SFX was so bad and vague that it is only good for B movies. Which is actually a B movie, so the SFX is good. When was Gina going by car with Scott and then they had a car accident and both of them died. The car accident was made in a way that Scott would survive, the car accident could be done more sophisticated and well executed. The last problem with the directors in this paragraph is that they were not able to get better performances from the actors than average, sometimes below average performances. The directors definitely do not have a talent to make good movies because they do not have the feeling for that and this is very important. To expect something good after 'The Open House' and 'Hypnotic' is very impossible.
The second big of the biggest problems is writer Richard D'Ovidio who is most known for 'The Call', 'The Forger', 'Thir13en Ghosts' and 'The Blacklist: Redemption'. After the experience which he gained through the years while he was writing his movies, it is not astonishing that he has written illogical and nonsensical movie 'Hypnotic'. Richard D'Ovidio has made more problems than the couple of directors. Some dialogues are not good because the writing is poor but in some cases where there were better dialogues there were below average performances of actors that ruined the better lines of dialogues. When Gina and Scott were going by car before their car accident Dr. Meade called Gina and then he said something about this looking like the end of the world and then Gina had illusions that on her chest was a spider. Gina wanted Scott to take the spider off but she didn't see anything on her chest. In real life a normal person would stop the car immediately and then go out to take off the spider by hand from the chest but in this movie she started to go faster and this caused the car accident. When Jenn had an outage because of the hypnosis she made something bad and then when she was talking to someone she suddenly remembered what she was doing during the outage, this is so illogical, how can someone while he had outage remember the situation what was doing during the outage. There are a very big amount of logical holes in the screenplay of this movie and there are not 5 or 6 problems with logic but there are eight up to twelve problems with logic and this number is very astonishing how can someone write the screenplay in a way like this with this big amount of logical problems.
This movie is based on likeable actors and this is not a problem. Movies can be based on likeable persons but it is important that they need to have energetic and good performances and this doesn't have the movie. This movie is based only on likeable actors who don't have good performances. The actor who has the role of the main character Jenn is Kate Siegel who can have good performance but she needs a good director, when she has good director she is able to bring good energetic performance but without the good director she is not able to do it. Other actors fit the role as Kate Siegel but they don't have good performances. Maybe because of average directors, I haven't seen any movie with these actors. Performance of actors is on a very strong average and sometimes below average and this is very sad because the actors could help this movie with the rating but they didn't.
Director of photography John S. Bartley did here a very average job and it is very debatable if he failed or half succeeded in this project because as I said the job which he did here is on very strong average because of the focus of camera and positioning of the camera. Scene where Meade was standing at the bar in his office and Jenn was here for the first time the camera has very strange focus and it was very strange how the scene was filmed.
Brian Ufberg who was the editor of this movie and his work feels in some scenes unprofessional and amateur because the style of editing feels for a rookie in this field. These people are maybe good for independent filmmakers but this movie is not definitely made by independent filmmakers and it is a shame for the directors that they did it like this.
This movie is just a money grabber and a nonsensical below average movie about hypnotherapy from bad directors without any horror atmosphere or deeper meaning.
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